YUTEL for Peace () was an

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concert organized by the independent Yugoslav National Broadcasting Agency

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, held at the Zetra Arena in

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on Sunday, 28 July 1991 as a protest against the war in Yugoslavia. The following artists played at the concert:

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, Crvena Jabuka,

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, EKV,

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, Regina,

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, Plavi Orkestar and others. The Concert was originally planned outdoors at the plateau in front of the

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hotel, but was subsequently moved to the Zetra arena because of bad weather conditions. The concert was attended by over thirty thousand spectators, with another fifty thousand left outside of the sold-out venue. The program was hosted by YUTEL

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and

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. The broadcast was aired in SR Bosnia-Herzegovina,

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and

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(on NTV Studio B). Other four channels of the Yugoslav national public broadcasting system (JRT) refused to carry it.

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