Because of this, more than strange, request, there was a delay in the organization of the visit, despite the efforts of the Serbian authorities and the secretariat of the Tribunal, Beta learned today from several well-informed sources in The Hague.
Those sources said that Seselj insists that among the specialists who will visit him will be Paja Momčilov, SRS deputy in the Serbian Parliament, who is a gynecologist by profession. According to Seselj's request, the other members of the team from Serbia should be Milovan Bojić, Miodrag Vukčević and Zoran Naumović who are cardiologists and pulmonologists.
Seselj's position is, according to one of Beta's sources, that if the visit is not allowed to the gynecologist Momčilov, he does not want other specialists to visit him either.
The Secretariat of the Hague Tribunal is still deciding on Seselj's request, considering what could be the reason for the visit of the gynecologist to the accused, who is a man, apart from the fact that Momčilov is a member of the SRS.
Last year, the Secretariat introduced surveillance of Šešelj's communications with legal advisors, members of the SRS - which was confidential - due to suspicions that Šešelj in those conversations transmitted information about protected witnesses from the main trial against him for crimes against Croats and Muslims, 1991 -93.
Another source stated that the National Council for Cooperation of Serbia with the Hague Tribunal offered to finance the visit of a team of specialists to Seselj, but that he refused, repeating his repeatedly stated position about the "treasonous regime in Belgrade" of which, according to him, the Council is a part.
The radical leader demanded, despite this, that the visit be financed by the Ministry of Health of Serbia, which was accepted.
A hearing on the status of the proceedings against Seselj is scheduled for February 8, at which his state of health will also be considered.
The Trial Chamber of Jean-Claude Antonetti, in scheduling the hearing, indicated that it was "concerned" about Seselj's illness.
The council recently ordered that Seselj be examined by Russian pulmonologist Sergei Avdeyev - who, at his request, examined him last year - but Avdeyev replied that he could not do so in the next month. The court secretariat is currently looking for another Russian specialist who could examine Seselj.
On January 6, Šešelja fell ill in the custody of the Tribunal in Scheveningen, and after receiving emergency help, he was transferred to a hospital in Leiden, where on January 12, as his wife Jadranka told the media in Serbia, he was implanted with a device for regulating the heart rhythm, a pacemaker. -maker.
After he was returned to court custody, Seselj was in the hospital on two occasions - the last time on Sunday - again "with precautionary measures", as the representative of the Tribunal, Nerma Jelačić, told Beti today.
She specified that the aim of the examination at the hospital was to determine whether Šešelj's condition required hospital treatment. Both times, specialists determined that Seselj was in a "stable" condition and that there was no need to be kept in the hospital, after which he was returned to custody on the same day, Jelačić said.
SRS repeatedly accused the Tribunal of not treating Seselj in an appropriate manner, calling it an attempted murder. The court rejected those accusations as "absolutely unfounded", underlining that Seselj is being provided with the best available medical care.
According to Jelačić, the Tribunal cannot publish more detailed information about Šešelj's health because he refused to approve it.
Šešelj did not allow that information to be forwarded even to the judges leading the trial against him.
Last year, Seselj refused to be examined by a cardiologist appointed by the Tribunal, just because he comes from Great Britain.
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