U.S. Scornful of Yugoslav Vote
The United States on Monday branded weekend parliamentary elections held in Serbia and Montenegro as “undemocratic from the start.”
State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler, scornfully referring to President Slobodan Milosevic’s Serbia-Montenegro alliance as the “so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,” said the elections were “neither free nor fair nor legitimate.”
Tutwiler also said that the U.N. Security Council’s vote of sanctions against the Belgrade regime demonstrates that “the international community has made clear that it is united in opposition to Serbian aggression. . . . There will be an increasingly severe cost for Serbia if that aggression continues.
“We hope the Serbian leadership will come to its senses and stop its aggression,” she added.
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