Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic called on British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US President Bill Clinton to appear as witnesses at his trial for war crimes, news reaching here from The Hague said.

Milosevic, who is on trial at The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, has drawn up a list of around 1,600 names, calling on them to be witnesses at his trial, Radio Netherlands reported on Tuesday.

The judge of the UN tribunal will decide the names of witnesses,said the radio.

Milosevic is the first head of state who has been brought to the UN tribunal with charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s. He has conducted his own defense since the trial opened in 2002.

Due to the poor health of the 62-year-old Milosevic, the UN tribunal abruptly wrapped up the case on Feb. 25 and then rescheduled the start of Milosevic's defense from May to June, giving him 150 days in court to present his case.

Source: Xinhua