BRUSSELS, March 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj Haradinaj was taken on Wednesday into custody of the UN tribunal in The Hague.

    The former Kosovar rebel leader will be prosecuted for crimes committed during the war in Kosovo in the late 1990s. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has not yet published actual charges against him, Radio Netherlands reported.

    "He's arrived in our detention unit," the tribunal said.

    Haradinaj surrendered to the UN tribunal on Wednesday to face war crimes charges, one day after stepping down and winning praisefor his prompt compliance with the court.

    The United Nations, the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization praised Haradinaj for his full cooperation with the tribunal.

    Haradinaj, one of the former leaders of the ethnic Albanian UCKrebel movement, went into politics after the war. Last year, he was appointed prime minister by the Kosovar parliament. Haradinaj handed in his resignation on Tuesday.

    Haradinaj is the most senior former Kosovo guerrilla to be indicted by the UN tribunal for alleged atrocities in the 1998-99 separatist war against Serb forces.

    In a relevant development, during his initial appearance at thecourtroom on Wednesday afternoon, Serb former army general MomciloPerisic pleaded not guilty at the UN tribunal to charges of murder,persecution and attacks on civilians in Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s. Enditem