BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Argentina's Federal Court announced Thursday that it will extradite Milan Lukic, a Serb wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) in the Hague for war crimes.

    Federal judge Jorge Urse said in his judgement that Lukic himself had agreed to be extradited to the Hague, where he was indicted in 2000 by a UN war crimes tribunal.

    Lukic, 38, was arrested last August in the La Recoleta district of Buenos Aires after being on the run since the late 1990s.

    Lukic was convicted to 20 years in his absence by the Serbia-Montenegro courts for kidnapping, torturing and killing 16 Muslims in July 2005. The ICT indictment says that Lukic executed another 135 Bosnian Muslims between May 1992 and October 1994.

    In May 2005, Argentina arrested another Serbian war crimes suspect Nebojsa Minic, who later died in an Argentine hospital. Enditem