BELGRADE (AP) - Posters (photo) appeared yesterday in Serbia's capital criticizing the country's pro-Western president and the deputy prime minister for signing a pre-entry agreement with the European Union earlier this week. The posters against Tadic and Vice Premier Bozidar Djelic show them during the signing ceremony in Luxembourg on Tuesday and called them «enemies of the state.» Serbia's prosecutor's office said it was investigating the case.

WARSAW (AFP) - Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot and nearly killed the late Polish Pope John Paul II in 1981, has told authorities in Warsaw he wants to apply for Polish citizenship, a government spokesman said yesterday. «Two or three weeks ago Ali Agca's lawyer told officials at the Polish Consulate in Ankara his client intends to ask for Polish citizenship. He said he would make a formal request next Wednesday or Thursday,» Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Piotr Paszkowski told AFP. «He did not explain the motivation behind his client's decision,» Paszkowski added. Meeting with him in his prison cell in 1983, Pope John Paul II forgave Ali Agca for the failed assassination attempt which took place in St Peter's Square on May 13, 1981.

NATO yesterday began exercises in Croatia bringing together medical corps units from the United States and 13 other countries, the Defense Ministry said. The «MEDCEUR 08» exercise, which is to be held in barracks in the coastal town of Split, involves some 370 people and is to last until May 15, a Defense Ministry spokeswoman told AFP. It is aimed at training medical corps units from participating countries to jointly take part in international operations in the case of humanitarian and natural disasters. (AFP)