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      ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

      Odraz B92 vesti (by 10 PM), March 20, 1997

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      NEWS BY 10 PM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24

        Student Protest Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
        Kontic Suggested New Government Members  . . . . . . . . . .  35
        Kontic's Speech On New Government  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  45
  15    Klein Meets Milosevic  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  54
        EU to Discuss Trade Concessions for Yugoslavia on Monday . .  73
        Serbian Radical Party Protests Ban on French Visit   . . . .  82
        Draft Law On Ownership Transformation Due Next Monday  . . .  89
        News In Brief  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  97

  20  OPINION POLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

        Opinion Poll For Users of the Odraz B92 News Service in Serbian
        and English, and listeners on Real Audio . . . . . . . . . . 122

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      NEWS BY 10 PM
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      STUDENT PROTEST ENDS

      Belgrade Univeristy students ended 119 days of demonstrations on
      Thursday. The first march was held on November 22 in protest
      against against the annulment opposition wins in the November
  30  local elections.

      On Thursday students staged a 'victory' march through central
      Belgrade. Students announced that they would continue to fight for
      ``the establishment of the democratic procedures'' and vital
      students' interests.


  35  KONTIC SUGGESTED NEW GOVERNMENT MEMBERS

      On Thursday Yugoslav Prime Minister, and sole candidate for the
      new post of Federal Prime Minister, Radoje Kontic announced the
      new government line up to both houses of the Parliament.

      The Federal government will have four Vice Prime Ministers and 16
  40  Ministers in total. One of the Vice Prime Ministers and four other
      minister have retained their positions from the former government
      line-up. In the new government, eleven ministers are from the
      Socialist Party of Serbia, seven from the Democratic Party of the
      Socialists of Montenegro and two from the Yugoslav Left.


  45  KONTIC'S SPEECH ON NEW GOVERNMENT

      Prime Minister of the new Federal government, Radoje Kontic,
      stressed that he considered his candidacy to be in line with the
      need to continue the process of transformation in Yugoslavia,
      FoNet reported.

  50  Mr. Kontic stressed that the aim of the new government was to
      build a modern democratic society based on universal human rights
      and values, the rule of law, free market economy, political
      pluralism and social justice.


      KLEIN MEETS MILOSEVIC

  55  Radio B92 reported on Thursday that the meeting between UN
      Administrator for Eastern Slavonia Jacques Klein and Slobodan
      Milosevic was shrouded in mystery; no journalists in Belgrade were
      informed of the exact location of the meeting and state Television
      coverage was limited to stills of the Serbian President.

  60  Leaders of Serbs in Eastern Slavonia also attended the meeting. An
      official statement after the meeting said that suggestions had
      been made concerning the permanent protection of Serb interests in
      the region and the equality of all citizens. President Milosevic
      gave his full backing to those suggestions and expressed his
  65  satisfaction that the UN Administrator and Serbs leaders had also
      agreed on further activities.

      The statment also said that the question of dual citizenship would
      be regulated by agreements between Yugoslavia and Croatia.
      Spokesman for UNTAES Philip Arnold told Radio B92 that Mr.
  70  Milosevic had encouraged Serbs from Slavonia to accept Croatian
      identity cards and other documents and to take part in the
      forthcoming elections.


      EU TO DISCUSS TRADE CONCESSIONS FOR YUGOSLAVIA ON MONDAY

      Foreign Ministers of the member states of the European Union (EU)
  75  are to assess on Monday the extent to which EU recommendations on
      freedom of the media and dialgue between the Serbian government
      and the opposition have been implemented in Serbia, BETA reported
      on Thursday.

      The EU have stressed that the full implementation of those
  80  recommendations is a necessary precondition for starting possible
      trade concessions on Yugoslav exports to the Common Market.


      SERBIAN RADICAL PARTY PROTESTS BAN ON FRENCH VISIT

      Vice President of the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) Tomislav Nikolic
      on Thursday protested against the French government's refusal to
  85  issue Radical leader Vojislav Seselj a visa.

      Mr. Seselj was invited to attend the French National Front's
      annual congress. Mr. Nikolic commented: ``France has two types of
      democracy: one for export and one for domestic use.''


      DRAFT LAW ON OWNERSHIP TRANSFORMATION DUE NEXT MONDAY

  90  On Thursday Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic announced that
      the Serbian Government would present its working version of the
      Law on Ownership Transformation next Monday, state Radio Belgrade
      reported.

      ``Because of this law's importance we have decided to prioritise
  95  debates on the law and hold them as soon as possible,'' Mr.
      Marjanovic stated.


      NEWS IN BRIEF

      As of 8.15 p.m. on Wednesday private BK Television can no longer
      be watched south of Belgrade. State-owned Radio Television Serbia,
 100  who rented state transmitters to BK, withdrew BK's transmission
      stations two weeks. The state television said that they needed the
      transmitters back because of internal expansion. State
      telecommunications company PTT then sent BK television a similar
      warning they would withdraw BK's relay links to the state-owned
 105  transmitters, also with the same explanation. PTT cut the links
      last night.

      President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alija
      Izetbegovic, on Thursday left for a five day visit to the USA, AFP
      reported. Mr. Izetbegovic is to receive an award for the
 110  development of democracy from the American Centre for Democracy in
      Washington. He will also talk to US President, Bill Clinton and
      other US officials.

      Spokesman of the US State Department Nicholas Burns on Thursday
      stated that the US government strongly supported the territorial
 115  integrity and peaceful democratic development of the former
      Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as key to regional stability. Mr.
      Burns said this was the reason why Washington had decided to
      deploy more than 500 soldiers to Macedonia and provide the country
      with significant amount of financial aid.


 120  OPINION POLL
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 165  Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
      Edited by: Julia Glyn-Pickett

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