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FBIS3-35170_2 | PLO's Magazine Views Security Events in Jordan | only explanation for the outbreak of violence in Jordan. Other circles link these acts to the big strides that Jordan has made on the road to peace. The events occurred a week after King Husayn announced in Washington that he is ready to meet in public with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhaq Rabin. Other circles, however, ... |
FBIS3-35189_6 | Foreign Minister Urges End to Economic Embargo | addition, it is actively and effectively participating in conferences and meetings that deal with human rights. Al-Sahhaf spoke about the violations of human rights. He said that what is actually happening in the world today is that human rights are regrettably being used as a political weapon to shake the political re... |
FBIS3-35189_7 | Foreign Minister Urges End to Economic Embargo | violation of these rights. The world today is witnessing what is happening in Yugoslavia while the United Nations is unable to find a solution to this tragedy. Without doubt, this is attributed to the stands of some major powers which follow the policy of selectivity and double standards in their international dealing.... |
FBIS3-35189_10 | Foreign Minister Urges End to Economic Embargo | violating human rights and try to show the world that they care for the Iraqi people, have committed the ugliest crimes against Iraq before and after the military aggression in January 1991. They still insist on continuing their genocide crime against our people by insisting on maintaining the comprehensive blockade de... |
FBIS3-35191_0 | Rival Kurdish Groups Sign `Peace' Deal | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Amman, Feb 17 (AFP) -- Two rival Kurdish groups in northern Iraq signed a peace deal on Thursday, ending a bloody feud and pledging to work together against President Saddam Husayn, the opposition said. The coalition Iraqi National Congress (INC) said the Patriotic Union of Kur... |
FBIS3-35195_9 | President Notes Various Topics in Parliament Speech | of the watershed community will improve. The project will also enhance the availability of ground water, which will consequently prevent drought in the project area. A total of 250,000 micro watersheds have been identified for development in rain-fed areas, and work has started on them. The capacity to manufacture nitr... |
FBIS3-35195_11 | President Notes Various Topics in Parliament Speech | The revised outlay for the Ministry of Rural Development increased by 56 percent, while the planned outlay for the Welfare Ministry was raised from 8.8 billion rupees to 9.8 billion. The Jawahar Rozgar Yojana employment scheme has been strengthened in the 120 most backward districts. Subsidies under the Integrated Rura... |
FBIS3-35201_0 | Papers View Talks | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Feb. 21, IRNA -- Two morning dailies here Monday commented over the current visit to Iran of Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Sa'd al-Faysal and expressed pessimism over the result of the talks. The English daily `TEHRAN TIMES' said in its editorial that replacing mutual d... |
FBIS3-35202_4 | Velayati Assails UN `Incompetence' on Bosnia | that detracts from their political interests. And they even may prevent intervention by those whose really intend to establish justice. [passage omitted] [Correspondent] You have pointed to the Nonaligned Movement, the ICO, and the latter's liaison group. Now why is it that the UN Security Council has called on NATO to... |
FBIS3-35203_1 | Khamene'i Delivers Friday Prayer Sermon | translators and presenters write, they employ people, they spend on technical things, spend on publicity, spend on writing, make policies, and spend much money to get that voice across to Iran, so that maybe a few individuals here and there listen to it and be influenced by it. Beginning several months ago they began w... |
FBIS3-35204_3 | Comments on Islam, Ramadan Celebration | a number of foreign radio stations have been trying for a while now to create the illusion that the Iranian people are no longer interested in the revolution and Islam, and the performance of the Islamic republic has led to the weakening of Islam. However, this deceitful ploy is too disgraceful for any one to pay atten... |
FBIS3-35205_0 | Commentary Notes Opinions on Bosnian Crisis | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Commentary prepared by the News Research and Commentaries Group] [Text] The crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina has adopted new international dimensions. The conflict among the United States, Europe, and Russia over the ultimatum to the Serbs has overshadowed many political developments. Wh... |
FBIS3-35206_1 | Human Rights Usage as `Political Tool' Examined | UN last Friday, the Islamic Republic of Iran was again declared as the violater of human rights due to such cases as execution and crushing of drug smugglers and launching a drive against social evils. It is also been claimed in the report that there exists a large number of political prisoners in Iran and religious mi... |
FBIS3-35299_0 | Ramadan: Country Willing To Normalize Ties With U.S. | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Baghdad -- PETRA -- Taha Yasin Ramadan, Iraqi vice president and member of the Revolution Command Council, has said that the next few months will be decisive because there are no more large obstacles or basic difficulties facing the implementation of Paragraph 22 of UN Security ... |
FBIS3-35300_0 | Iranian Pilots Land in Kurdistan Seeking Asylum | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] London -- A high-ranking Kurdish official told AL-HAYAH yesterday that an Iranian military helicopter landed in the village of Malumah in the area of Mawat in Iraqi Kurdistan the day before yesterday and that one of its two pilots applied to the Kurdish Government for political ... |
FBIS3-35305_0 | Ministry Spokesman Comments on Sending Troops to Bosnia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Feb. 23, IRNA -- The Islamic Republic of Iran has volunteered to contribute to the United Nations peacekeeping troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina but the response by the U.N. implies unexplainable wariness, said an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman here Tuesday. The spokesma... |
FBIS3-35309_0 | Mirsalim Comments | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Feb. 22, IRNA -- Mostafa Mirsalim who received a vote of confidence from the Majlis as the new minister of culture and Islamic guidance earlier today, outlined his programs after President Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani introduced him to the deputies. Mirsalim thanked the lea... |
FBIS3-35321_0 | Abu-Nidal `Terrorists' Charged in Diplomat's Murder `Plots,' Iranian Link Revealed | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Report by Ra'id Salihah] [Text] Swiftly, and without any prior notice, the security agencies arrested every member of Abu-Nidal's [Sabri al-Banna] Fatah-the Revolutionary Council group in Jordan in an operation that lasted no more than 48 hours. The operation started Saturday [19 Febr... |
FBIS3-35384_0 | National Assembly Speaker, Iranian Envoy Discuss Ties | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Islamabad, Feb. 22, IRNA -- Iran's ambassador to Islamabad Mohammad Mehdi Akhund-Zadeh held a meeting here today with Pakistani National Assembly speaker Syyed Yousef Reza Gilani and discussed Tehran-Islamabad economic, political and cultural ties. The two sides emphasized that... |
FBIS3-35402_3 | Political Islam Review: AL-SHA'B 15 Feb CONTENTS: 1. Corruption and the Struggle for Democracy OPPOSITION LEADER ON CORRUPTION, DIALOGUE, ANTI-ISLAM CAMPAIGN | for enacting a new constitution. Shukri warns of "the Muslims' slumber in confronting the Western onslaught to destroy Islam" and warns against "a scheme to 'disunite the Muslims and Copts,'" noting Islam's sound stance on the Copts, which maintains that they "have the same rights and duties as Muslims." Shukri said th... |
FBIS3-35403_2 | Political Islam Review: 'AQIDATI 15 Feb 94 | Mihriz replies that all Muslims should hasten to give a hand to brothers in Bosnia-Herzegovina if they get the chance. Chief editor al-Sayyid 'Abd-al-Ra'uf blames all Muslims for what is happening in the Muslim world today, because "they have deviated from the correct understanding of Islam, lived in a trance and in su... |
FBIS3-35403_3 | Political Islam Review: 'AQIDATI 15 Feb 94 | because the Almighty will guard His message against corruption." He affirms that "the Koran and tradition will stay in spite of the secularists." Al-Ghazali attributes the Islamic nation's weakness and its political, economic, and social defeats to many causes, including "the misunderstanding of the Koran and tradition... |
FBIS3-35403_7 | Political Islam Review: 'AQIDATI 15 Feb 94 | was the cat and mouse game between America and the former Soviet Union. The two came out intact, letting the naive Afghan fall into a bottomless pit, he says, adding: Russia has cashed in its chips, letting America take all the loot, not only in that region but in the whole world. Meanwhile, the miserable mujahidin are... |
FBIS3-35411_2 | Foreign Minister on UN Resolutions, Blockade | implement this resolution. What is Iraq's justification for refusing to implement this resolution? [Al-Sahhaf] You mean Resolution 706, don't you? [Al-Sayyid] Yes. [Al-Sahhaf] The background of Resolution 706 is that Prince Sadruddin Agha Khan, a special representative of the UN secretary general, has come to Iraq as p... |
FBIS3-35411_14 | Foreign Minister on UN Resolutions, Blockade | who was seen at a supermarket in Kuwait--say in al-Salmiyah area or some other place--and after that nothing is known about him. How could you be so inaccurate as to presume that this person is in Iraq? There is a specific method followed in such cases. There is an internationally recognized method according to which t... |
FBIS3-35411_20 | Foreign Minister on UN Resolutions, Blockade | It appears to me to be suspended. What things will be like, it is really difficult to speculate on, at least for the near future. Originally it was a good step but the crisis halted it. We will see how things turn out. [Al-Sayyid] Mr. Minister, let us move on now to the future relations between Iraq and its neighbors, ... |
FBIS3-35424_0 | Spokesman Condemns Attack on Israeli Women | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] A Palestinian spokesman has announced the following: Operations of violence and killings have recently been escalating in the occupied Palestinian territories. This violence has deliberately been directed against our students and children by the Israeli Army and armed settlers w... |
FBIS3-35425_0 | Editorial Criticizes U.S. Policy in South Asia | Language: Urdu Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The Provision of American Defense Equipment to India; a Cause of Anxiety to Pakistani Policy Makers"] [Text] According to reports emanating from world mass media, two American ordnance companies have offered to supply sophisticated electronics defense equipment to India. Thi... |
FBIS3-35429_0 | U.S. `Concern' Over Ties With Pakistan Examined | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed commentary: "U.S. Concern Over Closer Ties Between Iran and Pakistan"] [Text] The head of the foreign relations committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, Mr. Lee Hamilton, in an article which appeared in yesterday's issue of the daily NEW YORK TIMES, has stressed w... |
FBIS3-35430_2 | Human Rights Allegations Termed `Political Ploy' | the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic revolution in 1979). To any impartial observer, the rally was full of meanings and implications and removed numerous doubts instilled in the world public opinion about the popularity of the Islamic government in Iran. On the other hand, the report should be considered conne... |
FBIS3-35439_21 | * Nabavi Editorials on Aspects of New Budget Oil Revenues in 1373 [21 March 1994-20 March 1995] and Foreign Debts Taxes and Tax Revenues in the 1373 [21 March 1994-20 March 1995] Budget Increase in the Price of Kerosene, Gasoline, and Other Oil Products The Increase in the Price of Electricity, Telephone Communication,... | industry is that the level of electricity consumption, with some exceptions, such as aluminum production, does not effect the cost of industrial production very much. The highest level of electricity consumption is in aluminum production, which uses Rls750 worth of electricity per kg of aluminum production. The repair ... |
FBIS3-35441_0 | U.S.-Russian Relations Viewed After Espionage Case | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed commentary: "Tension in U.S.-Russian Ties"] [Text] The U.S. Justice Department officials said yesterday that they have arrested a key official of the CIA and his wife on the charge of espionage in favor of the former Soviet Union and also Russia. They described it as one... |
FBIS3-35443_0 | IRGC General Says Country Not for Nuclear Weapons | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Feb. 23, IRNA -- Major General Mohsen Rezaie in an interview with the English daily TEHRAN TIMES scoffed at Western media reports claiming Iran was for nuclear weapons. "Political logic, morality, our own culture, and above all the situation in today's world does not al... |
FBIS3-35460_0 | Rabbani Sends Message to Pakistan on Embassy Incident | Language: Pashto Article Type:BFN [Text] The press office of the presidency of Islamic state reported to Bakhtar Information Agency that esteemed Professor Borhanoddin Rabbani, president of the Islamic State of Afghanistan, has sent the following message to Sardar Faruq Ahmad Khan Laghari, president of the Islamic Repu... |
FBIS3-35484_0 | Talks With Western Oil Companies Reported | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Baghdad, 24 Feb (MENA)--A responsible Iraqi Oil Ministry source has stated that a high-level Iraqi oil delegation will visit Paris soon in response to an invitation from the Elf Equitaine and Total companies, which specialize in oil exploration projects. A MENA correspondent in ... |
FBIS3-35485_3 | Qatari TV Airs Special Report on Blockade | food and medicine. But how can it import when there are no oil exports and when our funds in foreign banks, specifically in U.S., British, French, and German banks, are still frozen? Therefore, the means of importing these materials are also frozen. At the end of 1991, we were allowed to import through the frozen funds... |
FBIS3-35485_5 | Qatari TV Airs Special Report on Blockade | citizens. The program then carries a two-minute interview with the Hashim 'Ali 'Ubayd, under secretary of the Ministry of Finance. He says: "The current exchange rate of foreign currencies, especially the dollar, in the Iraqi market and in the so-called parallel market does not represent the real exchange rate of the I... |
FBIS3-35486_0 | Columnist Views `Disgraceful' U.S. Behavior | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN ["Windows" column by Diya' Hasan: "U.S. Administration Behavior Reveals its Ill Intentions"] [Text] The U.S. administration's behavior and daily stands show that its tyranny is aimed at imposing its interests on others, contrary to all international rules, even if the others are friend... |
FBIS3-35505_2 | Reaction From Various Leaders, Groups Noted Central Command Head Comments | 16, or even more. Neither we nor the Palestinians have yet succeeded in counting the number of fatalities and making a full report on the number of casualties. I hope the figure will be as low as possible. The act was the initiative of a single person who carried out a despicable act by shooting at an innocent crowd. I... |
FBIS3-35509_0 | `Violent' Clashes Ensue Following Hebron Attack Riots Reported | Language: Hebrew Article Type:BFN [Text] There are violent incidents and riots by residents in numerous places in the territories. Our correspondent Moti Amir reports that 28 residents were wounded in the Gaza Strip by IDF [Israel Defense Forces] gunfire. Fire was directed at an Israeli car and a Border Police patrol i... |
FBIS3-35511_1 | `Violent' Clashes Ensue Following Hebron Attack Further on Riots | to throw explosives, but they blew up in his hands. Four border policemen were also wounded in the territories this morning. The IDF spokesman said the forces have been beefed up in the territories. Thousands of Muslim worshipers are still congregated on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, and many of them rioted and hurled ston... |
FBIS3-35523_1 | Palestinian Leaders Comments on Hebron Mosque Attack 'Arafat Informs Adviser | were killed. The 16 Dr. Tamimi talked about were those admitted to his hospital. Others were taken to different hospitals, and dozens were wounded, many more than Dr. Tamimi mentioned. A massacre occurred in the Cave of the Patriarchs. [Zissowitz] From what you know, was one man responsible for the whole incident? [Al-... |
FBIS3-35565_0 | President, Groups, Dailies Respond to Hebron Attack Islamic Jihad Envoy Comments | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Unattributed political commentary] [Excerpt] In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. Yesterday's dastardly attack by the Zionist forces on the tomb of Abraham in the town of Hebron in occupied Palestine, leading to the death or injury of around 400 fasting worshipers, ha... |
FBIS3-35569_2 | President, Groups, Dailies Respond to Hebron Attack Commentary on Implications of Hebron Incident | such rhetoric is unacceptable in international law, and incidents with such dimensions and depth cannot be blamed on a single mentally unbalanced Zionist. In addition, the question arises: Who armed this allegedly demented individual? In principle, the arming of the Zionist residents in these settlements is a policy th... |
FBIS3-35571_0 | President, Groups, Dailies Respond to Hebron Attack Explanations of Attack Questioned | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed commentary] [Text] Once again hot blood has been shed in Palestine, and with the martyrdom of scores of Palestinian worshippers in the holy month of Ramadan, the world of Islam is mourning. Yesterday morning, the secure sanctity of Prophet Abraham in the town of Hebron, ... |
FBIS3-35572_0 | President, Groups, Dailies Respond to Hebron Attack U.S. Reaction To Events Viewed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed commentary] [Text] Yesterday's brutal and barbaric attack on the Palestinian worshippers at the Abraham mosque in Hebron, which was carried out by the Zionists and during which hundreds of Muslims were martyred and wounded, has caused a wave of the world Muslims wrath an... |
FBIS3-35573_0 | President, Groups, Dailies Respond to Hebron Attack Commentary Says Coexistence `Questionable' | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Commentary by News Research and Commentary Group] [Text] The fury and condemnation at the heinous atrocity perpetrated by the Zionists in massacring fasting worshipers at the al-Ibrahimi shrine in Hebron continue unabated. The Muslim Palestinians protested yesterday against this merc... |
FBIS3-35579_1 | Army Chief on Missile Document | references to General Staff issue numbers, the publication date of the document, and the Defense Ministry form are not valid," the general said, "and only a very gullible and incompetent person could be taken in by them, not a professional." "I have before me," Kolesnikov said, "a list of all the Russian General Staff ... |
FBIS3-35602_0 | Economic Deal Seen Isolating Russia's Choice Leaders of the group of authors of the new economic program | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Dmitriy Kamin report: "New Deal Has Been Drafted. President To Decide on Academicians' Program"] [Text] "Russia's Choice," headed by former Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaydar, has drastically improved its chances to become the only State Duma faction to oppose the government. Today a... |
FBIS3-35784_0 | Gives Overview of PRC Ties | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Text] The visit by Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev to the PRC reflected a most important priority of Russian foreign policy. We believe that good-neighborliness with the PRC is strategically important, the minister declared. Defining the principal criteria of Russia's foreign... |
FBIS3-35786_2 | IZVESTIYA Sums Up Visit | for late spring-early summer, has not yet been agreed, but it can be assumed with confidence that his talks with State Council Premier Li Peng will mainly address economic issues -- construction of a series of hydroelectric power stations and Russia's participation in modernizing more than 150 enterprises built in the ... |
FBIS3-35815_1 | Russian TV Chief Paints `Very Gloomy' Picture | 77 percent goes automatically to the Ministry of Communications to pay for broadcasting. The meager funding is liable to cause the loss of the broadcasting network on the large territory of Russia. Relay transmitters will be closed down. The sum is a large one, and yet this is a political issue rather than an economic ... |
FBIS3-35821_6 | 1993 Economic Performance Assessed | worst thing is that last year average export prices of Russian oil, petroleum products, gas, coal, iron ore, cast iron, and aluminum fell. While the extraction and transportation costs of all these commodities are rising rapidly. In many cases it was still profitable for enterpries to export these products only because... |
FBIS3-35883_0 | Bojars Interviewed on Policies, Security, NATO | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Juris Bojars, chairman of the Latvian Democratic Labor Party, by A. Borisov; place and date not given: "One Must Be Pragmatic"] [Excerpts] Fate and, to be more exact, a short line in his life record -- 22 (!) years ago Juris Bojars worked in the KGB -- have willed that... |
FBIS3-35948_4 | U.S. Ambassador Interviewed on Aid | and to distribute it among the families where children are deprived from one of the parents. Realization of the program already s?arted, though there were delays caused by gasoline purchase. The idea was in purchasing gasoline for the dedicated amount of dollars and to pay thus to the farmers from which we were going t... |
FBIS3-35979_1 | Zhirinovskiy's Visit to Slovenia, Belgrade Reported | ideas of CEMA and the Warsaw Pact and create a zone of East European cooperation. In the capital of Serbia and Yugoslavia the visitor was greeted with tumultuous applause in a hall which was packed with many more admirers than journalists invited to the press conference. Zhirinovskiy said that he had told Chernomyrdin ... |
FBIS3-35992_0 | Commentator Hails Kozyrev's Visit to PRC | Language: Mandarin Article Type:BFN [Unidentified station observer commentary; from the "Good Evening, China" program] [Text] Russian Foreign Minister Kozyrev has ended his official visit to China. Our station observer has the following comment on the outcome of his visit: The talks and meetings held in Beijing, as wel... |
FBIS3-35997_0 | U.S. Firm To Build Nuclear Waste Storage Facilities | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ukraine appears to have secured at least a five decade respite from its insistent nuclear waste disposal headache caused by Russia's stubborn reluctance to admit Ukraine's nuclear fuel waste material to its reprocessing facilities now that the Zaporizhye nuclear power plant pro... |
FBIS3-36078_61 | Last Dash to the South By V.V. Zhirinovskiy RUSSIANS, THE DESTINY OF RUSSIA IS IN THE HANDS OF EVERY ONE OF YOU | Obviously it was fate. And all this, taken together, affected my life. Maybe it's like an artist or a composer who needs unhappiness in order to create, in order to bring inspiration. It was the same with me -- so I could develop a better and more profound understanding of political processes in society, I experienced ... |
FBIS3-36078_62 | Last Dash to the South By V.V. Zhirinovskiy RUSSIANS, THE DESTINY OF RUSSIA IS IN THE HANDS OF EVERY ONE OF YOU | and its problems, about social questions, and about relations between people. The constant sense of dissatisfaction was a stimulus. After all, you cannot engage in politics for no particular reason. It's not a favorite school subject, physics, say, where there are specific laws associated with the theory and the subjec... |
FBIS3-36078_119 | Last Dash to the South By V.V. Zhirinovskiy RUSSIANS, THE DESTINY OF RUSSIA IS IN THE HANDS OF EVERY ONE OF YOU | Under the one-party system everyone who did not join the CPSU experienced a sense of political hunger. They were totally cut off from political life. This is the trouble with the one-party system. The point is not just that communists formed the basis of the one-party system. In itself a one-party system is unviable. I... |
FBIS3-36078_185 | Last Dash to the South By V.V. Zhirinovskiy RUSSIANS, THE DESTINY OF RUSSIA IS IN THE HANDS OF EVERY ONE OF YOU | conflicts with relatives -- this will always happen. And it is the same between peoples. People will still tell jokes about Chukchis or Jews, about Russian Ivan or about the Caucasians, about khokhols [derogatory term for Ukrainians] -- one way or another, we will always go in for some kind of "hazing." But it should n... |
FBIS3-36094_2 | Official Assesses Situation in Crimea | completely different personnel and intellectual potentials than a supreme one. It was naive to believe that the Oblast Council would improve its way of thinking. This is our analysis. The quicker the powers of Crimean authorities grew, the more subsidies they demanded from the center. Today, although per capita income ... |
FBIS3-36095_0 | Chernobyl Plant Operation, Use After Closure Viewed | Language: Ukrainian Article Type:BFN [Article by Viktor Demenyev: "The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Generates 5 Percent of Ukraine's Nuclear Energy. Soon It Could Generate More"] [Text] The Ukrainian parliament adopted four different resolutions regarding the Chernobyl nuclear plant over the past four years. The stati... |
FBIS3-36179_1 | Declaration on Inheriting Supreme Soviet Rights Viewed | joint document of the State Duma and the Federation Council which, "recognizing the historical responsibility for the fate of parliamentarianism and expressing anxiety at the state of the legal system" of the country, state their claim to the entire legacy of the Congress and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federatio... |
FBIS3-36208_1 | Zhirinovskiy on Community of Slavic States | order will return. [Scaglione] You will be visiting Poland, where you are not much liked. Why? [Zhirinovskiy] I will be visiting Poland, true -- but Slovenia, too -- and I have been to Bulgaria. I am in solidarity with them: We should form a community of Slavic states together, but with no ideology, no pan-Slavism. Thi... |
FBIS3-36211_0 | Plans To Enhance Trade, Economic Ties With Cuba | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Russia and Cuba are restoring traditional trade and economic cooperation and intend to enhance it. The Russian Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations told Interfax that the two states were to increase mutual deliveries of oil and sugar in 1994. Russia would export 4 Mn [millio... |
FBIS3-36273_8 | `Part Two' in Series Views Leadership Succession | opposition. Even the president has expressed a desire to cooperate with all forces in the Federal Assembly. It can be said that attempts are being made to get along with one another. The only exception in this is the main participant in the process, the ruling elite itself. So far, its backbone in the State Duma intend... |
FBIS3-36380_0 | Press Review for 5 Feb | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Press Review" -- ITAR-TASS headline] [Text] Moscow February 5 TASS -- IZVESTIYA and TRUD frontpage today materials dealing with the economic situation, investments and, in connection with them, the social security of the population. IZVESTIYA writes that the Ministry of Labour summe... |
FBIS3-36407_0 | Foreign Ministry Condemns Sarajevo Market Attack | Language: Ukrainian Article Type:BFN [Text] Radio Ukraine World Service has received the text of a statement by Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Ministry. It says: An act of terrorism was committed at the Markale market in central Sarajevo on Saturday, 5 February, leaving dozens of innocent people dead and hundreds injured. T... |
FBIS3-36439_7 | Stepashin Interviewed on Security Changes | only to our state officials but to rank-and-file citizens as well. They simply are not aware that such recruiting attempts are being made. This is the first point. Second, we are really seriously concerned about a leakage of nuclear, military, and other technologies, which today is quite considerable, and about attempt... |
FBIS3-36460_0 | Report Attacks Results of Market Reforms | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Igor Ivantsov] [Text] Moscow February 4 TASS -- The market reforms of the past two years have not yielded the expected results. This was not due to some individual mistakes, but due to the incorrectly chosen course of switching over to a market economy by "... |
FBIS3-36483_0 | Spokesman Favors Diplomacy in Resolving Nuclear Issue | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [From the "Today's World" program] [Text] We will talk about the possibility of resolving diplomatically the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula. This concerns a plan under which the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] will inspect the DPRK nuclear facilities to confirm whether... |
FBIS3-36527_4 | Aliyev Interviewed by Turkish Reporters | postponed. [Aliyev] Hmmm. I do not know. There might be something to it, but I am not aware of it. [Third unidentified reporter] Why has the military cooperation agreement between Turkey and Azerbaijan not been signed yet? Will you take initiatives during your visit to Turkey to sign the military cooperation agreement?... |
FBIS3-36529_0 | U.S. Decision To Lift Trade Embargo on Vietnam Viewed | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Krechevisky from "Today's World" program] [Text] An event took place which can be pointed out as a complete historical event. This is because it will open a new chapter in the relations between Vietnam and the United States, and it reflects the process of a new internati... |
FBIS3-36530_0 | Commentary Applauds Lifting Embargo | Language: Mandarin Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read commentary by station commentator Kondratyev; from the "Good Evening, China" program] [Text] The U.S. Senate's vote to lift the trade embargo on Vietnam in late January to a great extent heralded President Clinton's announcement on Thursday [3 February]. Needless to s... |
FBIS3-36549_0 | Far East Leaders Appeal for State Support | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent] [Text] Khabarovsk, 7 Feb -- The heads of Far Eastern krays and oblasts who participated in a conference on the region's energy supply problems in Khabarovsk have adopted an appeal to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The slump in production in the Far East ... |
FBIS3-36566_5 | Yeltsin Adviser Baturin Discusses Security Issues | great power, then it must take care of the "Russians abroad." The United States already views Russia as a developing country. That might be true from the economic angle. However, in the past we were also never leaders in world markets, but were still considered a great power. Why was that? Because everyone was afraid o... |
FBIS3-36616_0 | Premier Deems Social Tax Increase `Fatal' | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["News Release"] [Text] Estonian Prime Minister Mart Laar, in answer to parliament's social committee question about the possibility of increasing social tax, told the parliament that the government considers such a step "fatal" for Estonian economy. Laar affirmed that the government ... |
FBIS3-36624_3 | Official Reaction to Proposed Bombing of Bosnia Churkin Defends `Quiet Diplomacy' | The United States also seems to be starting to think about this. THE NEW YORK TIMES recently carried an interesting item, namely CIA forecasts from which it follows that the economic embargo against Serbia has outlived its usefulness and will very soon be lifted. Assessments by such a powerful organization as the CIA a... |
FBIS3-36646_4 | French Defense Minister Leotard Continues Visit Discusses Bosnia | distinction, which is usual in the Western general staffs and that they have stuck to their previous concept based on the offensive. The second point seems even more fraught with misunderstandings. It relates to the idea which the Russians have of what is called the security "architecture" in Europe and, through this c... |
FBIS3-36758_0 | Poll Results Indicate Local Election Preferences | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by Oleg Savelyev, All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion sociologist, under the "Sociology" rubric: "Another Election on the Way"] [Text] In a survey conducted by the All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion in the second half of January, approximately 1,6... |
FBIS3-36774_0 | Obstacles Facing Arms Exporters Viewed | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Report by military observer Viktor Badurkin: "We Write Dollar. Russia Loses Billions, Surrendering Arms Market to Competitors"] [Excerpts] I remember five years ago when I first wanted to write an article about the arms trade I was advised not to touch on this "slippery" subject. The... |
FBIS3-36774_3 | Obstacles Facing Arms Exporters Viewed | Chinese that the latter would pay for their deal half in currency and half in barter but the joint government commission gave our southern neighbors the go-ahead to reduce the currency proportion to 35 percent. Here barter is subject to such taxes that it is becoming disadvantageous to import it to Russia. Or take anot... |
FBIS3-36790_5 | Yeltsin Adviser Views Political Developments | receive as many trade benefits and monetary injections as possible. We will not allow ourselves to be taken in by this demagogy. We can also mention Zhirinovskiy, because a few more such initiatives and power will fall into the arms of Zhirinovskiy. I was one of those who publicly urged discarding the Brezhnev-doctrine... |
FBIS3-36817_4 | West's Aid Policy Seen As `Shortsighted' | who must and who must not be a member of the government, for instance. The political conditions also include attempts to tell Russia how to deal with close neighbors and what it can and cannot reach agreement with them about. The second group of conditions is exclusively economic. The IMF is particularly bad in this re... |
FBIS3-36824_0 | Kozyrev Details Russian Foreign Policy Agenda | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Article by Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev: "The Guideline Is Russia's Interests. Russian Federation Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev on the New Tasks of Russian Foreign Policy"] [Text] Russian diplomacy has entered the new year, 1994, with a wide agenda for both the immediate and med... |
FBIS3-36869_2 | Health Official on Drug Situation, Growing Problems | from medicine already containing the narcotic. It is a very effective drug which creates distinct addiction. Heroin is usually injected one to three times a day, whereas it is necessary to inject efedron as many as 15 times a day. Marijuana and hashish are being found less and less frequently. But, as J. Stradins state... |
FBIS3-36870_0 | Non-Latvians Show Small Progress in Learning Language | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Riga, Feb 09, BNS -- The Latvian society is not ready for a mass integration of non-Latvians on the basis of the language skills, said MP [member of parliament] Dzintars Abikis, of the parliament Latvia's Way faction. The priority in naturalization should be granted to those no... |
FBIS3-36894_3 | Research Center on 1993 Government Results | key reason for the current social situation and its possible deterioration in the future is the continuing dangerous decline in Lithuania's industrial and agricultural production. For example, in 1993, sales of industrial production plunged by 46 percent, those of cattle, poultry, and milk -- by 30 and 12 percent, resp... |
FBIS3-36901_1 | Paper Publishes Friendship Treaty With Russia | the nonuse of force or threat of force, including economic and other methods of pressure, the peaceful settlement of disputes, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, cooperation and the conscientious fulfillment of international obligations, and also other universally recognized rules of international law. ... |
FBIS3-36939_2 | Report Summarizes Progress of Privatization | to the distribution of plots of land. Sanctions envisaged for law violations have not been appllied. Gross violations of the land legislation were made during the privatisation of land. The pace of the setting up of peasant economies in the country has slackened. As many as 47 thousand peasant economies were formed in ... |
FBIS3-36942_1 | Commentary on NATO Warning to Serbs | people. As for the Serbs, they deny their involvement in the crime and argue that the tragic outcome runs counter to their interests. Such events could only play into the hands of their rivals, the Bosnian Muslims. Therefore, Moscow believes it is necessary to look into what happened first. And the Russian leadership a... |
FBIS3-37148_0 | SNARK Responds to TURAN Allegations of PKK Activity | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Stepanakert, February 14 (SNARK) -- The reports issued by TURAN NEWS AGENCY caused at least a surprise -- to the great surprise of Levon Melik-Shakhnazaryan, a parliamentary of the Karabakh Supreme Soviet, a Chairman of the Permanent Commission on External Relations, [who] acco... |
FBIS3-37172_4 | Shevardnadze Grants Weekly Interview 14 Feb | a commitment to bring in its contingent on a peace mission. There is no other way. If we speak of a peace settlement, there should be either international forces or a Russian contingent. There is a third way, I mean another decision can be taken within the CIS but this will apparently be a repetition of a Tajik model. ... |
FBIS3-37230_2 | Zhirinovskiy Wants Revision of Post-War Border | is closely linked to the German group. Why should this issue not best be settled by the voters, as in the Crimea? Why do we not let ourselves be guided by democratic principles? [Correspondent] How do you see the development of democracy in Central Europe? [Zhirinovskiy] To what extent is it a democracy and to what ext... |
FBIS3-37231_1 | Brazilian Magazine Interviews Zhirinovskiy | former KGB agent, and that the Soviet political police created your party to bother Boris Yeltsin. [Zhirinovskiy] Never. All that is propaganda. Just like they say that I am a Zionist, anti-Jewish, a member of the radical right or left, or Jewish. Nothing of the sort. I am Russian, Russian, Russian. [Lando] You were el... |
FBIS3-37340_0 | Situation `Tense' | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Correspondent Aleksandr Starikevich report: "Strike in Belarus Has Not Been General, But Situation Is Tense"] [Text] Minsk -- The first few hours of the strike give no grounds for concluding that any one has won the strike committee versus government confrontation. A draw seems to be... |
FBIS3-37387_10 | Colonel Says CIS Defenses Not Yet Totally Secure | there are no jobs. For instance, 100 engineers are needed, but 200 turn up. "But we don't need 200." Where are they to go? They will no longer be welcomed at their former post in Russia -- they have been crossed off the unit's rolls. They are told: Take discharge. These people have ended up wanted by no one. We now hav... |
FBIS3-37389_1 | ITAR-TASS Carries Press Review for 15 Feb | wth cadres from the provinces... I return to the Crimea with the sole aim -- to promote economic reforms on the peninsula. Its potential has not been used to the full so far... It is too early to speak about a specific programme. It is necessary to cast a more attentive look around on the spot". KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA ru... |
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