BELGRADE, Sept 29 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's Serb Socialist Party (SPS) held a meeting in Novi Sad Saturday, with the attendance of only 2,000 people, who later, during a walk thorough the city, clashed
with numerous reporters and citizens. The SPS and security members physically attacked Vojvodina daily "Gradjanski list" reporter and photographer, a Belgrade weekly "Svedok" corespondent and a Voice of America journalist, while a Radio Free Europe reporter was verbally abused and threatened. The SPS Vojvodina division president, Dusan Bajatovic, publicly apologised to the press later in the evening, saying "there were always impassioned members at such gatherings." The SPS accused both the Serbian and Yugoslav government for "being responsible for what is going on in Vojvodina," but claimed most responsible were Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and Yugoslav President Voji
BELGRADE, Sept 29 (Hina) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic's Serb Socialist Party (SPS) held a meeting in Novi Sad
Saturday, with the attendance of only 2,000 people, who later,
during a walk thorough the city, clashed with numerous reporters
and citizens.
The SPS and security members physically attacked Vojvodina daily
"Gradjanski list" reporter and photographer, a Belgrade weekly
"Svedok" corespondent and a Voice of America journalist, while a
Radio Free Europe reporter was verbally abused and threatened.
The SPS Vojvodina division president, Dusan Bajatovic, publicly
apologised to the press later in the evening, saying "there were
always impassioned members at such gatherings."
The SPS accused both the Serbian and Yugoslav government for "being
responsible for what is going on in Vojvodina," but claimed most
responsible were Serb Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and Yugoslav
President Vojislav Kostunica.
The Vojvodina Parliament Speaker, Nenad Canak, received a four-
member SPS delegation, requesting early election. Canak answered
such a move would be "counterproductive" because there were "far
more important problems to be solved."
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