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The capital city of Serbia; former capital of Yugoslavia; former capital of Serbia and Montenegro. examples
(metonymically) The Serbian or Yugoslav government. quotations examples
Prosecution witness Osman Selak claimed that the Bosnian Serb army was under the de facto control of Belgrade, as the Prosecution alleged, but under cross-examination could not produce a single example of an order issued by the Yugoslav army to the Bosnian Serb army.
2007, John Laughland, chapter 8, in Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milošević and the Corruption of International Justice, London: Pluto Press, page 170