(3 Jul 2001)
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4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carl Bildt, UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for the Balkans "Well I think it's good he has been indicted and he should answer those charges and I hope he does that because we have an interest in clarifying what really happened. What is the truth and who is guilty? And that is the purpose of this tribunal to establish. And that is in the interest of all of the countries of all of the peoples of the region, and he has a duty to make a contribution to that."
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6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Carl Bildt, UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for the Balkans "(Q How is Milosevic's trial going to affect Karadzic and Mladic?) Yeah, I think they will be very nervous, and there is a new mood in the international community concerning what needs to be done in order to get them there (the Hague). I would hope that they will get there fairly fast. I would hope that the tribunal can also issue further indictments that might be necessary in the region so that one can then really start to have all those major trials, that are so important for the long term reconciliation, so that we don't delay it too long. It has been delayed too long already."
7. Cutaway Rexhep Meidani, Albanian President
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rexhep Meidani, Albanian President "Well I don't believe that this is important to speak in front of the court or not, because now the process has begun, and I hope that also the other collaborators of Milosevic will take the same place at the international tribunal. If Milosevic will not speak, to be sure his advocates (lawyers) will speak, and definitely they will take the penalty which was and is absolutely necessary to all these kinds of, let's say monsters that have created a lot of troubles in the Balkans."
9. Cutaway Stipe Mesic, Croatian President
10. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Stipe Mesic, Croatian President "(Q Can you comment on Milosevic's appearance and his refusal to recognize the tribunal?) That is his personal problem. The court will try him regardless if he recognizes it or not. If he was aware of what he was getting into, he would have not led the politics he had. Nevertheless, he is not on trial because of his politics, but because of the results of his politics. And these were war crimes and genocide."
11. Mesic leaving
STORYLINE:
Balkan leaders and experts in the region have been attending a summit in Salzburg that's likely to grant the Yugoslav federation and its former states (m) millions of U-S dollars in aid to rebuild them after a decade of conflict.
The World Economic Forum's regional summit on Eastern Europe in Salzburg came as former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic appeared at the U-N War Crimes Tribunal court in The Hague.
So far Milosevic has refused to recognise the court's legitimacy.
Instead he said it was NATO which should be tried for war crimes after bombing Kosovo for 78 days.
The U-N Secretary General's Special Envoy for the Balkans, Carl Bildt, welcomed Milosevic's trial, as did both Albania's president Rexhep Meidani and Croatia's president Stipe Mesic.
None of them seem concerned that Milosevic has refused to accept the legitimacy of the court or that he's refused to use any lawyers in his defence.
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