Yugoslav federal health and labour secretary Miodrag Kovac has committed suicide in a Madrid hotel room. The Yugoslav embassy in the Spanish capital ruled out any link with the attempted suicide on Thursday of former Serbian Interior Minister Vlajko Stojiljkovic. Stojiljkovic had been indicted for war crimes and shot himself after parliament passed a law allowing extraditions to the United Nations tribunal in the Hague. Kovac, 53, an MP from Montenegro who was attending a U.N. conference on ageing in Madrid, was found hanged with a belt in the bathroom at 1:40 a.m. (2340 GMT).

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