Refusal to let Milosevic receive treatment in Moscow a mistake – Gorbachev

       Former  Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev  has  described  the  international tribunal's decision not to grant former  Yugoslav  President  Slobodan  Milosevic  leave to receive medical treatment in Russia as a mistake.
     "That  he  made  this  request  so  recently  and that the tribunal reacted  the way it did - I believe that they made a big mistake. It was somewhat  inhuman,"  he  said  on  Ekho Moskvy radio on Saturday. Russia offered  every  guarantee that Milosevic would be returned to The Hague,
he added.
     Gorbachev  stressed  that  The Hague Tribunal must exist. "Its very existence  should  be  a  lesson  to  everyone  who  encroaches upon the greatest values in life," he said.

Interfax, March 11, 2006