Janko Veselinovic

The opposition gave the authorities six days to fulfill their demands.

At the same time, 180 members of this body were in favor, the DS reported on its website.

Daily Blic named the dissenting members of the main board as former DS leader Dragan Sutanovac, National Assembly members Natasa Vuckovic, Dragoljub Micunovic, Radoslav Milojcic, Gordana Comic, Vojovodina Provincial Board Chairman Miroslav Vasim, and Vida Ognjanovic.

Djilas, a former leader of the Democrats (DS) who in the past also served as the mayor of Belgrade, told Beta only that he did not wish to make any comment.

Friday's joint meeting of opposition parties in Serbia has been summoned on the request of the "Movement for Turnaround" [Pokret za preokret"], which claims that the parliamentary elections held in April were not held in a free and democratic atmosphere.

Serbian opposition parties have slated the Defence Minister, Bratislav Gasic, for allowing a local authority to use soldiers to serve alcoholic drinks - rakija [fruit brandy] and boiled wine - at a pop concert in the minister's home town of Krusevac on December 31.

The event was a concert by the popular folk singer Svetlana "Ceca" Raznatovic.

After several hours of debate in the Serbian National Assembly on Monday, 139 of the 169 MPs present voted for lawyer Mladen Nenadic as the new chief prosecutor for organised crime.

But the Assembly failed to elect a new chief prosecutor for war crimes because none of the five candidates attracted the required majority of 126 votes.

Opposition MP Janko Veselinovic says President Tomislav Nikolic should be removed from office because he signed a law which he considers to be unconstitutional.

Nikolic signed the law on legalization of buildings, but then in an open letter expressed his doubts about the constitutionality of this legislation.

BELGRADE - Chairman of the Serbian Parliament's Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Janko Veselinovic said Monday that the appointment of Ante Gotovina as an advisor to Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic is not the kind of news to which the Serbs in Croatia and Serbia could be indifferent.

BELGRADE - Representatives of the Serb youth in Croatia underlined on Monday in the talks with members of the Serbian parliament's Committee for Diaspora and Serbs in the Region that the greatest problems they are facing are employment discrimination, lack of schooling in Serbian and not enough presence in the media.

BELGRADE - Head of the Serbian parliament committee for the diaspora Janko Veselinovic has met with Slovenian officials and pointed out the unresolved status of the Serbian community in that country.