The UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague has rejected former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's demand for provisional release to get medical care in Russia.
Judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Mr Milosevic's court-appointed lawyers had made 'no real attempt to demonstrate that the accused's medical needs cannot be met in the Netherlands'.
Mr Milosevic, who is suffering high blood pressure and heart problems, is facing more than 60 charges of war crimes including genocide for his role in the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
Russia had offered the court its guarantees that Mr Milosevic would return to The Hague after the completion of his treatment, but the court said there was still a risk that he would abscond from the remainder of the trial.
