Hague considers unsealing Milošević documents

Hague considers unsealing Milošević documents

Del Ponte has denied accusations she made a deal with Belgrade to keep some documents confidential in return for Serbian help in speeding up trial proceedings.

Last month, chief Milošević prosecutor Geoffrey Nice said the concealed documents could have given a clearer picture of Serbia's role in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

He said Del Ponte was wrong in accepting Belgrade's 2003 argument that some documents should be classified on national security grounds.

The war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ruled in February that Serbia was not guilty of genocide in Bosnia and is not obliged to pay war reparations.

But the court ruled that Belgrade did not make enough effort to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which Bosnian Serb forces killed 8,000 Muslim men and boys.

Milošević died in March, 2006 before his trial had concluded. UN investigators later ruled he died of natural causes.