The TV said it was reappearing on the Amos 1 satellite, owned by Israeli company Spacecom.

"Radio Television Serbia has resumed its satellite broadcasts," it said. "The programme is transmitted in digital via the Amos 1 satellite located on the 4 degrees West position.

"Viewers with digital receivers should direct their satellite antennas towards the satellite and adjust the frequency to 11,421 Ghz."

The TV had originally broadcast on the Eutelsat service, before the European consortium withdrew permission on 26th May.

Opposition demands free elections

Calls by opposition politicians for President Milosevic's resignation which have been carried by the independent media have been watered down or ignored by the state media which has focused on government plans for postwar reconstruction and the return of Serbian refugees to Kosovo.

Serbian Renewal Movement leader Vuk Draskovic has called for a transitional government of "democratically-oriented people" to prepare for free elections with foreign monitors, the Serbian independent news agency Beta reported.

"My message to all in power and to Slobodan Milosevic is that Serbia will be democratic, whether they obstruct this or not. Since it will become democratic in the end, it would be better if it became so earlier rather than later," he said.

The Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug, however, merely reported that Draskovic had called for "national and state unity" and had appealed for no street demonstrations.

"A peaceful and smooth path to the reconstruction and future is not traced by any party but by the state and nation," the opposition leader was quoted by the state agency as saying.

A report by Beta on talks in London between Serbian Democratic Party leader Zoran Djindjic and British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook went unreported in the state media.

Djindjic had urged the West to support Serbian democrats "as much as they did other peoples on the territory of former Yugoslavia".

Perhaps the most powerful attack on Milosevic, however, was made by the mayor of Belgrade, Vojislav Mihajlovic, whose speech was broadcast by the opposition-run Belgrade TV station Studio B.

"If this regime does not possess the courage to hold democratic elections at all levels because it is afraid of the will of the people, we in Belgrade are not afraid of the judgment made by the people," Mihajlovic said.

"After this terrible destruction of Serbia, after thousands of dead and injured, after the Kosovo disaster, the duty of all those in power, all leaders and officials is to face the will of the people."

Government tightens clamp on radio station

The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) has reported the sacking of 17 employees of Radio B92, the independent radio station which was taken over by the government during the conflict with Nato.

All 17 had been working at the station for a decade, Beta news agency reported.

The ANEM appealed to the government to restore Radio B92 to its "legitimate owners" in the shortest possible time.

Real cost of war brought home

A "day of mourning" has been observed in the southern district of Kraljevo for 41 soldiers and policemen killed in Kosovo, Beta news agency reported.

Meanwhile, the agency added, the police chief in the eastern city of Nis has condemned as "disinformation" a newspaper article on war casualties by the mayor, Branislav Jovanovic.

"Absolutely nobody, except for some members of the ruling party, believes the state officials' statements on the number of killed members of the Yugoslav Army and police," Jovanovic, an ally of Draskovic, had written.

Serbian resort gearing up for tourist season

The state news agency Tanjug, which has been reporting evidence of a return to "normality" such as plans to reopen the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade and a Russian offer to rebuild a bomb-damaged bridge over the Danube, has not neglected Serbia's tourist industry.

Hoteliers on Mount Zlatar are "ready for this year's summer season which they expect to be as successful as last year's", the agency said.

A sanatorium for heart patients was already booked up while the Panorama hotel was looking forward to "its regular guests from Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina and Belgrade".

Among the Zlatar attractions are a lake cruise and a visit to a medieval monastery.

BBC Monitoring (http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk), based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.