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<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="Navy"><center>The Independent:Milosevic closer to trial after Yugoslavia promises co-operation </center></font><br></strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="000000">By Vesna Peric Zimonjic in Belgrade <br><br>6 January 2001 <br><br>Yugoslavia has made a significant promise to the West on co-operation with the United Nations war crimes tribunal, in a first step towards ensuring the prosecution of the former president Slobodan Milosevic. <br><br>Goran Svilanovic, the Foreign Minister, met the US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, during a visit to Washington. "We will fulfil all our obligations towards the Hague tribunal," Mr Svilanovic said after Thursday's meeting. He is the first Yugoslav official to stress Yugoslavia's obligation to co-operate with the tribunal. <br><br>The promise could lead to the trial of Mr Milosevic, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. <br><br>But Mr Svilanovic fell short of promising to hand Mr Milosevic to the Hague tribunal. "There are possibilities to fully co-operate with the tribunal, and to prosecute all indicted personalities in co-operation with the tribunal, on the territory of Yugoslavia. This is the idea we have now, but I look forward to meeting [ICTY prosecutor Carla] Del Ponte in Belgrade where we can go into a more detailed discussion." <br><br>A spokeswoman for Ms Del Ponte said the prosecutor was "not opposed to the idea [of a trial in Yugoslavia], because she is aware of the impact on local public opinion". <br><br>Until now, the war crimes tribunal has insisted Mr Milosevic be brought to The Hague. But it now appears some sort of compromise may be possible. <br><br>Co-operation with the UN court is an obligation under the Dayton peace accord on Bosnia. Mr Milosevic, a signatory to the 1995 accord, was indicted in 1999, with four aides. <br><br>Belgrade's new authorities insist Mr Milosevic be tried at home because the constitution prevents Yugoslavia handing its citizens to foreign countries. However, this stand may be partly the result of a simple calculation among reformists ahead of the December elections in Serbia that cemented their victory over Mr Milosevic. <br><br>The view is now more common that handing Mr Milosevic and others to The Hague may not be a problem as the ICTY is not a foreign country but a UN international institution.</font><br></p>
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<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="Navy"><center>The Herald Tribune:Furor Grows in Europe on Depleted Uranium  </center></font><br></strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="000000">Marlise Simons New York Times Service  <br><br>PARIS  A furor continued to spread across Europe on Friday about the noxious and even fatal effects that depleted uranium fallout may have had on NATO peacekeepers on the ground in Bosnia and Kosovo.<br>Environmentalists and scientists called on NATO to clean up the low level uranium, which was dispersed by U.S. weapons over large areas of Bosnia and Kosovo, because they say the radioactive and toxic material poses health risks to nature and human health.<br>"We found some radiation in the middle of villages where children were playing and there were cows grazing in contaminated areas," said Pekka Haavisto, chairman of a United Nations team that concluded a two-week mission to the area to assess the impact of uranium tipped weapons.<br>The scientists found low-level radiation at 8 of the 11 sites sampled, Mr. Haavisto said.<br>"We were surprised to find this a year and a half later," Mr. Haavisto said, noting how easily the material apparently spread around. "People had collected radioactive shards as souvenirs, and there were cows grazing in contaminated areas, which means the contaminated stuff can get into the milk."<br>Mr. Haavisto, who is also the former environment minister of Finland, said that while the radiation was low-level, as expected, the debris should be removed.<br>"We are recommending that until the cleanup starts, contaminated areas should be clearly marked and fenced off."<br>The study by the international team is due in two months.<br>But the European Union has now ordered a formal inquiry into whether there is a link between toxic fallout from the weapons and the recent cancer deaths of soldiers who have returned from the Balkans.<br>Nearly a dozen soldiers, most of them young men, have died recently of leukemia. A number of others have contracted the disease.<br>Other former peacekeepers have complained about a range of symptoms - such as chronic fatigue and hair loss - that in the United Stated have been associated with so-called Gulf War syndrome and which in European are now widely described as "Balkan syndrome."<br>Tens of thousands of European soldiers who participated in Balkan peacekeeping operations have already undergone medical screening in France, Belgium and Canada.<br>But as the debate over the possible contamination of soldiers has become more furious, governments across Europe have had little choice but to commit themselves to investigations.<br>This week, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Greece and Bulgaria announced that they too would screen all their Balkan veterans.<br>At issue is the uranium that is left over after its most active components have been removed, mostly to use as nuclear fuel. Because of its hard and dense properties, so-called depleted uranium is found useful in making powerful shells that can penetrate tanks and concrete.<br>Depleted-uranium ammunition was first used in the Gulf War, when U.S. forces fired large quantities into Iran and Kuwait. U.S. bombers also dropped depleted-uranium ordnance in Kosovo and Bosnia.<br><br>Final Test Results Awaited<br><br>The discovery of radioactivity at the sites was a preliminary finding of testing still under way at laboratories in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Britain and Austria by the UN Environmental Program, news agencies reported Friday, quoting a UN spokesman.<br>"The final results will only be known when the UNEP report is published in 2001, but there is enough preliminary evidence to call for precautions when dealing with used depleted uranium or with sites where such ammunition might be present," said the spokesman, Stephane Dujarric.<br>The UN field mission in November visited 11 of the 112 sites identified by NATO as having been targeted by ordnance containing depleted uranium during the bombardment of Kosovo. The UN team collected soil, water and vegetation samples and also conducted tests on buildings and destroyed vehicles.<br>"For this reason, we paid special attention to the risks that uranium toxicity might pose to the ground waters around the sites," Mr. Dujarric added.<br>Klaus Toepfer, the environmental program's executive director, said, "UNEP's aim is to determine whether the use of depleted uranium during the conflict may pose health or environmental risks - either now or in the future."<br>The UN said it also was planning a field mission to Serbia and Montenegro.<br>Italy launched an investigation last week into a possible link between depleted uranium munitions and about 30 cases of serious illness involving soldiers who served in missions Kosovo and earlier in Bosnia, 12 of whom developed cancer. Five of the soldiers have died of leukemia.<br>And France said that four French soldiers who served in the Balkans during the bombing campaign were being treated for leukemia.<br>The UN said five of the sites it analyzed were in the sector patrolled by Italian soldiers, while the other six were in the German zone.<br>News reports said Friday that the first German soldier possibly stricken because of time served in the Balkans had been identified.<br>The Bild newspaper, in an article to be published Saturday, said that a 25-year old soldier who had served in Mostar in Bosnia between August and November 1997 had fallen ill with leukemia the following January.</font><br></p>
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<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="Navy"><center>Milosevic Allies Hold Illegal Arms, Minister Says </center></font><br></strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="000000">By Philippa Fletcher<br><br>BELGRADE ,Friday January 5  (Reuters) - Some of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic  allies have hung on to weapons handed out when he was in power, Yugoslavia's interior minister said on Friday.<br><br>Zoran Zivkovic, who took over the ministry in November after Milosevic lost a presidential election and was ousted in mass protests, said he had found documents showing 150 items were still registered with 39 ex-officials.<br><br>They included automatic and sniper rifles, gas pistols and 15,000 bullets. None of those concerned had the right to hold weapons any more, Zivkovic said, questioning whether such large private armories were needed in the first place.<br><br>``Regardless of whether it's a minister or head of customs or I don't know who, a pile of weapons presents a danger to all citizens around him, those who maybe aren't happy with his work or those he's not satisfied with,'' he told a news conference.<br><br>Former customs chief Mihail Kertes, former Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic, former information minister Goran Matic and Margit Savovic, minister for the family, were among those with weapons still registered in their names, he said.<br><br>``Mr. Mihail Kertes has a Cobra revolver, a very serious weapon, a Zastava pistol...50 bullets, 10 Heckler and Koch pistols and, as it says here, four automatic Heckler and Kochs,'' he said, reading from a list supplied by his ministry.<br><br>Strange Equipment For A Minister<br><br>Referring to another official's private armory, he said:<br><br>``These are very interesting weapons, especially for a minister,'' he said. ``It's very strange that someone believes a minister needs such equipment to carry out his work.''<br><br>Zivkovic said those concerned had until Wednesday next week to hand back their arms, which were handed out by the interior ministry during the Milosevic era. If they did not return the weapons, they would face prosecution.<br><br>``This is just the beginning...I started with weaponry because it's the most dangerous thing,'' he said, adding that next he would go after those who had got hold of homes or vehicles illegally.<br><br>Three months after the bloodless ``revolution'' that ousted Milosevic, large parts of the security forces, including the army and secret police, are still led by the veteran leader's allies, although most now pledge loyalty to the new leadership.<br><br>Zivkovic said his ministry was in charge of guarding state officials, but that Milosevic himself was being guarded by Serbian Interior Ministry personnel who were not controlled by the now-ruling Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) bloc.<br><br>``They are in the republican Ministry of Interior. No-one from DOS controls them,'' he said.<br><br>He said Milosevic-era secret services boss Rade Markovic was still in his post and looked as if he would remain so until the formation of a new Serbian government, expected early next month.<br><br>The continued role of Markovic and army chief of staff Nebojisa Pavkovic is a source of tension between some DOS members and Yugoslavia's new president Vojislav Kostunica .<br><br>Kostunica retired 13 top army generals last weekend, but Pavkovic kept his job.<br><br>International pressure for Milosevic and four of his top aides to be handed over to the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague has increased since Serbian parliamentary elections late last month reinforced the reformists in power.<br><br>But many of the new leaders argue that Milosevic, currently living in a presidential residence in a Belgrade suburb, should be tried in Serbia. </font><br></p>
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<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="Navy"><center>The Guardian:Nato urged to clean up its uranium debris in Kosovo </center></font><br></strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="000000">Call for ban on radioactive shells as EU investigates link with soldiers' cancer deaths<br><br>Special report: Kosovo <br><br>Peter Capella in Geneva and Owen Bowcott <br>Friday January 5, 2001 <br><br>Nato should dispose of large fragments of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition remaining in Kosovo 18 months after the conflict ended, because they represent an unnecessary risk to health, a UN study says. <br>Further details of the preliminary results of the UN Environment Programme investigation emerged yesterday as the EU began an inquiry into whether there is a link between radioactive military debris and the death from cancer of soldiers who served in the Balkans. <br><br>Meanwhile, the European commission president, Romano Prodi, called for DU-coated shells to be banned, after the French defence ministry said that four French soldiers who served in the Balkans during Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 were being treated for leukaemia in a military hospital. <br><br>"It is clear that if there is even a minimal risk, these arms must be abolished," he said. "And even if this risk was not there, I don't like the idea of using these particular weapons". <br><br>Britain remains one of the few countries to resist compulsory screening of troops returning from Kosovo for traces of contamination. The ministry of defence insisted that in its solid form was not a health hazard. "The UN's initial findings were that there were a lot of other things which were of far greater concern," a spokesman said. <br><br>Italy opened an inquiry last week into a possible link between DU and 30 cases of serious illness in troops who served in the area, 12 of whom developed cancer. Five have already died of leukaemia. <br><br>The Campaign Against Depleted Uranium in Manchester says that most of the areas where DU shells were dropped during the Kosovo war are in the south, in the Italian sector. <br><br>Spain said it would examine all the 32,000 soldiers who have served in the Balkans since 1992. Portugal, Finland, Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece also plan to screen their peacekeepers and check radiation levels to discover if there is such a condition as "Balkans syndrome". <br><br>The biologist leading the Royal Society's inquiry into the long-term effects of DU weapons, Professor Brian Spratt of Oxford University, called on the government to test British troops. <br><br>"The leukaemia cases are probably not related, but the health of soldiers who go out to fight for their country should be taken seriously," he said. <br><br>In its preliminary statement, the UN said it had found "slightly higher" radioactivity in Kosovo at eight of the 11 sites examined last November. Nato had given details of 112 sites where an estimated 31,000 rounds of armour-piercing DU ammunition were used during attacks on Serb targets. <br><br>A US army officer on the team, who helped develop DU ammunition, was apparently surprised to find that it had not vapourised or dispersed. <br><br>The UN statement said that its scientists had found "either slightly higher amounts of Beta-radiation, specifically at or around the holes left by DU ammunition, or remnants of ammunitions, such as sabots and penetrators". <br><br>The team collected seven DU outer casings and seven penetrators. <br><br>"It is an extra risk for the population, and that is something that military experts were surprised to find," Pekka Haavisto, the Finnish head of the mission, said yesterday. <br><br>There is also concern about mine clearance, because most DU was found in heavily mined areas or sites with unexploded ordinance - some of which is cleared by controlled explosions. The UN believes this can turn DU back into its most dangerous form - a dust that can be inhaled. <br><br>What is depleted uranium?<br>Tim Radford, science editor<br><br>Natural uranium is a mix of different isotopes, including a small proportion of very radioactive U-235. The proportion of U-235 is concentrated for atomic fuel rods, and what is left over is depleted U-238. This has a radioactive half life of 4.5bn years, that is, it would take roughly the lifetime of the solar system for half of a lump of U-238 to break down into something else. It remains, however, radioactive. <br><br>"In contact, you could get quite a sizeable dose [of radiation], but a few inches away, it's gone," Michael Clark of Britain's National Radiological Protection Board said. <br><br>The rays from depleted uranium, or DU, may not be particularly penetrating but the substance itself is one of the densest metals available. It is therefore desirable as a military shell casing. <br><br>Its density enhances military firepower. Tungsten splinters when it hits the hard steel of a tank; DU penetrates and catches fire, which makes it a perfect weapon for armour-piercing shells. These were first used in the Gulf war, when US forces fired almost 1m rounds into Kuwait and Iraq. Nato forces fired more than 30,000 rounds in Kosovo and 10,000 in Bosnia, inevitably leaving fragments and particles behind. <br><br>Leukaemia is linked to radiation exposure. The connection was observed among the survivors of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki more than 50 years ago. <br><br>Because DU ignites on impact, it leaves behind clouds of potentially toxic uranium oxide dust. The fear is this dust could lodge in the lungs and be hazardous. <br><br>But scientists aren't so sure. <br><br>"The calculations show that you would have to inhale almost choking amounts to get appreciable lung dust," said Dr Clark. "You would see kidney problems due to its chemical action before you saw any radiation problems."</font><br></p>
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<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="Navy"><center>Yugoslav Minister Says Albanian Gunmen Violate Pact</center></font><br></strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="000000">BUJANOVAC, Jan 5, 2001 -- (Reuters) A Yugoslav minister said on Thursday ethnic Albanians had violated an agreement reached last week to try to ease tensions along the border of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo.<br><br>Rasim Ljajic, minister for national and ethnic communities, said he had passed on the allegation to Shawn Sullivan, political adviser to the NATO-led KFOR peacekeepers now in charge of Kosovo and who had brokered the agreement last Friday.<br><br>The agreement had stated that "neither of the sides will use violence" and was aimed at easing tension in the Presevo Valley along the Kosovo boundary where four policemen died in a clash with armed ethnic Albanians in November.<br><br>Ljajic said ethnic Albanian gunmen had since established new positions in the village of Lucani.<br><br>After almost a week since the agreement, he said, Serb security forces were still unable to enter villages in the area.<br><br>Ljajic said a convoy of 50 vehicles carrying mainly Serbs returning from visiting their homes in Kosovo had arrived in Bujanovac on Thursday, escorted by European Union observers.<br><br>Ten armed Albanians had stopped the convoy at Konculj, on the border between Kosovo and the rest of Serbia, and demanded the passengers' identity papers.<br><br>The 1999 accords which ended NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia and put Kosovo under international control also set up a five-km (three-mile) buffer zone where Yugoslavia may not station security forces except for local police with light arms.<br><br>Belgrade insists that the international community should undertake tougher measures to prevent further violence.<br><br>Beta news agency reported armed Albanians attacked police checkpoints in Medvedja municipality inside the buffer zone on Wednesday night.<br><br>"The Albanians attacked with light and heavy weapons, and the police responded and forced the terrorists to withdraw," Beta quoted Medvedja mayor Slobodan Draskovic as saying.</font><br></p>
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<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="Navy"><center>Albright, Yugoslav Minister to Mark End of an Era</center></font><br></strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="000000">WASHINGTON, Jan 4, 2001 -- (Reuters) Yugoslavia will mark the end of an era of conflict with NATO on Thursday by sending a minister to the United States for the first time since the alliance's 78-day bombing onslaught on the Balkan country in 1999.<br><br>Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic is due to meet Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, still a hate figure for some in Yugoslavia, as President Bill Clinton's administration prepares to hand over to President-elect George W. Bush on Jan. 20.<br><br>"The reason this visit matters a lot is...the fact that it signals the end of an era, and an opportunity to try to build the European architecture that Secretary Albright has worked hard at over the last few years," a senior State Department official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.<br><br>Albright argued fiercely for the bombing, aimed at stopping what supporters called "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians by forces of then President Slobodan Milosevic.<br><br>Isolated by sweeping international sanctions, Milosevic was eventually toppled by a popular revolt last October which forced him to accept the results of a September election.<br><br>President Vojislav Kostunica has since catapulted his country back on to the international stage. But he avoided meeting Albright at a security conference in Austria, sensitive to domestic opponents ahead of a parliamentary election which swept Milosevic's leftist coalition from power in Serbia.<br><br>In a sign Belgrade wants to ensure a smooth transition in relations, Svilanovic will also meet lawmakers and officials in the new administration, though probably at a low level, diplomatic sources said.<br><br>He is not expected to meet Bush's nominee to succeed Albright, retired Gen. Colin Powell, who is yet to be confirmed in the post. Officials of the incoming administration could not be contacted to confirm who would meet Svilanovic.<br><br>Powell has said the United States, which has a contingent in NATO's KFOR force keeping the peace in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, should review its military commitments globally.<br><br>"He's not going to rush to discuss the American commitment there and he's not putting withdrawing on the table right away," the official said, adding, "They do see the U.S. role in Europe as an unquestioned pillar of their policy."<br><br>MILOSEVIC TRIAL, AT HOME OR ABROAD<br><br>Apart from tensions between ethnic Albanians and Serbs along Kosovo's border with the rest of Serbia, Albright and Svilanovic will discuss what Belgrade must do to stop Washington shutting the gates on $100 million in aid set aside in 2001 for Serbia, the dominant partner in the Yugoslav federation.<br><br>Lawmakers have set March 31 as a date after which Bush will rule whether Belgrade still qualifies for the aid, and for crucial, U.S. support for resumed international lending.<br><br>The gist of the law is that Belgrade must show it is consolidating democracy, following "good neighbor" policies and observing the rule of law -- including transferring alleged war criminals for trial by a U.N. court in The Hague.<br><br>They must also free hundreds of political prisoners who were seized by forces of Milosevic as they retreated from Kosovo before NATO started bombing.<br><br>Svilanovic, a human rights activist who heads a party in an umbrella alliance backing Kostunica, is bound to hear pleas for the speedy transfer of Milosevic in Washington.<br><br>But the State Department official said the United States would acquiesce to Belgrade prosecuting Milosevic domestically, provided it agreed an agenda with the tribunal at The Hague, whose chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte is growing increasingly impatient with the delay in his extradition.<br><br>"I think if they've got a domestic prosecution they should get it under way and then talk to the prosecutor," he said.<br><br>He said they would also discuss relations with Montenegro, Serbia's sister republic, whose President Milo Djukanovic wants to hold a referendum on independence in the next six months.<br><br>The United States would not support any unilateral move towards independence, including a rush to hold the plebiscite, and wants good faith discussions between the two, he added.<br><br>"If they truncate the discussions unnecessarily by rushing to a referendum then I think we would regard that as a unilateral step...Assistance is the first place we'd look," he said when asked what the consequences would be of such a move.<br></font><br></p>
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<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="Navy"><center>Albanians Fire On Yugoslav Police </center></font><br></strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="000000">Wednesday January 3 <br>BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - Ethnic Albanian militants fired a mortar barrage at police in a volatile region of southern Serbia near the boundary with Kosovo, a key government official said Wednesday.<br><br>The attack occurred late Tuesday on police positions on Mount Sveti Ilija, which is just on the edge of the boundary area separating Kosovo from the rest of Serbia, the larger of Yugoslavia's two republics. The strategic mountain is about three miles from the southern town of Vranje.<br><br>No one was injured in the barrage, said Nebojsa Covic, Serbia's deputy prime minister.<br><br>The buffer zone was set up in June 1999 to prevent Yugoslav forces from threatening the NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeeping mission in the province of Kosovo. But it has been the scene of assaults by militants seeking to join the ethnic Albanian-majority region to Kosovo.<br><br>The United Nations (news - web sites) and NATO took control of the province in June 1999 after the alliance's 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia. The attacks were launched to stop a crackdown by former President Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites) against ethnic Albanians seeking independence.<br><br>The incident was one of a series of attacks on police positions since Yugoslav authorities and ethnic Albanian militants agreed to reopen a major road in the area. The deal was brokered last week by NATO peacekeepers.</font><br></p>
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<p><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="Navy"><center>Partial Re-Run of Serb Vote Will Delay Cabinet</center></font><br></strong><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="000000">BELGRADE, Jan 4, 2001 -- (Reuters) Serbia's Supreme Court has ordered a partial re-run of December's parliamentary election for next week, postponing the formation of a new government until at least the end of January, an official said on Wednesday.<br><br>Although the re-run at just 19 polling stations will make no difference to the landslide victory of reformers over Slobodan Milosevic's Socialists, it will delay parliament's first meeting and therefore the assembly's approval of a new cabinet.<br><br>The court upheld an appeal by the ultra-nationalist Radical Party against a decision not to re-run the poll in areas where irregularities were found, the representative of the DOS reform alliance on the central electoral commission told Reuters.<br><br>Nenad Milic said the re-run on January 10 "will delay the constitution of the new government by between 10 and 20 days". He added the exact length of the delay would depend on any further appeals lodged after the re-run.<br><br>Another leading DOS official accused the Radicals, former allies of toppled Yugoslav President Milosevic's Socialists, of trying to slow down Serbia's transition to democracy.<br><br>"We will respect the court decision although the Radicals just want to obstruct democratic changes in the country. The delay is damaging in many ways for society as a whole," Cedomir Jovanovic told Reuters.<br><br>RADICALS MAY WIN ONE MORE SEAT<br><br>Milic said the only other consequence of the re-run, apart from the delay, was that the Radicals might win one more seat.<br><br>"If 9,700 out of 14,000 eligible voters vote for the Radicals in the re-run at the 19 polling stations -- and for no one else -- they might get one additional seat," he said.<br><br>The election on December 23 gave DOS, the grouping supporting new Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica, a huge majority of 176 of the 250 seats in the parliament of Serbia, the dominant republic in the Yugoslav federation.<br><br>Milosevic's Socialists won 37 seats, the Radicals 23 and the nationalist Party of Serbian Unity, founded by slain warlord Zeljko "Arkan" Raznatovic, 14 seats.<br><br>Serbia is currently governed by a shared cabinet consisting of ministers from DOS, the opposition Serbian Renewal Movement and the Socialists.<br><br>That government was set up as a compromise solution after Kostunica and DOS won September's presidential and federal polls and a mass uprising forced Milosevic to accept defeat.<br><br>The new parliament should have been formed by January 10 and Serbia's prime minister-designate Zoran Djindjic, the leader of the Democratic Party, a DOS member, said last month he expected his cabinet to be approved by mid-January.<br><br>Djindjic, who has not yet named his cabinet, has said its priorities are to crack down on corruption rampant under Milosevic and make Serbia the most developed part of the region.<br><br>(C)2001 Copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters Limited.<br></font><br></p>