A Serbian general facing war crimes charges has had a routine heart operation before he surrenders to the international tribunal in The Hague.
Reports from Belgrade said the operation on General Sreten Lukic took about an hour.
General Lukic is one of four Serbian generals indicted in connection with the Serbian campaign against the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo in 1999.
Another of the four, Vladimir Lazarevic, gave himself up last month.
A third, Nebojsa Pavkovic, is said to be terminally ill, and the fourth, Vlastimir Djordjevic, is believed to be in Russia.
Gen Lukic told independent Serbian news agency FoNet that any disruption of his medical treatment and failure to observe physicians' instructions would be "an irresponsible act" which would prevent him from proving his innocence.
In a separate development, reports from Bosnia say a former Bosnian Serb police chief, Ljubomir Borovcanin, will surrender shortly.
He has been charged with complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity in connection with the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995.
Gen Lukic and Mr Borovcanin would be the ninth and tenth Serbian or Bosnian Serb suspects to surrender this year.
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