- Title: YUGOSLAVIA: OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS RALLY IN ZRENJANIN.
- Date: 30th July 1999
- Summary: ZRENJANIN, YUGOSLAVIA (JULY 29, 1999) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/PAN: WIDE OF ZRENJANIN MAIN SQUARE, WHERE THE ANTY-GOVERNMENT RALLY TOOK PLACE 0.11 2. SV: VARIOUS OF THE RALLY 0.17 3. SV: ZORAN DJINDJIC, LEADER OF THE SERBIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY ON THE STAGE 0.30 4. SCU/BACKVIEW: SOUNDBITE (Serbian) ZORAN DJINDJIC, SPEAKING SAYING: " We hea
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- Location: ZRENJANIN, YUGOSLAVIA
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- Country: Yugoslavia
- Reuters ID: LVAE747HY3VYOXICAA60QKPAX6L8
- Story Text: Up to 2,000 opposition supporters gathered at a rally
in northern Serbia on Thursday, calling for Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic to resign.
The rally was the latest in a series of events
organised by the Alliance for Change, an opposition umbrella
group that is trying to use public pressure to persuade
Milosevic to go.
Democratic Party leader Zoran Djindjic told the crowd at
"Milosevic must go if Serbia is to live."
"Serbia needs common sense.That's why these rallies are
not political or ideological.We're coming as parents and
ordinary citizens to try to save the country," said Djindjic.
The independent Beta news agency reported several hundred
opposition supporters gathered at each of three separate
rallies in Kragujevac, south of Belgrade, Leskovac to the
southeast and Uzice in southwestern Serbia.
Zrenjanin is the second-largest town in Serbia's northern
Vojvodina province and has a large ethnic Hungarian minority.
Demonstrators at the Zrenjanin rally brandished banners
saying: "Slobo go - Panic come", "Panic, Avramovic" and
"Panic, thanks for the medicines".
The banners referred to Milan Panic, former Yugoslav prime
minister and head of California-based pharmaceutical company
ICN, and former Yugoslav central banker Dragoljub Avramovic.
Both were ousted by Milosevic and are now seen by many
opposition supporters as a real alternative to him.
Avramovic, 82, has been invited as a guest of the European
Union to attend a summit on Balkan reconstruction on Friday,
from which Milosevic has been barred.
The rally was also attended by representatives of another
opposition political group, the Alliance of Democratic
Parties, which embraces both Serb and ethnic Hungarian parties
from Vojvodina.
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