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YUGOSLAVIA-ELECTIONS FACTBOX
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BELGRADE, September 25, 2000 (BETA)

Yugoslavia is made up of two republics -- Serbia and Montenegro.
Number of registered voters 7,861,327; Serbia has 7,417,197 and
Montenegro 444,130 voters. There are 10,500 voting stations in all of
Yugoslavia, including Kosovo.

There are 27 electoral units in Yugoslavia, including Kosovo.
Montenegro is one electoral unit. Two electoral units, the southern
Serbian towns of Prokuplje and Vranje, cover the province of Kosovo
and have the largest number of voters -- 839,609 and 672,892
respectively.


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SPS ELECTORAL REPORT
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BELGRADE, September 25, 2000 (Vecernje Novosti)

Nikola Sainovic, a member of the Executive board of the Main
board of Socialist Party of Serbia, stated last night that according
to the preliminary results from 299 polling places, with 120.256
voters, Slobodan Milosevic lead with 50.28% of votes or 60.460 votes.

On another press-conference Sainovic precised that 104.414 out
of 120.256 votes were valid.

Zoran Zizic, vice-president of Socialist People's Part (SNP),
estimated on last night's press conference that about 130.000
citizens responded to voting, and gave their support to SPS and
Slobodan Milosevic in respect 9 to 1. Seventy percent of the votes
were counted in the SNP Electoral Board and all results point out
that SPS will win 29 mandates in Chamber of Citizens and 19 madates
in Federal Parliament.


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JUL ELECTORAL REPORT
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BELGRADE, September 25, 2000 (Vecernje Novosti)

Ivan Markovic, Yugoslav Left (JUL) secretary, stated last night
that according to the data from 323 polling places, president
Slobodan Milosevic won 54.8% of the votes.

Miodrag Vidojkovic won 0.38%, Vojislav Kostunica 27.2%, Vojislav
Mihailovic 1.39% and Tomislav Nikolic 4.05%.


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DOS ELECTORAL HEADQUARTERS' REPORT
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BELGRADE, September 25, 2000 (BETA)

Democratic Opposition of Serbia stated Monday morning that
Vojislav Kostunica, DOS candidate, leads based upon the processed 51%
of the votes. Kostunica won 53% of the votes and Slobodan Milosevic
won 36% of votes.

DOS Electoral Board for elections control in Montenegro reported
that 25.02 voters came out to polls, which is 110.213 citizens. The
data were proclaimed final for the Board by Goran Vesic, chief
coordinator of the Board, since they were based on the 99.96% of the
processed data. Vesic said that DOS had no access to the remaining
0.04% of data since some of the controllers were thrown out from the
polling places.


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SRS ELECTORAL REPORT
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BELGRADE, September 25, 2000 (Beta)

According to the results based on the counted 30% of the total
votes Vojislav Kostunica, DOS presidential candidate has increased
his lead ahead of Slobodan Milosevic, representatives of Serbian
Radical Party (SRS) reported this morning.

According to the processed results from 3.813 electoral
locations, Kostunica has 52.71%, Milosevic 38.59%, Tomislav Nikolic,
SRS candidate, 6.49%, and Vojislav Mihailovic, SPO candidate has
3.23% of the votes.


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COMMISSION PAUSES VOTE COUNTING TILL MORNING
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BELGRADE, September 25, 2000 (Beta)

Sinisa Nikolic, Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS)
representative in the Federal Electoral Commission (SIK) stated last
night that the commission has paused its work. He said that the work
was paused at the time of the counting of votes of prisoners,
soldiers and voters by mail.

Representatives of the ruling parties demanded that the work be
paused since it cannot be finished till the end of the night, which
was opposed by the representatives of DOS, Serbian Radical Party
(SRS) and Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO). Ruling parties'
representatives left the SIK session, and the electoral material was
locked in a special room, according to Nikolic.


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KOREAS START MILITARY TALKS
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SEOUL, South Korea, September 25, 2000 (BBC)

Defence ministers from the two Koreas have begun landmark talks
on the southern resort island of Cheju. They agreed to work towards
building links and easing military tension on the divided peninsula.

South Korean President Kim said he wants the United States to
keep its 37,000 troops in the South despite signs of improving
North-South ties.

The two-day meeting is being seen as the most important step
forward since the June summit, when the two Korean leaders pledged to
end half a century of Cold War hostilities.

There are hopes that the talks - the first ever to take place
between the defence chiefs - will mark the beginning of steps to
reduce military tensions between the two countries.

They remain technically at war as their three year conflict
ended in 1953 in a truce and not a peace treaty.

Recent reunions were part of the attempt to rebuild trust
between the two Koreas.


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SWISS REFERENDUM REJECTS RESTRICTION OF NUMBER OF FOREIGNERS
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BERN, Switzerland, September 25, 2000 (Deutsche welle)

In Switzerland, a referendum has firmly rejected a call to
restrict their country's number of resident foreigners to under 18
percent of the population.

Nearly two-thirds of the voters turned down the initiative,
submitted by Swiss real estate developer Philipp Mueller. He denied
that his plan was racist. It was opposed by Switzerland's coalition
government, and industry, which cited its need for skilled foreign
workers.

Non-Swiss currently make up almost 20 percent of the population.
The referendum drew a low 44 percent voter turnout and was the fifth
plebiscite in 30 years on Swiss policy towards foreigners.


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JAKARTA GIVES DEADLINE TO WEAPONS-HAND-OVER
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, September 25, 2000 (Deutsche welle)

Indonesia has given pro-Jakarta militia gangs in West Timor
until Wednesday to hand over their weapons or police and soldiers
will take them by force.

Some militiamen have started handing over weapons, in a move
Jakarta hopes will help calm international anger over the murder of
three foreign U.N. aid workers three weeks ago in the West Timor
border town of Atambua. The United Nations Security Council demanded
the militias be disarmed and disbanded.


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THE NEWS
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Morning news edited by Nikola Stan

AIM, Belgrade, September 25, 2000 13:30


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