Belgrade - Yugoslav leaders were seeking a compromise formula yesterday to avert a government crisis over how to draw up a draft law enabling ousted leader Slobodan Milosevic to be handed over to the UN war crimes court.
The two partners in the federal coalition government - Serbia's reformist DOS alliance and Montenegro's Socialist People's Party (SNP) - held their second meeting in a week on Sunday without agreement, although compromise ideas were aired.
Their disagreement threatens to undermine efforts to attract badly needed foreign funds for an economy impoverished after a decade of wars and international sanctions under Milosevic, ousted in a popular uprising last October. Officials said talks would continue early this week.