GREEK MAYOR APOLOGIZES FOR SUPPORTING SERBIAN EX-LEADER. Athens Mayor
Dora Bakoyannis told a visiting high-level delegation from Bosnia on
15 January that Greece should not have supported former Serbian and
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic during his wars of the 1990s,
the "Financial Times" reported. She stressed that her country bears
"a significant moral responsibility for actions and omissions that
contributed to Bosnia's suffering." She called on Greece to take "a
share of the blame for what happened before and during the conflict."
The London daily commented that Bakoyannis has become "the first
senior Greek politician to admit that Greece should not have
supported...Milosevic." She was a cabinet minister in a previous
government for the conservative New Democracy party and is the
daughter of former Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis, who was a
friend of Milosevic. In 2002, Greek journalist Takis Michas
documented the extent of Greek support for Milosevic and the Bosnian
Serbs in a book titled "Unholy Alliance: Greece and Milosevic's
Serbia." PM
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