(12 Jul 1999) English/Nat
United Nations war crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour says her office will hand down more indictments after evidence discovered by her experts in Kosovo.
She told reporters in Skopje on Monday that she believes there will be more charges and more indictments.
Arbour also said she believed that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic would eventually face war crimes charges in The Hague.
United Nations war crimes prosecutor Louise Arbour arrived in Macedonia on Monday.
She arrived by helicopter from Albania to meet Macedonian officials before heading to Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia.
Arbour, who will visit Kosovo on Tuesday six months after being barred by Yugoslav officials from entering the Serb province, says new evidence is being uncovered on a daily basis.
She said these gave strong support to the charges already made against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four associates for the murder and deportation of thousands of ethnic Albanians.
On her arrival in Skopje, Arbour said her office would hand down more indictments after evidence discovered by her experts in Kosovo.
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"My visit here again is to have brief discussions with government officials here, and then in Kosovo, well, it's my first entry after trying in January. I want essentially to see some of our operations there. We have quite extensive forensic work being done, and we'll also have meetings with General Jackson and with US officials there, but essentially I want to go to all the sites, or at least some of the sites on which my office is doing some work. (Q Do you feel the amount of evidence being discovered is enough...?) I'm not sure I'd say I'm happy with it. I think we are uncovering at an appropriate rate the kind of information that we need to sustain some of the charges, and I believe we will be developing additional charges and additional indictments."
SUPER CAPTION: Louise Arbour, UN war crimes prosecutor
Arbour said she believed that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic would eventually face war crimes charges in The Hague.
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"(Q Realistically, do you think it's possible Milosevic will be indicted from Serbia in The Hague?) I think it's very realistic. The question is when and how. That I can't tell you, but I believe we have set in motion a process that is completely irreversible. There's no doubt in my mind about that."
SUPER CAPTION: Louise Arbour, UN war crimes prosecutor
On Sunday, Arbour conferred with Arben Rakipi, the general prosecutor.
Rakipi handed Arbour testimonies from Kosovo refugees a group of ten Albanian prosecutors has been gathering for the last three months.
While no details were released, the testimonies are believed to contain evidence of war crimes committed by Serb forces in Kosovo before and during NATO's 78-day air
campaign against Yugoslavia.
Arbour told reporters that such evidence had led to putting together such an important indictment as the one against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in a short time.
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