Milosevic in hands of UN

Slobodan Milosevic has been handed over to investigators of the UN war crimes tribunal.

The Serbian Government has confirmed that the former president is on his way to The Hague to face the UN war crimes court.

Earlier, Yugoslavia's Constitutional Court suspended Milosevic's extradition to the UN war crimes court.

It did so to give the judges time to consider whether a government decree enabling the handover is constitutional.

Any decision to have Milosevic extradited would likely have come from the government of Serbia, which together with Montenegro makes up the Yugoslav federation.

Senior Serbian officials had served notice they would surrender Milosevic to the tribunal even if the Constitutional Court suspended the decree pending a decision on the constitutionality of the handover.