Yugoslav president won't testify without guarantees

A former Yugoslav president, who was forcibly taken to the UN war crimes tribunal as a witness, today refused to testify against Slobodan Milosevic without guarantees he cannot be prosecuted for revealing state secrets.

Zoran Lilic, who served as the figurehead president of the collapsing Yugoslav federation from 1993 until Milosevic took over as president in 1997, was detained last week in Belgrade and flown to the Netherlands to appear before the court as a prosecution witness.