Today, I have filed an official request to the tribunal to have the autopsy carried out in Moscow, having in mind his claims yesterday that he was being poisoned in the jail.

I have officially insisted that the autopsy not be carried out in The Hague but in Moscow.

The son of Mr Milosevic has just informed (the) Hague tribunal that the funeral of his father will be in Belgrade.

I have submitted a request to the government of Serbia for permission.

In the letter, Milosevic stressed that the main reason that he was not allowed to go to Moscow for medical treatment was the existing fear by some that the careful examination by the Russian hospital would reveal that his health was being systematically destroyed. Milosevic pointed out that during the last five years he had never used any such antibiotics, especially since he never had leprosy or tuberculosis or any kind of infectious disease except for the flu.

Mister Milosevic said there were attempts to poison him in the prison.