41.   Parliament was meeting to vote on a bill reinstating opposition wins in local elections held in November.

42.   Riot police used batons to break up a series of demonstrations in Belgrade Monday by pro-democracy protestors demanding the authorities reinstate cancelled opposition wins in disputed local elections.

43.   Recognition of the opposition win was contained in a letter sent by the Serbian goverment to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe based here.

44.   Riot police Monday used batons to break up a series of demonstrations in Belgrade by pro-democracy protestors demanding the authorities reinstate cancelled opposition wins in disputed local elections.

45.   Russia has traditionally supported Milosevic, but has until this week kept a low profile in the electoral dispute amid growing international clamour for opposition wins to be reinstated.

46.   So far the government has recognised opposition wins in just seven towns, but even these concessions have been subjected to a dizzying series of appeals and counter appeals.

47.   The coalition backed a marathon showdown between pro-democracy demonstrators and Milosevic last winter after the government annulled a series of opposition wins in local elections.

48.   The demonstrators were demanding the confirmation of opposition wins in November local elections.