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FBIS3-17051_0 | First Deputy From Russian Community To Begin Work | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tallinn, Mar 22, BNS -- The first MP coming from Estonia's Russian-speaking community, Social Democratic Party's Sergey Zonov, will start work in the Estonian State Assembly (parliament) Wednesday [23 March]. Zonov replaces Ardo Ojasalu, who was appointed the head of the countr... |
FBIS3-17053_1 | Minister Says Registering Active Military Vital | said Russian army representatives had promised to present lists of their military in the town. But he added that this was not enough for Estonia. To pass the procedure, Paldiski residents must answer a questionnaire, after what they will get a special inscription into their passports. Car owners must also present their... |
FBIS3-17136_0 | Defense Conversion Discussed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By BELINFORM-TASS correspondents Vladimir Glod and Leonid Tratsevskiy] [Text] Minsk March 23 TASS -- Official talks between the defence ministers of the United States and the Belarus Republic began here today. The U.S. secretary of defence arrived in the Belarus capital today. His ne... |
FBIS3-17155_0 | ITAR-TASS Carries Press Review for 24 March | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Press Review" -- ITAR-TASS headline] [Text] Moscow, March 24 -- The ROSSIISKIE VESTI newspaper singles out materials on growing social stratification of society. Referring to official data, the newspaper notes that "20 per cent of well-to-do population enjoys now 40 per cent of all ... |
FBIS3-17168_0 | Coalition Meeting To Avert Centrist Split | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tallinn, Mar 22, BNS -- Negotiations are scheduled to begin on Wednesday [23 March] between Pro Patria, the senior party in Estonia's ruling coalition, and their fellow coalition members Rural Centrists, who have threatened to quit over that the government allegedly is defying ... |
FBIS3-17178_0 | Airbus Seen `Trailing Smoke' | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by Tatyana Cherkasova under the general heading "Death in the Russian Skies": "Kemerovo Calling"] [Text] The Novokuznetsk air traffic controllers were the first to get worried: At about 0100 hours local time on 23 March, a plane traveling on the Moscow to Hong Kong route stopp... |
FBIS3-17208_0 | Further Reportage on Perry's Visit to Minsk Defense Ministry Receives $30 Million | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By BELINFORM-TASS correspondents Vladimir Glod and Leonid Tratsevskiy] [Text] Minsk March 23 TASS -- U.S. Defense Minister [title as received] William Perry is taking with himself as a souvenir from Minsk a laser pointer which is capable of showing any spot at a considerable distance... |
FBIS3-17234_0 | Poll Shows Low Confidence in `Branches of Power' | Language: Ukrainian Article Type:BFN [Olena Hubina report: "I Don't Trust You by 96 Percent"] [Text] The Ukrainian population's confidence in all branches of power on the eve of parliamentary elections is so low that it is even difficult to determine whose victory is to be preferred. In February and March 1994, the "De... |
FBIS3-17241_1 | Elections Viewed | is bankrupt in the eyes of the people themselves, can be saved would be to immediately cancel all the results of the voting on 20 March as not expressing the position of the voters. That is if you consider it in terms of jurisprudence. And as for real life... Let this endless reading on the radio of endless lists of na... |
FBIS3-17250_2 | Maritime Governor Said Lobbying for Japan | Yevgeniy Nazdratenko, head of administration of the Maritime Territory, reported in an interview on the television program "Vostok-TV" that the Japanese Government had decided to deliver equipment and finance the construction of two installations for processing liquid radioactive wastes in Bolshoy Kamen and at a facili... |
FBIS3-17298_0 | North Korean Envoy Interviewed on Bilateral Relations | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Text] The situation in connection with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] nuclear inspection in the DPRK was aggravated yet again this week. The United States insists that the DPRK opposes full control. In this connection, the regular round of the Korean-American talks was... |
FBIS3-17326_0 | Opposition Leader Interviewed on Conflict | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Third and last installment of an interview with 'Abdollah Nuri, a leader of Tajikistan's Islamic Movement Party, with an unidentified JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI correspondent; place and date not given] [Text] [JOMHURI-YE ESLAMI] How do you assess the West's stances on and the role of Russia i... |
FBIS3-17326_8 | Opposition Leader Interviewed on Conflict | But they are still encouraging the people to return. We cannot say that it is the UN employees who are to blame because others are also not pursuing UN laws, but there are between 40,000 and 41,000 refugees in Tanduz who are not receiving any assistance. It is as though this organization does not officially recognize t... |
FBIS3-17354_14 | Shevardnadze Addresses Citizens' Congress | talk about these issues. Now, we must seek solutions to these issues, therefore, my address is less polemic and is mostly directed toward finding solutions and practical measures. Corresponding amendments must be made to the new version of the constitution. We must comprehend that conflicts in Abkhazia and the Tskhinva... |
FBIS3-17354_40 | Shevardnadze Addresses Citizens' Congress | study prices and the economic situation must be set up. The speed of carrying out the strategic and tactical aims, suggested by the economic and social development and their scale, will depend on using Georgia's internal potential, as well as on the nature of the international political and economic situation in which ... |
FBIS3-17363_0 | Minister Denies Deportation Goal in Paldiski | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tallinn, Mar 24, BNS -- Population Minister Peeter Olesk and special representative of the government in Paldiski Juri Tikk in an interview to BNS resolutely contradicted rumors that the authorities are making up lists of Paldiski residents to be deported. Rumors have lately be... |
FBIS3-17390_1 | Acting Prime Minister Interviewed on Economy | communication to Europe and the Black Sea area run through our country. The economies of the Russian oblasts bordering us are the most stable because they maintain direct economic links with Ukrainian enterprises, and, you know, tens of millions of people live in those oblasts. In short, a strong and stable Ukraine is ... |
FBIS3-17394_1 | Antiterrorism Department Chief Views Situation | in their political or religious struggle were reported in Ukraine. However, a kindling ground for this is now being cultivated in the state, abetted by the flawed legislation and the ever increasing legal nihilism on the part of both specific individuals and entire public groups. In 1993, 172 cases of terrorist threats... |
FBIS3-17459_0 | MPPM Views Election, Poll Results as `Triumph of Reason' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Chisinau, BASAPRESS 26/3/1994 -- The Patriotic Movement "Pro Moldova" (MPPM) welcomes the electoral victory of the Democratic Agrarian Party and of the Block of the Socialist Party and Unitatea-Edinstvo Movement, as well as the results of the sociologic poll, which demonstrate ... |
FBIS3-17474_0 | Lifting of U.S. Embargo Will Not Effect Talks | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Text] Bill Clinton's decision to lift the embargo on arms and military equipment supplies to the Baltic countries will not affect the progress of Estonian-Russian talks, [Colonel] Ants Laaneots, Defense Forces chief of staff of the Republic of Estonia, told a RIA correspondent. The 1... |
FBIS3-17623_0 | Kuchma Urges Kravchuk To Resign | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Telephone interview with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma by Arkadiy Romm under the "Hello!" rubric: "Leonid Kuchma: The President Would Better Resign Voluntarily!" -- date not given] [Excerpt] After the elections for the Ukrainian Supreme Council, which are scheduled fo... |
FBIS3-17673_0 | Envoy to EU Says Free Trade Talks `Successful' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From RAHVA HAAL 29 Mar p 1; "News Bulletin" No. 60/94] [Text] The EU-Estonian free trade talks in Brussels were successful and the main text of the agreement has been agreed upon, Estonian Ambassador to the EU Clyde Kull said. Both parties recognise in the preamble that the final aim... |
FBIS3-17687_0 | Yerevan Reports Police Detain Baku Demonstrators | Language: Armenian Article Type:BFN [Text] The opposition's planned rally in Baku on 26 March did not take place. It was to be led by Iskender Khamidov, the former interior minister, member of parliament, and leader of the Gray Wolves Party. The police made detentions at the Freedom Square, among them ten reporters, in... |
FBIS3-17712_1 | Federal Authorities Said To Ignore Mood of Local Voters | the new candidates are merely running for office in order to get rich. Moreover, the speed of the economic reforms and the desire to do everything at one fell swoop, which may be borne out by history some day, has occasioned extremely profound disappointment among voters at these elections with regard to the present fo... |
FBIS3-17722_0 | Low Turnout in Novosibirsk Elections | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Elections to bodies of representative power and local self-government will take place in 29 regions of Russia today, ITAR-TASS reports. The elections will take place, in particular, in Krasnoyarsk and Stavropol krays, in Kurgan, Bryansk, Vladimir, Voronezh, Rostov, Ryazan, a... |
FBIS3-17768_0 | Oil To Be Supplied to Cuba in Exchange for Sugar | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Russia will supply 2.5 Mn tons of crude oil to Cuba in exchange for one million tons of sugar cane for federal use. Under a Russian government ordinance of March 25, 1.5 Mn tons of this amount will be allocated from the export resources for countries outside the former Soviet U... |
FBIS3-17782_0 | Moscow Supports CIS Economic Cooperation Body | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Konstantin Smirnov report: "Cooperation Ministry Consolidates its Positions. Ministry Gets Government Support"] [Text] Officially circulated yesterday was a Russian Federation Government decree, "Questions of the Russian Federation Ministry on Cooperation with Member States of the Co... |
FBIS3-17888_1 | `Hoax' on Weapons Development Viewed | newspaper reported that the West has no antidote for this agent. It goes without saying that the report provided no evidence to prove this sensation. It couldn't be otherwise, since there is no such agent whatsoever. The author of the article, sent from Washington, Mr. James Adams, refers to the testimonies which had a... |
FBIS3-17915_11 | President Kravchuk Views Crimea Issues | illustration of the president's words with respect to the catastrophic situation in the economy. A cleaning lady in a Simferopol hotel, at which a "CIS-er" [Commonwealth of Independent States] is fleeced to the tune of R40,000 per day for an average room, receives less than R9,000 a month. A civil aviation pilot who re... |
FBIS3-17928_0 | Apathy in Sakhalin Blamed on Economic Decline | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by Sergey Ponomarev: "When There Is No Bread, Voters Have No Time For Manifestos"] [Text] Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk -- The local legislative organ elections in the Far East were valid only on Sakhalin. But even on the island, where 51 candidates were running for the 16 seats in the ob... |
FBIS3-17943_0 | Terrorist Act Not Ruled Out | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Igor Shchegolev] [Text] Paris March 30 TASS -- Deciphering of flight recorders of the A-310 Airbus which crashed in Siberia taking a toll of 75 lives proved that the version about depressurisation of the plane was wrong. However, an act of terrorism against... |
FBIS3-17977_0 | Ukrainian Official on Elections, Navy | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Interview with Myroslav Popovych, member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, by Pol Mathil in Kiev; date not given: "On the elections in Ukraine"] [Text] [Mathil] Contrary to all forecasts, 75 percent of Ukrainian voters went to the polls. Is that a surprise? [Popovych] I am surpris... |
FBIS3-18000_0 | Officials Comment on Paldiski Registration | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Tallinn, Mar 30, BNS -- As many as 1,000 illegal immigrants may at present be staying in Paldiski, Juri Tikk, special representative of the government in Paldiski, said Tuesday [29 March] at a press conference. Estonian authorities in Paldiski registered 4,576 people by Marc... |
FBIS3-18006_0 | National Currency Pegged to U.S. Dollar at 1:4 | Language: Lithuanian Article Type:BFN [Text] Here is the much awaited report on the reliability of the litas. Government press spokesman Viktoras Baublys informed us that while carrying out the decision of 17 March this year concerning the reliability of the litas -- the Lithuanian national currency -- and after coordi... |
FBIS3-18021_0 | EU, Nordic Countries Negotiate Membership Agreement Reached | Language: English Article Type:BFN [David Gardner report: "Aid for Arctic Region Agreed"] [Text] Brussels -- European Union [EU] foreign ministers reached agreement yesterday in membership talks with Austria, Sweden, Finland and Norway on a regional aid programme for the Nordic countries' Arctic regions. Austria warned... |
FBIS3-18023_1 | EP Favors `Gradual Rapprochement' With WEU | between the European Union [EU] and the Western European Union [WEU], leading eventually to "the absorption" of the WEU by the EU. The EU would then assume full responsibility for foreign policy, Common Foreign and Security Policy [CFSP], and relations with NATO. In his report, Mr. Karel De Gucht, (Belgian EP member [M... |
FBIS3-18024_0 | EU Issues Position Paper on Immigration Action to Strengthen Integration Policies for Legal Immigrants | Language: English Article Type:BFN [EC Document No. DOC/P/94/10: "Commission Adopts a Communication on Immigration and Asylum"] [Text] On a proposal from Mr. Flynn, Commissioner responsible for justice and home affairs, the Commission today adopted a communication on immigration and asylum policies. Introducing the com... |
FBIS3-18034_0 | Editorials Review Hong Kong, Patten Policies `Watered Down Package' of Reforms | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Hanging On to the End in Hong Kong"] [Text] Britain and China yesterday came to the end of the line three years before Hong Kong is handed back. Abandoning all hope of an agreement with Beijing Chris Patten has invited the Legislative Council (LegCo) to decide Hong Kong's... |
FBIS3-18062_2 | Andreatta Views Foreign Policy After Elections | emancipated in terms of their freedom and well-being. It has, however, also increased the vulnerability of modern and complex societies to transnational processes over which the individual governments have little control (narcotics, terrorism, migrations, economic crises, and the environment). 2. The integrative forces... |
FBIS3-18062_4 | Andreatta Views Foreign Policy After Elections | means necessary to make that contribution. A generic profession of faith in the international organization that is currently most favored or most in vogue will not suffice. International organizations are in fact not sufficiently developed to solve -- by themselves -- the problems confronting us, although governments o... |
FBIS3-18065_0 | 60 Percent of Voters Still Undecided | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Opinion Poll Shows 60 Percent of Italians Are Undecided"] [Text] Turin -- Who will win the elections? It is impossible to say at present, given the very high proportion of those who are undecided, with confusion reigning supreme. This is the conclusion reached b... |
FBIS3-18071_0 | West Reacts to NATO's Downing of Serb Aircraft Kinkel Comments Further | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel by correspondent Udo van Kampen in Brussels on 28 February -- recorded] [Text] [Van Kampen] A few moments ago I had a chance to get Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel's first reaction to this first NATO military strike. [Kinkel] This is indeed t... |
FBIS3-18087_0 | Japan's Trade Surplus Draws `Strong' G-7 Criticism | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Frankfurt, Feb. 26 KYODO -- Japan's towering trade surplus drew strong criticism from other leading industrial countries Saturday [26 February] at a meeting in Germany of their top fiscal and monetary officials, Japanese sources said. Japan was asked to make stepped-up efforts ... |
FBIS3-18096_1 | EIB Official on White Paper Projects | complete. Of the ECU5-billion budget agreed on at the Edinburgh summit, to which we should add the ECU2 billion from the Copenhagen summit, ECU5.1 billion has already been poured into 100 or so specific projects. I could mention the Paris-Brussels high-speed train link from the Belgian border to Brussels, the Chamoise ... |
FBIS3-18133_0 | DIHT President Views Possible Labor Action | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Hans Peter Stihl, president of the Federation of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce [DIHT], by Rainer Bittermann; place and date not given -- recorded] [Excerpts] [Bittermann] Mr. Stihl, economic experts and politicians, and employers' associations basically agree... |
FBIS3-18139_0 | Northern League's Manifesto Released | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Text] Federalism and liberalism are the principles which inspire the Northern League's manifesto, unveiled today in Milan. According to the League, it is necessary to shift the emphasis of public spending from current expenditure to investment and to reorganize the public sector, cut... |
FBIS3-18158_5 | Majority Favor EU Membership If Finland, Sweden Included | 56 percent believe Norwegian membership is irrelevant to their own financial situation. In spite of this, the voters have very clear opinions on what membership will mean for important, much-discussed issues. It is interesting to note that the assessments do not automatically coincide with each individual's standpoint ... |
FBIS3-18173_0 | * Guarantees for Balkan Status Quo Doubted | Language: Greek Article Type:CSO [Article by Yiorgos Kapopoulos: "West and Balkans: Guarantees of Little Significance"] [Excerpts] Beginning with the explosion of Yugoslavia in June 1991 to date, the West has proclaimed uniformly that the main element of its mediating intervention is the defense of the status quo on in... |
FBIS3-18182_0 | Democratic Party Seen as Increasingly `Radical' | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Analysis" by Ismet G. Imset: "Dicle's Mission: Closing Down Democracy Party"] [Text] Ankara--Recent statements made by Kurdish based Democracy Party (DEP) chairman Hatip Dicle and Friday's [20 February] bomb attack on the party headquarters in Ankara have made it even more clear tha... |
FBIS3-18187_0 | NATO Statement on Downing of Serb Aircraft | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Brussels (DPA) -- In Brussels on Monday [28 February] NATO issued the following statement on the downing of four aircraft over Bosnia- Herzegovina (text as translated by DPA): "This morning two NATO combat aircraft, which were monitoring the airspace, downed four Galeb military ... |
FBIS3-18194_0 | Alliance 90/Greens Conference Seeks Disarmament | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Mannheim (DDP/ADN) -- The three-day Mannheim election campaign congress of the Alliance 90/Greens ended today with a call for peace and for guaranteed human rights for the Kurds. The national congress also ended by recognizing the Green-Alternative Youth Alliance as the party... |
FBIS3-18198_0 | Kurdish Conference in Moscow Detailed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara--Turkey's outlawed Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) is organizing a three-day "Kurdish conference" in Moscow starting today, reliable sources told the TDN [TURKISH DAILY NEWS] on Monday [21 February]. The meeting is seen as the first step towards enhancing relations and ... |
FBIS3-18199_1 | Major on Ulster Peace Process Agenda | the text itself can dispel that doubt. We shall not open back-door negotiations by glossing or shading the Declaration's language and meaning. Let me repeat what it says about self-determination, because this has been misrepresented. First the British government has no..."selfish, strategic or economic interest in Nort... |
FBIS3-18200_2 | Commentary Urges Sinn Fein Acceptance | 8 interview with the IRISH NEWS Mr Adams asked for clarification on what the exploratory talks would involve. He asked if it meant more than just a discussion with Sinn Fein about how the IRA could hand over its weapons. Mr Major says clearly today that these talks would be meaningful. "We would be ready within three m... |
FBIS3-18201_0 | Hurd Discusses FYROM, EU, Cyprus | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [Interview with British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd by correspondent Vironas Karidhis in London; date not given] [Excerpts] [Karidhis] What is the purpose of your visit to Athens? [Hurd] It is my first opportunity to meet Foreign Minister Karolos Papoulias and other Greek Government ... |
FBIS3-18213_0 | Turkey: Downing Termed `Legal Action' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara, Feb. 28 (A.A.) -- Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Ferhat Ataman called the downing of four Serbian planes by two U.S. F-16 fighters a "legal action" since they violated the United Nations no-fly zone. U.S. President Bill Clinton said Monday [28 February] that NATO jet... |
FBIS3-18223_0 | Reaction to U.S. Downing of Four Serb Aircraft German Spokesman Views Peace Process | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- In the Federal Government's opinion, the peace process in the former Yugoslavia must not be stopped by the event over Bosnia-Herzegovina. Government spokesman Dieter Vogel said at the federal news conference in Bonn on Monday [28 February] that the Federal Governme... |
FBIS3-18233_4 | Napolitano Calls For Responsibility | sake of selecting a political class having connections with the ground, with the voters. Precisely the opposite is happening, however -- recycling, the search for safe constituencies... [Napolitano] I am worried by the fact that the political forces have not properly understood the rationale of the single-candidate sys... |
FBIS3-18253_0 | Reaction to Downing of Planes Over Bosnia Noted Kinkel Backs NATO Action | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel by correspondent Udo van Kampen in Brussels on 28 February -- recorded] [Text] [Van Kampen] A few moments ago I had a chance to get Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel's first reaction to this first NATO military strike. [Kinkel] This is indeed t... |
FBIS3-18259_6 | Zhirinovskiy's `Germany Plan' Analyzed | our two nations for hundreds of years. Bonn politicians invoke Lithuanian, Polish, and French "interests in East Prussia." In doing so, they call to mind the unfortunate "all Germany" Minister Wilms, who, shortly before reunification, demanded that the GDR should only be united with the Federal Republic when, in additi... |
FBIS3-18262_5 | Poll Shows Increasing Support for Kohl | percent think that it is good. As far as competence for a solution to the economic problems in eastern Germany is concerned, an SPD-led government is considered clearly more capable of achieving that than the present coalition. A total of 35 percent of east Germans consider the Social Democrats more capable of overcomi... |
FBIS3-18266_0 | Right-Wing Alliance Opens Up to Extremists | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Open to Radicals"] [Text] The right-wing party Alliance of Free Citizens founded by former Bavarian Free Democratic Party of Germany [FDP] Chairman Manfred Brunner wants to open itself up to former members of "extreme-right parties." This follows from a party res... |
FBIS3-18287_1 | Soviet Intelligence Reportedly Obtained Through U.S. | States managed to obtain during the 1980's a number of items of advanced Soviet military equipment like air defense missiles, radar systems, communications equipment, torpedoes, attack helicopters, and tanks. Even though the most modern Soviet material was not available in Poland, the deals were made there. Thousands o... |
FBIS3-18304_3 | Clinton's Foreign Trade Interests Viewed | Indochina also played an essential role. The smoldering quarrel about an extension of the most-favored-nation clause for the PRC -- Clinton must decide on an extension by summer -- also has two facets: human rights and the determination to use this means of pressure to urge for a balance of the trade balance, which sho... |
FBIS3-18307_0 | * Paper Supports UN Sanctions Against Croatia | Language: Danish Article Type:CSO [Editorial: "Sanctions Against Croatia"] [Text] It is high time that observers of the tragedy in the former Yugoslavia increased the pressure on Croatia and took steps to impose UN sanctions against the country based on reports in recent days of the deployment of regular Croatian force... |
FBIS3-18312_10 | * Business Survey Shows Widespread Corruption | an exodus of "clean" enterprises and capital, and a stagnation of Southern Italy's economy, is identifiable with the 1970's. The second period began in the 1980's and is still in progress. It is characterized by an emigration from Southern Italy not only of clean capital, but also of tainted capital in search of exploi... |
FBIS3-18315_0 | Reactions to EU Expansion Noted | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article signed LVE: "Sweden, Finland, and Austria Place One Foot in the European Union"; as released by Brussels BELGA Database] [Text] Brussels, 2 Mar (BELGA) -- On Tuesday [1 March], several hours after the planned deadline, and after four days of exhausting bargaining, Sweden, Finl... |
FBIS3-18316_1 | NATO Seen Lacking Clear Balkans Policy | in the middle of the Balkans. Berlin, perhaps, but not a few miles from Banja Luka, a place that lies outside NATO's frontiers. Now that NATO has struck, the West has no escape route from Bosnia short of utter humiliation. It is therefore a matter of the highest urgency for Western governments to tell their publics wha... |
FBIS3-18319_0 | Kohl Describes EU Entry Talks as `Great Success' | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on Wednesday [2 March] in the Federal Cabinet described the result of the entry negotiations in Brussels as a great success. According to government spokesman Dieter Vogel, the chancellor, with applause from the cabinet members, thanked Federal For... |
FBIS3-18325_0 | Andreatta Sees EU Enlargement as `Political Gesture' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article:"European Union: Enlargement a `Political Gesture' for Andreatta"] [Text] Brussels, 2 Mar (ANSA) -- The marathon negotiating session, which concluded in Brussels last night with the enlargement of the European Union [EU] to include Sweden, Finland and Austria, de... |
FBIS3-18328_4 | Martinazzoli Calls For Constituent Government | journalist from Cuneo said, dismissively. But what more than witticisms can be produced by a politics that is now conducted with the abacus? [Statera] Who now conducts politics with the abacus? [Martinazzoli] When I visited Berlusconi around Christmas I told him: Look, if you use the arithmetical logic of the abacus, e... |
FBIS3-18338_5 | Vranitzky Addresses Parliament on Europe | barely 8 million people and whose name [Oesterreich] is too long for the ordinary globes used in schools, this country will participate in a large market of 320 million which would be much more difficult to access without membership in the European Union. The foreign minister has just mentioned the major points of the ... |
FBIS3-18338_6 | Vranitzky Addresses Parliament on Europe | future discrimination. In particular it guarantees that Austria will be able to continue to take advantage of being even more attractive as an economic center at the point where East meets West, which will have a positive impact on developments on the labor market. We will conduct a most intensive and enlightening disc... |
FBIS3-18338_7 | Vranitzky Addresses Parliament on Europe | from these lower prices. Ladies and Gentlemen, the citizens often ask us politicians: You always tell us about the advantages of our participation in European integration. There must also be disadvantages, which you must not conceal. We will not conceal them, and I would like to take this opportunity to mention one poi... |
FBIS3-18350_0 | * Impunity Predicted in FYROM Blockade | Article Type:CSO [Editorial report] Only the EU Council can decide, acting on a qualified majority, to close a foreign border, reports Renaud de Chazournes in the 19-20 February Paris daily LE QUOTIDIEN DE PARIS in connection with Greece's unilateral closing of the border with neighboring The Former Yugoslav Republic o... |
FBIS3-18363_2 | Bundestag Deputy Views Espionage | I know that another East European state, which really is making efforts toward democracy, directs over 50 percent of its efforts specifically at Germany. [Announcer] Which state do you mean? [Gerster] I do not want to name it. The only positive thing from our point of view in this case is that although these efforts ar... |
FBIS3-18367_0 | Official Reports on Investment in Australia | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Article by "bb": "The Keating Government Expects More German Investment"] [Text] Melbourne -- Even if Australia now considers itself to be an active member of the Southeast Asian community of countries, this new political and economic orientation should not be pursued at the expense o... |
FBIS3-18382_0 | Human Rights Agency Wants End to Arming Turkey | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Article by "ban": "Former Greens Politician Heads German Liaison Office in Northern Iraq"] [Text] Bonn, 23 Feb -- Mr. Walde, former federal manager of the Greens, will be the head of an FRG liaison office in northern Iraq. The "German Humanitarian Aid" office -- with its seat in Irbil... |
FBIS3-18384_1 | Study Challenges Arms Export Ranking | was accepted as true and authentic by most parliamentarians: In 1992, the FRG moved into third place behind the United States and Russia in worldwide arms exports. Overall, united Germany has exported weapons and weapons systems for about $1.9 billion to all parts of the world. The former USSR was slightly ahead with a... |
FBIS3-18389_1 | * Firms Assess Production Move to Riga | from the Danish clothing manufacturing firm of Nybo Jensen, Inc., in Viborg. It took just one weekend to move them to the Latvian town of Sloka, 25 km south of Riga. Friday, 2 July 1993 was the last day of work for 44 Danish seamstresses at the plant in Viborg. The entire sewing operation was shut down. The Monday [5 J... |
FBIS3-18399_0 | Foreign Policy Toward Iraq, Cyprus, Syria Viewed | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Column by Ertugrul Ozkok: "Critical Decision on Baghdad"] [Text] Turkey has arrived at the point where it must make two critical decisions on its foreign policy. The first is related to Iraq. An Iraqi delegation headed by an under secretary visited Turkey at the end of December 1993.... |
FBIS3-18406_0 | Further Reaction to Downing of Aircraft Over Bosnia Act Linked With Russian Role | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Josef Joffe editorial: "The Attack by the `Falcons'"] [Text] It was the first time in its history that NATO had fired shots at someone: Not at the Soviet Union but at a country that did not even exist during the Cold War, namely Serbia. Why now, and why out of the blue? In fact, NATO ... |
FBIS3-18408_0 | Petersen Discusses EU Integration, PFP | Language: Czech Article Type:BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen by Milos Sklenka; place and date not given: "The Liberalization of Trade Is the European Union's Best Contribution to the Success of the Reforms"] [Text] Denmark is one of the most enthusiastic supporters of the gradual incorporatio... |
FBIS3-18410_0 | OECD Reports Indicates Global Migration Falling | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Paris, March 3 (AFP) -- Immigration into most of the developed countries of North America, Europe and Asia has fallen off in what could mark a "turning point" in global migration, the OECD reported Thursday [3 March]. But it added that the potential remains for new bursts of mi... |
FBIS3-18418_0 | Hurd Admits Malaysian Arms-Aid Anomalies | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Sian Clare, PRESS ASSOCIATION lobby correspondent] [Excerpts] The Government today admitted there was a three-month-long "incorrect entanglement" between arms sales and aid to Malaysia in 1988. Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said aid to Malaysia and 1 billion pounds in defence sal... |
FBIS3-18422_0 | * Impact of EEA on Welfare State Reviewed | Language: Finnish Article Type:CSO [Article by Riitta-Eliisa Laine: "Minor Impact From EEA Agreement on Social Welfare"] [Text] Many must learn to fill out EEA [European Economic Area] forms. The Finns, who have become accustomed to the benefits of the welfare state, need not fear the dawn of the EEA era, as the EEA ag... |
FBIS3-18422_1 | * Impact of EEA on Welfare State Reviewed | country, a citizen of another member nation may enjoy the same social benefits as the citizens of the host nation. Refugees and stateless people who reside in EEA countries are also entitled to the same social benefits as the citizens of the countries in question. Pensions Based on Residency Pension benefits, however, ... |
FBIS3-18424_0 | Foreign Ministry Says Serb Jets in `Clear Breach' | Language: Norwegian Article Type:BFN [Bard Idas report: "Godal Hopes for Respect for United Nations"] [Text] Foreign Minister Godal hopes that the downing of the Serbian aircraft will lead to all sides respecting UN resolutions hereafter. "The downing of the four Serbian aircraft happened after a clear breach of the no... |
FBIS3-18433_2 | Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Holds Talks in Bonn | with the Caucasus. Wimmer wants to bring about a meeting between Azerbaijani and Armenian deputies in Germany. Hassanov said that Azerbaijani deputies were ready to take part in such a meeting. The Armenians have yet to agree. The Azerbaijanis have as little against Wimmer's mediation attempt, which is to bring about n... |
FBIS3-18435_1 | Minister Criticizes Croatian Expulsion Plan | to simply send people away, or to let them starve here. For me, the agreement on deportation stands or falls with repatriation assistance. If the Federal Government thinks it has no money for that, then I can only call upon Mr. Kanther to revise our joint resolution. Then everybody will stay here. [DER SPIEGEL] And how... |
FBIS3-18462_0 | U.S. `Abandoned' Region to `Russia's Influence' | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN ["Commentary" column by Yalcin Ozer: "Russian Domination in the Balkans"] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] A new era has begun in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the aftermath of the NATO ultimatum. This period is chiefly characterized by the fact that the United States has abandoned the region to R... |
FBIS3-18470_0 | Germany Bears `Special Responsibility' for EU | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel by Gerhard Seifried on 2 March; place not given -- recorded] [Text] [Seifried] Do you see yourself as the hero of Brussels? [Kinkel] For God's sake, no. I did what was necessary and right. I am a convinced European. It was absolutely clear ... |
FBIS3-18475_1 | Agreements, Negotiations Reported in EU Expansion Talks Vranitzky, Busek Comment | draft laws, and the other things that are necessary in this connection. [Hochner] Mr. Vice Chancellor, you are standing beside the chancellor and you have just smiled very obviously. Is this just relief that an agreement has been achieved or is this also satisfaction with the compromise that has been accomplished? [Bus... |
FBIS3-18532_1 | Daily Assesses Impact of U.S. Economic Recovery | is rising, and so too is the tendency of American consumers to purchase foreign products, to invest abroad, and to travel abroad. In this way the market mechanisms gradually tend to distribute wealth also to countries distant from the stimulus center; and thus the U.S. locomotive is starting to pull along the cars of t... |
FBIS3-18532_2 | Daily Assesses Impact of U.S. Economic Recovery | of Latin America -- the wind of recovery is not felt even as a light breeze. The cloak of poverty, hunger, and starvation is combined with very high birth rates and is driving increasing masses of poor toward the wealthy metropolises. There no cars rejoin powerful locomotives; there is only despair and subhumanity; the... |
FBIS3-18532_4 | Daily Assesses Impact of U.S. Economic Recovery | east Laender, and the encounter has been traumatic at times; the government has been either unwilling or unable to meet the costs of unification by physically drawing revenue from a share of the income of the west Laender and the more prosperous classes; the power of the banks has compensated for this by keeping real i... |
FBIS3-18540_0 | Outline of EU Membership Agreement Reported | Language: Swedish Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "EU Agreement in Brief"] [Text] The alcohol monopoly in the form of AB Vin och Sprit's [import and wholesale] monopoly will disappear, but Systembolaget [state retail monopoly] will remain. Cigarettes and beer will be more expensive. In a year tax on cigarettes w... |
FBIS3-18557_0 | NATO's Von Moltke on EU Control Over WEU | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Paris, March 4 (AFP) -- Senior NATO official Gebhardt von Moltke said here Thursday [3 March] the Western European Union (WEU), the only exclusively European defence organisation, could eventually be brought under the control of the European Union. Moltke told a seminar of Fren... |
FBIS3-18578_0 | EU Sees Warning in Revival of U.S. Super 301 | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Brussels, March 4 (AFP) -- The European Union [EU] sees the U.S. decision to reinstate its Super 301 trade sanction law as a warning to both Europe and Japan, a senior EU negotiator said here Friday [4 March]. He was reacting to the decision by President Bill Clinton to reactiv... |
FBIS3-18581_0 | CSCE Calls For Early Return of Missions in Yugoslavia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Prague, March 5 (TANJUG) -- The Committee of Senior Officials of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) meeting in Prague called for the early return of its missions to Kosovo, Sandzak and Vojvodina in the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia. The CSCE missions' man... |
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