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FBIS3-37390_0 | Press Review for 16 Feb | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Press Review" -- ITAR-TASS headline] [Text] Moscow February 16 TASS -- Moscow-based newspapers highlight the Russian-British summit meeting. The press points out that the Tuesday signing of a joint Russian-British statement on the de-targeting of strategic nuclear missiles from each... |
FBIS3-37414_0 | Probe of May Demonstration Completed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Moscow February 16 TASS -- An investigation into the May 1 disturbances in Moscow has been completed. Criminal proceedings were instituted against 11 men who took part in the May 1 demonstration, the Russian "Vesti" television programme reported on Wednesday. Nine of them face ... |
FBIS3-37418_1 | Think Tank Addresses Fight Against Mobsters | banks. According to entrepreneurs in Tver, a vehicle will be stopped by racketeers if they get word from a traffic police checkpoint that it is carrying a valuable load. Vladimir administration leaders confirmed that attempts to carry out surprise searches of bandit groupings' headquarters were blocked because they had... |
FBIS3-37444_0 | Duma Hears Alternative Economic Platforms | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Yelena Tokareva report: "Where Is Politics Here, and Where Economics?"] [Text] A week ago, when the anticrisis program submitted by the pillars of the socialist economy under the leadership of Academician Shatalin was widely publicized, Sergey Glazyev modestly reported at a news conf... |
FBIS3-37508_1 | Serbian Role in Sarajevo Blast Doubted | mortar attack on the market in Sarajevo. General Pierre M. Gallois, the eminent French strategist, shares his thoughts with PRAVDA readers: "NATO is now completely subordinate to the United States. The Atlantic alliance's military organization has become a most powerful instrument in establishing a `new world order.' I... |
FBIS3-37558_2 | Former Adviser Warns West To Open Military Markets | also worries the Russian official: "The next set of graduates and students will not find work. They have hitherto found jobs in commerce, in the criminal world. But every niche is occupied... In the current atmosphere of damaged pride, lack of heating and electricity, the demonstrators will not just be angry grandmothe... |
FBIS3-37560_0 | Defense Sector Blames Woes on Finance Ministry | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Faina Osmanova report under the "Economy" rubric: "Defense Sector Looks for Government Support. Tariff Agreement for This Year Signed"] [Text] The State Committee for Defense Industries, the Trade Union Association, and the Labor Ministry have signed a tariff agreement for 1994. The ... |
FBIS3-37586_0 | Nazarbayev on `Negative' U.S. Understanding of Iran | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Text] In a meeting with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, U.S. President Clinton has asked him to stay away from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Announcing the above in a gathering of reporters in New York yesterday, Nazarbayev said: The U.S. Government has a negative under... |
FBIS3-37597_2 | Press Review for 22 Feb | actions, particularly if they are directed only against one of the sides while ignoring the real interests of all those involved, will never lead to peace... "Various political options have now opened up for a settlement of the conflict in Bosnia due to Russia. It is essential to try them, taking into account all the e... |
FBIS3-37605_0 | Bilibino Nuclear Plant To Suspend Two Units | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The personnel of the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant in Russia's Magadan Region has decided to suspend two generating units and may suspend the other two when their fuel runs out due to the lack of funds to make an advanced payment for the next annual fuel supply. Customers, mainl... |
FBIS3-37625_1 | Shevardnadze Interviewed on U.S. Trip | from the point of view of expanding our political and diplomatic arena. This is in general. In detail, I do not want an impression to be created that after the visit we will have electricity, sugar, and bread and we will have abundance. It never happens like this. But the way to this is connected with Russia as well as... |
FBIS3-37633_0 | Favorable Economic Conditions Needed | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Text] President Nazarbayev held a news conference today on the outcome of his official visit to United States. He said: Talks with President Bill Clinton were the most important stage of the visit and determined the prospects for the development of bilateral relations. An accord has ... |
FBIS3-37673_3 | U.S. Ambassador, State Duma Official on Bosnia | in coordinating the efforts of all the elements of the Russian state structure. [Svanidze] So do you think that the Duma shares this, let us hope, possible success for Russian diplomacy? [Lukin] The Duma shares all Russia's successes, including those made by Russian diplomacy, as long as they are successes. [Svanidze] ... |
FBIS3-37695_3 | Bundeswehr Chief Sees End to Confrontation | being conducted? [Naumann] Recent events in this region have tested the effectiveness of Europe's security institutions to keep the peace. We must call a halt to this situation. In my opinion both Russia and Germany are keen to do this. It is time to put a stop to a situation in which the Paris Charter is essentially b... |
FBIS3-37716_2 | ITAR-TASS Carries Press Review for 23 Feb | there. The newspaper points out that it is in many respects due to Russia's stance that there has been no "Balkan storm" operation. "Throughout last week, the entire world closely followed the development of events in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Balkans again turned into 'europe's powder keg' which could go off with unpred... |
FBIS3-37751_5 | Paper Publishes Free Trade Agreement With Russia | of exporting them to a third country. Article 5 The contracting parties will exchange information on a regular basis on customs questions, including customs statistics. Bodies authorized by the contracting parties will draw up the procedure for the exchange of such information in a corresponding document. Article 6 The... |
FBIS3-37775_5 | Defense Minister on NATO Partnership, Army | may wonder whether our Army is not overly large. We would not resist the big neighbors even if we increased the soldiers' number tenfold. Should we rather improve its quality? [Linkevicius] I think that this question should be addressed to our politicians. It is not the National Defense Ministry that defines the number... |
FBIS3-37820_3 | Turkey's Demirel on Democracy, Foreign Ties | organization's council created by commercial associations from the member countries. The International Black Sea Club has been created. The progress achieved with the framework of the BSEC may be considered outstanding. Its structural organization has been completed and the transition to the level of implementing speci... |
FBIS3-37820_5 | Turkey's Demirel on Democracy, Foreign Ties | of life.... Go out into the streets and talk with Turks there and you will see that for yourself. [Kulik] Last year Turkish officials were heard to say a number of times that the "Kurdish Workers' Party [PKK] would be finished off before 1994." Indeed, Ankara did conduct a number of successful operations against Kurdis... |
FBIS3-37834_0 | Negotiations `Very Difficult' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] First Deputy Georgian Foreign Minister, a member of the Georgian delegation at the Georgian-Abkhazian negotiations, started on February 22 in Geneva, Mikhail Ukleba, said that the negotiatory process was very difficult. However, there was hope for the future, he added. He menti... |
FBIS3-37837_2 | Intelligence Official Interviewed | of mutual expulsions, so frequent in the Cold War years. Yet it hopes that Russia will recall from the United States those diplomats who have worked with the Ames couple. Washington would also like to hear promises from Moscow that nothing of the sort will happen in the future. What does the public relations official o... |
FBIS3-37841_5 | Background to Ames Arrest Reported | fines the Ames' guilty they face life imprisonment and a fine of $250,000. President Clinton called the exposure of the Ames' a "very good joint operation by the FBI and the CIA." The CIA has no right to operate on U.S. territory although it gave the FBI full assistance in exposing its employee. FBI Director Louis Free... |
FBIS3-37844_0 | Yeltsin Summit Proposal on Bosnia Viewed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Valeriy Sevryukov] [Text] Moscow February 23 TASS -- In order to "put a full stop to resolving the Yugoslav conflict", Russian President Boris Yeltsin said on Wednesday [23 February] he was inviting President Bill Clinton and the leaders of Great Britain, F... |
FBIS3-37854_2 | Krakow Conference To Confront `Difficult Questions' | of liberating Soviet servicemen but as a result Vatican pressure on Berlin. [passage omitted] What is this -- the latest attempt to falsify history, and, what is more, so obviously? Evidently not! This is big-league stuff. It even includes elements of psychological warfare, aimed at setting Slavs at loggerheads with ea... |
FBIS3-37898_0 | Opposition Leaders May Be Freed Following Ruling | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Aleksandr Chernov] [Text] Moscow February 23 TASS -- The organisers of the armed opposition revolt last October in Moscow may be soon freed from the Lefortovo investigation prison, however they will spend this night in jail. TASS learned from the Office of ... |
FBIS3-37917_1 | `Tenuous Legal Basis' of Local Elections Queried | himself appoint municipal leaders (who should, of course, be elected by the people). So the executive branch offensive against representative branch prerogatives is continuing. But there is nothing to be surprised about here -- this is what step-by-step constitutional reform amounts to. It is more to the point to ask t... |
FBIS3-37947_89 | Russian National Security Concept for 1994 I. Preservation of Civil Peace, of an Integral and Independent Russian State II. Formation of Genuine Spiritual Principles and Values of the Russian People III. Stabilization of the Socioeconomic Situation in the Country IV. Protection of the Interests of Russian-Speaking Popu... | with nothing but the monotonous flow of previously "forbidden fruit." Literary journals are slowly sinking into oblivion. It is not so much that viewers are deserting the theater, but that the theater is deserting viewers: It has nothing to say. National cinematography is in a state of coma. The humanities and social s... |
FBIS3-37947_184 | Russian National Security Concept for 1994 I. Preservation of Civil Peace, of an Integral and Independent Russian State II. Formation of Genuine Spiritual Principles and Values of the Russian People III. Stabilization of the Socioeconomic Situation in the Country IV. Protection of the Interests of Russian-Speaking Popu... | an imbalance in the international settlements of CIS countries. On the whole, it is possible to agree with the opinion of World Bank associates K. Mikhalopoulos and D. Tarr: "The situation as regards trade and payments in the former Soviet republics was distinguished by chaos, which reflected the existence of a series ... |
FBIS3-37947_192 | Russian National Security Concept for 1994 I. Preservation of Civil Peace, of an Integral and Independent Russian State II. Formation of Genuine Spiritual Principles and Values of the Russian People III. Stabilization of the Socioeconomic Situation in the Country IV. Protection of the Interests of Russian-Speaking Popu... | of borders would be permissible only via peaceful talks. Sanctions, including the use of force, would be permissible only in the event that a country's leadership pursues a policy of genocide toward ethnic minorities, and this is recognized and defined as genocide under UN rules. Germany, Turkey, Japan, China, and othe... |
FBIS3-38014_0 | Government Options for Radioactive Waste Disposal Viewed | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Veronika Romanenkova] [Text] Moscow February 24 TASS--If facilities for recycling liquid radioactive waste is not built in Russia's Far East within the next two months, Russia will possibly have to dump this waste in the Sea of Japan again in order to avert... |
FBIS3-38031_0 | Foreign Ministry Statement Issued on Ames Case | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS diplomatic correspondent] [Text] Moscow, 25 Feb--The Russian Foreign Ministry today issued a press statement in connection with the arrest of the Ameses in Washington. It says: "Sufficiently close contacts exist between Russia and the United States to raise any questions... |
FBIS3-38067_1 | `Furor' Continues | from top-secret work involving opposition to the KGB and was transferred to a department remote from politics -- the department for combating narcotics. All the same, the exposure of a double agent, a routine event for the intelligence world, is still riveting the heightened attention of the mass media. THE WASHINGTON ... |
FBIS3-38068_1 | Ames Affair Shows Intelligence Spending Pays | the report that for 17 years the Russians had a U.S. spy (it would be nobler to call him an agent) with whose help we were able to fully monitor top-secret communications traffic [perepiska] between nuclear submarines, the main component of the U.S. atomic triad. As for the damage caused to U.S. security by that agent,... |
FBIS3-38070_0 | More on Deputies' Visit | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Igor Borisenko] [Excerpt] Washington, 26 Feb -- Russian parliamentarians and law enforcement workers are visiting the United States with the aim of familiarizing themselves with the experience of U.S. law in fighting organized crime. They have held meetings... |
FBIS3-38116_3 | Sinn Fein's Adams: End to Violence `Priority' | on for more than six hours. In a joint statement afterwards, Sir Patrick and joint chairman Dick Spring, Ireland's deputy premier and foreign minister, condemned recent violence in Ulster and said a range of issues had been reviewed. Sir Patrick relayed British disappointment at the Irish government's recent decision t... |
FBIS3-38124_0 | Government Scheme Aims at Improving EU's Security | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Berlin (DDP/ADN) -- The German Government wants to work toward the improvement of the European Union's internal security. It must be ensured that borders do not come down for criminals while they remain in place for the prosecuting authorities, says a program of action draft... |
FBIS3-38126_0 | `Confidential' Report Analyzes Right-Wing Membership | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Cologne (DDP/ADN) -- There are 42,400 right-wing extremists in Germany. This is stated in a confidential analysis compiled by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The Cologne newspaper SONNTAGS-EXPRESS reports that according to the analysis there are "5,600... |
FBIS3-38138_0 | Russia's Chernomyrdin, Pope Discuss Bosnia | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Text] Talks in the Vatican between John Paul II and Russian Prime Minister Chernomyrdin lasted an hour. The central issue was Bosnia and Russia's new position regarding the drama in the Balkans. Here is a report from Giuseppe De Carli: [De Carli] This was a strictly private meeting w... |
FBIS3-38142_0 | Pakistan's Bhutto Addresses News Conference in Davos | Language: Urdu Article Type:BFN [Text] The prime minister, Ms. Benazir Bhutto, said that the best opportunities and environment exist for foreign investment in Pakistan and foreign investors can earn remarkable profit there. She stated this while addressing a crowded news conference at the Congress Media Center of the ... |
FBIS3-38154_0 | U.S., UN Participation in `Secret Diplomacy' Viewed | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [Text] The policy of secret diplomacy was chosen and has already been implemented in the process to promote the confidence-building measures [CBM's]. The Americans are moving intensely and are the main participants in events behind the scenes. Informed diplomatic sources say this policy... |
FBIS3-38160_0 | Government Officials Comment on Operation Against PKK Ciller Denies Raids Linked to Economy | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over still photograph of Prime Minister Tansu Ciller] [Excerpts] Prime Minister Tansu Ciller has declared that the government will take the necessary steps to eliminate both economic and PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terrorism. Contrary to claims by certain c... |
FBIS3-38161_0 | Government Officials Comment on Operation Against PKK Foreign Ministry Says No Civilian Casualties | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report] [Text] Every measure was taken to ensure that civilians were not hurt during the operation carried out by the Turkish Armed Forces against the Zhalah camp of the terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization in northern Iraq yesterday. At the end of t... |
FBIS3-38162_0 | Government Officials Comment on Operation Against PKK `Many' PKK Leaders Reportedly Die | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Excerpt] Interior Minister Nahit Mentese has said the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terrorist organization lost many of its high-level officials during the air operation Turkey carried out against the Zhalah camp. The interior minister was speaki... |
FBIS3-38164_0 | Government Officials Comment on Operation Against PKK Military Spokesman Details Raid | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara, Jan 30 (A.A) -- In addition to all ground targets, under-land hideouts were also destroyed during the airstrikes carried out on Friday [28 January] by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) war planes, a senior military official told A.A. on Sunday. Chief of Staff spokesman Col... |
FBIS3-38167_2 | Ciller Briefs Press on Economy, PKK Raid | the same in June? A certain period of time is needed to repair the economy; 1994 will be a year of repairs; 1995 will be a better year; 1996 is the election year, and it will be much better. If this house has collapsed, then we will repair it. We need a certain period of time: 1994 will be that time, the year of repair... |
FBIS3-38173_0 | Kurdish Businessmen Reportedly Assassination Targets | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Mehmet Salih Ceviker] [Text] Istanbul--It has been discovered that the counterguerrilla organization has targeted a great number of Kurdish businessmen for assassination. There is evidence that the Kurdish businessmen--including the singer Ibrahim Tatlises, Idris Ozbir, Hal... |
FBIS3-38174_0 | Eight Prominent Kurds Named | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Who Is Included on the List?"] [Text] An official at the Istanbul Security Directorate said the security organs, particularly the Istanbul Security Directorate, acting on the instructions of the National Security Council, have placed hundreds of Kurdish business... |
FBIS3-38175_0 | Human Rights Group Lists 54 Imprisoned Journalists | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara -- Turkey's Human Rights Association (IHD) has announced that 54 journalists and writers in this country are in prison for violating laws in their reports and books. IHD Secretary-General Husnu Ondul said in a statement on the issue that all the inmates were imprisoned o... |
FBIS3-38187_0 | Russian Envoy Discusses Straits, Yeltsin Visit | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara, Jan 30 (A.A) -- Russian Ambassador in Ankara, Albert Chernyshev, on Sunday [30 January] said his country wants the Montreux Agreement, which regulates the passages from Canakkale and Istanbul Straits of foreign ships, to be maintained but at the same time understands Tu... |
FBIS3-38216_0 | EC Officials: Accords With Poland, Hungary `Landmark' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Brussels, Jan 31 (AFP) -- Association agreements linking Poland and Hungary more closely with the European Community and ultimately preparing them for full membership of the EC come into effect on Tuesday [1 February]. The so-called European Agreements give the two East Europea... |
FBIS3-38218_3 | Austrian Chancellor, German Official Discuss Issues | are interested in what the official side says, and we are not concerned with views like those of Samaras.... Past Problem Discussing Alternate Foreign Minister Theodhoros Pangalos' remarks and the atmosphere of Greek-German relations, German Deputy Foreign Minister Helmut Schaefer said: "Pangalos' remarks are history a... |
FBIS3-38225_1 | Neo-Nazi, Right-Wing Activities Within Police Viewed | "Graz policeman." Mere provocation -- or further evidence of neo-Nazi cells inside the police? As early as 1991, worried policemen from Vienna filed a complaint: In the telephone exchange of the police building at Rossauer Laende a socialist trade union election poster was "embellished" with anti-Semitic and Nazi sloga... |
FBIS3-38225_2 | Neo-Nazi, Right-Wing Activities Within Police Viewed | officials at police headquarters on Schottenring started hectic activities. Leading officials rushed from one crisis meeting to the next, concentrating their search on the leaks inside the police authorities. That police officer who does not conceal his right-wing radical convictions and indulges in loyal German activi... |
FBIS3-38236_0 | EU Makes Proposal on Immigrants' Rights | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Andrew Marshall: "Rights Boost for Europe's Immigrants"] [Text] Brussels -- Radical proposals on immigration and asylum would create new rights for Europe's 9 million legal immigrants while clamping down on illegal entrants, according to officials in Brussels. The proposals... |
FBIS3-38236_2 | EU Makes Proposal on Immigrants' Rights | those who employ them. The second aspect of the voluminous package is on immigration flows, movement of asylum-seekers and immigrants across borders. The paper focuses on admission procedures, illegal immigration and refugees, all areas already being tackled. EU ministers have been working to restrict asylum-seekers by... |
FBIS3-38237_1 | Eurocrats Threaten Strike Over Security Vetting | prepared and executed. Niels Ersboll, its secretary-general, has told representatives of his 2,200 staff that he expects 370 will need positive vetting. They will be assessed by the security services of their own country. Most will be lawyers and translators. The plan has caused uproar among secretariat personnel who t... |
FBIS3-38245_0 | Officials Comment on U.S. Decision To Issue Visa U.S. Decision `Spurned' British Requests | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Martin Walker in Washington, David Sharrock in Belfast, Joe Joyce in Dublin and Stephen Bates: "U.S. Grants Entry Visa to Adams"] [Text] The U.S. Government spurned British urgings and announced last night that it would grant a visa for the Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams,... |
FBIS3-38250_0 | Kohl Comments on EU Integration, Border | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Mainz (DPA) -- Chancellor Kohl is of the opinion that there will be no lasting peace without integrating East European states into the European Union [EU]. "We will never resign ourselves to the EU border being the border between Germany and Poland," Kohl said in Mainz today ... |
FBIS3-38256_0 | Fabbri Confirms Refusal of U.S. Request on Spy Planes | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Fabbri Confirms Denial of Spy Plane Facilities"] [Text] Parma, 31 Jan (ANSA) -- Italian Defence Minister Fabio Fabbri confirmed here today that the Rome government had refused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency permission to fly two unpiloted espionage drones... |
FBIS3-38258_0 | Chernomyrdin, Pope Discuss Conditions in Russia, FRY | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Premier Chernomyrdin Meets Pope"] [Text] Vatican City, January 28 (ANSA) Conditions in Russia and ongoing violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina were the major issues discussed here by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and Pope John Paul II in a meeting which ... |
FBIS3-38273_0 | Greece, Albania Sign 1994-96 Cooperation Program | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tirana, January 19 (ATA) -- The 4th session of the Joint Albanian-Greek Commission for the scientific and technical cooperation was held in Athens from January 13-14, 1994. The session analyzed the achievements of the former program of scientific and technical cooperation for 1... |
FBIS3-38284_0 | Editorialist Views Clinton's State of Union Address | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "America's Refusal"] [Text] The U.S. refusal to let itself be involved in European -- and especially French -- initiatives aimed at putting an end to the war in Bosnia illustrates a paradox which characterizes America today. The stronger it gets internally, the less willing... |
FBIS3-38302_1 | Government Tries To Improve EU's Internal Security | the period of the German EU Presidency during the second half of 1994. According to Kanther, the primary goal for this term of office is the improvement of the EU's internal security. Kanther told WELT AM SONNTAG that, during its presidency, the German Government wants to push ahead with the expansion of Europol in The... |
FBIS3-38310_0 | * Rehn Makes Advances in Center Party, Women's Groups * Backed by Women's Organizations | Language: Swedish Article Type:CSO [Finnish News Service Report: "Wide Female Support for Rehn"] [Text] The women's organizations want to see Elisabeth Rehn become the next president of Finland. At a meeting of chairpersons heading member groups belonging to the Central Federation of Women's Organizations, support was ... |
FBIS3-38312_0 | Mikhailidhis Views Treatment of Kurdish Dissidents | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Interior Minister Dinos Mikhailidhis gave assurances yesterday that Kurds wanted for political crimes would not be sent back to Turkey or the occupied areas. DIKO [Democratic Party] deputy Markos Kiprianou raised the issue of handing over left-wing Turks and Kurds to Turkey, wh... |
FBIS3-38316_0 | Clinton, Ciller Discuss al-Asad Stance on PKK | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Sinan Kurun: "President al-Asad Has Made No Promise on PKK"] [Text] Ankara--Prime Minister Tansu Ciller held a telephone conversation with President Clinton yesterday. President Clinton informed her that President al-Asad neither promised anything nor opened any door on the... |
FBIS3-38319_0 | Attack on PKK Zhalah Camp Analyzed | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Analysis" by Ismet G. Imset: "Zhalah Had To Be Hit"] [Text] Ankara -- On Friday [28 January], Turkish warplanes conducted what Prime Minister Tansu Ciller referred to as "the most important operation of the past 10 years" and bombed a major training camp of Kurdish separatists based... |
FBIS3-38332_2 | Polls Show Leftist Coalition Ahead | National Alliance of MSI Secretary Gianfranco Fini. There are many unknown quantities, however. "The principal unknown quantity," declares Renato Mannheimer, an expert on election trends, "is the fact that almost half of the population has not yet decided for whom to vote. Until a few years ago, the undecided were ofte... |
FBIS3-38333_6 | Kinkel Comments on Moscow Developments, Poland | accession." The next EU Council of Foreign Ministers should discuss this issue in February. Nervousness in Poland Regarding the countries in East-Central Europe, Kinkel noticed that nervousness is most marked in Poland, because of Warsaw's unfulfilled wishes toward NATO and the EU. In her talks in Bonn on Tuesday, form... |
FBIS3-38344_0 | Commission Supports `Customs Corridor' for Balkans | Language: English Article Type:BFN [EC Document No. DOC/IP/94/63: "Commission Backs Customs Corridor as Part of Transit Package for Balkans"] [Text] The European Commission has decided to back the creation of a Balkan customs corridor as part of a wider initiative and could commit over ECU100 million through its PHARE ... |
FBIS3-38344_1 | Commission Supports `Customs Corridor' for Balkans | resulting from the closure of road, rail and other traffic routes. The Commission believes that the establishment of a corridor passing through adjacent countries will greatly alleviate congestion if customs procedures are streamlined sufficiently. Furthermore, suitable technical assistance should enable such a corrido... |
FBIS3-38347_0 | EU Paper Outlines New Security Classifications | Language: English Article Type:BFN [John Carvel report: "Brussels `Trying To Gag MEPs'"] [Text] The fourth revision of the impending council of ministers' resolution on how best to protect official secrets in Brussels makes good a surprising omission from the previous three attempts. Senior officials have decided to in... |
FBIS3-38360_0 | Civilian, Military Air Traffic Control Services Merge | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn -- According to an agreement between the Transportion and the Defense Ministry, civilian and military air traffic control services will be working under the same roof in the future. Thus, a further step will be implemented within the framework of the structural reform of ai... |
FBIS3-38405_0 | Hamburg Official Comments on Right-Wing Extremism | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Ernst Uhrlau, head of the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, by Nana Brink and Ludwig Rademacher; place and date not given: "`Uniform Movement'"] [Text] [FOCUS] Are we being deceived by the impression that the cooperation between German right-wing ex... |
FBIS3-38405_1 | Hamburg Official Comments on Right-Wing Extremism | such as mail boxes and information telephone lines have sprouted tremendously over the past two years. While the "old" right-wing extremism remained static, so to speak, the protagonists of the new right-wing extremist tendencies, tactics, and strategies are using inexpensive modern communications technologies. After a... |
FBIS3-38411_0 | Turkish-Egyptian Statement Issued | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Nuran Milli video report] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] A press release was issued this afternoon in connection with the Turkish-Egyptian talks held in Ankara today. The press release stated that the two countries agree on the protection of the territorial integrity of Iraq and the oth... |
FBIS3-38413_0 | `Second Stage' of Operations Against PKK Launched | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Security forces have launched the second stage of their operation against the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] after Turkish military aircraft bombed the Zhalah camp in northern Iraq. The special units and the snow and mountain commandos commanded by high-ranking officers, who ... |
FBIS3-38419_0 | Deputies Condemn U.S. Embargo Against Cuba | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article by Marie-France Cros: "Condemning the Embargo Against Cuba"] [Text] SP [Flemish Socialist Party], PS [Walloon Socialist Party], CVP [Christian People's Party], PSC [Social Christian Party], Ecologist, Agalev [Live Differently] and Volksunie [People's Union] deputies have submi... |
FBIS3-38420_6 | Molyneux Role in `Neutralizing' Ulster Accord Viewed | there was no harm in acquiescing to...was Reynolds having a forum `within his jurisdiction.' These words were put in deliberately. He can have a talking shop if he wants to. We are not involved. The British Government is not involved. They can do what they like. It is in their own sovereign territory." He does not rule... |
FBIS3-38425_1 | Adams Urges UK `Clarification' of Declaration | stay. He told an audience of 300 in New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel -- venue for the Committee's conference on Northern Ireland -- that the US could make a "significant and positive" role to achieving peace. But he accused the British Government of stalling by refusing to clarify the December 15 peace declaration. But... |
FBIS3-38434_1 | Lamassoure: Schengen Delay Due to Technical Problem Balladur, Chirac Presidential Candidacies Viewed [LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR 13-19 Jan, etc] | report] Writing in the 13-19 January Paris left-of-center weekly LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR, Alain Duhamel notes that it is presently "fashionable" to question the durability of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur's "ascendancy," as well as the influence he can exert on the political scene until the presidential elections. Whil... |
FBIS3-38435_2 | Columnist: U.S. Bosnia Policy Will Internationalize War | as a screen. The announcement of this new policy will be welcomed by American public opinion and by Congress: The pictures of GI bodies being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu are still present in everybody's memory and highlight this illusion of a war without innocent victims, in which only the "bad guys" die, ... |
FBIS3-38474_0 | Right-Wing Extremists Step Up International Ties | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report by Friedrich Kuhn: "Right-Wing Extremists Step Up Cooperation"] [Text] Bonn -- According to the German security authorities, some 25 German right-wing extremists, mainly neo-Nazis, are fighting in Croatia and Bosnia as volunteers against the Serbs. This proves that there are ef... |
FBIS3-38475_0 | Report Details Right-Wing Extremist Groups | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Right-Wing Extremists"] [Text] More than 70 neo-Nazi and right-wing extremist organizations and splinter groups with a total of about 41,500 members are haunting Germany. While so far authorities have assumed that the right-wing extremist scene is largely torn by... |
FBIS3-38492_0 | Intelligence Report Details Armenia-PKK Ties | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Sinan Onus] [Text] During the National Security Council meeting the previous day President Suleyman Demirel and Prime Minister Tansu Ciller were given a report on Armenia prepared over the last year by MIT [National Intelligence Organization] and the intelligence department... |
FBIS3-38493_0 | Foreign Ministry: Investigative Delegation Sent to Iran | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] The Foreign Ministry has announced that if the conclusion is reached that Iranian civilian settlements were damaged during the Turkish Armed Forces operation against the Zhalah camp in northern Iraq, the necessary measures will be adopted. For... |
FBIS3-38495_0 | NOKTA: Kurds, PKK Possess Chemical Arms in Iraq | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Article by Nedret Ersanel: "PKK's Chemical Arms Depots"] [Text] The latest reports on the late-night newscast on television on 21 January informed the people of the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] attack on Akyurek and Ormancik in Mardin Province. The way the PKK attack was carried ... |
FBIS3-38495_3 | NOKTA: Kurds, PKK Possess Chemical Arms in Iraq | all the arms the Iraqi military forces abandoned in the past are in the hands of the Kurdish leaders, most of whom we know very well. Democratic Party of Kurdistan Leader Mas'ud Barzani and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Leader Jalal Talabani, who are among the "legal" leaders of the Kurds in northern Iraq, top the list ... |
FBIS3-38497_0 | Kurdish Leader Comments on Zhalah Camp Attack | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Faruk Balikci: "Journalists Not Allowed Into the Zhalah Camp"] [Text] Irbil--Journalists have not been allowed to enter the Zhalah camp in northern Iraq, which was bombed by Turkish Air Force units. The Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] informed Turkish journalists who trave... |
FBIS3-38498_0 | PKK Activities in Nakhichevan; Policy Criticized | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Article by Emin Pazarci from the "Outlook" column: "Look Out for Nakhichevan!"] [Text] For days now Turkey has found itself in an election flurry, the intensity of which is bound to increase. As the late Menderes [prime minister in the 1950's] would have said, "we have now entered th... |
FBIS3-38499_1 | Ciller Said To Order Raid To Offset Economic Slide | Run Out of Smoke Screens?"] [Text] Only on Saturday [29 January] we wholeheartedly applauded the Turkish air raid against the Zhalah terrorist camp of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) and said we believed the terrorists got what they deserved. Now we see that an unfortunate controversy has surrounded the military ope... |
FBIS3-38520_3 | Daily Calls Bosnian Conflict `Unmanageable' | the past, the United States is letting Europe take initiatives itself. In fact if there are problems in the Balkans, Europe's backyard, then the United States expects Europe, the economic great power, to clear things up. Washington will watch, but in contrast to the past, it no longer wants to organize everything unila... |
FBIS3-38526_1 | Prosperity Party Leader Interviewed | to repentance is always open. Every person can make mistakes; however, every person has enough common sense to see God. [passage omitted] [Dundar] Former U.S. Ambassador in Ankara Abrahamowitz recently said that the Prosperity Party [PP] could come to power if it were led by a younger, more moderate leader. As you know... |
FBIS3-38526_9 | Prosperity Party Leader Interviewed | other country uses this word. More than half of these countries state their official religion in their constitutions. For example, the British constitution states that the official religion is the Anglican Church. [passage omitted] All countries do that with the exception of Turkey. Laicism is based on three fundamenta... |
FBIS3-38526_13 | Prosperity Party Leader Interviewed | us reports on this research. They say that most of the institutes there regret their research. In other words, they brought about revolutions in certain Muslim countries and these revolutions have not brought any happiness to the people. They had to foot the bill for these revolutions. One can cite Algeria. The revolut... |
FBIS3-38532_0 | Report Reveals Fraud in EU Tobacco Production | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Andrew Marshall report: "Taxpayers Lose Millions to Tobacco Fraudsters"] [Text] Brussels -- Massive fraud, maladministration and ill-conceived policies have cost the European Union [EU] hundreds of millions of pounds in its efforts to subsidise tobacco production, a report from its f... |
FBIS3-38535_3 | Press Reviews Adams Visit, U.S.-UK Relations Visit `Public Relations Catastrophe' | also have known that his decision would be seen as a rebuff to Britain and a propaganda victory for the IRA. It would be going too far to suggest this was his revenge for the Conservatives' support of President Bush in the 1992 campaign, but the inescapable conclusion is that he cares less about Washington's relations ... |
FBIS3-38577_0 | Wreck of Crashed Cessna Retrieved | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article signed PF/AN/TP: "Wreck Found in Lake Constance on Tuesday Evening. It Is Identified as Missing Cessna. To Be Brought Up on Friday"; as released by Bern ATSA/SDAA database] [Text] Rorschach, 2 Feb (ATS) -- The wreckage discovered in Lake Constance on Tuesday evening [1 Februar... |
FBIS3-38580_0 | Netherlands Minister Urges Greater U.S. Role in Bosnia | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Interview with Netherlands Foreign Minister Peter Hendrik Kooijmans by Bettina Hubo; place and date not given: "`Flanders Is More Political, the Netherlands More Administrative' -- An Interview With Foreign Minister Peter Hendrik Kooijmans"] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] [Hubo] Does Bene... |
FBIS3-38601_0 | Trade Minister Launches Asian Trade Initiative | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Paris, Feb 3 (AFP) -- France launched a 10-point trade initiative to increase the share of Asian trade from 7 percent to 10 percent of French exports, on Thursday [3 February]. Opening the offensive, Industry and Trade Minister Gerard Longuet said that a French business centre ... |
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