YUGOSLAVIA: SUPPORTERS AND FOES OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC BELIEVE THEY WOULD WIN ELECTIONS

Record ID: 647644

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: SUPPORTERS AND FOES OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC BELIEVE THEY WOULD WIN ELECTIONS
  • Date: 19th September 2000
  • Summary: BELGRADE,YUGOSLAVIA (SEPTEMBER 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. ZORAN DJINDJIC, LEADER OF THE SERBIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY ENTERING THE NEWS CONFERENCE HALL 0.05 2. CA JOURNALISTS AT NEWS CONFERENCE 0.09 3. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Sebian) ZORAN DJINDJIC, LEADER OF THE SERBIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY, SAYING: "With the consensus of all opposition bloc - DOS members I can say that we will respect the will of our citizens, and we will know what it is during the night. We will not be making any political or demagogical statements, or organising preventive celebrations to create the impression that we have won if we have not, nor will we dispute the election victory of Milosevic and his coalition if they win." 0.43 4. PRESS CONFERENCE 0.48 JAGODINA,YUGOSLAVIA (SEPTEMBER 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 5. WIDE SHOT PF RALLY HELD BY THE RULLING SOCIALIST PARTY OF SERBIA AND JUL 0.53 6. SLV YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMING ON STAGE 0.58 7. MV PEOPLE APPLAUDING 1.04 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) ZIVORAD JOVANOVIC, YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SAYING: "It is obvious that they (the West) treat us like their own public which they deceived and hipnotised with lies. But a Serb, our citizen, a dignified citizen of Serbia and Yugoslavia knows the truth and will not accept a lollypop." 1.26 9. MV AN OLD MAN HOLDING A PICTURE OF THE YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC 1.30 10. CU A MAN WITH GOLDEN TOOTH LISTENING TO THE SPEECH 1.35 11. SLV YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ZIVORAD JOVANOVIC ENDING HIS SPEECH, LEAVING 1.42 12. MV WOMAN WITH RED RIBBON APPLAUDING 1.45 13. MV YUGOSLAV MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ZIVORAD JOVANOVIC TALKING TO CITIZENS OF JAGODINA 1.50 BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (SEPTEMBER 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 14. WS FINAL CONVENTION OF THE SERBIAN RENEWAL MOVEMENTS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VOJISLAV MIHAILOVIC 1.58 15. MV VOJISLAV MIHAILOVIC ENTERING THE SAVA CONGRESS CENTER, SHAKING HANDS WITH PEOPLE (2 SHOTS) 2.15 16. MV VOJISLAV MIHAILOVIC SITTING DOWN NEXT TO DANICA DRASKOVIC, THE WIFE OF THE SERBIAN RENEWAL MOVEMENTS LEADER VUK DRASKOVIC 2.22 17. BV VOJISLAV MIHAJLOVIC COMMING ON STAGE WITH HUNDEREDS OF BALLONS FALLING DOWN 2.35 18. CU WOMAN APPLADING 2.39 19. SLV VOJISLAV MIHAILOVIC, A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OF THE SERBIAN RENEWAL MOVEMENT SPEAKING 2.54 20. SLV VOJISLAV MIHAILOVIC WAVING TO THE PEOPLE 2.58 21. MV MUSIC AND BALLONS AT THE END OF THE LAST SPOS PRE-ELECTION CONVENTION (3 SHOTS) 3.11 NIS, YUGOSLAVIA (SEPTEMBER 19, 2000) (REUTERS) 22. WIDE SHOT OF THE DOS RALLY 3.15 23. MV VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA, DOS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WAVING TO PEOPLE 3.22 24. MV PEOPLE APPLAUDING 3.24 25. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA, DOS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, SPEAKING: "People decided for this beautiful country of Serbia to be different on September the 25th." (3 SHOTS) 3.52 26. SLV YOUNG WOMAN HOLDING A BANNER READING IN SERBIAN: HE IS GONE 3.55 27. MV VOJISLAV KOSTUNICA, DOS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ON THE STAGE 3.59 28. WS / PAN RALLY (2 SHOTS) 4.14 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th October 2000 13:00
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  • Location: BELGRADE, JAGODINA, NIS, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA6UFG3P0WBW2G53IAP4U5SL5HO
  • Story Text: Both supporters and foes of the Yugoslav President
    Slobodan Milosevic said on Tuesday (September 19) they
    believed they would be the ones to win Sunday's ballot.



    Rival opponents of Yugoslav President Slobodan
    Milosevic on Tuesday urged Serbs to take part in elections due
    on Sunday, saying a large turnout would make it more difficult
    for him to cheat.

    We should come out to the polling stations en masse and
    prevent, with our votes, another great election fraud -- the
    fraud of the century, the presidential candidate of the main
    opposition bloc, Vojislav Kostunica told a large pre-poll
    rally in the southern town of Nis.

    Zoran Djindjic, the leader of the Democratic Party and
    campaign manager of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS)
    bloc, told a news conference earlier they expected a landslide
    for their presidential candidate Vojislav Kostunica.

    He said, we expect Milosevic to announce his victory at 10
    p.m. (2000 GMT) but added the oposition would not make any
    premature announcements.

    Overnight we will have absolutely reliable information on
    a sample of polling stations on how the people have voted in
    places where they have really voted, Djinjdjic said. And
    during the night the people of Serbia will know the real
    results, he said.

    In Belgrade, the Serbian Renewal Movement, the only
    opposition party not to join forces behind Kostunica, issued a
    similar plea at its last pre-election convention. Party
    leader Vuk Draskovic sent his pre-election message by
    telephone from Montenegro, where he has been holed up since
    June after what he said was a second attempt on his life by
    Belgrade. Let Serbia turn out en masse on Septemebr 24 and
    vote for itself, its children and its freedom, Draskovic told
    some 3,000 delegates in Belgrades Sava conference centre
    gathered to support the partys presidential candidate Vojislav
    Mihailovic.

    Opinion polls give Mihailovic, the low-key mayor of
    Belgrade, a fraction of the support seen for Kostunica, who
    also leads over Milosevic and the other two candidates.

    The latest, issued on Tuesday by the Belgrade-based Centre
    for Policy Studies among 1,640 people, said 41 percent backed
    Kostunica, 20 percent Milosevic and five percent for
    Mihailovic.

    Earlier on Tuesday Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin
    Jovanovic told a rally in the central Serbian town of Jagodina
    that the proud Serbs would not be lured by candies from the
    West.

    Yesterday, European Union ministers offered us candies if
    we are good children and accept their dictate, he said on one
    of the final rallies of the Socialist Party of Serbia -
    Jugoslav Left coalition. But a dignified Serb will not take a
    lollypop.



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