Belgrade doctors to visit Milosevic on Friday
Beta (Yugoslavia) - January 22, 2003

BELGRADE -- Wednesday –  Three Belgrade doctors are to visit former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic at The Hague though they will be forbidden from examining him.

They will visit Milosevic at the Scheveningen detention unit on Friday 24 January, said the Tribunal today.

“They are not going to be giving him a second medical opinion – it will be treated as any other regular visit”, Tribunal spokesman Christian Chartier told a regular weekly press briefing today.

He added that Milosevic had previously asked to be examined by Belgrade doctors, and that the Tribunal had approved this request on January 9.

The visit will last two hours and the doctors will have access to Milosevic’s medical notes, but are forbidden from examining him due to a rule which bans physical contact between visitors and prisoners, Chartier explained.