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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 10 PM), February 7, 1997

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    VESNA PESIC PROPSES AMENDMENTS FOR SPECIAL LAW

    President of the Civil Alliance of Serbia, a member party of the
    Zajedno coalition, and member of the Republican Parliament, Vesna
    Pesic, has prepared amendments to the Proposal of the law on
    declaring temporary electoral results as final, stated her party
    spokesman on Friday. Pesic will demand that another two
    constituencies are added to the new law.


    ARMY WILL NOT INTERFERE

    Student Protesters from the University of Nis on Friday talked to
    Colonel Velimir Jovanovic, Head of the Third Section of the
    Yugoslav Army. The Colonel told the students that the Army would
    not interfere in the current political events in the country. He
    also admitted that the army intervention in March 9,1991 ``had
    been a big mistake'' which would not be repeated. He emphasized
    that the army would not enter into the political struggle in the
    country, but it would not allow the breakout of civil war, report
    the Information Service of the Student Protest.


    AID TO INDEPENDENT TRADE UNIONS IN SERBIA

    The European Confederation of Trade Unions will actively support
    the independent trade union movement in Serbia, stated Emilio
    Gabaglio, General Secretary of the Confederation, FoNet reports.
    The Confederation will mobilize international solidarity, educate
    staff, help media development, and support Serbian re-integration
    into the international community.


    BABURIN'S OPINION ON LATEST EVENTS IN SERBIA

    Vice-President of the Russian Parliament, Sergei Baburin, Head of
    the delegation which visited Belgrade in January, on Friday
    criticized the attitude of the leaders of the Zajedno coalition,
    FoNet reports. Baburin said that he was unpleasantly surprised to
    see that the Serbian opposition had refused to start a dialogue
    with the authorities.


    GERMAN NEWSPAPER: WEST SHOULD TURN FROM BALKAN DESPOTS

    The West must turn its back on Milosevic, Tudjman and ``other
    Balkan despots'' says the German newspaper ``Zeit.''It commented
    that the Croatian President Tudjman is as uninterested in
    establishing real democracy as Milosevic, and that Milosevic will
    have to make more concessions in order to end the crisis in an
    article on Friday.


    MEETING ON EDUCATION SYSTEM IN KOSOVO

    Kosovian daily in Albanian 'Bujku' says that a group consisting of
    3 Albanian and 3 Serbian experts on education had a talk on
    Wednesday in Belgrade. They agreed that the number of ethnic
    Albanians attending educational institutions in Kosovo should be
    established in the next ten days. Representative of the Kosovian
    Albanians, Abdul Rama, stated that the group talked about all
    levels of education in Kosovo. He added that the next meeting will
    be held in Pristina, soon.

    Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
    Edited by: Mary Anne Wood

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