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.

 

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