KOSTUNICA: ATTEMPTED SUICIDE WARNING TO HOME, INT. COMMUNITY

BELGRADE, April 11 (Hina) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said on Thursday the attempted suicide of former Serbian interior minister and war crimes indictee Vlajko Stojiljkovic earlier this evening was a tragic event which admonished the domestic political public, but the international community as well. #L# In a written statement to Serbia's Radio and Television, Kostunica said Stojiljkovic's act was a "warning to the international community, which is constantly setting conditions before us, exerting pressure and regulating conduct, especially one part of it." No one can escape responsibility, neither incumbent nor formerly ruling parties, said Kostunica. He added that everyone was responsible for the fact that a law on cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague had not been passed earlier. Kostunica urged stopping with mutual accusations and joining efforts "to establish the minimum of national interest below which we cannot go." Stojiljkovic shot himself in the head in front of the Yugoslav parliament building around 7 pm. He was operated on but doctors say his condition remains critical. Later in the evening, hundreds of sympathisers of the Serb Socialist Party and the Serb Radical Party rallied in front of the building, shouting insults at the incumbent authorities. Their attempts to force their way into the parliament were thwarted. The Hague tribunal accused Stojiljkovic, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, and another three officials of war crimes committed in Kosovo in 1999. (hina) ha