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Vujicic cautioned however that the process requires a stable government, which politically-turbulent Montenegro does not have at the moment.

Former Serbian State Security operative Radivoje Micic told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals on Thursday that controversial businesswoman Dafina Milanovic, who ran her bank as a pyramid scheme, did not help defendant Franko 'Frenki' Simatovic in 1993 by giving him money or helping him import arms and aircraft.

Former intelligence official Vlado Dragicevic told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday that Slobodan Milosevic and some of his close allies did not trust Serbian State Security Service, SDB chief Jovica Stanisic, who is being retried for committing wartime crimes in collaboration with Milosevic and others.

Two defence witnesses at the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague this week offered differing interpretations of the links between the Serbian State Security Service, SDB and the US Central Intelligence Agency in the 1990s.

Defence witness Nebojsa Bogunovic, who was a police official in the Serbian town of Backa Palanka, told the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Wednesday that he volunteered to go to the Eastern Slavonia region of Croatia in the summer of 1991 as the conflict there was developing.

The defence for Jovica Stanisic denied that the Red Berets unit was associated with the Serbian State Security Service, SDB – while a Hague prosecution expert witness maintained that they were the Serbian service’s special forces.

The retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, two former leaders of the Serbian State Security Service, SDB, for crimes in Croatia and Bosnia continues on Tuesday.

The Croatian security agency has given documents from the Yugoslav secret services to the state archives with a view to giving the public partial access to the classified files for the first time.

Herta Strossberger, the former lover of Stjepan Djurekovic, the dissident who was murdered in Germany in 1983, testified at the murder trial in Munich on Tuesday that he told her that he was worried that he could be kidnapped by the Yugoslav security agency, UDBA.

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