Milosevic son says may ask Russia to bury father

MOSCOW, Mar 13 (Reuters) The son of ex-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic today said he would ask Russia for permission to bury his father in Moscow if members of the Milosevic family had no guarantee of their safety in Serbia.

In a rare public appearance, Marko Milosevic told Russia's 1st Channel television that the family wanted him to be buried in Belgrade. But he said the decision depended on whether the Serbian authorities would guarantee the safety of his mother Mira, who is wanted for criminal offences in the country.

''I just lost my father and do not want to risk my mother,'' he said. ''I have already asked the Russian authorities, although for now unofficially, whether we could bury him in Moscow ... if the need comes until the conditions in Serbia are right to move his body there.'' REUTERS KD PM2139