Five members of the Serbian Socialist Party, which is still headed by Slobodan Milosevic, have been authorised to visit the ousted Yugoslav president at the UN detention centre here where he is facing war crimes charges.
Jim Landale, spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, said the court had given permission for a "small group of his party to visit."
He said they would be "granted access in two groups, three and two."
The visits were expected to take place around mid-August, he said, adding that he did not know whether the five had already been granted visas.
Milosevic was brought to The Hague on June 28.
Landale said Milosevic's wife Mira Markovic, who has already made one trip to the Netherlands to visit her husband, had asked the Dutch authorities for a second visa.
Milosevic has already received visits from lawyers Zdenko Tomanovic and Canadian Christopher Black, and former US attorney general Ramsey Clark.
So far Milosevic has refused to be legally represented in the court whose authority he does not recognize -- THE HAGUE (AFP)
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