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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct. 21 (UPI) The leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement has sent letters to the European Union asking for support for Serbian opposition demands for early democratic elections, Belgrade media reported Thursday.
Vuk Draskovic called for the lifting of the flight ban and oil embargo imposed on Yugoslavia saying, "democratic forces in Serbia won the 1996 local elections above all because at the time our country was not under international sanctions."
He also called for urgent humanitarian aid to all municipalities, towns and citizens in Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Draskovic made a special plea to European ministers to commit international military, police and civilian bodies in Kosovo to "a determined squaring of accounts with Albanian terrorism and separatism and full implementation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1244" on Kosovo.
The SPO leader met with French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine in Paris on Wednesday. A French ministry spokesman told the Beta news agency that this and Vedrine's earlier meetings with Democratic Party head Zoran Djindjic and Miadjan Dinkic, coordinator of a group of leading economists, were part of France's efforts "to help the Serbian opposition strengthen its ranks and rally around an opposition program for democratic changes in Serbia."