Pro-Milosevic Serbian lawmakers hold minute of
silence for late leader
Associated Press Worldstream - March 27, 2006 Monday; 11:42 AM GMT
BELGRADE Serbia-Montenegro - Lawmakers loyal to the late Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic held a minute of silence on Monday, which was boycotted by
deputies from other parties in parliament.
Representatives from the Socialist Party, formerly led by Milosevic, and the
allied Serbian Radical Party 104 of them altogether stood in silence, as they
paid their respects the ex-Yugoslav leader, who died earlier this month while in
detention of the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
The Serbian parliament has 250 deputies from several major Serbian parties. The
deputies from Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia
remained in their seats during the silence, while the remaining lawmakers
boycotted the session.
"This was organized for those who wanted to pay their respects to Milosevic,"
said Zoran Andjelkovic, a top Socialists official. "We did not want to make a
show of it."
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