The Yugoslav President and his family were not in the house at the moment of attack. The house is completely destroyed.

The house of the Yugoslav president in the Uzicka street in Dedinje, is located in the residential block of the town and is surrounded by other family houses. Only two days ago, President Milosevic received in it His Holiness, Russian and Moscow Patriarch Alexy II and His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Pavle. Today he should have received in it special envoy of the Russian President Yeltsin, Victor Chernomyrdin.

President Milosevic in an interview to the American TV station

President Milosevic in his interview to American TV station

Belgrade, April 22 (Tanjug - abridged) - Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic gives an interview to the American TV station from the city of Houston, Texas.

In the interview which lasted for a hour President Milosevic emphasizes that he is an optimist considering the search of a peaceful solution but that NATO should stop its aggression first.

I believe that it will be easy to continue the political process, once the bombardment and the aggression stop, president Milosevic stresses.

In the interview to the American TV station President Milosevic accused NATO of causing the refugee phenomenon.

Until March 24, when the bombardment began, we had no refugees. There are many of them since than, as a normal consequence of the dirty NATO action, President Milosevic points out.

Matic: attempted murder of Yugoslav President, terrorist act

Belgrade, April 22 (Tanjug) - The criminal NATO attack of the residence of the Yugoslav president Slobodan is attempted murder of the head of state of a sovereign state and represents an organized criminal terrorist act, the Yugoslav minister said and specified that three laser-guided bombs hit the building of which one exploded in the bedroom.

The height of cynicism of NATO officials Matic called their statements that the Wednesday night attack was exclusively an attack on the building and not on the president personally.

"Where is the president of Yugoslavia supposed to live if not in his residence," Matic asked and said that the attack was the continuation of the campaign of striking at civilian targets.