Ex-Yugoslav President Elected Prime Minister
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Vojislav Kostunica, who replaced war crimes defendant Slobodan Milosevic as president of Yugoslavia in 2000, was elected Serbia’s prime minister on a 130-113 Federal Assembly vote. He is a moderate nationalist who opposes the war crimes tribunal at The Hague that is hearing Balkan war cases.
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