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BELGRADE, Aug 21 (AFP) - Further signs of deep division among Serbia's opposition leaders emerged Saturday as Vuk Draskovic ruled out cooperation with other anti-government figures.
"There will be no grouping, no gathering of the opposition, under any circumstances," Draskovic, head of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO), told Belgrade's independent radio B2-92.
"They can forget all about it as far as we are concerned," he said.
His comments came as rival opposition leader Zoran Djindjic called Saturday for unity over demands for Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to go.
Djindjic, whose Democratic Party is a dominant force in the opposition coalition the Alliance for Change, said: "The opposition is united in a demand for change and Milosevic and his regime's dismissal.
"We are interested only in people who have the same demands," he told Belgrade independent Beta news agency.
Djindjic said the Alliance "calls on all figures to join the people's demands and their struggle, not the coalition itself."
"We are not looking for cooperation with the SPO, but with all those who want Milosevic to go. Politics is not in cabinets any more, but on the streets and squares," Djindjic said.
Draskovic and Djindjic -- who were united in 1997, but later split over personal rivalries -- were speaking after a major rally in Belgrade on Thursday that called on Milosevic to quit, but also showed deep differencies among opposition leaders.
The rally was called by the G-17 group of independent economists and intellectuals grouped around the so-called Stability Pact for Serbia, backed by the Alliance.
The G-17 has tried to unite the feuding opposition behind the idea of forming a transitional government to prepare for early elections.
The main difference between Draskovic and the Alliance for Change is over the timing of early elections in Serbia, and the conditions for them.
Draskovic suggested that Milosevic could possibly stay on until the elections, a call that provoked jeers and whistles from a large part of the crowd at Thursday's rally.
The Alliance and the G-17 have insisted that the Milosevic regime step down before early elections -- originally scheduled for 2001 -- are called.
After the rally Draskovic accused Djindjic supporters of deliberately provoking unrest and negative reaction to his speech.
Djindjic denied the accusation, saying the crowd had reacted after Draskovic failed to mention that Milosevic must go.
Draskovic said his party had been informed that the platform proposed by rally organisers would focus on "a political agreement between the opposition and the regime over the issue of forming an interim government.
"It turned out that such a government would be a street cabinet (elected) on the streets, and this idea does not appeal to the SPO," he said.
Draskovic insisted the only way to get rid of Milosevic was to call early elections by November.
"From now on, the SPO is insisting only on democratic elections ... as a way to make Milosevic step down," Draskovic said.
Protests against Milosevic's regime have been held throughout Serbia since the end of the Kosovo conflict in June when international peacekeepers entered the separatist Serbian province and Milosevic's troops were forced to withdraw.