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    ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

    Odraz B92 vesti (by 12 Midnight), March 19, 1997

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    STUDENTS VICTORIOUS

    The resignations of former Belgrade University Chancellor Dragutin
    Velickovic and Student Pro-chancellor Vojin Djurdjevic were
    accepted by the University Council late on Wednesday night.
    Students had kept a vigil in heavy snow outside the Chancery
    building during the long hours of discussion which preceded the
    Council's decision. After the announcement of the decision, the
    triumphant students took a victory lap of their protest march
    route.

    The students will now end their protest with a celebratory march
    on Thursday.


    GREEK FOREIGN MINISTER IN BELGRADE

    Greek Foreign Minister Teodoros Pangalos met Serbian President
    Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic
    in Belgrade on Wednesday.

    Mr Pangalos told media that the talks concerned the crisis in
    Albania, EU policy in the Balkans and the economic transformation
    of Yugoslavia. He also said that Greece believed that a wide range
    of pretexts in the EU for developing anti-Yugoslavia policies must
    be dropped.


    RISTIC DENIES LEFT IN-FIGHTING

    The president of the Yugoslav United Left (JUL), Ljubisa Ristic,
    on Wednesday told media that there was absolute agreement among
    the Socialist Party of Serbia, JUL and the Democratic Party of
    Montenegrin Socialists about the make-up of the new Yugoslav
    government.

    Mr Ristic said that JUL had nominated its appointees for federal
    ministries, but that he did not wish to discuss their number or
    which ministries they would head.


    RUSSIAN CRITICISM OF MILENTIJEVIC

    Russian state radio Voice of Russia on Wednesday said that Serbian
    Information Minister Radmila Milentijevic's claims about absolute
    freedom of the media in Serbia could only apply to media under
    state control. Voice of Russia stressed that only these
    broadcasters were allowed freedom, to ignore events, to keep
    silent about the truth, to falsify facts, distort reality and
    discredit the opposition.


    GREECE-MACEDONIA ENTENTE

    Greek Foreign Minister Teodoros Pangalos on Wednesday met
    Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov. Mr Pangalos said after the
    talks that the two countries would be in close contact through
    their Interior and Defence Ministries during the next two weeks,
    as the crisis in Albania worsened.

    The Macedonian President's office issued a statement saying that
    Macedonia and Greece were willing to extend their cooperation in
    all areas.

    Mr Pangalos was optimistic about the matter of Macedonia's name,
    which has been an obstacle to the complete normalisation of
    relations between the two countries.


    PERMANENT SOLUTION SOUGHT FOR REFUGEES

    A meeting of representatives of Bosnia Herzegovina, Yugoslavia and
    Croatia began in Geneva on Wednesday. The meeting, which was
    convened by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, seeks a
    permanent solution to the problem of refugees on the territory of
    the former Yugoslavia.


    OSCE HIJACKING

    A vehicle in which OSCE Political Director Vladimir Kuznetsov was
    travelling from Pale to Sarajevo was hijacked on Wednesday. OSCE
    spokesman Johan Verheyden told AFP that Mr Kuznetsov had been held
    up by two masked men. The hijackers held a gun at Mr Kuznetsov and
    ordered him to get out of his Jeep, before seizing the vehicle and
    driving towards Pale.

    Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
    Edited by: Steve Agnew

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