Sreda 11. oktobar 2000 

KAKO JE JUCE SAOPSTENO U LONDONU 

Aleksandar Karadjordjevic u nedelju u Beogradu 
U saopstenju se ocenjuje da je pobeda Kostunice i DOS-a "otvorila vrata za demokratski preobrazaj zemlje" i dodaje da ce princ apelovati na uzajamno postovanje svih gradjana i iskljucivanje bilo kakvog revansizma 

Princ Aleksandar Karadjordjevic u nedelju, 15. oktobra dolazi u Beograd kako bi licno novom predsedniku SR Jugoslavije Vojislavu Kostunici i Demokratskoj opoziciji Srbije (DOS) cestitao na uspehu na izborima, saopsteno je iz njegove kancelarije u Londonu. 

U saopstenju se ocenjuje da je pobeda Kostunice i DOS-a "otvorila vrata za demokratski preobrazaj zemlje". 

"Prestolonaslednik ce naglasiti potrebu da se ocuva jedinstvo svih demokratskih politickih stranaka u interesu svih gradjana, kao i neophodnost da se preduzmu hitne mere da bi se pomoglo najugrozenijim slojevima stanovnistva", navodi se u saopstenju. 

Princ ce apelovati na uzajamno postovanje svih gradjana i iskljucivanje bilo kakvog revanšizma. 

Sa princom Aleksandrom Karadjordjevicem dolazi i njegova supruga Katarina. 

Posle Drugog svetskog rata komunisticke vlasti zabranile su kralju Petru Karadjordjevicu i njegovoj porodici povratak u zemlju i oduzeli im svu imovinu. 

Princ Aleksandar Karadjordjevic boravio je poslednji put u SRJ 16. jula ove godine kada je došao na sahranu svog strica Tomislava Karadjordjevic. 

Tada je oko 3.000 okupljenih na Oplencu uzvikivalo: "Hocemo kralja". 

(Bega) 

 
Crown Prince Alexander II with wife Katherine and three sons 
 
October 11, 2000 
Web posted at: 9:27 AM EDT (1327 GMT) 
 

October 11, 2000 
Web posted at: 9:27 AM EDT (1327 GMT) 

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Yugoslavia's exiled crown prince says he will personally congratulate the new president Vojislav Kostunica in Belgrade on Sunday. 

Crown Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic told CNN.com that he had been invited to visit by Kostunica, whom he called a "serious gentleman who is not corruptible." 

He praised both Kostunica and the multi-party alliance behind him "on their valiant achievements" and the Serbian people for a truly "velvet revolution." 

Karadjordjevic will spend five days in Yugoslavia with his wife, Crown Princess Katherine, but has not yet decided if he will return permanently to Yugoslavia. 

He said: "It was an amazing feeling watching the events of last week unfold at an incredible pace. 

"A great pleasure and happiness for the Serbian people, that finally democracy was coming, better days were going to take place, that sanctions would be lifted which that are at the moment. I was thrilled."" 

The invitation comes in the wake of a recent statement by Kostunica that the Karadjordjevic ancestral home, recently occupied by Slobodan Milosevic, would be handed back to the royal family pending a referendum. 

The crown prince said: "My future is in the homeland and in the family. In going back which was always my desire (I want) to help the country, to serve the people, but not to create any problems. 

"It's the government that has been elected by the people and they are the ones who do the daily business. The monarchy provides unity, the continuity and the stability of the state." 

He says he will stress the need for unity by political parties during the rebuilding process and will also urge people not to take revenge on Milosevic supporters. 

In the short-term he sees pension and health provision as absolutely vital to the people and calls on the international community to provide aid and bring sanctions to a quick end. 

The crown prince says he will assess his own role in the process following his visit. 

He supports Serbia's maintenance of a union with Montenegro in a federal Yugoslavia calling it "vital" for all parties. 

On his first visit to the republic in 1991, following the death of former Yugoslav strongman Tito, half a million people lined the streets of Belgrade to greet him. 

Since then he has made frequent visits, the most recent in July for his uncle's funeral. 

The prince, who has never taken the title of King, was born in a London hotel that was briefly declared Yugoslav territory, after his father had fled the country in 1941. 

CNN.com Europe 

NB: HRH Office wishes to make clear that Tito died in 1980. 

LONDON - NJegovo kraljevsko visocanstvo prestolonasljednik Alekasandar Karadjordjevic putuje u nedjelju, 15. oktobra, u Beograd kako bi licno cestitao njegovoj ekselenciji predsjedniku Vojislavu Kostuncii i Demokratskoj opoziciji Srbije na izbornom uspehu koji je otvorio vrata za demokratski preobrazaj zemlje - saopsteno je SRNI iz prestolonasljednikove kancelarije. Karadjordjevic je pozdravio odluku EU da ukine sankcije SR Jugoslaviji, navodeci da bi "odluka o njihovom uklanjanju sada trebalo da u najkracem vremenu bude pracena obecanom zamasnom finansijskom i materijalnom pomoci iz inostranstva". 

ALEKSANDAR KARADJORDJEVIC DOLAZI U NEDELJU U BEOGRAD 
 

Princ Aleksandar Karadjordjevic u nedelju, 15. oktobra dolazi u Beograd kako  bi licno novom predsedniku SR Jugoslavije Vojislavu Kostunici i DOS-u  cestitao na uspehu na izborima, saopsteno je iz njegove kancelarije u Londonu. U saopstenju se ocenjuje da je pobeda Kostunice i DOS-a "otvorila vrata za demokratski preobrazaj zemlje". 

10-10-2000 18:12 
LONDON - Prestolonaslednik Aleksandar Karadjordjevic doputovace u nedelju u Beograd da bi licno cestitao novom predsedniku SR Jugoslavije Vojislavu Kostunici i Demokratskoj opoziciji Srbije na izbornom uspehu, "koji je otvorio vrata za demokratski preobrazaj zemlje". 

Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic will visit Belgrade on 15th October to personally congratulate Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and the Democratic Opposition of Serbia on their election victory, it was announced in Karadjordjevic's office in London. 

Source: I Net web site, Belgrade, in English 10 Oct 00 

Alexander Karadjordjevic was quoted on Tuesday as saying he fully supported the Balkan country's new president Vojislav Kostunica. The prince, who has a home in London, told the Times newspaper it had always been his dream to return to his homeland but he would do so only "in the proper way". Prince Alexander, son of Yugoslavia's last king, Peter II, said he had not yet received an official invitation. "It must be done in a way that does not hurt the people, but is for the good of the people," he said, adding that huge social problems and great poverty in Yugoslavia were far more pressing issues than the return of the monarchy. 
Prince Alexander, who was born in London's luxury Claridge's Hotel in 1945, said he had been a long-standing opponent of Kostunica's ousted predecessor 
Slobodan Milosevic. "Over 10 years I worked hard to get rid of that awful man... the most important thing I tried to do was to ensure unity," said the prince. "Vojislav Kostunica has my full support," he said. The prince made a rare visit to Yugoslavia in July for the funeral of his uncle Prince Tomislav, the only member of the royal family to move back since King Peter left in 1941 after Nazi Germany overran his country. 

CROWN Prince Alexander, heir to the Yugoslav throne, will travel to Belgrade this weekend to congratulate President Vojislav Kostunica in what may be the first step towards the end of his London exile. 
Mr Kostunica is a known monarchist and has met the Crown Prince several times in London. He is reported to have said Slobodan Milosevic's mansion, known as the White Palace, should be returned to the Yugoslav royal family. 
But he has also made clear that any restoration of the royal family is nota priority for Yugoslavia's democratic parties and that it would have to be backed by the public in a referendum. It could be years before a vote takes place. 
The 55-year-old Crown Prince has made no secret of his belief that a constitutional monarchy would help heal Yugoslavia's wounds after the decades of communism and Milosevic's ultra-nationalism. But the Crown Prince insists that the priority is to "crown democracy". He said: "I am going to meet the president and the democratic opposition. I will appeal to them to maintain unity, which is vital." He said he would call on all Yugoslavs not to seek revenge. 
"The people are the most important thing. The monarchy has always been a part of the country's history, and the monarchy wants to contribute in the most sane way. We take it one step at a time." The Crown Prince is a relative of the Queen and of most of Europe's reigning monarchs. He was born in Claridges Hotel in 1945 - in a room briefly declared to be Yugoslav territory to ensure his claim to succession - after his father, King Peter, fled the Nazi invasion. 
He has lived in exile ever since, but was warmly welcomed when he made brief visits to both Serbia and Montenegro since the death of Tito. Although a declared opponent of Milosevic, Crown Prince Alexander disapproved of last year's Nato bombing of Yugoslavia and international sanctions placed on the country. 
He said that even without a restoration of the monarchy, he would like to return to Yugoslavia.