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Article: YUGOSLAVIA: WEST WON'T RECOGNIZE YUGOSLAV ELECTION RESULTS.
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- August 2, 2000
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Western leaders meeting at the recent G-8 Okinawa summit agreed not to recognize the results of any upcoming Yugoslav elections held under the terms of recent constitutional amendments, "Danas" reported. Michael Steiner, who is chief foreign policy adviser to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, told journalists in Okinawa on 22 July that Schroeder and Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato agreed that elections held on the basis of the new legislation will be invalid. Steiner added that Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac stressed the importance of re-establishing democracy in Serbia. Schroeder said that Milosevic's constitutional changes recall the ...