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"If I am elected president of Serbia I will oust the treacherous and criminal government of Zoran Djindjic and call early parliamentary elections." NOVI SAD, Yugoslavia, Sept 24 (AFP) - Some 20,000 people attended a rally on Tuesday in Serbia's second city in support of ultra- nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj, a candidate in the forthcoming presidential election. "If I am elected president of Serbia I will oust the treacherous and criminal government of Zoran Djindjic and call early parliamentary elections," Seselj said to wild applause from the crowd in Novi Sad. Meanwhile in the capital Belgrade Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, a leading presidential hopeful, accused Djindjic and his government of trying to seize all power in the country. "(Yugoslav) people should estimate whether the reforms are good, not international institutions," Kostunica told some 5,000 supporters at Belgrade's central Square of the Republic, referring to praise that Djindjic's government has received from the international community for economic reforms. "Serbia is discontented, hungry and angry," Kostunica said, promising slower reforms "in accordance with the law" and a strong social programme. In the southern town of Nis, reformist candidate Miroljub Labus, who is neck and neck with Kostunica according to opinion polls ahead of Sunday's election, told a rally of some 10,000 people: "Serbia's interest is to enter the European Union as soon as possible, although it has a price." "It is time that Serbia gets a president that will not favour just one party," said Labus, who has insisted on running as an independent candidate despite support from Djindjic and several other parties in the ruling DOS coalition. Many supporters at Seselj's rally in Novi Sad brandished posters of Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serbs' former military and political leaders during the 1990s Balkans wars. Karadzic and Mladic are among the most wanted suspects sought by the UN war crimes tribunal, which has indicted them for genocide and other crimes against humanity committed during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. "Seselj is the only man capable of protecting Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic," his aides said to loud approval from the crowd. Many ultra-nationalist Serbs see Mladic and Karadzic as war heros. The hardline leader of the Serbian Radical Party, who opinion polls put a distant third in Serbia's presidential race, behind Kostunica and Labus, urged the crowd to openly support former president Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic, currently on trial for alleged war crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo before the UN court in The Hague, has asked his followers in the Socialist Party (SPS) to united behind Seselj. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/69923 --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
