Senior SPS official dies

Senior Serbian Socialists' official dies
FoNet - March 13, 2003

Belgrade, 13 March: A high-ranking official of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), Zivorad Igic (aged 60) died on Thursday 13 March in Belgrade, the SPS has told FoNet.

Igic was a member of the SPS since its foundation, he was a deputy chairman of the party as well as chairman of the Kosovo SPS provincial committee.

He quit this post in 1993 but he was returned to it on the eve of the NATO bombing of the FRY Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999.

After squabbles within the party, he remained in the group of people close to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.

During the 2000 elections he was elected SPS deputy in the Federal Assembly's House of Citizens and chairman of the Federal Assembly's committee for protection of freedoms, rights and duties of citizens.

He was also a member of the managing committee of Serbian Radio-Television (RTS).

SOURCE: FoNet news agency, Belgrade, in Serbian 1150 gmt 13 Mar 03