YUGOSLAVIA: FORMER PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC ARRIVES AT A SPECIAL CONGRESS OF HIS SOCIALIST PARTY

Record ID: 443047

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: FORMER PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC ARRIVES AT A SPECIAL CONGRESS OF HIS SOCIALIST PARTY
  • Date: 26th November 2000
  • Summary: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (NOVEMBER 25, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV SERBIAN SOCIALIST PARTY (SPS) MEMBERS ARRIVING AT SAVA CONGRESS CENTRE WHERE THE SPECIAL CONGRESS IS TAKING PLACE; MV/SCU SPS PARTY MEMBERS DISTRIBUTING FLAGS (5 SHOTS) 0.26 2. SLV SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, FORMER YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT ARRIVING TO ATTEND THE SPECIAL CONGRESS 0.41 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) ZORAN ANDJELKOVIC, SERBIAN SOCIALIST PARTY SECRETARY GENERAL, SAYING "I believe in the Serbian Socialist Party." 0.51 4. MV MIRKO MARJANOVIC, HIGH SPS OFFICIAL AND FORMER SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER ARRIVING 0.59 5. SCU SPS MEMBERS ARRIVING (2 SHOTS) 1.13 6. SLV MILOSEVIC ENTERING CONGRESS HALL; SOCIALIST PARTY MEMBERS APPLAUDING; FORMER YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC WAVING TO AUDIENCE (4 SHOTS) 1.30 7. (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) FORMER YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, SAYING "Those who defended the country and were in the country during the war are declared as enemies now. Those who fled the country, supported the bombing and co-operated with the aggressors are now appearing in the role of patriots and saviours of the country." 2.04 8. SCU SOCIALIST PARTY MEMBERS APPLAUDING 2.07 9. SCU /SLV FORMER PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC LEAVING STAGE AND TAKING HIS PLACE AT THE TABLE NEXT TO THE SOCIALIST PARTY HIGH OFFICIALS; SLV AUDIENCE (2 SHOTS) 2.27 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7J15B7YZCI6WO1AK1GCQLWGCP
  • Story Text: Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic arrived on
    Saturday at a special congress of his Socialist Party, rocked
    by defeat in September's elections.

    Milosevic denounced the mass uprising which forced him from
    power and launched a fierce attack on his political opponents.

    Milosevic, expected to be the only candidate for the post as
    party president, walked into the main entrance of Belgrade's
    Sava Centre on Saturday, accompanied by security guards.

    The former Yugoslav President, who received a standing
    ovation from delegates, said his opponents were trying to
    rewrite the history of last year's NATO bombing campaign
    against Yugoslavia.

    "The situation is absurd. Those who defended the country
    and were in the country during the war are declared as enemies
    now," television pictures showed Milosevic telling the
    congress, which was closed to most media organisations.

    "Those who fled the country, supported the bombing and
    co-operated with the aggressors are now appearing in the role
    of patriots and saviours of the country," continued Milosevic.

    Following the dumping of Milosevic as Yugoslav president,
    a number of senior officials have left the once mighty
    Socialist Party. Milosevic has only occasionally been seen in
    public since the election.


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