NEGOTIATIONS ON FORMATION OF SERBIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT CONTINUE

BELGRADE, Jan 13 (Hina) - The main board of Vojislav Kostunica's Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) is meeting on Wednesday to decide whether it will resume negotiations with the parties of the democratic bloc on the formation of a new government.#L# Kostunica's initial proposal that all seven parties which entered parliament at recent elections should form the government has been turned down by all other parties. Vice president Dragan Marsicanin said on Monday the DSS advocated a minority government which would have a one-year term and strictly defined tasks, the most important of which would be the adoption of a new Constitution and "discontinuity with the previous regime". The first version of a minority government would comprise Miroljub Labus' G17 Plus and the coalition of Vuk Draskovic's Serb Revival Movement and Velimir Ilic's New Serbia, with support from Boris Tadic and Zoran Zivkovic's Democratic Party. The latter will decide about joining the new government at a meeting of its main committee scheduled for the 18th. The second version, as Vecernje novosti daily speculates on Tuesday, sees the 53 DSS members of parliament winning the support of the 82 Serbian Radical Party MPs to form a minority government. The third and least likely version sees the DSS and the Radicals forming a majority government that would have 135 of 250 parliamentary seats. (Hina) ha sb