THE TIMES
29 June 1999
Prince calls for new regime
FROM MICHAEL BINYON
IN PODGORICA
CROWN Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia yesterday marked the holiest day
of the Serbian Orthodox calendar by calling for the overthrow of President
Milosevic and for a government of national salvation.
"There is no room there for the current President of the federal state,"
he told monks and worshippers at St Lastia monastery here. "All forces,
political and social, should work in this direction. Our people have a
great future, but they must wake up and start working."
His call came on the first day of his three-day visit to Montenegro
to rally opposition to the Belgrade Government. The Prince, son of Yugoslavia's
last King, Peter, chose the 610th anniversary of the battle of Kosovo Polje
to make his fourth visit to Yugoslavia and his first to Montenegro.
After praying at the monastery, he and his Greek wife, Princess Catherine,
had talks with President Djukanovic, the pro-Western leader who fought
off Belgrade's attempts to unseat him while he kept the junior partner
in the Yugoslav federation neutral during the Kosovo conflict. The Prince
insisted that he was not speaking as a politician. |