BELGRADE, June 27 (Hina) - Serbia's Vice Premier, Zarko Korac, on Wednesday asked for the set-up of a parliamentary commission of enquiry to investigate allegations of the sacked Yugoslav Army chief-of-staff, General Nebojsa Pavkovic,
that Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's aides had asked him last year to order army troops to raid the Serbian government's offices.
BELGRADE, June 27 (Hina) - Serbia's Vice Premier, Zarko Korac, on
Wednesday asked for the set-up of a parliamentary commission of
enquiry to investigate allegations of the sacked Yugoslav Army
chief-of-staff, General Nebojsa Pavkovic, that Yugoslav President
Vojislav Kostunica's aides had asked him last year to order army
troops to raid the Serbian government's offices. #L#
This is "too much serious thing to be solved only at press
conferences or by letters forwarded to the government," Korac said
adding that "the democratisation of the country means the
parliamentary control over all the institutions of power."
Premier Zoran Djindjic was quoted by the Serbian Radio as
supporting the demand for the establishment of the parliamentary
commission.
Pavkovic, whom Kustunica dismissed on Monday, reiterated the
accusations that the office of the Yugoslav President Kostunica had
planned to raid the Serbian government's communications office a
year ago.
The sacked Pavkovic was quoted by the Beta news agency on Wednesday
as saying that "there are witnesses who can confirm it".
On Wednesday Pavkovic denied the statement Kostunica gave earlier
that Pavkovic transferred authorities to his successor: the acting
army chief-of-staff, Branko Krga.
Pavkovic replied that he "did not sign anything, he did not sign an
act on the replacement (...) he did not sign a document on (Krga's)
take-over," but added that he was waiting for the outcome of the
complaint he lodged with the federal constitutional court about his
dismissal.
(hina) ms