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FBIS3-19445_0 | UN Envoy Calms Fear of Military in Balkans | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] New York, Mar. 17 (A.A.) -- Turkish Ambassador to the United Nations Inal Batu said Wednesday [16 March] that Turkey has always worked with discipline and faith in any UN mission it took part in. Batu quelled fears that Turkish involvement in the Balkans, which was Ottoman doma... |
FBIS3-19448_0 | Ciller on Antiterrorism Fight, State of Economy | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Excerpts] Prime Minister Tansu Ciller has declared that the next few months will constitute a turning point in the struggle against terrorism and for the unity and integrity of the country. These issues will soon cease to occupy the top of the count... |
FBIS3-19450_0 | Gendarmerie Commander, PUK's Talabani Meet Secretly | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Dogan Duyar] [Text] It has been learned that Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK], and General Aydin Ilter, commander of the Gendarmerie Forces, have met secretly in Silopi. The meeting drew attention because it came in the wake of "the meeting o... |
FBIS3-19496_0 | Russia, U.S. Accused of Leaving EU in `Sandbox' | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Michel Rosten: "The Twelve Ignored"] [Text] Andrey Kozyrev met with Warren Christopher at Vladivostok airport. After two hours of discussions, the ministers held a joint press conference to announce, among other things, that they had "reached agreement on the need to end... |
FBIS3-19499_0 | Expansion Disagreements: EP Wants Institutional Changes | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Report signed G.V.L.: "Fisheries Agreement Opens EU Port for Norwegians"] [Text] Norway and the other three candidates for EU [European Union] membership will probably have to stay in the waiting room a little longer. The Twelve must first come to a mutual agreement on how decisions ar... |
FBIS3-19500_2 | EC Ministers Discuss Pan-European Tranport Policies | transport between southeast and northwest Europe already represented 40 percent of all goods traffic in his country, which puts a lot of pressure on traffic and on the environment. Transit traffic has been made easier, but nothing has come of the promise to help construct the infrastructure, Strasky complained. He did ... |
FBIS3-19507_0 | Rexrodt Urges Access to Asian-Pacific Markets | Language: German Article Type:BFN ["bid"-signed report: "Closer Cooperation in Asian-Pacific Area"] [Text] Bonn, 17 Mar -- Federal Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt has reiterated his request for more political support and better access to the Asian-Pacific markets for German enterprises. Rexrodt on Thursday [18 March... |
FBIS3-19515_3 | New Job Security, Insurance Laws Outlined | and FDP [Free Democratic Party] parliamentary caucuses. Th new legislation dealing with working hours is designed to replace regulations on working hours established in 1938. Bluem views those regulations as providing for maximum limits on working hours and minimum standards for health and safety. It will be up to busi... |
FBIS3-19518_1 | U.S. Involvement in Middle East, Balkans Viewed | NATO broke the ring of siege around Sarajevo with the threat of bombing [Serbian positions], especially with the help of U.S. fighter bombers. There you see, it was thought, the Europeans had held discussions and mediated for almost two years, but the United States finally really achieved something by threatening to us... |
FBIS3-19518_3 | U.S. Involvement in Middle East, Balkans Viewed | blue helmet soldiers at and between the frontlines. Despite all the economic power and political relations, it proved to be depressing for the Europeans that "the West" is not able to settle crises such as the one in the Balkans without the United States. However, just as the Gaza-Jericho agreement was not possible wit... |
FBIS3-19520_0 | Spanish, UK Stand on EU Blocking Minority Viewed | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Herbert Kremp editorial: "Veto Coalition"] [Text] The Spanish armada can prepare itself for fishing in the Norwegian grounds. The controversy surrounding the cod has been settled, but the dispute over the blocking minority in the Council of Ministers which has been enlarged to 16 memb... |
FBIS3-19523_2 | Cabinet To Debate Reducing Number of Asylum Applications | for asylum there, Lubbers wanted to know. After all, international agreements have been made on this subject. In his letter the prime minister looked at the whole "chain" followed by asylum-seekers, namely acceptance, reception and accommodation. He expressed amazement about the fact that the government had made money ... |
FBIS3-19532_0 | 200 Arrested at Paris Protest | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Paris, March 17 (AFP) -- Police Thursday [17 March] detained some 200 people involved in sporadic violence during an antigovernment protest, Interior Minister Charles Pasqua said. Pasqua said that in Paris the protest drew up to 35,000 people, two-thirds of them students and th... |
FBIS3-19533_0 | Study Shows Widespread Work Force Insecurity | Language: French Article Type:CSO [Article by Valerie Devillechabrolle: "Nearly Half of French Work Force Said To Be in Situation of `Economic and Social Fragility'"] [Text] Nearly half the French work force today is living under the threat of exclusion stemming from a "process of social disqualification." Here are som... |
FBIS3-19535_0 | Superphoenix Plant To Reopen as Incinerator | Language: French Article Type:CSO [Article: "Controversial Breeder Reactor Will Be Converted Into Radioactive Waste Incinerator"] [Text] No fewer than three ministers--Gerard Longuet (Industry), Michel Barnier (Environment), and Francois Fillon (Research)--tried yesterday to justify the surprising decision Edouard Ball... |
FBIS3-19535_4 | Superphoenix Plant To Reopen as Incinerator | deprived in July 1992 of its legal status, which only recently has been restored. Opposition Superphoenix has served above all as a focal point for the never-held debate on the general directions of a French nuclear policy that has diverged from European norms. A debate first of all within France itself and in the coun... |
FBIS3-19546_2 | Ministers View EU Fisheries Dispute | Godal and Solana met late yesterday evening in the Spanish ambassador's private residence in Brussels. Attempts were made to conceal the venue of the meeting from the press. When Godal emerged from the meeting after 75 minutes, he reported that Spain was not advancing fisheries demands in the usual manner but that the ... |
FBIS3-19556_0 | PKK Leader Ocalan's Message to Brussels Conference | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN ["Text" of message from PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, read to the 12-13 March international conference on North Kurdistan in Brussels by Kani Yilmaz, representative of ERNK, National Liberation Front of Kurdistan in Europe--all quotation marks as published] [Text] "The Kurdish problem, ... |
FBIS3-19560_0 | Papoulias Comments on Balkan Conflict | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [Text] The Greek Government will send Greece's reply on The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia [FYROM] to UN special mediator Cyrus Vance in the next few days, Foreign Minister Karolos Papoulias said. He made the remark this morning shortly before leaving for Washington where he will... |
FBIS3-19584_0 | Kurdish Conference Adopts Resolutions | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Brussels -- The two-day International Conference on North Kurdistan [Kurdish regions in Turkey] held in the Belgian capital has ended with a 31-point resolution. The resolution announced at the end of the conference calls for the recognition of the Kurds as a separate people an... |
FBIS3-19588_0 | Mock Calls Muslim-Croat Agreement `Positive Beginning' | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Alois Mock by an unidentified KURIER reporter "on the flight to Washington": "Mock: `I See Light at the End of the Tunnel'"] [Text] [KURIER] Does today's signing of the agreement [between Bosnian Muslims and Croats] give you personal satisfaction? [Mock... |
FBIS3-19591_3 | Economics Minister on Reforms, Priorities | picks up. After each economic recession, less people are working in the major enterprises. To create more jobs, we need small enterprises. [Banning] The Netherlands has many small enterprises, but relatively few continuously growing companies. Among entrepreneurs there seems to be a spirit of laziness, apathy. [Andries... |
FBIS3-19631_0 | Russian Views on Bosphorus Traffic Reported | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] The Russian Embassy in Ankara is carefully following the developments related to the tragic incident in the Bosphorus. The embassy officials have said that they are not prepared to start a debate on the Montreux Agreement just because of the accident. However, they also said th... |
FBIS3-19633_0 | SDPP Headquarters Bombing; 17 Injured | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] The Social Democratic Populist Party [SDPP] election headquarters in Diyarbakir has been bombed. According to initial estimates 17 persons were injured, one of them seriously. One of the assailants was captured immediately after the incident. ... |
FBIS3-19636_3 | Election Campaign in Southeast Viewed | month later. We have received very favorable reports from southeastern Turkey. The NAP stands to win the elections in almost all the provinces in the region." [passage omitted] It is true that Turkey is marking the religious festival at the present time. However, is that a sufficient reason for the people in southeaste... |
FBIS3-19638_2 | Kinkel Discusses Bosnia, Middle East Peace | how these convoys were received with joy. I can only say: Now, after the partial solution that has been achieved for Sarajevo -- we do not yet have a definite political solution there -- we must now try to extinguish the other sources of fire, so to speak, one after the other. This includes Maglaj. It also includes oth... |
FBIS3-19645_1 | Kinkel Addresses Baltic Foreign Ministers 9 Mar | relations. Germany, together with its Western partners, has always advocated an unconditional withdrawal of former Soviet troops from the Baltic. We have recently reiterated this commitment by participating in the U.S.-Latvian negotiations to achieve a compromise on the Russian radar station at Skrunda. There must be n... |
FBIS3-19647_0 | Services Increase Protection of Jewish Facilities | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report by Peter Scherer: "Warning of Islamic Attacks"] [Text] German security services have strengthened their protection of Jewish and Israeli facilities in the Federal Republic. The reason for this is the massacre of more than 30 Arabs by a Jewish settler in Hebron. From the German ... |
FBIS3-19648_0 | Terrorist Attacks by Foreigners in Secret Report | Language: German Article Type:BFN ["rv" report: "Political Terrorism: Increasing Number of Attacks"] [Text] Germany -- the country of terrorism: Of 22,870 politically motivated crimes, 1,402 (in 1993) are credited to foreigners. This is revealed by a secret report for the Federal Government. There were 99 attacks on in... |
FBIS3-19652_5 | Scharping Outlines Program | regard to expenditure. If tax and other deductions account for between 48 and 49 percent of an average worker's wage that also affects the social acceptance of state activity, which is vital for civilized coexistence. It also affects acceptance of the social welfare system. If the signals that employees receive from po... |
FBIS3-19653_0 | Supplementary Tax Sought | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Ulrich Rosenbaum report: "SPD: Those Who Earn More -- as of 2,500 Marks"] [Text] Bonn -- Yesterday Social Democratic Party of Germany [SPD] Chairman Rudolf Scharping presented his party's draft for a government program. On Monday [21 March] he will also present it to the SPD Executive... |
FBIS3-19676_1 | Vranitzky Analyzes on Election Defeat | cannot say at the federal level that we are not affected by the election result. Still, I do think that Sunday's elections were first and foremost affected by regional affairs. [passage omitted] [PROFIL] Somebody, whom you do not appreciate a lot -- the chairman of the FPOe -- undoubtedly managed to win votes from grou... |
FBIS3-19679_0 | Lubbers Advocates Reintroduction of Border Checks | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Lubbers Calls For Reintroduction of Border Checks"] [Excerpt] Prime Minister Lubbers wants to reintroduce personal identity checks at the frontiers with Germany and Belgium. He said this was necessary to reduce the increasing numbers of asylum-seekers (who have n... |
FBIS3-19680_0 | Urges Restrictions on Asylum-Seekers | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Lubbers Calls For Asylum-Seekers To Be Received in Their Own Region"] [Text] The Hague -- Refugees from the former Yugoslavia could be received best in their own region, Prime Minister Lubbers said. Speaking after Friday's [18 March] cabinet meeting, he said that... |
FBIS3-19681_0 | Kooijmans Criticizes Asian Countries on Human Rights | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Kooijmans Criticizes States for Disregarding Human Rights"] [Text] "States that appeal to exceptions to the rule of universal human rights go against the will of the people. By withholding specific inalienable rights, a country is discredited as being a democracy... |
FBIS3-19700_1 | Commentary Views U.S.-German Aviation Agreement | be able to start the much-discussed code-sharing with its partner United Airlines as of 1 May. In addition, the airlines of the two countries, together with other partners, may offer flights going from Germany to the East, and from the United States to Latin America and the Caribbean, under their own flight numbers. Ye... |
FBIS3-19703_0 | Commentator Calls For Negative Tax | Language: German Article Type:CSO [Commentary by Wolfram Engels: "Negative Tax"] [Text] A similar development has been apparent in all industrial countries since about 1970: The demand for poorly qualified labor is declining. The elimination of unskilled labor has two causes: rationalization and competition from low-wa... |
FBIS3-19708_4 | Aerospatiale Chief on EU-U.S. Trade Conflict | Marrakesh to sign the agreements on the Uruguay Round. It is known that the aviation issue was not handled in the way the Europeans would have liked, because of opposition from the United States, and it is still pending... [Gallois] The GATT talks have demonstrated one thing, for lack of coming to a close: The American... |
FBIS3-19709_1 | `Information Highway' Project Launched | with a juridical, financial, and technical framework covering everything involved in the building of information highways. The task first of all involves studying, forecasting, and organizing the harmonization of telecommunications and audiovisual media, and conducting experiments on images broadcast on France Telecom'... |
FBIS3-19717_2 | Foreign Minister Previews EC Session | think all parties to the debate now have made their points, I've certainly made mine, others have done so as well, and now is the time to find solutions, and we should do that on Tuesday. [Humphries] You say find solutions, do you mean by that find a compromise? Are you in the first place prepared to shift on the matte... |
FBIS3-19724_2 | Bildt Views EU, WEU, NATO Membership | of the referendum has not been agreed upon yet, but negotiations are now under way between the government and the opposition. Bildt would prefer to see it take place in June, while the opposition and one of the government coalition parties, the Liberal Party, have indicated that the referendum cannot be held before Nov... |
FBIS3-19733_0 | Parties Condemn Murder; Support Kurds | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [Report by Marios Papailia] [Text] The next target of the Turkish Secret Services could be Dhimitrios Matafias, former National Guard Chief, who has been named repeatedly in press reports and special books published by writers cooperating with the Turkish agencies. Correspondent Lazaros... |
FBIS3-19735_0 | North Paper on Murder of `Fanatical Enemy' of Turks | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Theofilos Yeoryiadhis, the head of the Greek Cypriot Public Information Office [PIO] Turkish Department, was shot and killed outside his house at midnight last night. Yeoryiadhis, 37, was fired on by two people on motorbikes. He was hit five times in various parts of his body, ... |
FBIS3-19741_0 | PKK Slogans at DEP Celebration | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Nevruz was celebrated without incident in a wedding hall in Ankara. The slogan "Leader Apo [alias for Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers Party, PKK]" was shouted at the Nevruz celebration organized by the Democracy Party [DEP]. Party officials tried to suppress cert... |
FBIS3-19742_0 | Ocalan Reportedly Leaves Syria for Azerbaijan | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara--Reliable Kurdish sources in the Middle East reported this week that outlawed Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan had moved out of Syria and was currently in Lachin, a part of Azerbaijan which is currently under Armenian control and also inhabited by ... |
FBIS3-19743_0 | Government's Refusal of Ocalan Offer Reviewed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara -- A ceasefire call over the weekend by Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the outlawed Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), has been dismissed by the Government on the grounds that it is no more than a "tactical move" which is "void of real content." The general reaction in An... |
FBIS3-19759_2 | * Defense Minister Haekkerup on Bosnia Role | "cautiously optimistic" after a week in which peace may be coming closer in the Balkans. The Serbs have withdrawn their heavy weapons from Sarajevo; Yeltsin has invited [the parties] to a peace conference; a rather fragile armistice has been established between Croats and Muslims in Bosnia. And finally the 10 Danish Le... |
FBIS3-19765_0 | Schnoor Calls For Arms Embargo Against Turkey | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Duesseldorf (DPA) -- North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Herbert Schnoor has called for an immediate stop of all arms deliveries to Turkey. In an interview with DPA on Saturday [19 March] the Social Democratic Party of Germany [SPD] politician said that, in view of the Ank... |
FBIS3-19766_0 | Observers Reportedly Restricted in Turkey Passports Confiscated | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara -- On Monday [21 March] Turkish security forces restricted several groups of Germans, who wanted to observe the Nevruz celebrations and the local elections next Sunday in the Kurdish area, in their freedom of movement. This was learned from reports by the people affected ... |
FBIS3-19767_0 | Observers Reportedly Restricted in Turkey No Germans Arrested | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara (DPA) -- According to German diplomatic circles, none of the approximately 200 German "observers" of the Nevruz celebrations have been arrested in Turkey. On Tuesday [22 March] Turkish Government officials complained that unsuccessful attempts at provocation by German jou... |
FBIS3-19768_0 | Kanther Advocates Deporting Criminal Kurds | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn -- According to Interior Minister Manfred Kanther (Christian Democratic Union), the majority of the Kurds who were actively involved in the weekend rioting [19-20 March] may be deported to Turkey. Mere membership in the Kurdish ethnic group does not mean that those affected... |
FBIS3-19783_1 | Van den Broek on EU Membership for East Europe | [Text] Brussels, 17 Mar (ATS) -- According to Commissioner Hans van den Broek, the European Union (EU) should propose a "premembership" strategy for the countries of Central and East Europe (CEEC). A multilateral political and economic context, which would be a "real forerunner to membership," should be established wit... |
FBIS3-19784_0 | Hurd Reassures Conservatives on EU Voting System | Language: English Article Type:BFN [James Blitz and Ivor Owen report: "Hurd Restresses Stance on EU Votes"] [Text] Mr Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, yesterday sought to reassure Conservatives that he would not strike an agreement on a new European Union [EU] voting system that would dilute British interests. Addr... |
FBIS3-19785_1 | Adams Seeks Policy Change on Northern Ireland | the same time exciting and frightening. It's a very dangerous time in our history." Making peace with one's enemies and opponents was a very difficult business. "We must expect set-backs, disappointments and diversions, but we are determined that when and if these arise we will overcome them." Mr Adams struck a signifi... |
FBIS3-19786_0 | Observers Reportedly Restricted in Turkey Kinkel Sends Telegram | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn -- The Federal Government demands that Turkey keep its promise to grant freedom of movement to German observers at the municipal elections in the southeastern Turkish areas populated by Kurds. According to reports by the Foreign Ministry in Bonn, Ambassador to Turkey Horst ... |
FBIS3-19795_0 | Survey Shows Tories Support Veto Power in EC | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Andrew Grice and Michael Prescott report: "Tories Want Stronger Euro-veto for UK"] [Text] A confidential survey of grassroots Conservative opinion shows overwhelming opposition to any watering down of Britain's powers to veto European Community legislation. Instead, a majority of Tor... |
FBIS3-19808_0 | Kurds Demonstrate Against Turkish `Genocide' | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Berlin (DPA) -- Several participants and policemen were injured during a demonstration of about 2,000 Kurds in Berlin on Saturday afternoon [19 March]. At least three demonstrators sustained burns from gasoline canisters, the General Students' Committee of the Technical Universi... |
FBIS3-19809_0 | `Hundreds' Block Highways | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Hamburg (DPA) -- Hundreds of Kurds on Tuesday [22 March] blocked several highways in the FRG and thus caused a traffic jam. In Hesse, Lower Saxony, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia, Schleswig-Holstein, and Bremen, Kurds blocked highways and caused traffic to co... |
FBIS3-19810_0 | `Several' Kurds Set Themselves on Fire | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Hamburg -- There was violence and a traffic jam when Kurds blocked several highways in various laenders on Tuesday [22 March]. The traffic was blocked, car tires were set on fire, and stones thrown at police officers. Several Kurds poured gasoline all over themselves and set ... |
FBIS3-19811_0 | Bohl Calls For Deportations | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Berlin -- In view of the Kurdish riots in the past few days, Friedrich Bohl (Christian Democratic Union), chief of the Federal Chancellery, has called for the swift deportation of Kurdish offenders. In an interview with SAT 1 this morning, Bohl stated that the Federal Government... |
FBIS3-19812_0 | Policemen Injured in Anti-Republikaner Demonstration | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Stuttgart (DPA) -- At a demonstration against the right-wing extremist Republikaner in Stuttgart on Friday [18 March] evening three policemen were injured by thrown stones. Two of the men had to be hospitalized. They sustained head and rib injuries. Another policeman had to rece... |
FBIS3-19823_0 | PKK Warns Candidates Not To Run in Elections | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Democracy Party Deputy Nizamettin Toguc by Guido Olimpio in Italy; date not given: "Turkey: Six Kurdish Deputies May Face Capital Punishment" -- first two paragraphs are CORRIERE DELLA SERA introduction] [Text] Turkey is stepping up the pressure on the Kurds. Six DEP [... |
FBIS3-19832_0 | EU Commissioner Brittan Views Eastern Enlargement | Language: Czech Article Type:BFN [Interview with European Commission Deputy Chairman Sir Leon Brittan by Milos Sklenka in Brussels; date not given: "An Application for Admission to the EU Is Only a Partial Step Towards Full Membership" -- first paragraph is editorial introduction] [Text] The admission proceedings aimed... |
FBIS3-19840_0 | Survey Views Advantages of EU Membership | Language: Swedish Article Type:BFN [Katarina Koivisto report: "Bright Future -- But Only Within the EU"] [Text] Joining the European Union [EU] is, from all points of view, more advantageous for Finland than staying outside, if one is to believe the studies presented yesterday. These studies were commissioned by the go... |
FBIS3-19847_0 | Kanther Offers Border Police Help With Kurds | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Studio interview with Interior Minister Manfred Kanther in Bonn by Ulrich Wickert in Hamburg on 22 March -- recorded] [Text] [Wickert] Good evening, Mr. Kanther. [Kanther] Good evening, Mr. Wickert. [Wickert] Mr. Kanther, how was the nationwide action by the Kurds possible without the... |
FBIS3-19872_0 | DEP Deputies To Meet UN Human Rights Commission | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Istanbul, Mar.22 (A.A.) -- Democracy Party (DEP) members Mahmut Kilinc and Zubeyir Aydar flew to the United States today to meet with the UN Human Rights Commission and congressional members. Before their departure, Aydar and Kilinc, both from southeast Turkey, said that the... |
FBIS3-19876_0 | PSK Leader on Terrorism, Politics | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Interview with Kemal Burkay, leader of the Kurdistan Socialist Party, PSK, in Iraq, by Mithat Bereket in northern Iraq from the "32d Day" program; date not given -- recorded] [Text] [Burkay] We could have resorted to arms just as the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan]. We did not opt f... |
FBIS3-19881_0 | FRG, France Coordinate Position | Language: German Article Type:BFN ["now" report: "EU Council of Ministers Reaches No Result in Dispute Over Blocking Minority"] [Excerpt] Brussels, 22 March -- At the fourth meeting in three weeks of the foreign ministers of the European Union (EU), held on Tuesday [22 March], no result was achieved in the dispute over... |
FBIS3-19884_0 | Kohl News Conference Views Kurds, EU, D-Day | Language: German Article Type:BFN [News conference by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl with foreign and domestic correspondents in Bonn on 23 March -- live] [Excerpts] [Kohl] Ladies and Gentlemen, let me start with a comment on the recent violence and the highway blockades by the Kurd extremists. The terrorism by these gr... |
FBIS3-19885_4 | Visentini Outlines Social, Economic Ideas | idly in government stock. [Riva] I understand that, but would a rather more expansive policy not have major repercussions on inflation and public finances, which are already in a precarious state? [Visentini] Assuming that inflation at acceptable levels is always better than recession, I would like to make it clear tha... |
FBIS3-19889_4 | Kooijmans on PfP, WEU, EU-Czech Relations | somehow come closer to it with the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty, which could potentially speed up our entry? [Kooijmans] I think that cooperation among the Visegrad Four states is very important. It could become an example of how regional cooperation may contribute to entry into the European Union. It is ver... |
FBIS3-19895_0 | Kanther Urges Speedy Punishment of Kurd Offenders | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Hamburg (DDP/ADN) -- Interior Minister Manfred Kanther has called for the speedy punishment of Kurdish offenders, without lengthy proceedings. "Whoever turns our aliens' legislation -- which is more liberal in Germany than anywhere else -- against us, will get an uncompromisi... |
FBIS3-19896_0 | Police Deny FDP Office Occupied | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Contrary to initial reports, Kurds did not occupy the office of the Free Democratic Party of Germany [FDP] in Munich and St. Matthew's Church in the center of the town. According to the police, responsible officials let the Kurds in. About 20 demonstrators are in the church, and... |
FBIS3-19897_1 | 6,000 PKK Members in Country | in the German Underground"] [Text] Frankfurt/Main -- So far, the ban on the militant Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) has not had any effect on the illegal activities of the Kurdish extremist organization in Germany. According to findings by the security authorities, party activities on German territory "have been cont... |
FBIS3-19903_1 | Poll on Voter Turnout, Party Support | in the fall. In the 1970's it was over 90 percent. Since 1980 it has been decreasing. In the Allensbach surveys of 1993 only 73 percent on the average still intended to vote for the Union [Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union--CDU/CSU] or the SPD [Social Democratic Party of Germany]. Those who turn away fr... |
FBIS3-19930_0 | Commentary Views Upcoming Elections | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Taha Akyol: "To the Polls"] [Text] The PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terrorist organization and the Democracy Party [DEP], which decided to boycott the elections in line with the instructions of the PKK, are trying to prevent people from voting in the upcoming electi... |
FBIS3-19945_0 | Greek `Support' for PKK Detailed | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "PASOK and PKK Cooperate"] [Text] The Greeks have created opportunities for militants of the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] to carry out their activities in Greece. They have also provided funds for the PKK and supported that organization in the international d... |
FBIS3-19946_1 | Interior Minister Reports on PKK Casualties | said in a written statement that great achievements had been made in the struggle against terrorism and that the PKK [outlawed Workers Party of Kurdistan] had been severely damaged by recent military operations. Mentese said that in last week's operations 78 terrorists had been killed and 82 captured and added: "Thanks... |
FBIS3-19950_1 | Norway's Brundtland Praises EU Membership Deal | with understanding. The prime minister pointed to the detailed statement on sovereign rights over energy resources, new arrangements for northern agriculture, and the fact that Norway's arrangements for the administration of fisheries resources will form the basis for the EU's fisheries policy in northern waters. On th... |
FBIS3-19963_3 | Government Revises Security Classification System | to national finances or economic and commercial interests. CONFIDENTIAL: the compromise of this information or material would be likely: materially to damage diplomatic relations (ie cause formal protest or other sanction); to prejudice individual security or liberty; to cause damage to the operational effectiveness or... |
FBIS3-19969_0 | Turkish Army Detains German TV Crew | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] A German television team (Spiegel-TV) was arrested by the Turkish Army in the southeast of Turkey, an area mainly inhabited by Kurds, and released after eight hours. Correspondents Michael Enger, Corinna Gutstatt, and Hans-Peter Weymar said in a telefax sent from Diyarbakir on T... |
FBIS3-19970_0 | Kanther Seeks `Deportation Agreement' With Turkey | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Bonn -- The Federal Government wants to conclude an internationally binding agreement with Turkey under which rioters deported from Germany must not be punished by death. Interior Minister Manfred Kanther said on Westdeutscher Rundfunk [radio station] on Thursday [24 March] t... |
FBIS3-19971_0 | Government, Kurdish Officials Note Anti-PKK Measures Laender Ministers Urge `Severe Measures' | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn -- The state secretaries of the federal and laender Interior Ministries have agreed to use more severe measures against the Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), following the recent riots. After a three-hour meeting, Kurt Schelter, state secretary in the Federal Interior Minis... |
FBIS3-19972_0 | Government, Kurdish Officials Note Anti-PKK Measures Bavarian Advocates Deportation | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bavaria's Interior Minister Guenter Beckstein (Christian Social Union) has announced amendments to the law regarding foreigners, following the latest riots by Kurds. He agrees with Interior Minister Manfred Kanther (Christian Democratic Union) that breach of the public peace mus... |
FBIS3-19973_0 | Government, Kurdish Officials Note Anti-PKK Measures Kurdish Organization Criticizes Violence | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] The Association of Organizations From Kurdistan (KOMKAR) has disassociated itself from the violence committed by Kurdish demonstrators in Germany. While these acts may achieve welcome effects for the media, they by no means bring about the solidarity the Kurds want, the associat... |
FBIS3-19974_0 | Government, Kurdish Officials Note Anti-PKK Measures PKK Criticizes Government | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- Representatives of the banned Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] associations have put the blame for the latest riots and street blockades on the government. Bremen lawyer Eberhard Schultz stated to journalists in Bonn on Thursday [24 March] that without German arms ... |
FBIS3-19975_0 | BfV Official Claims RAF Assists PKK | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Augsburg -- According to Peter Frisch, deputy president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution [BfV], the extremist Kurds of the banned Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) receive massive help from the terrorist Red Army Faction (RAF). In an interview with AUG... |
FBIS3-19987_7 | Pro-Kurd Turkish Party Chief Interviewed | political program for the region, but we have not been able to implement it yet. [Maxton] The SHP [Democratic Populist Party], which differs from your party on several points, is pursuing a similar policy of decentralization and democratization. Are you holding talks on this subject? [Gunel] As far as declarations are ... |
FBIS3-19987_11 | Pro-Kurd Turkish Party Chief Interviewed | state, but you might be able to make an appeal to the PKK through the media or some other channel. [Gunel] No, in fact it is very difficult for us to make contact with the PKK. But in the cities we are organized as a legal party within the framework of the law in force, and theoretically we should have access to the st... |
FBIS3-19987_12 | Pro-Kurd Turkish Party Chief Interviewed | the state! [Maxton] Soon after the DEP began to explain to the public why it felt obliged to withdraw from the elections because of the persecution, the PKK renewed its threats against Turkish parties. Does that have a negative effect on the DEP's attitude? [Gunel] The PKK has its criteria for judging what is to the ad... |
FBIS3-20000_0 | PKK Leader Comments on Nevruz, Elections | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Telephone interview with Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Workers Party of Kurdistan, at unidentified location, by an unidentified correspondent in Cologne; date not specified] [Text] [OZGUR GUNDEM] Your party issued a statement on this year's Nevroz celebrations. You said: "Nevroz wil... |
FBIS3-20001_0 | PKK Official Reportedly Commits Suicide | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] The PKK [Kurdish Workers Party] is bleeding in east and southeast Anatolia. Largely deprived of logistical support, the PKK is also losing its leading cadres. Muslum Durgun, alias Dr. Baran, who was known to be [PKK leader] Abdullah Ocalan's right-hand man, recently committed s... |
FBIS3-20015_0 | Paper Sees Growing Division Between West, East Europe | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Dino Frescobaldi: "But Europe Remains Divided"] [Text] The positive conclusion of the negotiations for the admission of Austria, Sweden, Finland, and Norway to the European Union is certainly excellent news, especially in view of the present situation. But I wonder, dis... |
FBIS3-20023_0 | Gonzalez Comments on Mexico, Kazakhstan | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] [Announcer Ana Blanco] A couple of minutes ago, during the joint news conference he held with the president of Kazakhstan, Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez said that the challenge posed by the violent act in Mexico will be dealt with calmly by the Mexican peoplen without havin... |
FBIS3-20035_3 | Nordic Alliance With U.S. Seen as EU Alternative | something similar to the Scandinavian defense union that Sweden tried to implement during 1948-49. And this union, which, in addition to Sweden, consists of Finland, Norway, and Iceland, would serve as a link to NATO. Sundelius believes it is conceivable that the United States as well could see the benefits of such a N... |
FBIS3-20045_0 | UNESCO IPU Conference Continues in Paris Pakistan Raises Kashmir Issue | Language: Urdu Article Type:BFN [Text] National Assembly Speaker Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said Kashmir is a core issue in South Asia and the right of self-determination of the Kashmiri people has been endorsed by the UN resolutions, and a peaceful settlement of the issue on the basis of these resolutions will pave th... |
FBIS3-20046_0 | GATT: France-U.S. Agree on Low-Wage, Union Issues | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Article signed WDN: "Paris and Washington Unite Against Low-Wage Countries -- `New Arguments for Age-Old Protectionist Rhetoric'"] [Text] Paris/Brussels -- In the run-up to the crucial date of 15 April -- the day when the GATT agreement will be formally signed in Marrakesh, Morocco -- ... |
FBIS3-20052_0 | Mannheim Prohibits Nationwide Kurdish Demonstration | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Mannheim (DPA) -- The City of Mannheim has prohibited a nationwide Kurdish demonstration announced for Sunday [27 March]. According to a joint statement by the city and the police headquarters on Friday, Mayor Gerhard Widder imposed the prohibition in the interest of public secu... |
FBIS3-20053_0 | Kurds Rally; No Violence Reported | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Frankfurt/Main/Hamburg (DPA) -- [Passage omitted] The riots feared during Kurdish demonstrations and rallies on Saturday [26 March] have not taken place. However, the police have not yet sounded the all-clear. In the afternoon, the traditional Newroz celebration of the Kurds ... |
FBIS3-20054_0 | Kurds Block FRG-Dutch-Belgium Border | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Aachen/Kleve (DPA) -- About 300 Kurds, who came from the Netherlands and Belgium and were refused entry into the FRG on Sunday [27 March], blocked the highway border checkpoints in the Aachen three-country corner for hours out of protest. With their sitting blockade they unsucce... |
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