A government team is negotiating with former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic in his Belgrade residence in a bid to persuade him to surrender, Yugoslav interior minister Zoran Zivkovic told AFP. “Negotiations are ongoing. We are trying to resolve this situation without the use of force,” Zivkovic said. A negotiating team is inside the residence. But Zivkovic was not optimistic that the ex-president, who told police that he would not be taken alive, would agree to give himself up. “Considering the moves Milosevic made in the past I am afraid that he is not ready to accept a reasonable solution,” he said late on Saturday. But he added, “I expect this issue to be resolved during the night.” The authorities have said that if Milosevic does not surrender they will take him by force. Special police tried to storm the residence in the early hours on Saturday but withdrew after coming under heavy fire in which two people were injured. Bureau Report