Verdict was reached to NATO criminals

Belgrade, September 21 (Tanjug) - Belgrade District Court President Veroljub Raketic handed down guilty verdicts in the case of 14 NATO leaders, charged with crimes against humanity and international law, which they committed during aggression of that Alliance on FR of Yugoslavia, from March 24 to June 10, 1999.

All 14 defendants: Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright, William Cohen, Tony Blair, Robin Cook, George Robertson, Jacques Chirac, Hubert Vedrine, Alain Richard, Gerhard Schroeder, Joschka Fischer, Rudolf Scharping, Javier Solana and Wesley Clark have been sentenced to 20 years in prison. At the same time, arrest warrants have been issued for all of them.

At Belgrade District Court, defendants were charged with inciting to an aggressive war, violation of Yugoslavia's territorial sovereignty, attempted murder of the President of Yugoslavia, war crimes against civilians and use of banned combat means.