BELGRADE, March 22 (Hina) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica on Friday dismissed a request of the ruling DOS coalition to sack the Yugoslav army military security chief, general Aleksandar Tomic, involved in a spy scandal. "I
would sack General Aleksandar Tomic if I was convinced that regulations were violated," Kostunica said. "However, everything seems to indicate this was not the case and that General Tomic, the Security Department and the Yugoslav Army acted in conformity with regulations," he said. Kostunica has been under pressure from rivals within the DOS coalition to fire General Aleksandar Tomic after the military arrested a Serbian deputy prime minister and a U.S. diplomat last week and accused them of espionage.
BELGRADE, March 22 (Hina) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica
on Friday dismissed a request of the ruling DOS coalition to sack
the Yugoslav army military security chief, general Aleksandar
Tomic, involved in a spy scandal.
"I would sack General Aleksandar Tomic if I was convinced that
regulations were violated," Kostunica said.
"However, everything seems to indicate this was not the case and
that General Tomic, the Security Department and the Yugoslav Army
acted in conformity with regulations," he said.
Kostunica has been under pressure from rivals within the DOS
coalition to fire General Aleksandar Tomic after the military
arrested a Serbian deputy prime minister and a U.S. diplomat last
week and accused them of espionage.