The appeals chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on 1 November returned to Milosevic the right to conduct his defence on his own, and today's hearing indicated that new problems are yet to crop up in the marathon trial.
Members of the trial chamber and the prosecutor constantly warned Milosevic that he did not have a command of questioning, that he was testifying himself, and that his questions were tendentious and suggestive and therefore had no value as evidence.
Nevertheless, the decision to give Milosevic back the right to defend himself has also benefitted the trial - for the first time one of the authors of the SANU memorandum appeared in the courtroom, following futile efforts by the prosecution to do so since the start of the trial in 2002.
The memorandum, a strategic programme of Serbian intellectual circles from the 1980s, offered a revitalised concept of a Greater Serbia as a way out of the Yugoslav crisis, and it is considered an ideological pattern for the Serb aggression on Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo in the 1990s.
Markovic was the chief ideologist of Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), the author of the party's platform and party vice-president until 1995, when he broke up with Milosevic due to pressure on Bosnian Serbs regarding the Vance-Owen peace plan for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
In the courtroom Markovic showed full loyalty to Milosevic, confirming and elaborating on his theories from his questions.
"I believe that you are not at all guilty of the wars in the territory of former Yugoslavia, you are not responsible for that," the witness said, adding that there was not a single element of truth in the indictment.
The defendant and the witness were unanimous in accusing what they said Slovene, Croatian and Albanian separatists, being supported from abroad, of the collapse of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).
Markovic is to be questioned by the prosecutors on Wednesday.