BELGRADE, Dec 27 (Hina) - The term of office of Serbia's incumbent President Milan Milutinovic, an indictee of the U.N. war crimes tribunal at The Hague, expires on Dec. 29 and not Jan. 5 as previously stated, an official at Serbia's
Election Commission told Tanjug news agency on Friday.
BELGRADE, Dec 27 (Hina) - The term of office of Serbia's incumbent
President Milan Milutinovic, an indictee of the U.N. war crimes
tribunal at The Hague, expires on Dec. 29 and not Jan. 5 as
previously stated, an official at Serbia's Election Commission
told Tanjug news agency on Friday. #L#
Serbian parliament president Natasa Micic will become the
republic's acting president on Monday, Dec. 30, said Election
Commission secretary Ljiljana Benac-Santic.
Milutinovic was sworn in before the Serbian parliament on 29
December 1997, when his five-year term of office began.
Consequently, incumbent parliament president Micic becomes
Serbia's acting president next Monday, the first woman in Serbia's
history to hold that office.
Confirmation that Milutinovic's term expires in two days came also
from the president of Serbia's Constitutional Court, Slobodan
Vucetic, who said today the end of the incumbent president's term
had to be announced by the republic's Election Commission.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has
accused Milutinovic, alongside former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic, of war crimes against civilians committed in Kosovo in
1998/9.
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