KOSTUNICA, DJINDJIC HOLD TALKS

BELGRADE, Aug 22 (Hina) - Yugoslavia's President and the leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), Vojislav Kostunica, said on Wednesday he had talked with Serbia's Prime Minister and the leader of the Democratic Party, Zoran Djindjic, and announced the presidency of the DOS ruling coalition would meet early next week. Kostunica said his party was dissatisfied with the dynamics of reforms, the non-respect of constitutionality, with crime and especially murders. Many crimes committed before last year's change of authority have not been solved yet, he added. "The DSS did not want to dramatise all these issues," Kostunica said after two weeks of tensions in the country, strained relations within the DOS coalition, and mutual accusations between officials of his and Djindjic's party. Not naming names, Kostunica said "some individuals" in culture and politics had replaced one uniform with another. "They changed communism with Americanism, allegiance to Moscow with obedience to Washington. We don't need either. We need normal democracy in cooperation with the West but not under the West," the Yugoslav President said in Cacak, a stop on a tour of several Serbian towns. (hina) ha sb