London, April 6 (Tanjug) - The UN Tribunal in The Hague has not done enough so far to show that it is unbiased, thus providing the Yugoslav and Serbian citizens with sufficient grounds to believe that it is an anti-Serb institution, it is assessed in the latest report of the British Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee. Serbs account for 78% of those openly indicted by the Tribunal, reminds the Committee report on Yugoslavia, issued these days after months of discussion and research.

There are high-ranking political officials among the indicted Serbs, and a relatively small number of indicted officials from other ethnic communities on the territory of the former Yugoslavia.

It is possible that the Serbs committed more war crimes than others in the former Yugoslavia, thus giving the Tribunal the reason to indict more Serbs, the report explains.

However, the Tribunal is obliged to explain why there are more indicted Serbs, and whether it has established facts showing that they committed more war crimes. For the time being, the Tribunal failed to do so, the report says.

The Committee members have learned that a Belgrade pathologist had been presenting the Hague Tribunal with evidence and proofs of crimes against Serbs, but the Tribunal misplaced the documents on two occasions.

This way, the Hague Tribunal created the conditions for suspicions and practically gave sufficient grounds for such beliefs. According to the British report, the most typical example of this is the case of the former Croatian army General Mirko Norac, indicted for crimes against Serbs by a Croatian court.

Norac "voluntarily surrendered" to the Croatian court only after the Tribunal had given him guarantees that he would not be taken to the Netherlands and that he was not on the list of indicted persons. The Tribunal said that it was important to aid a state that tries its own citizens suspected of having committed war crimes on its territory, the report says.

The Committee assessed that this could make the situation in Yugoslavia more complicated, especially in the case of the former president Slobodan Milosevic. The report specifies that it stems from the Tribunal actions that "the only reason why Norac can be tried at home, and Milosevic cannot, is because the Hague Tribunal chose to indict Milosevic, not Norac".

The British Parliament Committee report does not question the stand that all indicted persons should be extradited to the Hague Tribunal, but warns that, under the present circumstances, there should be more understanding for the political reality in Yugoslavia. That is why the Foreign Affairs Committee welcomed the open possibility of war crimes suspects being tried in Yugoslavia under certain circumstances.

The Hague Tribunal should have more understanding for political difficulties and the reality in which the new democratic authorities in Yugoslavia attempt to start necessary reforms. The British Ambassador to Belgrade Charles Crawford pointed to this at the meeting with the Committee members.

As regards this, the report points to The Hague Tribunal chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's hostile attitude towards the Yugoslav authorities. Her strict demands that all indicted persons be extradited at once can only complicate the situation and increase negative attitude towards the Tribunal.

To this end, the British Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee recommends that the London Government should influence the Hague Tribunal to undo the mistakes made to date, and establish a fair attitude towards all those who committed war crimes.

According to the Committee, one of the bases for this process is establishing cooperation with the Belgrade authorities, rather than inflaming prejudice and "hostility".