BELGRADE, April 12 (Hina) - The condition of former Serbian Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic, who attempted suicide in front of the Yugoslav parliament on Thursday evening, is "hopeless", the secretary-general of the Serbian
Socialist Party (SPS), Zoran Andjelkovic, told reporters on Friday.
BELGRADE, April 12 (Hina) - The condition of former Serbian
Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic, who attempted suicide in
front of the Yugoslav parliament on Thursday evening, is
"hopeless", the secretary-general of the Serbian Socialist Party
(SPS), Zoran Andjelkovic, told reporters on Friday. #L#
Stojiljkovic's heart could stop beating and doctors could
pronounce his death any moment, the head of the neurosurgery ward of
Belgrade's Emergency Centre, Branko Djurovic, told Radio B92.
Stojiljkovic is in a state of deep coma and his brain is dead, he
said.
A vice-president of Slobodan Milosevic's SPS, Mirko Marjanovic,
told reporters the suicide of Yugoslav Health Minister Miodrag
Kovac, who killed himself in Madrid last night, was connected to the
adoption of a law on cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal
and the suicide attempt of Vlajko Stojiljkovic, who was indicted by
the Hague tribunal, along with Milosevic, for war crimes in Kosovo
in 1999.
Marjanovic said that both cases were "an act of political protest
against the traitorous policy of the DOS (Serbia's ruling
coalition) regime. The SPS has initiated proceedings before the
Yugoslav Constitutional Court challenging the constitutionality
of the law on cooperation with the Hague tribunal and asked for its
temporary suspension, Marjanovic said.
SPS officials did not want to say how another senior party official
and Hague indictee, Nikola Sainovic, had commented on
Stojiljkovic's suicide bid, saying it was an "inappropriate and
leading question".
(hina) rml