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Serbian president's praise of Milosevic triggers outrage
« on: September 15, 2018, 01:25:51 am »
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Serbian president's praise of Milosevic triggers outrage
ABC News

The Serbian president's praise of Slobodan Milosevic as a "great" leader triggered outrage on Monday in neighboring states where his nationalist policies in the 1990s caused bloodshed and destruction.

In his keynote speech while visiting Kosovo's Serbs on Sunday, Aleksandar Vucic called for peace and reconciliation with Kosovo Albanians, but also praised former Serbian leader Milosevic.

"Milosevic was a great Serbian leader whose intentions were certainly for the best, but our results were very poor," Vucic said. "Not because he wanted that, but because our wishes were unrealistic, while we neglected and underestimated the interests and aspirations of other nations."

Read more at: https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/serbian-presidents-praise-milosevic-triggers-outrage-57725577

Serbia is not in the EU but I think they are trying to get into it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union

This was a fairly big story this week.