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      ODRAZ B92, Belgrade                             Daily News Service

      Odraz B92 vesti (by 10 PM), April 17, 1997

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      NEWS BY 10 PM

        Session Of University Council Interrupted Again  . . . . . .  22
        Sadako Ogata Appeals For Reception of Refugees . . . . . . .  29
        Bildt Submitted Report On Implementation of Dayton Agreement
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        EU Trading Concessions May Provide 60 Million Dollars For
        Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  54
        Line Of The Day  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  62

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      SESSION OF UNIVERSITY COUNCIL INTERRUPTED AGAIN

      Thursday's meeting of the Belgrade University Council was
      interrupted when The President Momcilo Babic, left the session
  25  after two and a half hours. The Council had met to select a new
      Chancellor and student pro-rectors. Mr. Babic told journalists
      that he left the meeting because unauthorized people [i.e. members
      of the student parliament] had entered the room.


      SADAKO OGATA APPEALS FOR RECEPTION OF REFUGEES

  30  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sadako Ogata, on Thursday
      called on Yugoslav authorities to continue its generous policy
      towards the refugees from other areas of former Yugoslavia, FoNet
      reports. Mrs. Ogata on Thursday met Serbian President Slobodan
      Milosevic and Foreign and Interior Ministers Milan Milutinovic and
  35  Zoran Sokolovic. She said that she was not satisfied with the
      speed of refugees' repatriation, but that she expected situation
      to change during this year. She said that rapatriation was so far
      mostly conducted through personal, spontaneous initiative, and not
      on an organized basis.


  40  BILDT SUBMITTED REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF DAYTON AGREEMENT

      High International Commissioner for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Karl
      Bildt, submitted a report on the implementation of the Dayton
      Agreement to UN General Secretary Koffi Anan, Beta reports. Mr.
      Bildt felt that the first year after the Agreement was a year of
  45  successful implementation of the first steps defined in Dayton.
      The forthcoming period should be a period of stabilization and
      strenghtening of the peace initiative in the BiH, especially
      regarding economic issues. Mr. Bildt expressed grave concern about
      the activities of the former President of Republika Srpska,
  50  Radovan Karadzic, because his influence on the political life of
      Serbia remains large. Some Serb leaders, particularly Momcilo
      Krajisnik.  tolerated Mr. Karadzic's ``shadow leadership,''
      claimed Karl Bildt in his report.


      EU TRADING CONCESSIONS MAY PROVIDE 60 MILLION DOLLARS FOR
  55  YUGOSLAVIA

      If the status of Yugoslavia in the international financial
      institutions was regulated, it would generate an immediate income
      of at least 60 million dollars by the end of the year, claim
      Yugoslav financial experts from the Institute for Foreign Trading,
  60  at the presentation of the April issue of the Institution's
      regular bulletin.


      LINE OF THE DAY

      Tomislav Nikolic, member of the Serbian Radical Party, addressing
      the Socialist members of the Serbian Parliament: ``Look at you and
  65  your ways!  When the state Bingo is in question, you always
      immediately know who's the lucky winner. When the elections are
      the question, you spend three months without knowing the winner.''

      Prepared by: Goran Dimitrijevic
      Edited by: Mary Anne Wood

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