(15 Oct 2000) Serbo-Croat/Nat
Yugoslavia's crown prince, Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, arrived in Belgrade to a warm welcome on Sunday, on his first visit to Serbia since Milosevic was ousted.
Addressing supporters, Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic said that he had come to thank all those who helped bring changes to Serbia.
SOUNDBITE: (Serbian)
"I would like to thank all those who helped bring the changes in Serbia. First of all I would like to thank the miners of Kolubara mine."
SUPER CAPTION: Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic
Miners at Kolubara went on strike shortly after the September 24 elections to demand that Slobodan Milosevic recognize Kostunica as Yugoslavia's new president.
Their strike ignited a popular revolt that ended Milosevic's 13-year rule.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"As a Serb and as a Karadjordjevic, I promise to do my best to help you."
SUPER CAPTION: Crown Prince Aleksandar Karadjordjevic
After more than forty years of Communist rule under the late dictator Josip Broz Tito, followed by more than a decade under Milosevic's reformed Communists, many Serbs look back with pride to the times of the Karadjordjevics - originally a Serbian dynasty that expanded its rule when the first Yugoslav state was formed after the First World War.
The heir to the defunct Yugoslav throne met Yugoslavia's new President, Vojislav Kostunica, at the federal government building in Belgrade.
The Crown prince was also scheduled to meet the head of the Serbian Christian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle later in the day.
In separate developments, President Vojislav Kostunica and his allies met on Sunday to urge Slobodan Milosevic's rival camp to accept a definite agreement on how to share power in the country's main republic, Serbia.
After a week of pressure, Milosevic's camp appeared on Saturday to have agreed to the demands of Kostunica's pro-democracy forces - to dissolve Serbia's hardline parliament later this month and call early elections in the Republic in December.
But in talks that ended just before midnight on Saturday, Milosevic's allies appeared reluctant to agree to all details of a proposed interim government where they would share key ministries - the police, justice, information and finance - with Kostunica's backers until early elections.
The changes would effectively end the last vestiges of Milosevic's old guard and replace them with pro-democracy supporters of Kostunica.
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