President Milosevic attended the memorial service The Yugoslav Government has promised a stern response to the assassination of Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic joined other government figures at a memorial service for Mr Bulatovic. A shot in Pavle was a shot in all of us. Although specific measures have yet to be announced, the BBC correspondent in Belgrade says that tough new anti-terrorism laws are expected.
Opposition leaders say the killing is a sign of a breakdown in the rule of law.
As defence minister, Mr Bulatovic played a key role in the crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Police said the owner of the restaurant, Mirko Knezevic, and a banker, Vuk Obradovic, unrelated to the opposition politician, were also shot and slightly wounded. The shooting occurred less than a month after Serbia's most notorious warlord, Zeljko Raznatovic, known as Arkan, was assassinated in a Belgrade hotel. Some in Belgrade believe that Mr Bulatovic's killing was in revenge for Arkan's death. Montenegrin connection Mr Bulatovic, a close ally of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, comes from Montenegro, the smaller of two republics which make up the Yugoslav Federation.