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News

Dnevnik

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18 minutes

Serbo-Croatian (Original)

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television program

News in English – Belgrade Evening Report: - Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Marjanovic publishes a book about economic reform and life under sanctions; Milosevic wrote the preface. - Military Medical Academy celebrates 155th anniversary. - Announcer: Nikola Poplasen dismissal is an illegal act, its against Dayton, could jeopardize stability in region. Serbian Television Evening News: - Slobodan Milosevic meets German and Austrian ambassadors in Belgrade: discussion of Kosovo crisis and cooperation between Yugoslavia and the EU; the EU should not threaten with bombs, but aid Yugoslavia in fighting terrorism. - Serbian Radical Party: ancestors paid with blood for Serbia, no foreign troops on Serbian soil, Kosovo must be defended (cited). - Albanian Democratic Reform Party (Demokratska Reformska Partija Albanaca) speaks out against the KLA: the KLA only hurts Albanian people by giving them false hopes (cited). March 8: - Kosovska Mitrovica women protest to OSCE to regain the freedom of a kidnapped Serbian soldier; the soldier's father and uncle were killed on March 3. - Serbs and Macedonians in Vrbenica, Macedonia rally in support of Milosevic and his policy. - CNN interviews Yugoslav ambassador to U.S. Nebojsa Vujovic: Serbia to seek peace through the Ten Principles of the Contact Group – amendments added to the Rambouillet agreement which could qualify Kosovo as an independent republic (cited). - Report on foreign media coverage: Hungarian Magyar Hirlap: published a letter by Milan Milutinovic and Ratko Markovic – Milutinovic asks the Contact Group to prevent U.S. manipulation; Hungarian Nepszabadsag: Belgrade opposes the option of a Kosovo citizen's referendum after three year moratorium. - French President Jacques Chirac meets NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana to discuss the Kosovo situation. - Bosnian Serb parliament votes to reject Robert Owen and Carlos Westendorp's decision regarding the status of Brcko. - Journalists within Republika Srpska and outside its borders gave international representatives a protest letter against the Brcko situation – status unjust and against Dayton agreement. Special Program, "On A Direct Line": - Yugoslav citizens rallied in Malmo, Sweden in support of Yugoslavia and its fight against terrorism. - Political activism of Yugoslav citizens living in Germany: Yugoslav clubs organize rallies and protests in support of Yugoslavia's policy in Kosovo and against NATO threats.