BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4753 HINA Zagreb, September 26

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4753 HINA Zagreb, September 26 ICTY: MILOSEVIC BLAMES WORLD POWERS FOR WAR IN EX-YUGOSLAVIATHE HAGUE, Sept 26 (Hina) - Ex-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has countered charges that he is responsible for war crimes committed in Croatia and Bosnia for the purpose of creating an ethnically pure Serbian state by claiming that the war in the former Yugoslavia had been the consequence of interests of big powers, for which, he said, Yugoslavia and the Serb people were sacrificed. The war was initiated when Yugoslavia got in the way of the interests of world powers, Milosevic said on Thursday at the start of the presentation of evidence for war crimes committed in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina before the UN tribunal at The Hague. The war was instigated by outside forces who relied on secessionist forces within Yugoslavia, those who were defeated in World War Two, Milosevic said, stating that Serbs waged only a defence war. Before M