RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 208, Part I, 26 October 2000
KOSTUNICA LOOKING TO MOSCOW FOR HELP. In an interview with
Interfax on 25 October, two days before his scheduled meeting
with Russian President Putin in the Kremlin, Yugoslav
President Vojislav Kostunica said that his country "needs
help" and is "firmly convinced that Russia will give it."
Asked what kind of help Yugoslavia hopes from Moscow,
Kostunica said that "so much was destroyed in [last year's]
criminal NATO air strikes that any kind of assistance is
valuable to us." Specifically, he said that there is "huge
room" for cooperation between Yugoslavia and Russia in the
electricity, engineering, food, and light industries.
Stressing that Belgrade wants to maintain good relations with
both East and West, he ruled out the possibility of
Yugoslavia's joining the union between Russia and Belarus. "A
serious geographical obstacle" exists to such unification, he
noted, adding that "we must be realists in politics." JC
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