THE CHANCELLERY OF
H.R.H. CROWN PRINCE Alexander II
OF YUGOSLAVIA
SERBIAN
GOVERMENT, August 14, 2003
Serbia
declares August 15 day of mourning for Gorazdevac victims
August 14, 2003
Belgrade, Aug 14, 2003 –
The Serbian government decided on Thursday to declare August 15 a day of
mourning for the victims of Wednesday’s terrorist attack in Kosovo-Metohija,
in which two Serb children were killed and six others were injured.
At Thursday’s session,
which began with a minute’s silence for the victims, the Serbian government
agreed to introduce special security measures on the administrative border
with Kosovo-Metohija in order to protect
the population.
The Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of the state union has said that head of Serbia-Montenegro’s mission
to the United Nations Katarina Lalic-Smajevic has called for an urgent
session of the UN Security Council and demanded more efficient measures to
stop ethnic-Albanian violence in Kosovo-Metohija.
Several thousand Serbs
from Gorazdevac, Gracanica, Kosovska Mitrovica, Zubin Potok, Osojane, and
Leposavic demonstrated on Thursday against the terrorist attack on Serb
children.
Of the six injured Serbs,
a 15-year old boy, Bogdan Bukumirovic, is in the most critical condition. He
was transferred last night to Belgrade’s
Military-Medical Academy (VMA), where he was visited by Serbian Prime
Minister Zoran Zivkovic and Head of the Coordinating Centre for
Kosovo-Metohija Nebojsa Covic. According to VMA, Bukumirovic underwent
surgery this morning, but remains in an unstable condition.
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