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FBIS3-38633_0 | First Day of UNHRC Session Assessed, Agenda Outlined | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article signed ka,ha,bn: "Geneva: 50th Session of the Human Rights Commission -- Right to Development and Women's Rights at Heart of Debate"; as released by Bern ATSA/SDAA database] [Text] Geneva, 31 Jan (ATS) -- The 50th session of the UN Human Rights Commission opened in Geneva on M... |
FBIS3-38645_0 | Kinkel Condemns `Barbaric Act' | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DDP/ADN) -- Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel (FDP) [Free Democratic Party] has called the serious attack on Sarajevo market square, in which more than 60 people were killed, a "barbaric act of violence" and expressed his strong condemnation. Kinkel said in Bonn today that "th... |
FBIS3-38659_0 | EU Foreign Trade Ministers Council Concludes in Athens | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [Text] The European Union [EU] Foreign Trade Ministers Council concluded their meeting at Zappion Palace, and interesting points were revealed about the entry of Greek products into Balkan and Asian markets. [Begin recording] [Unidentified correspondent] Usually no reports are issued on... |
FBIS3-38680_0 | 3 Firms To Set Up Plants in India | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The German multinational Siemens is to set up a 1,500- megawatt superthermal power station at Jayakondan in Tanjavur District in Tamil Nadu, and another 600-megawatt power plant at Gandhar in Gujarat. Another multinational, BASF, has decided to establish a huge chemical factory... |
FBIS3-38699_0 | Elisabeth Rehn Concedes Election Defeat | Language: Finnish Article Type:BFN [Studio interview with presidential candidate Elisabeth Rehn by reporter Jouni Turunen -- live] [Excerpt] [Turunen] Well, Elisabeth Rehn, 70 percent of the votes have now been counted and the result does not seem to change. Has the moment now come when admitting defeat is topical? [Re... |
FBIS3-38717_0 | Armed Forces Report `Heavy Losses' in Air Operation | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over regional map] [Text] It was reported that heavy losses were inflicted on terrorists in an air operation the Turkish Armed Forces carried out this morning on the Mezi and Keryaderi regions of northern Iraq this morning. According to information obtained by t... |
FBIS3-38721_0 | Tripartite Consultations With Iran, Syria Begin Velayati Speaks on Iraq | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Text] The tripartite session of the foreign ministers of Iran, Syria, and Turkey began work in Istanbul, Turkey, this morning. The session will assess reginal issues particularly the crisis in northern Iraq and its effects on neighboring countries. According to a report by a correspo... |
FBIS3-38722_0 | Tripartite Consultations With Iran, Syria Begin Cetin, Velayati Hold News Conference | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Excerpts] The tripartite consultative meeting held with the participation of the Turkish, Syrian, and Iranian foreign ministers has ended in Istanbul. The meeting was held in camera. The foreign ministers of the three countries held a joint news con... |
FBIS3-38723_3 | Tripartite Consultations With Iran, Syria Begin Al-Shar' at News Conference | it is a vital issue. What really concerns us is not the quantity of water flowing into Syria and Iraq, but the failure to reach a firm agreement on water-sharing between Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. Al-Shar' added: It is true that the Turkish Government abides by a protocol that was signed in 1987. An agreement was reached... |
FBIS3-38724_0 | Tripartite Consultations With Iran, Syria Begin `Text' of Final Statement | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN ["Text" of statement issued by the foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, and Iran following a meeting held in Istanbul on 5 February] [Text] The foreign ministers of the Republic of Turkey, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the Syrian Arab Republic held their fifth tripartite consultatio... |
FBIS3-38725_1 | Cetin Interview on Iraq, Iran, Terrorism | no obstacles in the way of peace. ['Abduh] Allow me to move to the issue of water, which experts expect to be the source of wars in the next century. You accused Syria of using terrorism to serve its water interests. Does this mean that Turkey intends to use water as a weapon to confront its neighbors? [Cetin] We have ... |
FBIS3-38725_5 | Cetin Interview on Iraq, Iran, Terrorism | listen directly to the Kurds or their proposals for a solution. Indeed, Turkey is searching for a solution to the problem beyond its border, making threats against neighboring countries. What is your comment? [Cetin] The Turkish Government realizes that the essence of the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] terrorism stem... |
FBIS3-38725_6 | Cetin Interview on Iraq, Iran, Terrorism | the various academies are involved in a broad dialogue on the proposed or possible solutions to the problem of backwardness in southeast Turkey to end PKK terrorism. ['Abduh] Some human rights organizations have accused the Turkish security forces of burning down and destroying (1,000) villages in southeast Turkey and ... |
FBIS3-38726_0 | PKK Reportedly Moving to Iran, Armenia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara--Officials in the Turkish capital suspect the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) may be moving its forces from northern Iraq to Iran or even Armenia following last Friday's [28 January] air strikes on Zhalah. The development is expected to put more pressure on Ankar... |
FBIS3-38727_1 | `Secret Flights' Transport Arms, Militants to Yerevan | land in Yerevan. The four flights weekly between Odessa and Aleppo "during the off season" drew the attention of the officials. They had the Tupolev-154 aircraft, which are capable of accommodating 164 passengers, followed on radar and established that they landed in Yerevan after crossing through Turkey's airspace. Me... |
FBIS3-38730_0 | Daily Views U.S. Lifting of Embargo Against SRV | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Nathalie Mattheiem: "Washington Makes a Gesture Toward Hanoi"] [Excerpts] Wasington -- In lifting the U.S. trade embargo on Vietnam -- President Clinton has finally overcome the political, historical, and personal obstacles to the measure which business circles wanted. T... |
FBIS3-38740_1 | Mayhew To Propose New Political Settlement | be long before the bombs and bullets -- from loyalist as well as republican paramilitaries -- add more names to the death roll. Sitting in his elegant office in Belfast's Stormont Castle, Sir Patrick Mayhew, the Northern Ireland secretary, was concerned with these realities. In an hour-long interview he insisted the An... |
FBIS3-38742_3 | Minister Comments on Pergau Project, Aid Programs | government, poverty reduction, human development, to improve the status of women, and to tackle environmental problems. These objectives are all in the long-term interests of Britain. We need a more stable, prosperous, open world economy. Many of the most effective ways of helping achieve these objectives also help Bri... |
FBIS3-38744_1 | Ending SRV Embargo `Lays Ghosts' of U.S. Defeat | patiently followed the general road map laid out by George Bush, another president who, in the first flushes of victory after the Gulf War, must surely have been tempted also to come to terms with Vietnam. America's Vietnam casualty list is long indeed, since President John Kennedy's fateful steps to contain the commun... |
FBIS3-38749_0 | SPD Politician Calls For Bombing Serbian Positions | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Hamburg (DPA) -- Hans-Juergen Wischnewski, politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany [SPD] and former minister of the chancellery, has come out in favor of bombing Serbian positions as a reaction to the grenade attack on Sarajevo. In the ZDF [Second German Television ... |
FBIS3-38766_0 | Major, Reynolds To Review Ulster Progress | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Richard Savill report from Belfast: "Major and Reynolds To Meet in London"] [Text] Mr Major and Mr Albert Reynolds, Irish Prime Minister, will meet in London this month to redouble their efforts to achieve peace in Northern Ireland following the Downing Street declaration on the futu... |
FBIS3-38775_4 | * Finance Minister, Paper View 1994 Budget Proposal * Health, Jobless Spending Fight | Lonnroth also called for radical new thinking aimed at creating new jobs in such areas as environment and education. Anne Wibble delightedly drew attention to the budget's unique appendix on the environment, but he dismissed it as being as good as worthless since it made no proposals and provided no funds. ------------... |
FBIS3-38799_0 | UN Envoy Says Ankara Prompted ICO Communique | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] The pressure is on to use military force in the wake of the massacre that occurred in Sarajevo last weekend and resulted in the death of 68 people. At Turkey's initiative, the Islamic Conference Organization [ICO], which is composed of 52 Islamic countries, is calling on the UN... |
FBIS3-38803_0 | Turkish, German Parliamentarians Discuss PKK | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara, Feb 7 (A.A) -- Talks between Turkish and German delegations headed by Turkish Parliament Speaker Husamettin Cindoruk and his German counterpart Rita Sussmuth ended in Ankara on Monday [7 February]. AA was told that the two country delegations discussed the activities of... |
FBIS3-38830_1 | `Intense Consultations' Continue | the 22-month-old war appears to have stung Western nations into moving ahead with a broader purpose: to finally end the siege of the predominantly Moslem Bosnian capital. European Community foreign ministers on Monday called for the immediate lifting of the siege "using all the means necessary, including the use of air... |
FBIS3-38864_0 | Polls Survey Referendum Vote on EU Membership Mood `Favorable' Now | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Conrad Seidl report: "Turn of the Mood in Favor of EU"] [Text] Linz -- The mood in favor of Austria's joining the European Union (EU) has never been as favorable as it is now. This succinct conclusion is drawn by Werner Beutelmeyer, head of the Market Institute in Linz, from the poll ... |
FBIS3-38866_0 | Ulster Peace Proposals To Remain `Secret' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Phillip Johnston, political correspondent, and Richard Savill in Belfast: "Ulster Peace Ideas To Be Kept Secret"] [Text] Proposals aimed at pushing forward the search for a political settlement in Northern Ireland are to remain secret while ground for possible agreement is explore... |
FBIS3-38872_0 | Ulster Peace Proposals To Remain `Secret' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Phillip Johnston, political correspondent, and Richard Savill in Belfast: "Ulster Peace Ideas To Be Kept Secret"] [Text] Proposals aimed at pushing forward the search for a political settlement in Northern Ireland are to remain secret while ground for possible agreement is explore... |
FBIS3-38881_3 | Poll Indicates Low Approval for CDU/CSU | CDU/CSU can turn these figures around as much as they want: At the moment, the coalition is so far removed from a majority among the population as Helmut Schmidt with his Social-Liberal team in the past. Together with the Free Democratic Party of Germany [FDP] (8 percent), the CDU/CSU would get 42 percent of the votes.... |
FBIS3-38900_2 | Newspaper Views Ahtisaari Election Victory | than boys in senior high school, more women than men in colleges. Growing numbers of women are living in one-person households and growing numbers of women are shouldering an often heavy economic and social responsibility for their own lives. Why should they not help themselves to their share of political life? More th... |
FBIS3-38919_1 | Repercussions From Intervention in Bosnia Viewed | massacre of civilians in Sarajevo last Saturday [5 February] took Washington and the strong ones in the European Union [EU] by surprise at a time when, after two years of regressions and contradictions, the Western powers seemed to be formulating a joint course toward the confrontation in Bosnia: The United States had ... |
FBIS3-38930_0 | Germany's Suessmuth Concludes Contacts | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] German Bundestag President Rita Suessmuth has stated that violence and terror cannot achieve any political aims and added that only stopping the bloodshed can achieve the development of cultural identity. Concluding her contacts in Turkey, Sue... |
FBIS3-38934_0 | PKK Militants Claim Zhalah Camp Undamaged | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Selin Caglayan, Faruk Balikci, and Saban Sevinc report: "The PKK Is Reluctant To Leave Zhalah"] [Excerpt] A team from HURRIYET has succeeded in traveling to the Zhalah Camp in northern Iraq, which was bombed by Turkey last week. The Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] militants were rel... |
FBIS3-38965_0 | Tindemans Criticizes EU `Inability' in Bosnia | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article signed RHR (JWI): "European People's Party, PPE, Severely Criticizes `Inability' of Twelve in Bosnia"; as released by Brussels BELGA Database] [Text] Strasbourg, 8 Feb (Belga) -- Leo Tindemans, president of the European Parliament's Christian Democrat group, on Tuesday [8 Febr... |
FBIS3-38972_1 | Andreatta Warns Against Building `New Walls' | achieved by the West thanks to the determination and cooperation of all Western countries. "The disappearance of the Soviet Union may have given the impression that this close cooperation is no longer indispensable. That is a mistaken impression," he said. Andreatta went on to warn against a growing "nationalisation of... |
FBIS3-38974_0 | Italian Doctors in Sarajevo | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Italian Doctors Treat Victims of Bosnia War"] [Text] Rome, 7 Feb (ANSA) -- Twelve people among more than 200 wounded in Sarajevo Saturday [5 February], when a mortar round killed 68 people in the city's marketplace, are expected to arrive in Italy today for hos... |
FBIS3-38978_0 | Applicant Countries Reject EC Position on Agriculture | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Membership Negotiations Confirm Differences With Four Applicant Countries"; as released by Brussels TEXTLINE database] [Text] The new phase of membership negotiations between the Community and the four applicant countries, which were held this Tuesday [8 Februa... |
FBIS3-38982_8 | Adams Visit `Crippled Special Relationship' | a measure of the state of relations between the countries that this was not automatically granted. Instead, at the last minute and sandwiched between other meetings, a grudging 10 minutes was given to Major. Clinton listened to the case but, to the prime minister's disappointment, made no promises. In Washington, some ... |
FBIS3-38984_0 | Bonn `Will Not Tolerate' Islamic Extremists Crimes | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- The Federal Government has assured Algeria that it will not tolerate criminal acts by Islamic fundamentalists. As the Bonn Foreign Ministry reported on Tuesday [8 February], FRG Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel promised this in Brussels on Monday during a meeting with... |
FBIS3-39012_0 | Problems Caused by U.S. Interest Policy Viewed | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Article by Thomas Schmitt: "More Problems for the Bundesbank"] [Text] Trade in foreign exchange is insecure. After the United States increased interests, the dollar abruptly jumped up three pfennigs. Since then, however, it has remained at 1.76 German marks [DM]. Once more, rumors are... |
FBIS3-39017_0 | Left Extremists Threaten Opponents With Violence | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Peter Scherer report: "Manhunt With Video Films"] [Text] Frankfurt/Main -- German left-wing extremists are now using secretly made video films against their potential terrorism victims. The "black films" were produced, as the extremists claim themselves, at a high cost, and show "pers... |
FBIS3-39027_1 | Daily Sees Conflicting Fisheries Interests Within EU | racking France in a context comparable to last winter's illustrates the failings of a European Union structure which -- treaties, regulations, and summits notwithstanding -- is more interested in lofty principles than in the daily life of men. Fishing is one of the sectors which are being shaken up by the globalization... |
FBIS3-39032_0 | PDS Economist Outlines Economic Program | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Giacomo Bonessa report: "Occhetto: `League Comrades: Turn to Me'"] [Excerpt] [passage omitted] These are the details of the prestigious game that PDS [Democratic Party of the Left] economist Visco has played. Decentralize Tax Yields -- Taxes will not be decided and collected by the g... |
FBIS3-39053_1 | Iran's `Reactionary' Activities Reported | b. Organization of meetings to enlighten Turkish citizens on the Islamic Revolution. c. Organization of the activities of Iranian students who study in Turkey. d. Organization of the legal or illegal travel of Turkish citizens who sympathize with Iran's views to Tehran to receive religious training. e. Establishment an... |
FBIS3-39059_0 | Owen `Very Skeptical' About Bosnia Cease-Fire | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article signed SM/HS: "Meeting in Geneva of Countries Neighboring Former Yugoslavia. Satisfaction of European Union Mediator David Owen"; as released by Bern ATSA/SDAA database] [Text] Geneva, 9 Feb (ATS) -- Mediator David Owen said on Wednesday [9 February] evening that he is very sa... |
FBIS3-39060_0 | States Neighboring Ex-Yugoslavia Meet in Geneva Austria Supports Military Intervention | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Eric Frey report: "Bosnia Conference With Neighboring States"] [Text] For the first time since the outbreak of the Balkans conflict, the neighboring states of the former Yugoslavia were officially involved in the search for a peaceful settlement on Wednesday [9 February]. At the invit... |
FBIS3-39071_0 | FRG's Kinkel Details Support for NATO in Bosnia | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Claus Gennrich report: "Germany Is Not Merely a Spectator"] [Text] Bonn, 10 February -- Chancellor Kohl discussed the decision of the NATO Council with U.S. President Clinton on Wednesday night [9 February]. Kohl assured Clinton of German support for the position of the alliance, aime... |
FBIS3-39071_1 | FRG's Kinkel Details Support for NATO in Bosnia | of the Juppe-Kinkel plan. This concept is still being pursued. "Germany is not merely a passive spectator." In view of Germany's size and responsibility, Germans are participating in observer missions of the European Union. German pilots are taking part in the airlift for Sarajevo and the supply of other Bosnian towns ... |
FBIS3-39071_2 | FRG's Kinkel Details Support for NATO in Bosnia | to Kinkel, the talks focused on how the "political process" might be revived through cooperation between the European Union and the United States on the NATO decisions. Bonn officials noted that Washington wants to assume a "more active role" and "participate in the political procedures." The "European plan of action" ... |
FBIS3-39086_0 | Neighbors of Ex-Yugoslavia Prepare Security Paper | Language: German Article Type:BFN [DER STANDARD report: "Vienna Increasingly Involved in Mediation"] [Text] Geneva -- In the future Austria will be more involved than before in the international mediation in the Bosnian conflict. On Wednesday [9 February], at a conference of the seven neighboring states of ex-Yugoslavi... |
FBIS3-39090_0 | UK MEP's Oppose Draft EU Constitutional Provisions | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Christopher Lockwood report: "Tory Euro-MPs Fight Threats to Sovereignty"] [Text] Strasbourg -- The EC Centre-Right group to which Britain's Conservative Euro-MPs [MEP's] are affiliated yesterday tabled a draft constitution that is likely to be embarrassing in the run-up to the June ... |
FBIS3-39091_0 | Social Opt-Outs May Undermine UK's EU Position | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Rory Watson article: "London Opt-Outs Dent Brittan's Job Prospects"] [Text] The opt-outs which British Prime Minister John Major gleefully negotiated from the Maastricht Treaty may, three years on, come back to sabotage the chances of a British politician succeeding Jacques Delors as... |
FBIS3-39113_4 | Dailies Discuss Military Troops in Bosnia Intervention Assailed | or for the difference between two of them? And with whom and whose behavior should it take sides -- with the Muslims, the Croats, and the Serbs, every one of whom is tactically superior in another place and at another time? To all these questions there is no clear answer to justify a serious military intervention. Whoe... |
FBIS3-39114_3 | Dailies Discuss Military Troops in Bosnia Intervention Urged | Sarajevo, the protection zones, and other endangered areas in Bosnia-Herzegovina." On the weekend, UN Secretary General Butrus-Ghali called on NATO to prepare for air strikes at Serbian positions. Everyone knows that bombing the artillery positions in the mountains around Sarajevo or firing missiles at the besiegers of... |
FBIS3-39116_0 | Rejects Russian Hegemony Claims | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel by Karl-Ludwig Guensche; place and date not given: "Kinkel: Yeltsin Must Take Certain Things Into Consideration"] [Text] [Guensche] Minister, the characteristic feature of Germany's Russia policy is the motto "massive aid to strengthen the ... |
FBIS3-39126_0 | Fishermen Blockade Southern Ports To Protest Imports | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Marseille, France, Feb 14 (AFP) -- Fishermen started a dawn blockade of four ports in southern France Monday [14 February] as fishermen throughout France attacked lorries suspected of carrying cheap imports of foreign fish. Around 15 fishing boats blocked access to the ports of... |
FBIS3-39161_0 | PKK Claims Responsibility for Bombing | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara, Feb 12 (AFP) -- A policeman and 19 Kurdish separatist rebels have been killed in a skirmish with security forces at Silopi, near Turkey's border with Iraq, local officials said Saturday [12 February]. A group from the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) fell into an ambush Fri... |
FBIS3-39162_1 | PKK's ARGK Gives Casualty Figures for 1993 | 868 policemen, counterguerrillas, agents, collaborationists, and civil servants were killed and some 343 were wounded. A total of 1,056 village guards, including 16 village guard chiefs, were killed. Some 674 of them were wounded. Some 881 Turkish special warfare fighters were detained and 36 soldiers were captured. Th... |
FBIS3-39163_0 | Changes in PKK Command, Possible Peace Offer Reported | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Sinan Onus] [Text] Ankara--It has been learned that the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] will replace its provincial commanders in the near future. The provincial commanders in Zhalah [northern Iraq and western Iran], Botan [region around Hakkari], and Amed [region around D... |
FBIS3-39164_0 | Army, PKK Clash in Cizre Using Heavy Weapons | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara -- Security forces and militants of the outlawed Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) fought for hours in the border town of Cizre this week, as tension reached a peak during a state campaign to repopulate the settlement. Local sources told the TURKISH DAILY NEWS that two pe... |
FBIS3-39165_0 | `Stalemate' With Syria on Terrorism Viewed | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Column by Sedat Ergin: "Stalemate in the Talks With Syria on Terrorism" -- all punctuation as published] [Text] Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shar' conveyed similar views to Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin and Prime Minister Tansu Ciller during the tripartite summit in Istanbul on F... |
FBIS3-39165_1 | `Stalemate' With Syria on Terrorism Viewed | cannot conclude an agreement with your country at the present time. This state of affairs must be removed. No anxiety must exist over security. Under the existing conditions, concluding an agreement on transnational waters may be interpreted as a step linked with terrorist activities. That would be wrong. A problem doe... |
FBIS3-39168_4 | Papandreou Discusses Macedonia, Bosnia, U.S. Ties | forget this. There are tremendous responsibilities in this. Since 16 December [1991], the course has been charted. Now we have military intervention to implement peace. It is an incongruous scheme. The military intervention has no goal. What is the goal of the intervention? Is it to strike at one of the three parties t... |
FBIS3-39201_1 | Most Obstacles to EU Membership Seen Removed | is especially important to an electorate who, in 1978, voted against commissioning a nuclear reactor near Vienna. In addition, agreement has been reached on the regional fund and relative financial benefits. Arrangements with Japan worth 62 billion schillings ($5bn) on Austrian-made components in imported Japanese cars... |
FBIS3-39209_0 | Secret Services' Cloak of Secrecy Criticized | Language: Danish Article Type:BFN [Report by Ib Konrad Jensen, Jens P. Skaarup: "Police Intelligence Service Is `Top Secret' -- Even German Legislation Is Stamped `Confidential' at Meetings"] [Text] The Folketing and the PET [Police Intelligence Service] intend to lift a corner of the heavy veil of secrecy with plans f... |
FBIS3-39211_0 | Serbia's Milosevic Asks Greece To Mediate Bosnia Conflict | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [Text] Foreign Minister Karolos Papoulias will meet with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade tomorrow in his capacity as president of the European Union's Foreign Ministers Council. Government spokesman Evangelos Venizelos announced Mr. Papoulias' one-day visit, noting that... |
FBIS3-39214_2 | Hopes NATO Ultimatum Remains Warning | surprised our Western partners. [Van Velthem] What did you say to your NATO hosts concerning their recent ultimatum addressed to the Serbian forces in Bosnia? [Zhelev] I see this initiative as remaining within the framework of measures to achieve a peaceful settlement. It is the final stage in such a process and I hope... |
FBIS3-39216_7 | Kohl Views Future of European Union | international public -- in particular in view of the spread of organized crime and the international drug mafia. We must assume that, in 1993, the drug mafia has smuggled an amount into Europe -- primarily, of course, into the hard-currency countries -- that corresponds to the budget of the Kingdom of Belgium. One need... |
FBIS3-39218_1 | EC Action Plan Proposes Expanded Police Cooperation | considering how to pool national information on everything from terrorism to traffic offences to divorce settlements. According to a confidential action plan already agreed by the 12 governments, Europol's remit is to expand from monitoring the drugs trade to dealing with illegal immigrants, pollution and traffickers i... |
FBIS3-39225_1 | EU Transportation Ministers Discuss `Swiss Issue' | February] in Athens. During the informal Council, they assessed the state of the negotiating mandate with Switzerland. The European ministers feel in particular that "the debate on the issue of the transit of Community vehicles weighing more than 28 tonnes must be resumed." The draft negotiating mandate drawn up by the... |
FBIS3-39251_0 | Major on Fifth Anniversary of Rushdie Fatwa | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Sian Clare, PRESS ASSOCIATION lobby correspondent] [Text] The Prime Minister today marked the fifth anniversary of the late Ayatollah Khomeyni's death threat to author Salman Rushdie by warning Iran it could not enjoy "full and friendly relations" with the rest of the world until ... |
FBIS3-39252_0 | Clarke on EU Monetary, Economic Integration | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Interview with British Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke before his visit to France by LE FIGARO correspondent Jacques Duplouich in London on 7 February -- first paragraph is LE FIGARO introduction] [Excerpts] Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke today arrives in Paris ... |
FBIS3-39266_1 | * Post-GATT Situation Discussed by Sector * Agricultural Sector Assessed | for its part, will be reduced by 36 percent in value. The reduction commitments will not apply to the "less-developed countries." A first assessment can be made. The Americans emerge from the agreement as the principal winners, inasmuch as their system of subsidies is not altered by the final document. This is because ... |
FBIS3-39268_0 | * Post-GATT Situation Discussed by Sector * Maritime Transportation Reviewed | Language: French Article Type:CSO [Unattributed article: "An Ominous Status Quo"] [Text] The agreement reached in December does not include any decision pertaining to the maritime transportation sector. The signatories of the GATT have begun a new round of negotiations on this single issue. An agreement should be reach... |
FBIS3-39274_0 | * Post-GATT Situation Discussed by Sector * Ministry Document Summarized | Language: French Article Type:CSO [Unattributed article: "The Industry Ministry's Document: Sensitive Areas"] [Text] When he met with the press last Wednesday [12 January], Gerard Longuet took the opportunity to set forth a first assessment of the results obtained for France in the course of the Uruguay Round negotiati... |
FBIS3-39291_1 | Expanded Too Fast | of policemen in the PET has risen from 33 to 242. That represents an increase of 733 percent. By comparison, the police force as a whole has grown by only 153 percent over the same period, figures reached by SONDAGS POLITIKEN's study of the police staff analyses. The more policemen employed at the PET, the greater the ... |
FBIS3-39301_2 | Committee Chairman Interviewed on Kurdish Struggle | the Kurdish and Cypriot struggles, Yeoryiadhis says: "You have answered this question yourself ... [ellipsis as published] There is no struggle and this is why I insist that since we are not fighting, we must at least help those who fight for us. It may seem unlikely that the Turkish Army in Cyprus will either be block... |
FBIS3-39301_3 | Committee Chairman Interviewed on Kurdish Struggle | people's self-rule. It does not try to secure help from foreign countries so it does not become dependent. Foreign help causes dependence. We have the example of the Iraqi Kurds. Their continuous dependence caused the Kurdish people in Iraq to be destroyed. "Kurdish assistance mainly comes from the Kurdish people thems... |
FBIS3-39306_1 | Daily Summarizes Turkey-Azerbaijan Agreement | territorial integrity, including the nonviolation of each other's borders, in accordance with the UN Charter. b. The two sides will quickly establish the mechanisms required to promote cooperation in the political, economic, cultural, social, and other fields with a view to further strengthening their relations. c. The... |
FBIS3-39309_0 | Increased Incidents of Human Rights Violations Noted | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Sinan Yilmaz] [Text] Ankara--Turkey's human rights record has suffered another blow with an increasing number of deaths and abuses occurring in the past year, according to a recently issued report by the Ankara-based Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD). In announcing the... |
FBIS3-39315_2 | Bulgaria's Zhelev Signs NATO Document 14 Feb Speaks at Ceremony | for Russia to become committed to European security, without encouraging the imperial ambitions of certain would-be dictators," Mr. Zhelev said. Speaking of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, President Zhelev said they were a challenge to Bulgaria's security and caused -- through the international sanctions -- for... |
FBIS3-39339_1 | Brittan Interviewed on GATT, Mediterranean Issues | set out my ideas on the EU's everyday affairs. [Bassets] You and Mickey Kantor have presented the GATT final agreement very well, but the agreement on services is not substantial. Audiovisual products have been excluded. One might say it is like the Maastricht Treaty, with more exceptions than rules. [Brittan] I do not... |
FBIS3-39339_4 | Brittan Interviewed on GATT, Mediterranean Issues | of a loss of weight and influence. Do you believe that this is well-founded? [Brittan] There are two different points in your question. One is the aim on which the Community should concentrate now, and the other is the specific countries' rights and influence. The Commission has traditionally supported the small countr... |
FBIS3-39341_0 | Commissioner `Hopeful' on Schengen Agreement | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Statement by Vanni D'Archirafi on Delay in Schengen Agreement"; as released by Brussels TEXTLINE database] [Text] In a statement on the new delay in enforcement of the Schengen Agreement on the abolition of controls on people at borders, European Commissioner R... |
FBIS3-39347_0 | Human Rights Reports Criticize Ulster Security Forces | Language: English Article Type:BFN [David Sharrock report: "U.S. Report Attack Ulster Security Forces"] [Text] Belfast -- The role of the security forces in Northern Ireland is strongly criticised in an official United States report to be shown to President Clinton before his meeting with John Major this month. Two oth... |
FBIS3-39349_1 | Newspapers Consider Current UK, U.S. Relations Relations Worst `Since Suez' | not only admired her when she was prime minister but still admire her. That is why her picture is on that flier. The Tories, when they ditched Mrs Thatcher, may possibly have been doing the right thing by their party, and for its fortunes in Britain. But they were throwing away a great asset in international relations,... |
FBIS3-39354_2 | Most Obstacles Removed | NATO and CSCE. Austria intends to make a full contribution and to show solidarity with its partners. Despite this progress, some hard-core issues are yet to be settled. The most delicate of these relate to agriculture, secondary residences and transit traffic. Several problems remain. Does the internal market come into... |
FBIS3-39357_0 | Daily Criticizes International Community's Bosnia Policy | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Paul De Bruyn commentary: "Price of Short-Sighted Policies and Lack of Courage"] [Text] Since NATO issued the ultimatum against the Serbs, which had become inevitable, an international political situation has arisen which shows parallels with the one just prior the Gulf war. Then, too,... |
FBIS3-39359_2 | Daily Comments on EU Expansion to Eastern States | future wars in Europe. The same approach is required for East Europe. This whole region is in a sort of hibernation. Rather than having governments representing a social contract which has been achieved from below, East Europe still has political structures and constitutions which are imposed from above, and leaders wh... |
FBIS3-39363_0 | Russian Minister Prefers KfW to EBRD | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report signed "hg": "Russia: Finance Minister Wants To Hold Course"] [Text] Frankfurt/Main, 11 February -- Russia will stick to the reform course even under the current, more difficult conditions and will strive for further progress in the negotiations on restructuring its old debts. ... |
FBIS3-39390_9 | PET Chief Quizzed on Operational Methods | anyway, we do not spend a lot. [POLITIKEN] Why is the size of the budget kept a secret when the numbers employed appear from the Commissioner's annual report? [Stampe] It is not appropriate to reveal anything about the size of the budget. People with a particular interest in our work must not be able to deduce the exte... |
FBIS3-39404_0 | Azerbaijani President's Support of PKK Criticized | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [All quotation marks as published] [Text] Azerbaijani President Geydar Aliyev, who is on an official visit to Turkey, has not abandoned his anti-Turkish approach. He concluded secret agreements with Russia on oil some time ago. It has now become apparent that he is supporting the Work... |
FBIS3-39407_0 | Turkey's Mentese Links PKK With Drug Trafficking | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Strasbourg, Feb 4 (A.A) -- Interior Minister Nahit Mentese presented a file of the outlawed separatist terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization which included the organization's relations with drug traffic, it was reported on Friday [4 February]. Mentese who is c... |
FBIS3-39408_0 | Official Disclosures on Zhalah Attack Questioned | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Column by Hadi Uluengin "The Aftermath of the Attack on Zhalah Camp"] [Excerpts] Either someone is lying or an effort is being made to distort the facts. One does not need to be an astrologer to realize this state of affairs. Studying the official statements and the chronology of the... |
FBIS3-39410_0 | Eighteen PKK Members Captured in Adana | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Eighteen members of the terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization, five of them women, have been captured in Adana. According to a statement issued by the Adana Governor's Office, it was determined that the suspects had participa... |
FBIS3-39415_2 | London, Dublin Agreement To Decide Ulster Future | exercise their right of self-determination, on the basis of consent, if that is their wish." Neither passage can give any comfort to rightwing nationalists at Westminster, let alone to die-hard unionists among Northern Irish Protestants. Such an explicit recognition by the UK of the legitimacy of the claims of Irish un... |
FBIS3-39431_0 | Daily Comments on Proposed EU Plan on Immigrants | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Boris Johnson: "Europe Faces Split Over Immigrant Workers"] [Text] Brussels -- The EC Commission is heading for a clash with Britain over plans to allow the nine million legally established immigrants within Europe the right to move and work freely across the continent. Pad... |
FBIS3-39431_1 | Daily Comments on Proposed EU Plan on Immigrants | right to move and work freely across the continent. Padraig Flynn, social affairs commissioner, will today unveil an audacious plan designed both to crack down on illegal immigrants and to give those already in Europe "a stake in society," EC officials said last night. The commissioner, a former Fianna Fail justice min... |
FBIS3-39444_0 | CBI Survey Gives `Upbeat Analysis' of Economy | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Philip Bassett report: "CBI Hails Recovery But Warns on Tax Burden"] [Text] Britain's economic recovery will not be halted by forthcoming tax increases, Howard Davies, Director General of the Confederation of British Industry [CBI], said last night. The CBI added that the recovery in... |
FBIS3-39464_0 | Statistics Show Xenophobic Crimes Increase | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- The number of crimes motivated by xenophobia has risen again after a temporary decline. As the Federal Government reported on Wednesday [16 February] in response to an inquiry by the Party of Democratic Socialism, the Federal Office of Criminal Investigations regis... |
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