The city's district court acted a week after chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte demanded information on whether the indictment had been delivered to Milosevic.

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Amid the violence, a five-member U.N. team with expertise in politics, peacekeeping and mediation was on the ground in Syria, according to Eduardo del Buey, deputy spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general.

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But Croatian Prime Minister Ivica Racan said the visit on Friday of Carla Del Ponte, the U.N.

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