Arrested Again

Milan Lukic (27), suspected of ``abducting 17 passengers from the Belgrade Bar train on February 27, 1993 near the village of Strpci,'' was released from investigative detention in a Belgrade jail on April 27, because of lack of evidence, and arrested again the very same day, and handed over to to the investigative judge of the Belgrade District Court. The District Court sentenced him to 30 days in jail. He was arrested this time, because the court of the first instance in Sarajevo (at Pale) had launched proceedings against him for robbery and put out a warrant of arrest, so that he is currently under socalled extradition detention in Belgrade (the farse with the judiciary goes on), even though Yugoslavia has not recognized the Serb Republic in BH and does not have an agreement on extradition with it. To make matters even more absurd, the court of the first instance at Pale, is supposed to send a demand for the extradition of Milan Lukic to the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry during a period of 30 days. It remains unclear why Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who had promised the families of the abducted men that he would ``search high and low,'' forgot that the matter concerned a foreign country.

Winner

The list reads as follows: the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) is first, the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) is second, the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) is third, and the Democratic Party (DS) fourth. The Civic Alliance and the New Democracy also took part.

Judging by the party which is missing, it is obvious that these are not election results. The matter concerns the First Easter Football Tournament.

Lunch

The British Embassy in Belgrade held a lunch in honour of Foreign Office minister Douglas Hogg on Wednesday. Those present included: Vuk and Danica Draskovic (Serbian Renewal Movement), Vojislav Kostunica and Vladeta Jankovic (Democratic Party of Serbia), Andras Agoston (Democratic Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians), Slavko Perovic (Liberal Alliance Montenegro), Nenad Canak (Social Democratic League of Vojvodina/Yugoslavia), Vesna Pesic (Civic Alliance), Rasim Ljajic (Party of Democratic ActionSandzak). Other guests were Predrag Simic, Stevan Niksic (NIN), Misko Perovic (Monitor), Petar Lukovic (Vreme), Gordana Logar (Borba) and Natasa Kandic (Fund for Humanitarian Law).

Hogg, who had spent an hour before lunch with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic did not wish to talk of the political details of the meeting, and met after lunch (which consisted of soup, beef with mushrooms and peas, white and red wine, desert and coffee), with Republic of Serb Krajina top official Milan Babic. Babic arrived at the residence just as the other guests were leaving. Nobody knows what Hogg and Babic talked about. None of the guests knew that Babic was expected, but they all learned that DS leader Zoran Djindjic turned down the invitation to lunch.