BELGRADE, June 28 (Hina) - The ruling Yugoslav coalition DOS late on Thursday night announced it would ask the parliament to probe the claims of the sacked army chief-of-staff Nebojsa Pavkovic who said that Yugoslav President Vojislav
Kostunica's aides had demanded that the army raid the Serbian government's communications office.
BELGRADE, June 28 (Hina) - The ruling Yugoslav coalition DOS late on
Thursday night announced it would ask the parliament to probe the
claims of the sacked army chief-of-staff Nebojsa Pavkovic who said
that Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica's aides had demanded
that the army raid the Serbian government's communications office.
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After last night's meeting, DOS leaders said they would ask their
deputies in the Yugoslav parliament and government to set up a
commission of enquiry to establish the truth about the alleged
operations aimed against the Serbian government.
Pavkovic, whom Kostunica last Monday dismissed from the army
chief's post, forwarded a letter to both houses of the Yugoslav
assembly, asking them to relieve Kostunica of duty, the federal
assembly's secretary, Milan Lucic, was quoted by the Novi Sad-based
daily "Dnevnik" as saying.
The assembly is convened for 1 and 2 July.
Pavkovic reiterated his accusations in his interview to the weekly
"Nin". He said Kostunica's aides had asked him to raid the Serbian
government's communications office under the pretext that the
office had been wiretapping the Yugoslav President's Office.
The former head of the Yugoslav Army's security department, General
Milan Djakovic, was quoted by the Beta news agency as saying that in
the night between 7 and 8 June 2001 Kostunica's aides had asked him
to raid the said office, but he had refused it, explaining that "the
army is not responsible for that kind of intervention."
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