(29 Jul 2008)
1. Various exteriors of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) offices
2. ICTY spokeswoman Nerma Jelacic walking
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nerma Jelacic, ICTY spokeswoman:
"We don't have a time frame, and I couldn't comment on the Belgrade court's statements. As far as the tribunal is concerned, reasonable time for us is now."
4. Cutaways of ICTY offices
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nerma Jelacic, ICTY spokeswoman:
"The tribunal expects him to be extradited and put into our custody as soon as possible, regardless of the developments. Of course we hope that there will be no violence at the rally, but this is beyond the tribunal's scope of work really."
6. Various exteriors of Hague prison in Scheveningen
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nerma Jelacic, ICTY spokeswoman:
"Of course the court is on recess which means our courtrooms are not busy with hearings, but the court itself has it's employees coming to work everyday. So, the prosecution is here, the judges are here and the registry is here, so everyone that is needed and will be needed for (the) Karadzic case as well will be around in the days to come."
8. Various exteriors of prison with media trucks outside
STORYLINE
A spokeswoman for the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Monday said the facility was ready to take arrested war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic into custody.
The former Bosnian Serb wartime leader is still in a Belgrade cell more than a week after being arrested by Serbian security agents.
"Of course the court is on recess which means our courtrooms are not busy with hearings, but the court itself has it's employees coming to work everyday," said Nerma Jelacic of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
"Everyone that is needed and will be needed for (the) Karadzic case... will be around in the days to come," she assured.
Her comments come as reports from Belgrade indicate that the ex-Bosnian Serb leader's appeal against his extradition to the ICTY still hasn't arrived at the Serbian court dealing with Karadzic's case.
Karadzic's lawyer claims he sent the appeal to the court by registered mail on Friday, before the midnight deadline that day.
On Monday, a court spokeswoman said that if the appeal doesn't arrive within a "reasonable timeframe", the court's investigative judge will rule on Karadzic's extradition.
"I couldn't comment on the Belgrade court's statements. As far as the tribunal is concerned, reasonable time for us is now,"Jelacic told AP Television on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, tensions were high ahead of an ultranationalists' anti-government rally planned in Belgrade for Tuesday evening to protest Karadzic's arrest.
The rally organiser, the right-wing Serbian Radical Party, said it is bussing in Karadzic supporters from all over Serbia and Bosnia, where Karadzic is still revered as a wartime hero.
"Of course we hope that there will be no violence at the rally, but this is beyond the tribunal's scope of work really," said Jelacic.
Karadzic faces 11 charges at the UN tribunal, including genocide and conspiracy to commit genocide.
He is accused of masterminding the 1995 slaughter of 8-thousand Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and the more than three-year siege of Sarajevo, which left some 10-thousand people dead.
Officials say the war crimes suspect was captured July 21 in Belgrade, where he lived under the assumed identity of a health guru, with long white beard and hair, and large glasses.
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