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...Prime Minister at Last SERBIA Breaking the political deadlock following December's parliamentary elections, moderate nationalist Vojislav Kostunica accepted the post of Prime Minister in what will be a minority government. The coalition, including Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia and three smaller parties, will rely on the support of Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia. The deal blocks the hard-line Serbian Radical Party from taking power...
Rarely has politics made stranger bedfellows than the allies who came together in Serbia last week. Vojislav Kostunica - leader of Serbia's largest centrist party and the man who defeated Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 to become the last President of Yugoslavia - struck a deal with Milosevic's own Socialist Party (SPS) to secure the position of Serbian Prime Minister. Milosevic himself, on trial in the Hague for war crimes, will have no influence on government policy, but what many regard as an unholy alliance is prompting fears that Serbia is lapsing into its bad old nationalistic habits. Kostunica's Democratic...
...majority needed to form a government - and finding a coalition partner will likely prove impossible. "It would be the kiss of death," said one Western diplomat in Belgrade. Instead, the Radical Party's main rival, the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS ), led by ex-President Vojislav Kostunica, seems more likely to forge a coalition with smaller parties. Kostunica, though a lifelong opponent of Milosevic, has a nationalist streak of his own. He took DSS out of the current government in 2001 and has spent much of the last three years complaining about anti-Serb bias in the West. A parliament...
...have the son of Javier Solana as Prime Minister and they still would not let us in the E.U. for 10 years! Half of us will be dead by then!" he told supporters this month in the northern border town of Subotica. "We don't owe anything to anyone!" Kostunica's message is not quite as militant, but it's in the same vein. He complains bitterly about the "anti-Serb" Hague Tribunal and, in an interview with Time, suggested he had no intention of sending four indictees now in Serbia for trial there. "The Hague looks like a game...
...been violated, and information obtained from him was inadmissible. Unusual Suspects SERBIA The government crackdown on organized crime, which began after the March assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and has led to thousands of arrests, continued with the detention of two close aides of ex-President Vojislav Kostunica (below) and former army Chief of Staff General Nebojsa Pavkovic. Pavkovic was arrested for real-estate fraud. Kostunica's aides, former counterintelligence chief Aca Tomic and national security adviser Rade Bulatovic, were detained in relation to Djindjic's killing; they allegedly had secret meetings with two key suspects. Kostunica, who says...