Protests in Serbia Archive
Odraz B92 Daily News Service

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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 8 PM), February 13, 1997

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    STUDENTS SUPPORT SUSPENDED JOURNALISTS

    The students marched to the offices of Radio Television Serbia's
    Third Channel In New Belgrade on Thursday, to protest against its
    suspension of several journalists who had expressed support for
    the students during their week-long confrontation with the police
    in Kolarceva street.


    BELGRADE ELECTORAL COMMISSION VERIFIES DEPUTY MANDATES

    The final results of the local elections in Belgrade, verified on
    Thursday by the local Electoral Commission, give Zajedno 67 seats
    out of 110, the Socialists have 24, the Radicals 17 and the
    Democratic party 2. This was officially announced to the Serbian
    Parliamentary Speaker Dragan Tomic on Thursday, and he is now
    legally obliged to call a first session of the Council within five
    days, the Commission's Chairman said on Thursday.


    PESIC: POSSIBLE MANIPULATIONS WITH 'LEX SPECIALIS'

    Opposition leader Vesna Pesic said on Thursday that the Gonzalez
    report did not state the number of seats Zajedno had won in the
    disputed municipalities and cities and that this fact might be
    used by the Serbian Government to perpetrate further fraud. She
    stressed that the demonstrations would continue until Zajedno was
    given all the seats it had won in the local elections.

    Ms. Pesic pointed out that the ruling Socialist party had used the
    fact that the Gonzalez report did not list the Belgrade
    municipalities with opposition majorities to insert two undisputed
    municipalities, where assemblies had already been constituted, in
    the place of the disputed New Belgrade and Mladenovac districts.

    ``The reinstatement of the electoral results is only the first
    round of the struggle for a democratic Serbia,'' a free press, and
    reforms of party funding and procedure for the national elections
    were all necessary also said Ms. Pesic.

    Ms. Pesic said that the current climate was not favourable to the
    opening up of a dialogue between the Serbian Government and
    opposition, especially as recent statements by the Serbian Prime
    Minister and Parliamentary Speaker hinted that the conflict would
    be aggravated rather than a dialogue established.


    SESELJ: FRESH LOCAL ELECTIONS ONLY WAY OUT

    Vojislav Seselj, leader of the Radicals, stated on Thursday that
    his party demanded that fresh local elections be called as ``the
    only rational way out'' of the ``irregular situation'' after the
    ``breach of the legal order of Serbia and FR Yugoslavia'' by the
    adoption of the 'Lex Specialis'. ``We shall get out of this
    situation only after the Socialists have been decisively defeated
    in the elections, because they are the main generators of the
    crisis,'' Mr. Seselj said.

    Asked whether his party wouid carry out its threat to appeal the
    'Lex Specialis' in the Constitutional Court, Mr. Seselj replied in
    the negative.


    ALL BELGRADE KINDERGARTENS ON STRIKE

    All Belgrade kindergartens are closed due to strikes in support of
    a demand for increased wages, and a delegation of the striking
    nursery teachers demand an appointment with the newly appointed
    Minister for Family Care, Bratislava Morina, Nursery teacher's
    union leader Marija Tunic told Beta newsagency on Thursday.


    NEWS FROM BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA AND CROATIA
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    EXPULSIONS OF MUSLIMS FROM MOSTAR CONTINUES

    Representatives of the SFOR [Stabilization Froces] stated in
    Sarajevo on Thursday that several expulsions of Muslims from the
    Western Croat-controlled part of Mostar occurred on Wednesday
    night, despite the agreement to stop these practices signed by the
    Bosnian Croats, Beta reports.

    UN spokesman Alexandar Ivanko stated that 5 or 6 expulsions from
    Western Mostar had been reported.

    Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
    Edited by: Mary Anne Wood

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