Yugoslavia: Opponents Of President Milosevic Call For Blockade Of State Institutions To Force Him To Admit Defeat
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Yugoslavia: Opponents Of President Milosevic Call For Blockade Of State Institutions To Force Him To Admit Defeat
- Title: Yugoslavia: Opponents Of President Milosevic Call For Blockade Of State Institutions To Force Him To Admit Defeat
- Date: 1st October 2000
- Summary: Opposition leader Vuk Obradovic made the call at a rally in central Belgrade, referring to opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica, who the opposition believes won last Sundays poll outright, as the Yugoslav president. The Democratic Opposition of Serbia has taken the decision, supported by Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, that total blockade of all institutions of the system and general civil disobedience will begin, he said. Obradovic, a former general in the Yugoslav army, told people they should invent their own methods of civil disobedience, but urged them to stick to peaceful means. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia's Federal Electoral Commission has rejected all complaints of voting irregularities in September 24 presidential election lodged by the opposition. And the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has rejected a Russian offer to mediate in Yugoslavias political crisis, a Serb opposition source said on Saturday 30.
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- Location: YUGOSLAVIA JUGOSLAVIA BELGRADE
- Reuters ID: LDL0012DX0L83
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