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00:35Dear viewers, good evening.
00:37The conference for negotiations on the measures to build trust and control on arms in former Yugoslavia
00:43ended yesterday with work, and the negotiations will, as expected, be continued at the beginning of January in Vienna.
00:50German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Klaus Kinkel, announced that the negotiations in the capital, Austria, will begin between January 4th and 7th.
00:58At the conference, which was held in Bonn, there were representatives of 32 countries, including 16 diplomats.
01:06At the conference, the heads of two negotiating groups were elected.
01:09Ambassador Djarmati from Hungary will be in charge of the Group for the Measures to Build Trust in the United Kingdom,
01:15while Ambassador Kaj Ajde from Norway will be in charge of the Group for the Control on Arms.
01:23According to the last partial results of the Russian parliamentary elections, announced last night,
01:28the Communist Party received 21.9% of the votes,
01:32Liberal-Democratic Party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky 11.1%,
01:37Our House of Russia of Viktor Chernomirdin 9.6%,
01:41and the Reform Coalition of Jabloko 8.4%.
01:45The final results can be expected today, before noon.
01:49The success of the Communist Party in the parliamentary elections in Russia,
01:52and the likely resignation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrey Kozyrev,
01:56will not lead to significant changes in the foreign policy of Russia,
02:00stated one high-ranking Russian official.
02:03According to the provisions of the Russian Constitution, the President determines foreign policy,
02:07and this means that the country has a stable and proven foreign policy,
02:10which is not under the influence of temporary factors,
02:13said the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who wanted to remain anonymous,
02:17and is transferred to the Interfax agency.
02:20Austrian Chancellor Franz Wranicki yesterday stated that he expects the continuation of the coalition with the Conservative People's Party,
02:27whose head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wolfgang Schiessl.
02:31I expect that an agreement will be reached with the People's Party,
02:34and since its chairman is Schiessl, I think we will agree with him,
02:38said Wranicki at the press conference.
02:41I think that the two-thirds majority for us and the People's Party means
02:45that the population wants these two parties to rule.
02:48Wranicki expressed this after the first meeting of the Social Democrat Party,
02:51after winning the relative majority in the Sunday elections.
02:56The United States will not support the stay of Karadzic and Mladic in power,
03:01said the spokesman for the State Department, Nicholas Burns, in Washington,
03:05adding that it is incomprehensible for the administration that these two remain in the leading positions.
03:10They are accused of war crimes and must be held accountable to the international community
03:15for the crimes they committed, according to the U.N. Court of War Crimes, says Burns.
03:20According to him, IFOR will arrest them if they find the two leaders
03:24and hand them over for war crimes.
03:27The Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian governments are obliged to arrest war criminals
03:33on their territory, says Burns.
03:37On the way to Vinkovac, Vrpolje and Slavonski Brod,
03:40yesterday almost 200 wagons with armored vehicles and equipment
03:44of IFOR's international reconnaissance forces,
03:47which during the day began to arrive in Županje.
03:50During the last week, four IFOR officers examined all possible passages
03:54through the Sava from Jasenovac to Gunja.
03:57As it turned out, they decided that one of the three passages
04:00that the IFOR forces will pass through the Sava will be near Županje,
04:03while the other will probably be near Slavonski Brod.
04:07Last night, an English predecessor of the reinforced forces,
04:11who has a task to secure the main road to Tuzla,
04:14for which it is determined that the passage is 70 km long.
04:18The forces that arrive in the area of Županje
04:21aim to build a bridge and secure the passage of the IFOR forces over the Sava.