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.

CNN: Milosevic refuses war crimes papers

Cases tried by the tribunal could be triggered by the court's independent prosecutor, by a country or by the U.N.

CNN: International war-crimes court approved

ATHENS, Greece -- Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica says he will be too busy to meet the U.N. war crimes tribunal's chief prosecutor when she visits Belgrade later this month.

CNN: Kostunica snubs war crimes head