SNS leader in favor of arresting Mladić

Opposition SNS party leader Tomislav Nikolic says Serbia should fulfill its obligations toward the Hague Tribunal, i.e. that Ratko Mladic should be arrested. In an interview for Belgrade newspaper Blic, Nikolic said, “I wouldn’t do it (arrest Mladic) gladly, but it’s an obligation that I would have to fulfill.“ SNS leader in favor of arresting Mladic Commenting on the comment made by businessman Milan Beko, who told President of Serbia Boris Tadic that rich people from his Democratic Party should be the first to give some of their wealth back to the country, Nikolic said that Beko talked about the people around Tadic who have contracts with state owned companies. “Milan Beko is a friend of mine. I haven’t seen or heard from him in a year, because I don’t want to bother him. I know that they are monitoring and wiretapping everything, and that on that day they would set out to completely destroy him,“ said Nikolic. Nikolic noted that in 2001, the “Milosevic tycoons“ paid the extra profit tax requested by the then government. “Boris Tadic is being a hypocrite when he’s reminding them how they acquired their wealth,“ added Nikolic. The head of the SNS announced that in two months, the opposition will hold a rally demanding from the government to schedule early parliamentary elections. “That rally would be the final warning to those that can hear, see, those that are reasonable, and are in the ruling parties, that elections must be held in Serbia,“ said Nikolic. On Tuesday, another Belgrade daily, Vecernje Novosti, reported that SNS was readying an ultimatum to be put before the government. According to this, the party, which according to polls is the most popular in the country, along with the ruling Democrats (DS), will engage in protests unless its demands have been met. SNS will insist that the planned sale of the state-owned telecommunications company Telekom Srbija be abandoned, and will also ask equal treatment for the opposition by the media. According to the article, these demands will be submitted to the authorities by the end of the week, and if they fall on deaf ears, the party is preparing to organize large-scale protests in December throughout Serbia. The newspaper writes that SNS will also send its list of demands to "all foreign ambassadors, and OSCE and EU missions in Belgrade". Tomislav Nikolic (FoNet, file)

SNS leader in favor of arresting Mladić

Commenting on the comment made by businessman Milan Beko, who told President of Serbia Boris Tadić that rich people from his Democratic Party should be the first to give some of their wealth back to the country, Nikolić said that Beko talked about the people around Tadić who have contracts with state owned companies.

“Milan Beko is a friend of mine. I haven’t seen or heard from him in a year, because I don’t want to bother him. I know that they are monitoring and wiretapping everything, and that on that day they would set out to completely destroy him,“ said Nikolić.

Nikolić noted that in 2001, the “Milošević tycoons“ paid the extra profit tax requested by the then government. “Boris Tadić is being a hypocrite when he’s reminding them how they acquired their wealth,“ added Nikolić.

The head of the SNS announced that in two months, the opposition will hold a rally demanding from the government to schedule early parliamentary elections.

“That rally would be the final warning to those that can hear, see, those that are reasonable, and are in the ruling parties, that elections must be held in Serbia,“ said Nikolić.

On Tuesday, another Belgrade daily, Večernje Novosti, reported that SNS was readying an ultimatum to be put before the government. According to this, the party, which according to polls is the most popular in the country, along with the ruling Democrats (DS), will engage in protests unless its demands have been met.

SNS will insist that the planned sale of the state-owned telecommunications company Telekom Srbija be abandoned, and will also ask equal treatment for the opposition by the media.

According to the article, these demands will be submitted to the authorities by the end of the week, and if they fall on deaf ears, the party is preparing to organize large-scale protests in December throughout Serbia.

The newspaper writes that SNS will also send its list of demands to "all foreign ambassadors, and OSCE and EU missions in Belgrade".