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Hunger strike over Serbian oil deliveries
Mayor Tomislav Panajotovic of Pirot said
that he and the town council will soon go on a hunger strike if the central
authorities do not allow EU heating oil shipments to cross from Macedonia
into Serbia, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported on 30 November (see
"RFE/RL Newsline," 29 November 1999). In Nis, Mayor Zoran Zivkovic
said he will call on citizens to "seek out the guilty ones in Belgrade
and Dedinje" (where Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic lives) if
the authorities do not allow EU oil to reach his town. In Brussels, the
EU's Chris Patten said that the Energy for Democracy program will continue
regardless of whether the Serbian authorities allow the current oil shipment
to cross the border. Elsewhere, a shipment of heating oil bought by the
city government of Novi Sad has arrived from Hungary, Montenegrin Television
reported on 1 December. PM
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