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      ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

      Odraz B92 vesti (by 10 PM), March 21, 1997

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        Court Intervenes in BK Dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
        Foreign Initiatives  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
        Bildt: Dayton Breached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  47
  15    Agreement on Refugees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  56
        Kinkel: Zagreb Must Act  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  64

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  20  COURT INTERVENES IN BK DISPUTE

      The Belgrade Arbitration Court on Thursday ordered the State
      Telecommunications Company PTT to reactivate relays used by BK
      television for regional transmission. The independent broadcaster,
      which has been blocked from airing its programs south of Serbia,
  25  reported that it had lodged complaints against both PTT and state
      television RTS in the court. BK news editor Srjan Djuric said on
      Friday that the court order represented a faint hope that the
      legal system in the country still functioned and that the
      authorities could not control the judges as they pleased.


  30  FOREIGN INITIATIVES

      Yugoslav President Zoran Lilic on Friday held discussions with
      Prime Minister Radoje Kontic and members of the new federal
      government. Foreign Minister Milan Milutinovic said that the
      process of normalisation between Yugoslavia and Bosnia and
  35  Herzegovina was continuing and that the effect of the Special
      Agreement between Yugoslavia and Republika Srpska would depend on
      both signatories. Mr Milutinovic also said that the Yugoslav
      Government had given Croatia its draft of an agreement on border
      traffic and dual citizenship. Asked to comment on the foreign
  40  policy initiatives of the Zajedno coalition and their forthcoming
      meeting with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Mr
      Milutinovic said that the meetings and the dialogue had always
      been a good thing, but added that it was not an initiative,
      because Zajedno was going to the US for entirely different
  45  reasons. Asked what those reasons were, Mr Milutinovic replied
      ``Ask them.''


      BILDT: DAYTON BREACHED

      The High Commissioner for Bosnia Herzegovina, Karl Bildt, on
      Friday accused Yugoslavia of violating Dayton. Mr Bildt said that
  50  the Federal Parliament breached the Dayton accords when it
      ratified the Agreement on Parallel Relations with Republika
      Srpska. He said that Yugoslavia had been informed that this
      agreement was against both Dayton and the Bosnian constitution. Mr
      Bildt said that the ratification of the agreement would draw a
  55  reaction from the international community.


      AGREEMENT ON REFUGEES

      Representatives of the three ethnic communities in Bosnia on
      Friday reached a preliminary agreement on the return of refugees.
      The three day conference in Geneva was convened by the UNHCR and
  60  was also attended by delegations from BiH, Croatia and Yugoslavia.
      Following the meeting a UNHCR spokesman told media that the
      Muslim-Croat Federation and Republika Srpska had agreed on
      voluntary and safe repatriation of the refugees.


      KINKEL: ZAGREB MUST ACT

  65  German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel on Friday called on Croatia
      to take stronger action against Croats responsible for the attack
      on Muslims in Mostar. He also said that Croatia should condemn
      verbal attacks on the European Union by Bosnian Croat leaders. Mr
      Kinkel added that it was incomprehensible that Western Mostar
  70  Mayor Mijo Brajkovic had attacked former EU Administrator Hans
      Koschnik in the presence of the Croatian President and that
      Croatia had not officially condemned it.

      Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
      Edited by: Steve Agnew

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