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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 7 PM), March 6, 1997

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    STUDENTS JEER LEADERS

    At the 105th protest on Thursday students jeered their leaders and
    labelled the decision to return temporarily to lectures on Friday
    ``treason.'' The decision was taken to force University Chancellor
    Dragutin Velickovic to resign. Mr. Velickovic had earlier promised
    to hand in his resignation when students returned to classes.

    Member of the Student Protest management Dusan Popovic tried to
    reassure students and stressed that the protest would continue
    until Velickovic resigned, BETA reported on Thursday.


    SERBIAN PRESIDENT HOLDS TALKS ON ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH
    REPUBLIKA SRSPSKA

    Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic met representatives of the
    Serb Republic (RS) on Thursday to discuss economic cooperation
    between the RS and the FR Yugoslavia.

    RS Prime Minister Gojko Klickovic told reporters after the meeting
    that the talks represented a continuation of earlier agreements to
    facilitate the free movement of goods and persons between the FR
    Yugoslavia and the RS.

    Mr. Klickovic stressed that the talks had focused exclusively on
    economic cooperation and not the Agreement on Special Relations
    between FR Yugoslavia and the RS.

    Asked why RS President Biljana Plavsic had not signed the
    Agreement on Special Relations, Mr. Klickovic said that Ms.
    Plavsic was in principle in favour of the Agreement, and that it
    had only been a matter of who would sign the document, BETA
    reported on Thursday.


    SESELJ: US ENCOURAGE UPRISING OF ALBANIAN SEPARATISTS

    Vojislav Seselj, leader of the Serbian Radical Party stated on
    Thursday that ``recent terrorist attacks in Kosovo are an
    expression of the weakness of Albanian separatists.'' He demanded
    that the Serbian Government suppress ``all attempts to jeopardize
    Serbian territorial integrity'' in Kosovo. Mr. Seselj concluded
    that ``the US government was encouraging Albanian separatists to
    start an armed rebellion, but the [Kosovo] Albanians were afraid
    to do so.''


    NUNS: DISREGARD FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDIA CODE

    Vesna Vujic, acting President of the Independent Association of
    Serbian Journalists (NUNS) said on Thursday that the main problem
    facing media in Serbia was the disregard for basic professional
    journalisitic standards by state media.

    Ms. Vujic added that state media, in particular Radio Television
    Serbia, failed to provide accurate, objective and unbiased
    information. Ms Vujic added that although NUNS saluted the Serbian
    Information Minister's initiative to change the Law on
    Information, it was a at present a waste of time to discuss such
    changes.

    Chair of NUNS Executive Board Rade Veljanovski stressed that
    contrary to the Information Minister's many statements that
    Serbian media enjoyed great freedom, the media situation in Serbia
    had been catastrophic for over a decade.


    WHITE: STRIKE IN 'NIN' A TRAGEDY FOR JOURNALISM

    Aidan White, Secretary General of the International Federation of
    Journalists (IFJ) sent a letter to Tomislav Dzadzic, General
    Manager of the Belgrade weekly 'NIN' on Thursday. Mr. White
    reiterated his statement that the NIN strike was a tragedy for
    journalism and urged both management and striking journalists to
    open a dialogue and resolve their dispute as quickly as possible.

    Mr. White added that the decision to replace the weekly's Editor
    in Chief, against the wishes of the majority of its journalists,
    was unprecedented.


    COHEN CRITICAL OF BOSNIA ELECTION DELAY

    On Thursday US Defence Secretary William Cohen strongly criticized
    the OSCE decision to postpone for the second time local elections
    in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mr. Cohen said that the decision
    signalled a failure on the part of those international civil
    agencies responsible for the civil implementation of the Dayon
    accords, Reuters and FoNet reported.

    Mr. Cohen stressed that this would not change the final withdrawal
    date of US troops from Bosnia and that they would leave, as
    planned, in June 1998, even if war were to break out again.

    Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
    Edited by: Julia Glyn-Pickett

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