[ALBSA-Info] {QIKSH =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=AB?=ALBEUROPA=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=BB?=} Milosevic's Close Friends and Greek Observers

[Melisa Gavani]

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*** Milosevic's Close Friends and Greek Observers of
> Yugoslav Elections
> 
> 
>        AIM Athens, September 23, 2000
> 
> 
> Prominent Greeks rushed to become "observers" of
> tomorrow's Yugoslav
> elections. Not really to be objective witnesses of
> any possible
> irregularities, but probably to do what so many
> other such Greek
> delegations have done in previous Yugoslav
> elections. In the past, they had
> issued dissenting statements blasting all other
> observers of such elections
> who had considered them as unfair: Greek observers
> (including in one case
> the at the time President of the Greek section of
> Amnesty International)
> considered all other international observers as
> participants in Western
> efforts to interfere in Yugoslav politics and
> overthrow the popular
> Milosevic regime.
> 
> This year's Greek delegation, invited by the
> Milosevic government, includes
> the whole leadership of the splinter socialist -and
> now extra
> parliamentary- party DIKKI of Mr. Tsovolas, who has
> repeatedly and publicly
> supported Milosevic even in the last party congress
> of the latter's
> Socialist Party. Also present, the Greek lawyer of
> the Milosevic family
> -and reportedly of other prominent persons indicted
> by the ICTY- Alexandros
> Lykourezos. Most prominent, the government (PASOK)'s
> former Foreign
> Minister and Chairman of the Parliament's Foreign
> Affairs Committee,
> Karolos Papoulias, who had a publicized meeting with
> current Foreign
> Minister George Papandreou before he left for
> Belgrade. The latter's views
> on the elections he pretends to observe were stated
> on 23 September at "Sky
> Radio." 
> 
> "It is a crucial election in Yugoslavia. Of course,
> a pattern of the past
> seen again today has been the interference of all
> those forces who want to
> overthrow Milosevic. These forces can be found in
> the US or some European
> great powers. I consider unacceptable the EU's
> statement that says 'if you
> overthrow Milosevic you will eat in golden plates.'
> I think the Yugoslav
> people have many experiences and will go to the
> polls with their own
> experiences and will express their will. Regardless
> of the criticism we may
> make to President Milosevic, there is a stable basis
> in Yugoslavia's
> internal matters. Serbia's political life is
> characterized by patriotism
> and nationalism that will be expressed. The big
> question is if Milosevic
> looses what will be the attitude of the new
> president on the major national
> problem of Kosovo. Which will be the relation of
> Serbia with the Former
> Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia? And on the
> Montenegro factor, there is a
> threat not so much for the opponent of Milosevic but
> for the latter. I
> think it is the last trump card of all those who
> want to overthrow
> Milosevic is the use of Montenegro. But I am afraid
> that they should think
> over and over gain such a development. Because a new
> military intervention
> by NATO Nand the US and Great Britain will be a
> difficult one and will blow
> all of us away. Greek interests in our region and
> especially in Yugoslavia
> are completely different than those of the US and
> the large European
> countries."
> 
> One cannot wait to hear these observers' conclusions
> after the elections...
> 
> 


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