Slobodan Milosevic’s lawyers were promising to go to a high court today to challenge a government decree paving the way for Yugoslavia’s former president to be extradited to the United Nations war crimes tribunal.

A Belgrade court has served Slobodan Milosevic with an arrest warrant issued by the UN war crimes tribunal, along with a list of the war crimes charges against him.

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was undergoing tests under police guard today after he was rushed from his cell at Belgrade’s Central Prison with chest pains.