PROTESTS SUSPENDED 
         
        Zajedno leaders Vuk Draskovic and Zoran
        Djindjic told Radio B92 on Sunday that protest rallies
        against the November election fraud had finished on
        Saturday, but that demonstrations would resume on March 9
        if the Serbian government failed to liberate the media by
        that date. 
         
        Mr Draskovic said that the suspension of protests was
        intended to show that Zajedno was prepared enter a
        dialogue with the government, although he did not believe
        that it would have a positive outcome. 
         
        ``Milosevic has committed himself to developing the
        media, to passing a new electoral law, to providing fully
        democratic conditions for the forthcoming elections. We
        are prepared to negotiate, although we already know that
        nothing will come of it. After that we shall have the
        right, according to the Gonzalez report, to struggle in
        the streets for the implementation of the basic part of
        that report,'' said Mr Draskovic. 
         
        Mr Djindjic noted that other forms of protest were still
        continuing, the student protest, the evening noise
        protest at the media blockade and the strikes. 
         
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