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Protest Planned During Del Ponte's Belgrade Visit

BELGRADE, Jan 23, 2001 -- (Reuters) A group that acted as an informal
mouthpiece for Slobodan Milosevic's administration in Yugoslavia said on
Monday it would protest over a high-profile visit from the UN court that
indicted
him for war crimes.

Chief war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who has repeatedly made clear her
demand that Milosevic stand trial at the tribunal in The Hague, arrives in
Belgrade
on Tuesday for an unprecedented three-day visit.

The Swiss jurist, who says Yugoslavia is obliged to extradite Milosevic, is
expected meet President Vojislav Kostunica on her first day in the Yugoslav
capital and other senior officials later in the week.

Kostunica, who defeated Milosevic in September's presidential elections and was
swept into power by a mass uprising, agreed to see her after first saying he was
too busy.

The Patriotic Alliance of Yugoslavia -- seen as a government front organization
during the Milosevic era -- said its supporters would protest in front of the
Yugoslav government and Foreign Ministry buildings on Tuesday, Beta news
agency said.

"The tribunal's job is to pardon the murderers of our children, those who
destroyed our hospitals, our schools and factories, who poured tons of uranium
on our country," the organization said in a statement.

"They want to put all Serb people and our heroic defense on trial," Beta quoted
it
as saying, giving no indication of how many supporters the group may have.

The International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has indicted
Milosevic and four of his senior officials for war crimes committed against
ethnic
Albanians in Kosovo before and during the 1999 NATO bombing campaign.

Milosevic quit as Yugoslav president on October 6, but remains a free man in
Belgrade.

Kostunica, seen as a moderate nationalist, has made clear he is not in favor of
extraditing Milosevic to The Hague, instead suggesting he could be tried in
Yugoslavia.

Del Ponte will meet Yugoslav Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic, Justice Minister
Momcilo Grubac and Interior Minister Zoran Zivkovic on Wednesday, the official
Tanjug news agency said.

It said she might also hold talks with future Serbian Prime Minister Zoran
Djindjic,
who played a key role in the downfall of Milosevic.

Del Ponte believes at least 15 of 27 publicly indicted individuals still at
large are in
the main Yugoslav republic Serbia, as well as the former president.