U.S. Seeks Safeguards on Diplomats Testifying at Milosevic Trial By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS
WASHINGTON, June 12 — The State Department is negotiating the terms under which Richard C. Holbrooke, the former ambassador to the United Nations, and other American diplomats may testify in the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader, officials said today. ...
But some insiders said the administration was nervous about setting a precedent in which officials and former officials may be summoned before a court outside the United States. ...
Whatever the outcome of the negotiations, Mr. Holbrooke said the State Department was not impeding the prosecution of the case. The Financial Times of London reported today that the United States was jeopardizing some of the most important testimony in the case. ...