Protests in Serbia Archive
Odraz B92 Daily News Service

---

    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 7 PM), February 14, 1997

    E-mail: odrazb92@b92.opennet.org, beograd@siicom.com
    WWW:    http://www.siicom.com/odrazb/, http://www.opennet.org/b92/
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    All texts are Copyright 1997 Radio B92. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
    ------------------------------------------------------------------



    NEWS BY 5 PM
    ------------------------------------------------------------------


    TOMIC SETS DATE FOR CONSTITUTION OF BELGRADE CITY ASSEMBLY

    On Friday Serbian Parliamentary Speaker Dragan Tomic announced the
    constitution of Belgrade's City Assembly for February 21 at 10
    a.m. Other local city assemblies will be constituted after local
    electoral commissions verify seats in those towns.


    STUDENT PROTEST MARCH

    On Friday thousands of Belgrade students marched through central
    Belgrade for the 84th successive day. 500 students then marched
    towards the Belgrade residence of Serbian President Slobodan
    Milosevic. However the students were prevented from entering the
    exclusive Belgrade street by riot police.


    DEMOCRATIC PARTY NEWS CONFERENCE

    Spokesman of the Democratic Party Slobodan Vuksanovic told
    reporters on Friday that his party had demanded the resignation of
    Serbian Parliamentary Speaker Dragan Tomic. Mr. Vuksanovic added
    that relations between the two opposition leaders -- Zoran
    Djindjic and Vuk Draskovic -- were ``very good'' and added that
    street protests would continue until the Zajedno coalition
    obtained their electoral wins in full.


    SHATTUCK'S VISIT TO BELGRADE DEPENDS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 'LEX
    SPECIALIS'

    On Thursday night the US State Department told Serbian President
    Slobodan Milosevic that US Deputy Secretary of State John
    Kornbloom would not visit Belgrade on his current tour of the
    Balkans. The statement explained that Mr. Milosevic was still
    suject to diplomatic isolation following the recent election
    crisis.

    The US State Department added that Deputy Secretary of State for
    Human Rights John Shattuck would not visit Belgrade until the
    Serbian opposition had established power in the 14 Serbian towns
    it won in elections last November.

    In a second message to the Serbian President state department
    spokesman Nicholas Burns said that the decision of Serbian
    authorities to deny visas to US congressmen did not help the
    already difficult diploamtic relations between the two states.

    Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
    Edited by: Julia Glyn-Pickett

    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service
    E-mail: odrazb92@b92.opennet.org, beograd@siicom.com
    WWW:    http://www.siicom.com/odrazb/, http://www.opennet.org/b92/
    ------------------------------------------------------------------