"No NATO transcript" related to RTS attack

The Ministry of Defense has asked for "courts to interrogate" a retired army officer over his claims that RTS bombing transcripts exist.

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Saturday, 25.04.2009.

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The Ministry of Defense has asked for "courts to interrogate" a retired army officer over his claims that RTS bombing transcripts exist. Lt.-Col. Lakic Djorovic's claims pertain to the NATO attack ten years ago, that killed 16 employees of the state broadcaster RTS, when their building was hit in an air strike. "No NATO transcript" related to RTS attack Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac has denied that his ministry is in possession of any documents that are used to protect persons who allegedly knew that the RTS building would be attacked. Sutanovac reminded that the MoD in 2007 handed over all the documents related to the attack, and added that there is readiness to send these documents to judiciary organs. "We wish to end this affair officially, or to open it in court, and ascertain whether the retired lieutenant colonel's claims are true, or constitute for abuse of the misfortune of victims' families, in order to spread untruths and distrust toward the Serbian Army," he was quoted as saying in Belgrade on Saturday. Sutanovac added that the MoD is prepared to hand over to the courts its correspondence with the NATO command in Naples, Italy, regarding the case, "to show that the transcripts of the kind do not exist at the ministry". Some media in Serbia reported that Djorovic claimed he had seen a transcript of an intercepted conversation between a NATO warplane crew and their base, ahead of the deadly attack on the RTS building in Belgrade in April 1999.

"No NATO transcript" related to RTS attack

Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac has denied that his ministry is in possession of any documents that are used to protect persons who allegedly knew that the RTS building would be attacked.

Šutanovac reminded that the MoD in 2007 handed over all the documents related to the attack, and added that there is readiness to send these documents to judiciary organs.

"We wish to end this affair officially, or to open it in court, and ascertain whether the retired lieutenant colonel's claims are true, or constitute for abuse of the misfortune of victims' families, in order to spread untruths and distrust toward the Serbian Army," he was quoted as saying in Belgrade on Saturday.

Šutanovac added that the MoD is prepared to hand over to the courts its correspondence with the NATO command in Naples, Italy, regarding the case, "to show that the transcripts of the kind do not exist at the ministry".

Some media in Serbia reported that Đorović claimed he had seen a transcript of an intercepted conversation between a NATO warplane crew and their base, ahead of the deadly attack on the RTS building in Belgrade in April 1999.

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