YUGOSLAVIA/RUSSIA: BELGRADERS CONTINUE TO PROTEST AGAINST ELECTORAL FRAUD WHILE YUGOSLAV COURT BEGINS DEBATE ON DOS APPEALS
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YUGOSLAVIA/RUSSIA: BELGRADERS CONTINUE TO PROTEST AGAINST ELECTORAL FRAUD WHILE YUGOSLAV COURT BEGINS DEBATE ON DOS APPEALS
- Title: YUGOSLAVIA/RUSSIA: BELGRADERS CONTINUE TO PROTEST AGAINST ELECTORAL FRAUD WHILE YUGOSLAV COURT BEGINS DEBATE ON DOS APPEALS
- Date: 4th October 2000
- Summary: BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA (OCTOBER 4, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS REPUBLIC SQUARE IN BELGRADE; PEOPLE GATHERED FOR THE ACTION OF SIGNING CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC AND FEDERAL ELECTORAL BODY'S MEMBERS, ORGANIZED BY THE OPPOSITION ECONOMIST GROUP, G-17 (3 SHOTS) 0.06 2. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) MLADJAN DINKIC, OPPOSITION ECONOMIST ADRESSING THE RALLY SAYING: " From tomorrow, we should start bringing this to an end." 0.12 3. VARIOUS RALLY (5 SHOTS) 0.29 4. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SIGNING CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC (5 SHOTS) 0.47 5. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN WAITING TO SIGN CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC SAYING: "(I want) to sign charges against those who steal, I want us to have a state of law for once, to have a real president, and that things start moving for the better if possible." 0.56 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) UNIDENTIFIED MAN SAYING: "We came here to express our support for (Vojislav) Kostunica, to make this bastard go as soon as possible, our former president, I mean." 1.06 7. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN SAYING: "I came here for the well being of my two sons, both of whom have university diplomas, and for their better future." 1.14 8. VARIOUS OF SIGNING/ PROTEST (3 SHOTS) 1.33 9. SLV BELGRADE STUDENTS GATHERED (5 SHOTS) 1.45 10. VARIOUS OF THE YUGOSLAV CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HOLDING PUBLIC DEBATE ON DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION OF SERBIA'S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE OFFICIAL RESULTS OF THE SEPTEMBER 24 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (6 SHOTS) 2.01 11. SV OPENING STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDING JUDGE 2.13 12. VARIOUS COURT (3 SHOTS) 2.24 KOLUBARA, YUGOSLAVIA (OCTOBER 4, 2000) (REUTERS) 13. GV KOLUBARA MINE 2.27 14. PAN SHOT OF THE MINE, MINERS IN FRONT 2.34 15. SV MINERS SITTING OUTSIDE (3 SHOTS) 2.42 16. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) UNIDENTIFIED MINER SAYING: "There are people who are prepared to be beaten up, arrested, layed off from work in order to see (Yugoslav president Slobodan) Milosevic out." 2.51 17. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) UNIDENTIFIED MINER SAYING: "They (the authorities) can come in here, let them have the diggers and everything and work if they can. We will not start working until the legal President Vojislav Kostunica, who has been leagally elected, takes over power in this country." 3.13 18. VARIOUS OF MINE (4 SHOTS) 3.28 MOSCOW, RUSSIA (OCTOBER 4, 2000) (REUTERS) 19. SLV SESSION HALL OF DUMA, RUSSIA'S LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT 3.36 20. SV/ WS DUMA DEPUTIES (2 SHOTS) 3.48 21. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) CHAIRMAN OF DUMA'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, DMITRY ROGOZIN: [answering whether Russia will turn Slobodan Milosevic over to international court authorities if he arrives in Moscow] "I want to make it absolutely clear that if President Milosevic gives confirmation that he will arrive and if Mr. Kostunica gives confirmation that he will arrive, then everything will be done so that their visit here is not interrupted." 4.10 22. CA JOURNALISTS / ROGOZIN (2 SHOTS) 4.20 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 19th October 2000 13:00
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- Location: BELGRADE, KOLUBARA, YUGOSLAVIA; MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Reuters ID: LVACTGBUB8086370NEPT83B1A6WK
- Story Text: Belgraders have continued to protest against the
electoral fraud while the Yugoslav constitutation court has
begun debate on DOS appeals.
Miners who downed their tools last weekend in protest
against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic vowed on
Wedneday to continue their strike despite stepped up pressure
by the authorities.
A senior Russian parliament member has given assurances
that Russia would not hand over President Slobodan Milosevic,
an indicted war criminal, if he were to arrive for talks in
Moscow aimed at breaking a political standoff in his country.
Employees of Beogradska Bank, the countrys largest
commercial bank, nurses and doctors were among several
thousand of people gathering in the city centre on Wednesday
(October 4) to participate in the action of signing charges
against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and Federal
Electoral Bodys members, organized by G-17, opposition
economist group.
Belgrade students gathered for their rally and were due to
start their protest march around Belgrade.
Opponents of the Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic
called for civil disobedience in a bid to force Milosevic to
concede that the Democratic Party of Serbia (DOS) leader,
Vojislav Kostunica won the election outright.
The state electoral commission says the vote for Kostunica
fell short of 50 percent and has ordered a runoff next Sunday,
which the opposition says it will boycott.
The opposition is trying to persuade Milosevic to accept
what they say was the outright victory of presidential
challenger Kostunica in a September 24 poll. Government
officials have called for a runoff between the two on Sunday.
The Serbian government vowed on Tuesday to prevent and
punish any subversive activity, heralding a widespread
crackdown on a civil disobedience campaign.
Serbia faced extensive power cuts on the third day of the
country-wide campaign against Milosevic that has brought the
key Kolubara coal mining complex to a halt.
In Kolubara coal mine, some 30 km (18 miles) south of
Belgrade, a huge conveyor belt and other machines were idle
with striking workers sitting or standing in small groups,
some of them reluctant to talk to outsiders.
The state power company on Tuesday announced rotating
power cuts of four hours each due to what it says are
critically low coal stocks. The strikers say officials are
overreacting to try to turn public opinion against them.
The Belgrade public prosecutor proposed on Tuesday that 11
striking miners and two Serbian opposition leaders should be
detained on suspicion of sabotage over the stoppage.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic and opposition leader Vojislav
Kostunica for talks in Moscow aimed at breaking a dispute over
results from presidential elections in Yugoslavia this Sunday.
Russia holds great influence in Yugoslav politics and has
contact with both the official government and the opposition
groups.
A major obstacle to the talks is the West's demand that
Milosevic, indicted as a war criminal in the Hague, be handed
over to a war crimes tribunal.
But Russian public opinion is widely against the
indictment and the head of Russia's parliament foreign affairs
committee, Dmitry Rogozin, dismissed the West's demands.
Rogozin said that everything would be done not to
interrupt the visits of Milosevic and Kostunica if they chose
to accept.
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