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DEMONSTRATIONS SHOULD REMAIN PEACEFUL
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BELGRADE, September 29, 2000 (FreeSerbia)

The Civil Alliance of Serbia (GSS) has appealed today to the
citizens to remain peace on the forthcoming demonstrations. In the
announcement of GSS it is said that "Serbian people should remain
true to its decisions". The Democratic opposition of Serbia (DOS) has
refused to take part in second round of federal elections. "Slobodan
Milosevic is losing the support from outside", as it is said in the
announcement. GSS cites that "the last thing to be done for every
Serb is to stand up for his rights, to protect his vote, but
peacefully".


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DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION REFUSES GREEK INITIATIVE
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BELGRADE, September 29, 2000 (B92)

The Democratic Opposition has refused a proposal from Greece
that they should accept the second round of presidential elections.
Senior DOS official Nebojsa Bakarec told media that Kostunica had won
the presidency in the first round of the election, and that no
trade-off would be accepted and that no one would betray voters.


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POSSIBLE SPO-SRS TECHNICAL COALITION
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BELGRADE, September 29, 2000 (I-NET)

Borivoje Borovic, high official of the Serbian Renewal Movement
(SPO) said that session of the SPO Presidency is scheduled for today
and it is planned to discuss forming of the technical coalition with
the Serbian Radical Party(SRS) on the Republic level.


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MILOSEVIC COULD BECOME "FEDERAL PM"
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MOSCOW, Russia, September 29, 2000 (I-NET)

Borislav Milosevic, Yugoslav ambassador in Russia estimated
today that Serbian opposition is celebrating too early, and that his
bother, Slobodan Milosevic, president of FR Yugoslavia could become
Federal Prime Minister.


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NATO ADMITS IT IS NOT AUTHORISED TO INTERFERE IN YU
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BUCHAREST, September 29, 2000 (B92)

An assistant to the NATO secretary-general, Pete Clyber, said
today that the Alliance was not authorized to interfere in the
internal affairs of any country, "even Yugoslavia". Clyber told media
in Bucharest today that NATO expected the people and institutions of
Yugoslavia to make a decision on democratic change by themselves. He
added that the Alliance had no desire to use force to ensure those
changes happened.


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FIJI COUP LEADER DENIED BAIL
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SUVA, Fiji, September 29, 2000 (Reuters)

Fijian coup leader George Speight has been denied bail while
awaiting trial on treason charges but he keeps a mobile phone and is
allowed some visits on his island prison, a government prosecutor
said. Prosecutor Joe Naidelevu said the High Court denied bail for
the one-time insurance salesman who is being held on Nukulau Island
off Suva with about 20 co-conspirators. Speight, 45, and an armed
gang stormed Fiji's parliament on May 19, taking the country's first
ethnic Indian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and most of his
multi-racial cabinet hostage in the name of indigenous Fijians. The
hostages were held for 56 days. Speight and his comrades were
arrested shortly after they released their captives.


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"OAU" ASKED FOR VOULNTEER PEACEKEEPING TROOPS
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The Organisation of African Unity, September 29, 2000 (Deutsche
Welle)

The Organisation of African Unity has asked its members to
volunteer troops to serve as peacekeepers in Sierra Leone in place of
Indian soldiers who are returning home. Last week, after a dispute
between African leaders and the Indian commander of the force, India
told the U.N. it would withdraw all of its 3,059 soldiers from the
12,477 member United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Sierra Leone.


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BRIBERY CONVICTION FOR EX-INDIAN PM
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NEW DELHI, India, September 29, 2000 (BBC)

A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has convicted the former
prime minister, PV Narasimha Rao, of corruption in a vote-buying
scandal. It is the first time an Indian leader has been convicted on
corruption charges. A former senior minister, Buta Singh, was also
convicted in the same case. The two men were members of the Congress
Party, which governed India in the early 1990s. They were found
guilty of bribing four members of another party by offering the
equivalent of $800,000. Another former minister, Satish Sharma, was
acquitted. The two men were attempting to persuade the regional
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) party to back their government during a
crucial parliamentary vote of no-confidence in July 1993


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JAPANESE SPY CHARGED
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TOKYO, Japan, September 29, 2000 (BBC)

Prosecutors in Japan have charged a naval officer with spying
for Russia in the biggest espionage scandal to hit the country in 20
years. Lieutenant Commander Shigehiro Hagizaki, of the Maritime
Self-Defence Force, was charged with "violating the Self-Defence
Forces law." He was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of
passing defence secrets to a Russian military attaché, Captain Victor
Bogatenkov, in return for food and drinks worth thousands of dollars.
Commander Hagizaki, who broke down and confessed to the authorities
when he was arrested, faces a one year prison term or fines of up to
$280.A Japanese defence ministry statement said it was revising laws
related to military spying


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THE NEWS
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The evening news edited by Jasmina Vermezovic

AIM, Belgrade, September 29, 2000 20:15


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