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POLITICIANS, PARTY PREFERENCES Summary: Newspapers in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have published the results of opinion polls, indicating the relative popularity of politicians, political parties, and attitudes toward the political system. The 22-23 January edition of the Skopje newspaper VECER in Macedon... | [
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INTRODUCTION This guide is intended to help users of Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) translations assess the value and reliability of media sources in the countries or regions of the former Yugoslavia. It provides key information about the media of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic ... | [
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SUMMARY Pyongyang's response to the latest South Korean proposal for resumption of inter-Korean talks seems to reflect an effort by the North Korean regime to score polemical points against the South and its ongoing preference for negotiating with Washington over Seoul on the nuclear issue. END SUMMARY Apparently viola... | [
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The following summaries highlight information from articles that appeared in the Algiers French- and regional Arabic-language press in January and February. Liamine Zeroual's Image Favorable A report in the Arabic-language Doha (Qatar) daily AL-SHARQ of 3 February states that the public views newly elected President Li... | [
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SUMMARY Russian officials have tried to minimize the impact on U.S.- Russian relations of the arrest of Aldrich Ames and his wife on charges of spying for the USSR and Russia against the United States. Joined by Russian media commentators, they have criticized the involvement of high-level U.S. officials in publicizing... | [
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SUMMARY Using his decree power to reorganize the media bureaucracy, Russian President Boris Yeltsin has consolidated his control over the broadcast media and attenuated the influence of the other branches of government and the cabinet. At the same time he has taken the first step in what is likely to be a far reaching,... | [
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SUMMARY Syrian media reacted to the massacre in Hebron by intensifying criticism of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles (DOP) and the PLO itself and reviving more hostile anti-Israel rhetoric reminiscent of the years preceding the current peace negotiations. At the same time, despite the Arab suspension of bilater... | [
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This Foreign Press Review series focuses on economic issues in Egypt. The information is summarized from Egyptian or Arabic- language expatriate publications. The hardcopy version of this Foreign Media Note contains 1 cartoon with caption. $35 Million Tourism Publicity Campaign in the Works The Tourism Ministry is plan... | [
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Beijing Rejects Political Compromise, Plays Down Economic Threats SUMMARY PRC authoritative media have reacted strongly to the Hong Kong Legislative Council (Legco)'s adoption of the first stage of Governor Christopher Patten's democratic reforms and to a Hong Kong government "White Paper" on the contents of the aborte... | [
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Hanoi Finds New Outlet for Surplus Labor Judging by a 1 March VNA report, Hanoi has found new opportunities for employing its surplus labor in Libya. According to VNA, 100 Vietnamese workers left Hanoi on 28 February to fill jobs in Libya under a "construction contract" signed by Vietnam's overseas construction company... | [
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SUMMARY Apparently responding to domestic pressures to demonstrate more balance in the country's foreign policy, Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev used his late January visit to China to press Beijing to greatly expand and deepen the Sino-Russian relationship and forge a "constructive partnership" between the two... | [
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A 26 February VNA report on a conference on the anti-malarial effort in Vietnam's northern provinces suggests that Hanoi has made considerable progress in overcoming what the media two years ago had indicated was a serious malaria problem. According to VNA, all three targets of Vietnam's anti-malaria program for 1993 w... | [
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SUMMARY Pyongyang has made a point of reminding Washington that linking the resumption of bilateral high-level talks to the exchange of special envoys by North and South Korea could jeopardize ongoing international nuclear inspections. The North continues to signal its reluctance to engage the South in any substantive ... | [
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SUMMARY Russian President Boris Yeltsin is carrying out yet another reorganization of his presidential apparatus, this time clearly to help him expand presidential power vis-a-vis parliament and the cabinet. The new constitution pushed through by Yeltsin after disbanding the Supreme Soviet gives the president more cont... | [
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Continuing to call for the creation of a Greater Serbia, Bosnian Serb leaders have rejected joining the Bosnian Muslim-Croatian federation announced in Washington on 1 March. In an interview published in Der Spiegel on 7 March, Bosnian Serb "President" Radovan Karadzic sharply denounced the Muslim-Croat federation and ... | [
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The following is the fourth of a series of editorial reports on political Islam in Egypt. These reports include summaries of all articles, reports, interviews, commentaries and other islamic affairs items that were published in the Cairo Arabic-language weeklies 'AQIDATI, AL-NUR, AL-SHA'B, and AL-USRAH AL-'ARABIYAH. Th... | [
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Seeking to project a conciliatory stance on North-South talks, Pyongyang used the 9 March inter-Korean talks to create the image that it is making constructive proposals to pave the way for the exchange of special envoys, a step that is related to the resumption of talks with Washington on the nuclear issue. According ... | [
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Table of Contents JAPAN: Auto Industry - FEATURE: Auto Industry Firms Receiving Employment Subsidies Economic Trends - FEATURE: Keidanren Role Likely To Change Under New Chairman; FEATURE: Welfare Payment Increases Will Offset Tax Cuts for Households; FEATURE: Economic Organizations Critical of MITI 'Interference' Envi... | [
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SUMMARY Russian President Boris Yeltsin reacted angrily to former U.S. President Richard Nixon's meetings in Moscow with opposition leaders, including former Vice President Aleksandr Rutskoy, who had only recently been released from prison. Despite his harsh reaction, he appeared to attempt to minimize the damage to U.... | [
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In the wake of the Hebron massacre, both Prime Minister Yitzhaq Rabin and Foreign Minister Shim'on Peres have hinted that the Israeli Government is laying the groundwork for dismantling a few controversial Jewish settlements. Both leaders appear concerned to present any such action as a unilateral Israeli decision to h... | [
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Europe Economic Review: WESTERN EUROPE Vol. III, No. 10, 10 March 1994 Notice To Readers: FOREIGN MEDIA SURVEY is a series published by FBIS Europe/Latin America Group featuring brief summaries of foreign media reports on topical issues, compiled from the most recent sources available to FBIS. Europe Economic Review (E... | [
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nationalists in July 1991 to promote creation of an independent Ukrainian Armed Forces, initially achieved substantial influence within the nascent Ukrainian defense establishment, particularly in personnel and related matters. Since mid-1992, however, the UOU has increasingly come into conflict with the military estab... | [
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SUMMARY Apparently seeing little merit in a policy of open confrontation with the Chinese over human rights issues and at the same time eager to secure a share of China's burgeoning market, Germany and France have avoided all but the most muted public criticism of China's human rights record while steadily expanding di... | [
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Foreign Economic Review: EASTERN EUROPE Vol. III, No. 09, 09 March 1994 Notice To Readers: FOREIGN MEDIA SURVEY is a subtitled series published by FBIS Europe/Latin America Group. The Survey series features brief summaries of foreign media reports on topical issues compiled from the most recent sources available to FBI... | [
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SUMMARY In a move designed to realize high-level U.S.-DPRK talks, Pyongyang used the 12 March meeting with Seoul to suggest a willingness to withdraw the four demands it had previously insisted Seoul must meet before presidential envoys could be exchanged. In signaling its willingness to move toward holding an inter-Ko... | [
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SUMMARY Amid foreign media reports of IAEA inspectors departing North Korea after encountering difficulties, Pyongyang on 15 March used the authoritative vehicle of a Foreign Ministry spokesman's statement to demand that Washington proceed with the 21 March DPRK-U.S. high-level talks in Geneva as scheduled. Reinforcing... | [
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S U M M A R Y Although the vote by the State Duma to amnesty prisoners implicated in the August 1991 coup and the October 1993 Supreme Soviet uprising marks the Duma's most confrontational move against President Boris Yeltsin to date, it was passed as part of a compromise package that somewhat mitigated its anti- presi... | [
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Continuing earlier signs that Beijing would reward France for its accommodating stance on Taiwan arms sales by expanding Sino- French aviation cooperation, Beijing has recently announced contracts with the French-based European consortium Airbus Industrie (Xinhua, 4,6 March). According to a Xinhua report of 6 March, Ai... | [
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SUMMARY While seeking to wrest as many concessions as possible from Israel and the United States in the aftermath of the Hebron massacre, PLO leaders also appear to be maintaining a degree of flexibility in their position on terms for resuming peace negotiations with Israel. In addition, PLO statements aimed at Palesti... | [
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BOOKS, JOURNALS, COMMERCIAL DATA BASES, AND OTHER OPEN-SOURCE PUBLICATIONS, OR ON RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTS. SOME OF THE MATERIALS USED IN THIS PUBLICATION WILL APPEAR AS ABSTRACTS OR FULL TRANSLATIONS IN FBIS SERIAL REPORTS. COMMENTS AND QUERIES REGARDING THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE DIRECTED TO THE MANAGING EDITOR (... | [
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SUMMARY None of the leaders of the former Yugoslavia, whether Serb, Muslim, or Croat, has expressed any interest in seeing the Serbs join the Muslim-Croatian federation in Bosnia-Herzegovina that was called for in the 1 March Washington agreement. Serbian leaders, while rejecting a federation, have suggested forming a ... | [
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SUMMARY Pyongyang appears to be trying to grant the IAEA just enough access to its nuclear sites to prevent the collapse of U.S.-DPRK talks, a strategy that may be aimed at retaining maximum bargaining leverage with Washington. END SUMMARY Although Pyongyang media have not yet commented on the outcome of the IAEA inspe... | [
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SUMMARY As Ukraine enters the final weeks before the 27 March Supreme Soviet election, a very large number of candidates are competing for most of the 450 parliamentary seats, guaranteeing many runoffs and even raising the possibility that not enough deputies may be elected to form a parliament. Activity by parties var... | [
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SUMMARY Damascus turned the unprecedented visit of an Israeli Arab delegation to Syria into a major media event, eliciting from the visitors strong rhetorical support for Syrian policies. President Hafiz al-Asad also used the event to restate Syria's overall position on the peace process. The visit itself, and the fact... | [
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SUMMARY The Japanese Government appears to be making only slow progress on the package of measures it is drawing up to demonstrate to the United States that it is willing to open Japanese markets and deregulate the Japanese economy. This slowness is apparently due in part to divisions within the government over prospec... | [
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SUMMARY A lengthy statement attributed to the imprisoned Shining Path leadership, published recently in a leading opposition newspaper, provides what appears to be a strategic rationale for the peace proposal made by the insurgents last fall. While the newspaper has accepted the document as an authentic call for peace ... | [
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SUMMARY Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev hailed the results of his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher as indicating that the U.S.-Russian partnership is able to surmount recent strains and continue to develop. Kozyrev's reaction contrasted with his recent statements on the bilateral relation... | [
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SUMMARY Reflecting concern within the European Union (EU) that the U.S. revival of the Super 301 trade law provision could eventually have a negative effect on Europe and that U.S. bilateral deals with Japan could hurt European business, EU leaders reacted sharply to the U.S. move and its threat of sanctions against Ja... | [
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SUMMARY Despite persistent Jordanian efforts to repair relations with Saudi Arabia--seriously strained since the Gulf crisis--King Husayn's religious pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina on 8 March yielded a sharp rebuff when King Fahd pointedly failed to receive Husayn and his top-level delegation. Indicating official Jorda... | [
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SUMMARY President Boris Yeltsin continues to face serious opposition from certain regions in his efforts to define a division of central and local authority. Several republics failed to approve the federal constitution in the 12 December referendum and have since taken fresh steps toward enacting republic constitutions... | [
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SUMMARY Clearly alarmed by the swiftness with which the IAEA is calling a Board of Governors meeting, Pyongyang has made a public effort to explain its differences with the IAEA on resolution of the nuclear inspection issue, an effort apparently motivated by concern over the need to salvage high-level talks with Washin... | [
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SUMMARY Seeking to exploit what he perceives to be a rift in the coalition that liberated Kuwait, President Saddam Husayn has presented the UN Security Council with a virtual ultimatum, threatening implicitly that if it fails to take significant steps in coming weeks toward lifting the sanctions, Iraq may cease to coop... | [
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SUMMARY On 16 March Russian Television's (RTV) primetime edition of its Vesti news program launched a scathing attack on media bigwigs, including Aleksandr Yakovlev, head of both the Federal Service of Russia for Television and Radio Broadcasting and the Ostankino Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, and Mikhail ... | [
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Table of Contents FEATURE: France: National Debate On Research Policy POLICY ISSUES Germany Launches New Laser Research Program French Report on Critical Defense Technologies Finnish Support for R&D CORPORATE STRATEGIES DASA, China Sign Telecommunications Satellite Agreement Swedish Research on Hybrid Vehicles Honda Re... | [
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SUMMARY In a move having potentially serious implications for the future of Sino-U.S. relations, Chinese leaders made it clear during U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher's 11-14 March visit that Beijing will not meet U.S. demands on human rights, even under the continuing threat of loss of its most-favored-natio... | [
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This issue focuses on recent reporting in the Algiers and Paris French-language press on the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). Slain GIA Members Identified The 28 February edition of EL WATAN reported that GIA leader Si Ahmed Mourad, known as El-Afghani, and IO GIA members were killed by police forces in Bouzareah. According ... | [
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The ouster of Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar by five diverse opposition parties has led to the establishment of an interim government with no program beyond acting as a caretaker government until early parliamentary elections, scheduled for 31 September and 1 October. Meciar, whose ouster was preceded by a series of de... | [
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Table of Contents JAPAN: Economic Trends - FEATURE: Retention of Large Retail Store Law Criticized; FEATURE: Food Agency Under Severe Criticism Over Rice Panic; IBJ Capital Investment Survey Reveals 6.1 Percent Decline Financial Issues - Chinese Provinces Urge Japanese Banks To Set Up Branches; China To Authorize Japan... | [
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Europe Economic Review: WESTERN EUROPE Vol. III, No. 13, 24 March 1994 Notice To Readers: FOREIGN MEDIA SURVEY is a series published by FBIS Europe/Latin America Group featuring brief summaries of foreign media reports on topical issues, compiled from the most recent sources available to FBIS. Europe Economic Review (E... | [
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SUMMARY Reflecting Bonn's preference for structural reforms and opposition to economic stimulus measures, the German participants' positive evaluation of the 14-15 March G-7 jobs conference in Detroit focused on the conference proposals for education and labor market reforms but rejected U.S. suggestions that Germany s... | [
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Chiba Prefecture has been successfully carrying out construction of the "Kazusa Academia Park," the second project of an ambitious plan to establish three new industrial-based cities in Chiba Prefecture. Chiba Prefecture incorporated a semi-public corporation in 1991 to establish this world-class science park. This coo... | [
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Possibly seeking to avoid simultaneous disputes on auto trade with both Washington and Brussels, Japan and the European Union, as announced on 19 March, concluded an agreement raising the quota for Japanese auto exports to the EU. Under the new arrangement, the Japanese quota will rise by 0.4 percent in 1994 (KYODO, 19... | [
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Hosokawa Visit to China Yields Mixed Results SUMMARY Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's recent visit to China appears to have yielded few concrete results, either on the economic or political and security fronts. Beijing evidently did little to address issues of key concern to Tokyo, resisting Tokyo's call for a more a... | [
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SUMMARY: Recent Japanese press articles have detailed the mushrooming of policy study groups formed among Japanese Diet members, most of which cross party lines and factions within individual parties. Their reported aim is to both promote political reform and to act as catalysts for the "second phase" of political rest... | [
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Summary: Arye Stav, editor of the conservative journal NATIV, has written an article published in the journal's January-February issue strongly opposing any peace settlement that would involve setting up a Palestinian state, which Stav sees as eventually ensuing from the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles (DOP) sign... | [
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Foreign Economic Review: EASTERN EUROPE Vol. III, No. 12, 23 March 1994. Notice To Readers: FOREIGN MEDIA SURVEY is a subtitled series published by FBIS Europe/Lat in America Group. The Survey series features brief summaries of foreign media reports on topical i?sues ? compiled from the most recent sources available to... | [
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In January 1994 the Mongolian Government approved changes in the government structure, including the combining of ministries, merging of institutes, and incorporation of the MONTSAME News Agency into Government. The following changes and personnel assignments in response to these decisions were announced in the 1 Febru... | [
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SUMMARY The Government Work Report delivered by Premier Li Peng at the recent National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing indicates that despite the resolve of party reformers to push ahead with senior leader Deng Xiaoping's new wave of market reforms they have yet to make significant progress in some of the most diffi... | [
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SUMMARY Pyongyang's carefully calibrated media campaign against Washington and Seoul over the nuclear issue seems designed to convey the impression that while the North Korean leadership is prepared to deal with the full consequences of its refusal to abide by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), it still hopes f... | [
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SUMMARY While campaigning to convince the new legislature of the value of Russian accession to NATO's Partnership for Peace, Russian government officials continue to portray the program as merely an interim step toward broader European security measures that will provide prominent status for Russia. Influential members... | [
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This Special Memorandum, "Media Developments: Russia and Ukraine," is a periodic series aimed at reporting and analyzing changes to and events affecting the Russian and Ukrainian media. Comments and queries regarding this series may be directed to Chief Analyst, ENEAG at (703) 733-6072. In this issue ... Spotlight on .... | [
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SUMMARY While campaigning to convince the new legislature of the value of Russian accession to NATO's Partnership for Peace, Russian government officials continue to portray the program as merely an interim step toward broader European security measures that will provide prominent status for Russia. Influential members... | [
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This Special Memorandum, "Media Developments: Russia and Ukraine," is a periodic series aimed at reporting and analyzing changes to and events affecting the Russian and Ukrainian media. Comments and queries regarding this series may be directed to Chief Analyst, ENEAG at (703) 733-6072. In this issue ... Spotlight on .... | [
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SUMMARY While campaigning to convince the new legislature of the value of Russian accession to NATO's Partnership for Peace, Russian government officials continue to portray the program as merely an interim step toward broader European security measures that will provide prominent status for Russia. Influential members... | [
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Arab boycott offices will soon submit a report to the Arab League, according to a dispatch from Damascus published in the Kuwaiti daily AL-WATAN, alleging that the Israeli Government plans to take advantage of its Arab neighbors in comprehensive fashion. The dispatch enumerates the ways in which the plan is taking shap... | [
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The central press has been publishing articles discussing the political, social and economic ramifications of a Russian-Belarusian monetary union. Economic experts, journalists and officials are debating the pros and cons of such a union in articles appearing in a variety of sources. No Consensus in Belarus Belarusian ... | [
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Confronted by a significant expansion of South Korean shipbuilding capacity, Japanese shipbuilders are reportedly opting to coexist, rather than compete, with South Korean shipbuilders through technological cooperation and division of labor. According to the 16 March Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japanese shipbuilders are seek... | [
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SUMMARY Announcing a sharp swing away from its dependence on imported food in recent years, the Russian government, prompted by the agrarian lobby's desire to protect farms from foreign competition, has declared it will import no grain in 1994 and has slapped import duties on most other food products. The moves were ma... | [
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Reflecting a hardening of its opposition to the prospective introduction of Patriot missiles in South Korea, North Korea has staged a "mass rally" and sharpened its rhetoric against Seoul and Washington. At the 29 March rally in Pyongyang--the first such rally Pyongyang media have reported being staged against deployme... | [
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SUMMARY The Japanese Government appears to be sharply divided over whether to support economic sanctions against North Korea if the United Nations decides to impose them. Securing the backing of some members of the coalition for sanctions could require considerable effort and could divert the coalition's attention from... | [
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SUMMARY Already tense relations between the illegal but largely tolerated Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and its electoral ally the Socialist Labor Party (SLP) have been further strained by reports that the Egyptian government is considering a new change in the law governing parliamentary elections. While an official decision... | [
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Inkatha Freedom party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said millions of King Zwelithini's followers will not take part in the elections unless demands for a Zulu kingdom are met. Dr. Buthelezi and King Goodwill today held talks in Ulundi with Minister of Home Affairs Danie Schutte. [Begin recording] [Schutte, in English] Fr... | [
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The summit of Central African heads of state on the consequences of the devaluation of the CFA franc has just completed its deliberations in Libreville, Gabon. Here is an excerpt of the communique issued at the end the deliberations. It is read by Gabonese Finance Minister Paul Toungui: [Begin recording] Concerning the... | [
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[Excerpt] Libreville, 28 Feb (AFP) -- The heads of state of six Central African countries, meeting on 28 February in Libreville at a summit that focused on the impact of the devaluation of the CFA franc, asked Gabonese President Omar Bongo to mediate between Cameroon and Nigeria, currently at odds in a border conflict.... | [
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Addis Ababa, 28 Feb (MENA)--Ambassadors of the countries participating in the central apparatus for the mechanism of settling disputes in Africa today discussed the implementation of the resolutions passed by the apparatus since its establishment at the OAU summit held in Cairo last year. Majdi Hifni, Egypt's ambassado... | [
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Addis Ababa, 28 Feb (PANA) -- Somali faction leader, General Mohamed Farah Aidid, Monday [28 February] in Addis Ababa, held a 30-minute discussion with the OAU assistant secretary general in charge of political affairs, Tobias Muparanga, on the situation in war-torn Somalia. "He briefed me on the efforts he has been ma... | [
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Yaounde, 28 Feb (CAMNEWS/PANA) -- A French military contingent landed on Sunday [27 February] at an air base in Yaounde on a mission connected with the current border dispute between Nigeria and Cameroon over the 1000 square kilometre Bakassi Peninsula, believed to be rich in oil. The CAMEROON NEWS AGENCY (CAMNEWS) rep... | [
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Yaounde, 28 Feb (AFP) -- Cameroonian President Paul Biya late this morning received a high-ranking delegation led by General Christian Quesnot, special chief of staff of President Francois Mitterrand, official sources in Yaounde said. The arrival of this delegation comes in the wake of tension between Cameroon and Ni... | [
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[Government communique on 25 February Council of Ministers meeting issued on 26 February in Bangui; read by Gerard Gaba, minister in charge of the general secretariat of the government and relations with parliament--recorded] [Excerpts] [Begin Gaba recording] The Council of Ministers held a meeting on 25 February from ... | [
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[Announcer] The guest on Afrique Midi today is the Chadian civil service minister. Following the ruling of the International Court of Justice in favour of Chad in the border dispute concerning the Aouzou Strip, Abdelkader Kamougue has just been to Tripoli to hand over a message from the Chadian president to Colonel al-... | [
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(Paul Bi Ogemba), a member of the National Assembly, the government, and the Gabonese Democratic Party [PDG], has just made a surprising statement in which he says he disagrees with the policies of President Omar Bongo and of the PDG. He forwarded two letters to the president of the Republic and to the PDG general secr... | [
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Libreville, 26 Feb (AFP) -- The Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) asked the government to take court action today against those responsible for acts of violence which marked the start of a general strike action this week. "The PDG calls on the government to restore order, guarantee the security of persons and property, a... | [
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A press statement just in from the National Lumberjacks Rally says the leader of that party, Father Paul Mba Abessole, is still living with his family and several militants met him. Next week, he will give a news conference to restore the truth, nothing but the truth of the facts and to propose political solutions to t... | [
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It is better late than never. After several hours of negotiations, political leaders of the five parties that form the current government have finally managed to make a breakthrough towards the establishment of the remaining transitional institutions. A marathon meeting interrupted by a brief pause at 1830 discussed th... | [
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Kinshasa, 25 Feb (PANA) -- Zairean President, Mobutu Sese Seko and his staunch opponent, Etienne Tshisekedi, whom he sacked as prime minister in late 1992, reportedly met Wednesday [23 February] night in Gbadolite, the birthplace of the former, Zairean papers revealed Friday. The alleged meeting took place a few days b... | [
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[News conference on weekly cabinet meeting by N'Gongo Luwowo, government spokesman and minister of communications and press, in Kinshasa on 25 February--recorded] [Excerpt] A cabinet meeting was held on 25 February to review the state of the nation at month's end. The meeting was presided over by Mr. Faustin Birindwa, ... | [
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General Mohamed Farah Aidid, leader of the Somali National Alliance, has said that foreign countries and organizations are interfering in the Somali issue and trying to create an obstacle to peace efforts. He said that he will not participate in today's Cairo meeting, to which he was invited by the Egyptian Government.... | [
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His Excellency President Daniel arap Moi today told wananchi [citizens] in Lugari constituency in Kakamega District [western Kenya] to ignore threats by opposition parties and turn out in large numbers on Thursday, 3 March to vote for Kenya African National Union [KANU] in the by-elections. The president said in a demo... | [
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Nairobi, 28 Feb (KNA) -- The chairman of the Electoral Commission Mr. Zacheus Chesoni has warned outsiders out to unleash violence in Lugari constituency to keep off and give the constituents a chance to elect their own representative. Mr. Chesoni said that the constituency had no past history of violence and blamed ou... | [
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