Hague Tribunal

Serbia's legal representative has informed the Hague Tribunal that the country had launched a procedure for the extradition of three SRS party members.

They are Vjerica Radeta, Petar Jojic and Jovo Ostojic.

Serbian Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic said on Wednesday he "does not know whether Vojislav Seselj will be in The Hague on March 31."

The Hague Tribunal has scheduled the reading of the verdict for that day in the Seselj war crimes trial.

Vojislav Seselj has said that proceedings for his extradition to the Hague Tribunal have begun.

Addressing a news conference in the Serbian capital on Thursday, he said he would respond to the summons of "the War Crimes Court in Belgrade."

Aleksandar Vulin says the Hague Tribunal's choice of dates to deliver the verdicts in the Karadzic and Seselj trials was "interesting."

The verdict in the Hague Tribunal trial of former RS President Radovan Karadzic will be announced on March 24.

Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti reported this on Thursday.

Serbia will ask the Hague Tribunal (ICTY) to postpone until after early elections - that are yet to be called - the verdict in the trial of Vojislav Seselj.

This is according to Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti.

Retired VRS General Zdravko Tolimir died of natural causes while in the detention unit of the Hague Tribunal (ICTY), the tribunal announced on Friday.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has sent a protest letter to International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals President Theodor Meron.

In the letter, Serbia expresses its protestation over the most recent developments at the Hague Tribunal (ICTY).

"The life of Mr. Zdravko Tolimir is much more important that any request of the Hague Tribunal," Aleksandar Vucic has said, responding to reporters' questions.

According to the prime minister, who spoke on Thursday in Belgrade, "that is the key question - not whether somebody influenced witnesses."

Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic has announced that Serbia will send a protest note to the Hague Tribunal (ICTY).

The country will continue to cooperate with the tribunal, he told a news conference on Wednesday - "but in line with our state and national interests."