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Xinhua News Agency March 17, 2006 Over 50 foreign delegations to attend funeral for Milosevic BELGRADE - Over 50 foreign delegations will attend the funeral of former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic on Saturday, a senior official with Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) said on Friday. The funeral to be held in Milosevic's hometown of Pozarevac, some 80 km east of Belgrade, will be attended by some dignitaries, said Miomir Ilic, the SPS's regional leader in Pozarevac. Ilic told the official Tanjug news agency that the dignitaries include Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, Russian State Duma Vice-President Sergei Baburin, former U.S. state prosecutor Ramsey Clark, and Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko. Ilic said over 100,000 people from Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnian Serb Republic would be present at the funeral ceremony for Milosevic, who died on March 11 in the detention unit of the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. .... According to unofficial estimates, some 30,000 people have paid their respects to Milosevic, whose coffin was placed on display at the Revolution Museum in Belgrade since Thursday afternoon, SPS Vice President Branko Ruzic said on Friday. He said that Milosevic's coffin would be exhibited until noon on Saturday, when his remains would be transferred to Pozarevac for burial. ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=4734912&PageNum=0 Itar-Tass March 17, 2006 Socialist Party urges Serbs to attend Milosevics last journey BELGRADE - Serbian Socialist Party has urged people of the country to attend former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevics funeral and to pay him worthy last respects. The party called on the Serbs to get together on Belgrades downtown square opposite the Skutpstina, the national parliament Saturday afternoon, the partys press service said. Party experts estimate that around 200,000 Serbs and members of 40 foreign delegations will attend the validation ceremony in Belgrade, and 70,000 to 80,000 others will take part in the funeral proper, due to take place in Milosevics native town of Pozarevac southeast off Belgrade. The Russian politicians planning to attend the solemn functions are Gennady Zyuganov, Sergei Baburin, and Konstantin Zatulin. Friday night, it was still unknown however if Milosevics widow Mira Markovic would come to Yugoslavia from Russia to attend the funeral, since a risk of legal problems in the process of leaving the country exists for her. ------------------------------------------------------ http://www.regnum.ru/english/607176.html Regnum (Russia) March 16, 2006 Russian MPs to visit Milosevic funeral Official delegation of Russian Parliament will not visit funerals of Yugoslavian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic, as Speaker Boris Gryzlov informed the press. He said that such decision was made at the meeting of political parties representatives. At the same time, no one will hamper unofficial visits of MPs to Serbia. He added that representatives of United Russia will visit the funeral, which will take place in Pozarevac (Serbia). Milosevic died on March 11 in the cell of the Hague Tribunal. Serbian News Network - SNN [email protected] http://www.antic.org/
