UNITED STATES: U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT SAYS SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC TO WILL CHEAT TO WIN SEPTEMBER'S YUGOSLAV PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

Record ID: 223006

  • Title: UNITED STATES: U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT SAYS SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC TO WILL CHEAT TO WIN SEPTEMBER'S YUGOSLAV PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
  • Date: 9th August 2000
  • Summary: WASHINGTON D.C., USA (AUGUST 9, 2000) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. SV: ALBRIGHT BEING AWARDED BY CROATIAN PRESIDENT STIPE MESIC, MEDIA (2 SHOTS) 0.23 2. MV/SCU: SOUNDBITE (English) ALBRIGHT SAYING "We know that Milosevic will cheat and he has already used violence and suppression of the independent media to ensure that elections are not free and fair." (2 SHOTS) 0.39 3. WIDE OF MEDIA 0.43 4. SV: ALBRIGHT SHAKING HANDS WITH CROATIAN PRESIDENT 0.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th August 2000 13:00
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  • Location: WASHINGTON D.C., USA
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  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVAR1Y7QRJYNJQCEKAG14TELCI4
  • Story Text: U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said she
    expects Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to "cheat "
    in next month's national elections.


    Albright made the accusations during a break in talks
    with Croatian President Stipe Mesic, who awarded her with the
    Badge of the Grand Order of Queen Jelena.

    But she also said she hoped the presidential elections
    would allow Yugoslavs to turn their back on Milosevic's
    authoritarian rule. Albright has tried, so far without
    success, to persuade the Yugoslav opposition to Milosevic to
    unite behind a single candidate.

    The U.S. sees Croatia, which turned to the West after the
    death of President Franjo Tudjman last year, as a model for
    Balkan countries breaking with the violent past.
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