radio free europe
March 15, 2011
By RFE/RL
BELGRADE -- Serbia's parliament has approved a reshuffled cabinet in which the new health minister is a former confidant and family doctor of accused Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports.
The fugitive Mladic's ability to evade capture has vexed the international community, and the elevation to a cabinet-level position of a man who is rumored to have helped him escape justice could affect Belgrade's relations with the West.
Incoming Health Minister Zoran Stankovic, a pathologist, is a former Serbian and Yugoslav defense minister and head of the military's medical academy. He is a retired general.
Stankovic was proposed by coalition member G17 Plus party to replace Tomislav Milosavljevic, who resigned amid corruption allegations.
After a daylong session on March 14, 129 deputies in the 250-seat chamber voted in favor of all 21 members of the cabinet of incumbent Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic, who has also taken the role of finance minister. Nineteen deputies voted against the cabinet, while the others abstained or were absent.
The opposition claimed during the sometimes heated discussion that the changes in the ruling coalition, led by the Democratic Party of President Boris Tadic, are cosmetic in the face of political and economic situations facing the country.
No deputy spoke against the appointment of Stankovic....more...
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