BELGRADE, April 12 (Hina) - Serbian vice premier Zarko Korac said on Friday that the suicide attempt of Serbia's former Interior Minister has the "character of a political accusation" which is "entirely unacceptable". "I would like to
make a distinction between a tragic event and a political note and I believe that all those who put these two together are wrong," Korac told Belgrade-based agency Beta. He said it was obvious that the pressure of the past, personal responsibility for the past, was difficult for those who had an important role in the past. Zarko Korac is one of the ruling coalition DOS leaders whom former interior minister Stojiljkovic directly accused of selling him and other indictees to The Hague tribunal in a 15-pages long suicide note. Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic, whom Stojiljkovic also accused, told a local television station he did not know why Stojiljkovic decided to commit sui
BELGRADE, April 12 (Hina) - Serbian vice premier Zarko Korac said on
Friday that the suicide attempt of Serbia's former Interior
Minister has the "character of a political accusation" which is
"entirely unacceptable".
"I would like to make a distinction between a tragic event and a
political note and I believe that all those who put these two
together are wrong," Korac told Belgrade-based agency Beta. He said
it was obvious that the pressure of the past, personal
responsibility for the past, was difficult for those who had an
important role in the past.
Zarko Korac is one of the ruling coalition DOS leaders whom former
interior minister Stojiljkovic directly accused of selling him and
other indictees to The Hague tribunal in a 15-pages long suicide
note.
Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic, whom Stojiljkovic also
accused, told a local television station he did not know why
Stojiljkovic decided to commit suicide.
"People go to The Hague, they come back from The Hague, they defend
themselves in freedom, unfortunately this is not something like
'individual will' of any of the people he mentioned in the letter.
The parliament has passed the Law on cooperation with the Hague-
based tribunal by a vast majority, and everybody on the list of
indicted persons will decide how to behave in relation to this Law,"
Batic said.
Apart from Korac and Batic, Stojiljkovic also accused Yugoslav
President Vojislav Kostunica, Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic, vice
premier Miroljub Labus, president of the Yugoslav parliament's
citizens' assembly Dragoljub Micunovic, president of the Council
of Republics Srdjo Bozovic, federal interior minister Zoran
Zivkovic, Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, Serbian deputy
premier Nebojsa Covic and Serbian interior minister Dusan
Mihajlovic.
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