PODGORICA: KOSTUNICA'S ATTEMPT TO ASSIGN BLAME IS CAMPAIGN MOVE

PODGORICA, Sept 25 (Hina) - Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica wrote in a Monday letter to the Montenegrin President and Prime Minister, Mile Djukanovic and Filip Vujanovic, the Montenegrin officials "obviously decided to turn a blind eye to reality and take a harder and much more costly way - plebiscite." Speaking of the meeting on the Yugoslav federation's future Djukanovic and Vujanovic declined to attend because Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisa Pesic was also invited, Kostunica stated "there isn't much he can do about it". Montenegro does not recognise the Yugoslav federal government because it was constituted through former president Slobodan Milosevic's constitutional coup d'etat. The Montenegrin president's adviser Miodrag Vukovic labelled Kostunica's letter as part of his "pre-electoral campaign" aimed at proclaiming Montenegro the guilty party in the break-up of the Serb-Montenegrin dialogue. He repeated Podgorica's view that the Yugoslav federation's future should be discussed by, as he put it, relevant representatives. (hina) js