Milosevic lawyers ‘play for time’

As Yugoslavia stepped up moves to extradite Slobodan Milosevic to the United Nations war crimes tribunal, the former president’s defence lawyers manoeuvred for time today, filing a request that two Belgrade District Court judges and the prosecutor be dismissed from the case.

The extradition order and international war crimes indictment were to have been read to Milosevic in the presence of his defence team at the Central Prison in the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade.