PM wants proof that Seselj is now healthy

PM wants proof that Seselj is now healthy

BELGRADE -- The government will decide on the Hague Tribunal's request once it receives "some papers" that show that Vojislav Seselj is "healthy."

This is what Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told a news conference on Saturday, after the Netherlands-court earlier in the week ask for Seselj's provisional release to be terminated.

The leader of the Serb Radicals (SRS) is charged with war crimes and had spent more than 11 years in custody before he was set free last November., as he is ill with cancer. A verdict in the case is still pending.

"We will be making our decision when we receive some papers, but they must write for me in these papers when Seselj got healthy, through what treatment and methods," Vucic said.

Vucic noted that Seselj was released due to his illness after 11.5 years, but that he had no proof that Seselj in the meantime healed.

"Seselj is a citizen of Serbia, I have no good opinion about his politics, but our job is to protect our citizen and his constitutional rights," Vucic said.

He then asked "whether Serbia asked for (Seselj) to be returned, or if they (the Tribunal) sent him back."

"The government of Serbia has dignity," Vucic said, and added: "It cares about the pride of its people and the rights of its citizens. I have no proof that he got well. And what - he should go for two months, then they should pass a verdict and send him back again."

According to Vucic, his government will make a decision "in line with Serbia's interests and the respect for Serbia's citizens," and added that "this has nothing to do with politics."

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