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FBIS3-47860_0
Sirivut Comments on Diplomacy, Business
Language: Cambodian Article Type:BFN [Text] Prince Norodom Sirivut, deputy prime minister, has said that relations with Malaysia and Indonesia are vitally important since Cambodia never has any problems with those countries. Meeting with reporters, the prince said that the kingdom has received the credentials of ambass...
FBIS3-47866_3
Reportage on Economic Framework Talks With U.S. `Deadlock' Explained
U.S. pressure, ending up with a price to pay in the future." With the collapse of the cold war structure and the successful conclusion of GATT's new round of multilateral trade talks (Uruguay Round), Japan has taken the opportunity to try to shift its trade policy from a completely U.S.-oriented approach to that focusi...
FBIS3-47870_0
Reportage on Economic Framework Talks With U.S. Trade Group Reacts
Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Text] As of 18 January, the Communications Industry Association of Japan [CIAJ] (with Tadashi Sekizawa, president of Fujitsu Ltd., as chairman) submitted to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications written statements concernin...
FBIS3-47872_2
Paper Reports on FBIS Translation of Ozawa Book
pages of English text. The English translation is marked "For Official Use Only," indicating this is only to be used as internal reference material by the U.S. Government, apparently a move to avoid any copyright violations. The Japan That Can Say No was also translated in full in 1989. In the book Ishihara discussed "...
FBIS3-47874_0
MITI To Review Alleged Export Violation
Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Text] Regarding the alleged Coordinating Committee on Multilateral Export Controls (Cocom) violation by Yokohama Kikai Boeki [Yokohama Machinery Trading Co.] and other companies who have reportedly exported spectrum analyzers to North Korea, the Ministry of International Trade and I...
FBIS3-47887_2
EPA Official Urges End to Price Differential
Areas--As of November 1992 With Tokyo Commodity Price Levels Expressed as 100. New York London Paris Berlin Foodstuffs, 74 60 60 59 including liquor Durable goods 85 134 120 129 Clothing and 65 77 98 83 footwear Commodities 78 84 82 81 Land and related 54 90 88 83 services General services 81 97 104 90 Other 77 88 82 7...
FBIS3-47918_3
"Talk" Urges Self-Reliance, `Fortitude'
"Let us vigorously accelerate the socialist general march with the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and arduous struggle" -- this is a militant slogan that our people should uphold. Only when we uphold this slogan, can we thoroughly implement our party's revolutionary economic strategy and further glorify our-styl...
FBIS3-47924_0
Multilateral Approach Urged in Spratly Dispute
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Butch Franco] [Text] Multilateral cooperation among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) claiming the Spratly Islands is needed in solving the dispute over the oil-rich islands as part of confidence-building measures in Asia, an association of nongovernmen...
FBIS3-47925_0
Ople Urges ASEAN Defense Cooperation
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Olaf S. Giron] [Text] Sen. Blas Ople, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) yesterday to anticipate potential vacuums in the region and forge a new solidarity in defense cooperation. Ople discussed the major st...
FBIS3-47934_0
Industry Leader Views Call To Settle Auto Talks
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, Jan. 20 KYODO -- A top Japanese automobile industry leader expressed reservations Thursday [20 January] over calls to settle stalled Japan-U.S. talks on auto parts purchases before the bilateral summit in Washington next month. Yutaka Kume, chairman of the Japan Automobi...
FBIS3-47945_0
Political Reform Bills Approach Diet Vote SDPJ Members Urged Not To Defect
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, Jan. 20 KYODO -- Social Democratic Party [of Japan] Chairman Tomiichi Murayama said Thursday [20 January] he might resign if a possible rebellion by several SDP [SDPJ] legislators led to the breakdown of a political reform package in Friday's vote at a full House of Coun...
FBIS3-47971_3
Reportage on Midterm Conference Do Muoi Delivers Political Report, Part One
67 percent in 1991 to 17.5 percent in 1992, and then to 5.2 percent in 1993. The GDP shows an average annual increase of 7.2 percent, compared with the 1991-95 target of 5.5 to 6 percent. Agricultural production has developed in a relatively comprehensive manner. The food grain issue has been resolved satisfactorily. T...
FBIS3-47976_0
Gold Miners Said To Wound 42 Troops
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Hanoi, Jan 20 (AFP) -- Hundreds of Vietnamese gold miners armed with knives, sickles and sticks badly wounded 42 soldiers when they attacked 80 troops guarding a gold mine near Hoa Hai village, according to reports Thursday. The Saigon Newsreader quoted an official newspaper as...
FBIS3-48007_0
Minister Han Briefs President on Foreign Policy
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, Jan. 19 (YONHAP) -- Gathering information on high-tech industries and new products in advanced countries for Korean industry to better compete in the world market is a foreign policy goal for 1994, Foreign Minister Han Sung-chu said in his briefing on the new year's fore...
FBIS3-48009_4
Top 30 Business Groups Select Prime Companies
|Non-Metal |Ssangyong Oil Refinery, | | | |Buma Oil | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Mining Goods, | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Energy | | -----------------------------------------------------------------------...
FBIS3-48013_0
Commerce Minister Supports EAEC
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Commerce Minister Uthai Phimchaichon insisted yesterday that Thailand supports the Malaysian-promoted East Asia Economic Caucus (EAEC) because the organisation will improve cooperation in the region. Mr Uthai earlier met Malaysia's International Trade and Industry Minister, Dat...
FBIS3-48034_0
Palm Oil Sale Credit Signed With Burma
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Malaysia and Myanmar [Burma] have signed a memorandum of understanding [MOU] on the utilization of an export credit for the sale of Malaysian palm oil to Myanmar. Primary Industries Minister Datuk Lim Keng Yaik said under the MOU, Malaysia is to provide a U.S. $25 million credi...
FBIS3-48035_0
Singapore Minister: Need for More Malaysia Contacts
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Kuala Lumpur -- Foreign Minister Professor S. Jayakumar yesterday said that both Singapore and Malaysia should find ways of expanding contacts at all levels. Speaking to THE SUNDAY TIMES before flying home after a two-day visit, he said that such a move was necessary because of...
FBIS3-48044_0
Palm Oil Sale Credit Signed With Burma
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Malaysia and Myanmar [Burma] have signed a memorandum of understanding [MOU] on the utilization of an export credit for the sale of Malaysian palm oil to Myanmar. Primary Industries Minister Datuk Lim Keng Yaik said under the MOU, Malaysia is to provide a U.S. $25 million credi...
FBIS3-48045_0
Singapore Minister: Need for More Malaysia Contacts
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Kuala Lumpur -- Foreign Minister Professor S. Jayakumar yesterday said that both Singapore and Malaysia should find ways of expanding contacts at all levels. Speaking to THE SUNDAY TIMES before flying home after a two-day visit, he said that such a move was necessary because of...
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Comments on Wish for Foreign Aid
Language: Thai Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Khun Sa, president of the Shan State Restoration Council, spoke in an exclusive interview with PHUCHATKAN. He said that he sent letters to U.S. President Bill Clinton and Thai Prime Minister Chuan Likphai in October and asked for cooperation from the United States, the United N...
FBIS3-48066_0
Threat of Fines Causes Big Turnout at Rallies
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] CITIZENS faced a fine for non-attendance at mass rallies held across Burma during the past week, and schoolchildren risked automatic failure in their exams, said a western embassy source in Rangoon. The rallies, organised by the military government's new Union Solidarity and...
FBIS3-48069_1
Sihanouk Message on Health, Other Issues
illnesses, such as my veins and arteries which have hardened due to [words indistinct] and my heart disease. Using drugs that are too strong in this kind of medical treatment might affect my heart and so forth. A number of the most prominent PRC doctors, the very kind brothers, recently met and discussed new methods to...
FBIS3-48110_0
Electric Power Complexes Increase Production
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Pyongyang, January 15 (KCNA) -- The electric power producers in Korea are boosting the output to carry out the task put forward by the great leader President Kim Il-song in his New Year address. According to data available at the State Commission of the Electric Power Industry,...
FBIS3-48154_0
Officials Confirm DPRK Approach
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] North Korea's hardline communist regime is attempting to break the diplomatic ice with Australia, making an approach for the reestablishment of diplomatic links severed nearly 20 years ago. Australia is encouraged by the approach, but it is insisting there be firm progress on t...
FBIS3-48156_0
Government Provides Emergency Aid to Kenya
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Australia is providing A$1 million for emergency relief in Kenya. The aid is to help counter the effects of conflict and drought which have left an estimated one and a half million people in urgent need of assistance. Kenya also has around 400,000 refugees forced to flee from c...
FBIS3-48161_6
Reports on National Party Conference Continue Continuation of Part Two
and service and should be continued. Cooperatives can function on a larger scale, performing various branches of business and are not restricted within any administrative boundaries. Besides the capital contributed by members and the assets of the cooperatives, capital and labor from outsiders should be motivated. Memb...
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Business Council Submits Proposals
sectors of the IMT-GT to examine these existing conditions. The meeting hoped that the ministerial meeting would endorse the formation of this task force and that the relevant government agencies of the respective countries would extend the necessary cooperation and assistance to the task force, and ultimately give wei...
FBIS3-48236_0
Khmer Rouge Radio: `Over 20' Killed in Attack
Language: Cambodian Article Type:BFN [Text] The puppets of the Vietnamese communists and the two-headed government have ordered their forces to move from the west and east of Route 68. The forces are comprised of military trucks, artillery pieces, and infantry troops in an attempt to drive toward the liberated zones of...
FBIS3-48247_6
Deputy Cabinet Secretary Ishihara Interviewed Part One of Interview It Is Difficult To Comment on the "Controversial Personnel Affair" in the Ministry of International Trade and Industry
the ministries are feeling serious anxiety over the possibility that the most important portion of the administrative work, which, in Japan, is being performed by the bureaucrats as lifetime work, might be transferred to politicians. It Is Difficult To Comment on the "Controversial Personnel Affair" in the Ministry of ...
FBIS3-48248_0
Deputy Cabinet Secretary Ishihara Interviewed Part Two of Interview
Language: Japanese Article Type:BFN [Second installment of an interview with Nobuo Ishihara, deputy chief cabinet secretary, by local correspondent Yutaka Asahina; place and date not given; first paragraph is MAINICHI SHIMBUN introduction] [Text] Yutaka Asahina asked Nobuo Ishihara, who stands at the top of the bureauc...
FBIS3-48255_6
Automobile Sales Practices Restrict Foreign Cars The Market for Maintenance and Repair Parts Is Also Exclusionary
the dealer in his territory. Also, some manufacturers use the number of cars sold to customers from the dealer's territory, rather than the total number of cars sold, as the basis for rebates. In such cases, the dealer does not get a rebate on cars sold to customers from outside his territory, and so ends up losing inc...
FBIS3-48257_3
Challenges Facing Auto Industry Detailed The Competitiveness Gap Between Japan and U.S. Suddenly Narrows
that the sales price of the standard type equipped with both driver and passenger side airbags is thought to almost certainly be about $9,000, so it is less than the expensive $10,000 level. Unfortunately, exhibition of the Neon was delayed, but even so the topic of discussion was concentrated on U.S. cars. The amount ...
FBIS3-48289_1
Economists Discuss Economic Prospects Implementation of an Income Tax Cut and a Consumption Tax Hike The Method of Introducing Public Funds for the Writing Off of Bad Assets Held by Financial Institutions
Cut and a Consumption Tax Hike [Kato] A recent sharp drop in personal consumption has a lot to do with the negative assets effect -- a decrease in family assets due to the bubble economy's collapse. Worried about a decrease in their assets, people have hurriedly decreased their consumption and have increased their savi...
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Economists Discuss Economic Prospects Implementation of an Income Tax Cut and a Consumption Tax Hike The Method of Introducing Public Funds for the Writing Off of Bad Assets Held by Financial Institutions
how to implement "the outflow" of postal savings, since it is impossible to hold back "the inflow" of postal savings. At present, however, it is difficult to discuss the outflow of postal savings. For, when private loans by financial institutions do not increase because of their holding bad assets, or when small and mi...
FBIS3-48315_0
More Reaction to Reform Bills Rejection Noted `Political Turmoil' Affects Economy
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, Jan. 22 KYODO -- A rough ride is expected for the dollar next week as the political turmoil unleashed Friday [21 January] hurts the yen but boosts political pressure for a weak dollar. Dealers expect stocks and market interest rates to tumble, at least initially, in the ...
FBIS3-48332_1
1993 Vehicle Output `Sharpest Fall' in 19 Years
three straight years since the end of World War II. The Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said output totaled 11,227,545 vehicles, down 10.2 percent from the previous year, the second steepest fall in the postwar period following the 24.1 percent decline posted in 1947. Production of passenger cars fell for th...
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Hitachi, Mitsubishi Agree To Develop Chips
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tokyo, Jan. 19 KYODO -- Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Wednesday [19 January] they have agreed to join forces to develop flash memory chips, tipped as one of the boom semiconductor products of the 1990s. The two Japanese electronics concerns said they will join...
FBIS3-48403_0
Seoul Plans To Provide Financial Aid to PLO
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The government plans to provide financial aid to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) when a legitimate recipient body is set up, officials said yesterday. An official who refused to be identified said that the PLO is expected to set up an interim committee soon to recei...
FBIS3-48409_0
Mahathir Reportedly To Attend Nov APEC Session
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Jakarta, Jan 21 (OANA-ANTARA) -- Malaysian International Industry and Trade Minister Rafidah Aziz has ensured the presence of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed at the next meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to be held in Indonesia in November this year....
FBIS3-48483_34
* SANKEI Publishes Series on Defense Issues Present to the General Public Options for Defense Capabilities Over 30 Percent of Facilities Have Existed Since the Old Japanese Military Days
as education and training; 4) 10 percent for base countermeasures expenses such as support for U.S. Forces in Japan; 5) 4 percent for maintenance of facilities; and 6) 3 percent for research and development. The estimated budget for the next fiscal year will be 4.7311 trillion yen, reflecting a cut of 17.9 billion yen ...
FBIS3-48486_1
Article Views Defense Program Guidelines
mideighties, it gained confidence that it could repel foreign aggression in cooperation with the United States. At that time, no one paid attention to the idea demonstrated in the guidelines that Japan should repel an aggression on its own at the initial stage, and wait for U.S. help. Instead, an operational plan was f...
FBIS3-48517_1
Editorial Praises USDA Rallies
we are to prepare both the young and the old alike for their future tasks once the democratic system starts functioning full swing, we will have to prepare them for it. With that in mind, the leadership launched this social organization with the noble aims of working for the non- disintegration of the union, non-disint...
FBIS3-48538_0
Government Troops Accused of Poisoning Water
Language: Cambodian Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] People who have deserted their villages to take refuge in the mountains and forests in order to avoid the suppressive operations -- burning down villages, killing, and bullying -- by the Vietnamese communist puppets, have said that the two-headed government's troops in the...
FBIS3-48545_0
Students Arrested During Protest at DPR Building
Language: Indonesian Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Jakarta, 5 Jan -- Authorities from the Jakarta Police Headquaters have arrested 19 students while marching to the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Senayan, Jakarta on 4 January. The students, who called themselves the Action Front of Indonesian Youths (FAPI), i...
FBIS3-48575_0
U.S. `Debunking' of Russian Documents Hailed
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] A retired Vietnamese general at the center of American suspicion over prisoners of war on Tuesday welcomed the U.S. report debunking two controversial Soviet documents on the issue. General Tran Van Quang, alleged author of remarks reported in one of the documents, said the stu...
FBIS3-48606_1
Further Reportage on Visit by Bosnian President ANTARA on Suharto-Izetbegovic Talks
called for an international conference to replace the Geneva talks which has so far failed to settle the crisis in Bosnia. According to Murdiono, Suharto welcomed Izetbegovic's effort to try to lift the UN arms embargo on Bosnia who is less equipped than the more militarily powerful Serbia and Croatia. "The president a...
FBIS3-48614_0
U.S. Senators Urge Lifting of Trade Embargo
Language: Vietnamese Article Type:BFN [Text] On 25 January, a day before the debate at the U.S. Senate on the lifting of the trade embargo against Vietnam, former U.S. war veterans, who are now Senate members, called for the support of a resolution demanding the lifting of the trade embargo to help solve the fate of mo...
FBIS3-48619_0
Cease-Fire Guidelines Signed
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] MNLF [Moro National Liberation Front] Chairman Nur Misuari finally signs the proposed guidelines and ground rules for the implementation of the cease-fire agreement. The government chief negotiator Manuel Yan describes the signing of the document as an encouraging development f...
FBIS3-48659_1
South's Agricultural Tax Plans Denounced
itself with the U.S. masters. In addition, the South Korean people have long urged the puppet authorities to come up with a policy to prevent river pollution. The rascals received considerable amounts of money from intermediary waste disposal companies to overlook the discharge of poisonous industrial wastes into the N...
FBIS3-48688_1
`Deadlock' in Bilateral Framework Talks Viewed `Flexibility Needed'
to numerical aims with penalties attached. In a business world operating under a market economy, it is unlikely that government authorities would conclude such a suicidal agreement. Should that ever happen, it would lead to managed trade. Regarding this point, many noted scholars in the United States have expressed opp...
FBIS3-48689_1
`Deadlock' in Bilateral Framework Talks Viewed Relations `Becoming Tense'
attending the talks as Japanese delegates, while lawyers, scholars, economists, and former bankers in Wall Street are attending the talks as the U.S. delegates. It is said that the U.S. delegates are acting based on their consensus of placing importance on trade results and speaking in unison at the talks. The unity of...
FBIS3-48691_0
Expert Advises on U.S. Patent Disputes
Language: Japanese Article Type:CSO [Article by Hiroyuki Kamano, lawyer: "Ways To Survive Japan-U.S. Patent Disputes"] [Text] Armed with "patents," U.S. public and private sectors have begun their assault. How can Japanese corporations protect themselves from having to pay huge damage claims? Under the Clinton administ...
FBIS3-48691_9
Expert Advises on U.S. Patent Disputes
high value that intellectual property demands is found in the system of triple damages awards. In fact, in Sega's case, the company faced the threat of having to pay three times the amount of actual damages incurred. This system of triple damages awards is uniquely American and has a punitive aspect to it. In U.S. pate...
FBIS3-48691_15
Expert Advises on U.S. Patent Disputes
through such means, as a nation, we must prepare to develop alternate means. And to that end, there will have to be substantial increases in the budgets of our universities and national research institutes. We should remind ourselves of the 1980's, when official development assistance (ODA) was steadily increased even ...
FBIS3-48703_2
MONTSAME Reviews Press for 26 Jan
and lines of monetary policy for 1994 having been approved by the parliament. D. Molomjamts stresses that in the current year as the Mongolbank as the commercial banks are to assign the most of credits being allotted to the support of the production. According to him, certain challenges are evoked by the mutual indebte...
FBIS3-48728_6
Newspapers Comment on Deployment
by noting, "It is, therefore, effective for combat purposes to deploy the much-improved second stage Patriot missiles. The deployment of the type which was used during the Gulf war could give an impression that the United States is disposing of old stock. The deployment of the Patriot should not be viewed only from the...
FBIS3-48750_9
Vu Oanh Writes on Mass Motivation, Part 1
the people to subsist on. Now it is concerned about the question of how to clear up the surplus foodgrain and how to produce high quality rice for export. The pace of house construction and of neighborhood and urban renovation among the people has been very fast, far beyond the imagination of many people. The administr...
FBIS3-48753_1
Ambassador to Burma on Impact of Dam Projects
of the feasibility study an environmental impact assessment. Even now, there exists no agreement between the two countries on the implementation of a feasibility study of this project. 3. If and when there is a mutual agreement between Thailand and Myanmar regarding the Salwin hydroelectric project, the aforementioned ...
FBIS3-48754_0
Adviser Proposes South China Sea Growth Area
Language: English Article Type:BFN [By Manny Mogato] [Text] National Security Adviser Jose Almonte has proposed the creation of an economic growth area in the South China Sea as a confidence-building measure towards resolving territorial disputes over the oil-rich Spratly Islands. Almonte's proposal came in the wake of...
FBIS3-48788_3
Article on Issue of Nuclear Weapons in DPRK
American and European journalists and the world. Since the report is an official document that the Russian military, which continued to help North Korea's nuclear development, compiled on the basis of interviews with Russian engineers who returned home from North Korea, it is 100 percent reliable. In an interview with ...
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* Gotoda Discusses Political Restructuring
with so many gubernatorial and mayoral elections, you naturally begin to wonder whether it wouldn't be better to impose restrictions. That way, voters would be able to focus their attention again on national politics. [Matsuda] In planning its comeback, does the LDP have any strategies with regard to national policy? [...
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* Ozawa Tactics With Mass Media Analyzed Ozawa Has Obscured His Actions to the Degree That He Has Distanced Himself From Reporters Why Were Reporters Unable To Uncover Personnel Decisions Made Behind Closed Doors? How Will Reporters Assigned To Cover the Political Situation Perform News-Gathering Tasks?
by an unspecified large number of reporters. Moreover, because informal press conferences are composed of reporters belonging to an inner circle, there is little chance that off-the-record pledges will be violated, and if a pledge is broken and an article of attribution is published, an off-limit order is issued and th...
FBIS3-48824_2
Daily Views Significance of Goh's India Visit
not be untrue, but it is not the whole truth. The confluence of stars (to borrow Mr. Goh's phrase) demands certain objective conditions that were not present earlier. It has taken time and effort to develop the large industrial base, a huge pool of scientists and engineers, and a 200-million-strong middle class that ha...
FBIS3-48861_1
Tokyo Accused of `Narrow-Minded' Trade Stance
in view, officials in some quarters of the Foreign Ministry, including the Japanese Embassy in the United States, who watch Japanese-U.S. relations closely, have reportedly deepened their "concern about the growing feeling of distrust between Japanese and U.S. negotiators." In the framework trade talks, the United Stat...
FBIS3-48863_1
U.S. Presents New Demands at Auto Sector Talks
to certain demands, it is now faced with another problem in addition to the issue of setting "numerical targets." Regarding the 14-point demand that President Bush made during his visit to Japan, consultations have continued at the talks between Japanese and American experts specializing in auto standards and authoriza...
FBIS3-48888_1
* Kenichi Omae Views Political Change
ease in the information society of today. But putting the result in order and causing a safe landing is very difficult. Even with the Berlin wall, destroying was easy. But causing East Germany to have as soft a landing as West Germany was too difficult, so even Chancellor Kohl fell from the zenith of his popularity to ...
FBIS3-48891_14
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officials Profiled Administrative Vice Minister, Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Chief of Protocol
fans in MOFA by his sincere courtesy without the unapproachableness that is apt to exist in foreign service officers. The councilor is Yukio Takeuchi (1966) who served as private secretary to Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa (at the time). The counselor is Akimoto Takano (1966) who served in the handling of the private s...
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* Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officials Profiled Administrative Vice Minister, Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Chief of Protocol
counselor, who also can be called the director of the Secretariat for the Economic Affairs Bureau, is Yoshiki Mine (1967). The chiefs of the divisions are Kojiro Shiojiri (1972), chief of the First International Economic Affairs Division which is in charge of trade with the European Community (EC) and economic integrat...
FBIS3-48896_0
Comments on Settlement Chances
Language: Indonesian Article Type:BFN [Text] Speaking to newsmen at the Sukarno-Hatta International Airport on his return from a three-day visit to Yemen yesterday, Foreign Minister Ali Alatas expressed his opinion that the Bosnia-Herzegovina problem could probably be settled through the Nonalignment Movement, NAM and ...
FBIS3-48907_5
Berisha Answers Questions at News Conference
extremely important for Europe, as well as the world. Is it possible that the Zhirinovskiy phenomenon could be repeated in Eastern Europe? It could be repeated but not in a Russian context. If we were to analyze or take the moment [words indistinct] from the left to the right of a mass of people who are still preservin...
FBIS3-48910_0
Further Reaction to Zhirinovskiy Visit Reported Paper Interviews Zhirinovskiy
Language: Bulgarian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, leader of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party, by Vasko Gigov; place and date not given: "The Main Thing Is To Change Bulgaria's Political Leadership"] [Text] [Gigov] What, according to you, is the state of Bulgarian-Russian relations today? [Zhi...
FBIS3-48915_0
Ministry Denies Report on Kurdish Terrorists
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sofia, December 30 (BTA) -- The Ministry of the Interior tonight denied a story in the TEMPO magazine of Ankara, alleging that members of a Kurdish terrorist organization were based in Bulgaria. "The Ministries of Bulgaria and Turkey have signed a cooperation agreement and exch...
FBIS3-48966_0
Karadzic Assesses 1993, Expectations for 1994
Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Telephone interview with Radovan Karadzic, president of the republic of Srpska, by Momir Brkic in Belgrade "shortly before" the news program -- recorded] [Text] [Brkic] Good evening, Mr. President. [Karadzic] Good evening. [Brkic] Could you summarize for the listeners of Belgr...
FBIS3-48971_1
Pakistan's Sharif Urges Lifting of Arms Embargo
on the political and diplomatic front. "Of course, Bosnia must be given much more attention than the international community has done so far. The international community does not have a clear picture of Bosnia. I am referring to a section of the international community, which does not support the Bosnian cause in the w...
FBIS3-48986_5
Melescanu Discusses Ties With U.S., NATO
a circumstantial problem. We have overcome the stage in which political dialogue at the summit level was a question of reservations by the other side... [Terenche] How did the Americans react to the election results in the Russian Federation? [Melescanu] I arrived there when things had begun to calm down. I said that n...
FBIS3-48998_2
Finance Minister Views Economic Issues, EU
agriculture and transport. Otherwise the GDP would already be showing an increase. Special Support to Agriculture [Varga] How much loss does the UN embargo cause to Hungary? [Szabo] According to calculations, this now reaches $1.2 billion. However, it has to be added that $300 million arose in 1992 and this year's figu...
FBIS3-49001_1
Iliescu Addresses Nation in New Year's Message
consolidation, a first and decisive step toward what we have to perform from now on. At the foreign level, the year 1993 marked Romania's recognition as a factor of stability in this part of the world that is still beset by anxiety, conflicts, and explosive situations with serious and incalculable consequences. This ye...
FBIS3-49021_0
Russian Diplomat Views Relations
Language: Macedonian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Yuriy Petrovich Trushin, representative of the Russian Federation in Macedonia, by Moscow correspondent Mirce Adamcevski in Moscow; date not given: "Macedonian Policy -- the Future in the Balkans"] [Text] Moscow, December. [date as published] The Russian Federation ...
FBIS3-49028_1
MKDH Leader Distances Himself From Coexistence
Slovakia, because southern Slovakia is ethnically mixed, inhabited by both Slovaks and Hungarians. What we want to prevent is a further artificial "dilution" of these areas, so that the districts of Dunajska Streda and Komarno are not "tagged" as purely Slovak districts. In this way, the higher territorial entities wou...
FBIS3-49035_21
Tudjman Interviewed on Balkan Conflicts
really only a formal description, we should be saying the United States to be completely clear. But there are still joint efforts to bring an end to the war that are not only posing a threat to peace and preventing international order from being established but also creating a danger of conflicts between different civi...
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Tudjman Interviewed on Balkan Conflicts
of the UN understated or is this protection of peace being carried out incorrectly? [Tudjman] You see, we must be realistic in this respect. The crisis on former Yugoslav soil, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina, is one of the most overt, exacerbated, and convoluted ones, but it is not the only one. There are such crises...
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Tudjman Interviewed on Balkan Conflicts
right to fear? Are you afraid sometimes? [Tudjman] No. [long pause] I am a man who steeps himself in living history, who takes part in history, and in creating this history, if I can say so. From my early youth, as a ten-year-old boy I took part in carrying messages during the 6 January dictatorship [dictatorship impos...
FBIS3-49049_2
Secret Service `Expert' on Intelligence Issues
positions, but the clear-out was not as big as at the National Security Office. [Schmidt] Have the directions of intelligence work changed? [Expert] Essentially, they have. The former enemy turned into a friend and the former friend has turned into a suspicious country that is to be observed. Therefore, everything has ...
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Editorial Views Country's Image, Status
1989 revolution. That is the image of a neocommunist president who is leading a country immobilized by its obsolete structures. To alter this image is a very difficult thing. For this to happen, the international press would have to assume numerous risks, including that of contradicting its readers. Consequently, forei...
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Committee Hears Granic Report on Policy Goals
Areas] in Croatia. For the sanctions against Serbia to be suspended, the modus vivendi for Croatia should first be established, which implies a cease-fire, the opening of communications, and the reintegration of the Croatian areas under UN control. Regarding the negotiations on Bosnia-Herzegovina, the foreign minister ...
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Seselj Proposes Division of Macedonia
end to the war? [Seselj] I do not believe so, unfortunately. The Muslims are continually spurred on by the West and their appetites are growing. [Chobanova] But surely they have no forces to oppose and resist? [Seselj] They have obtained a lot of weapons. They delivered many weapons to them by air drops and they will t...
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Ganic Discusses Fighting, Peace Talks
medical aid. The Muslims are torn between the shelling and the freezing winter on the one hand and the shortage of supplies as a result of the repeated Serbian and Croatian attacks on the other hand. So what can we do in these conditions that are too tough for anybody to endure? The time has come for the Islamic countr...
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Article Criticizes Proposals Made in Geneva
of Europe" The European Union, which, it seems, is pretending to hold the key to the decision this time, presented secret demands for "all three sides." The Serbs are required to give 3 to 4 percent of the territory within the framework of the agreement made on the carrier "Invincible," to guarantee full freedom of mov...
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Sarajevo Shelling Leaves 39 Dead, 200 Wounded
Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] According to the information of the republican Health Care Headquarters, 141,605 people have been killed and 160,000 wounded in Bosnia-Herzegovina since the beginning of the war. In Sarajevo alone, 9,662 have been killed, while over 56,000 were wounded. During the Christ...
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Commission Supports Ratification of Concordat
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Warsaw, Jan. 5 -- The joint commission of the Polish Government and the Roman Catholic Church in Poland said after its debate on Wednesday that the government should urgently forward to the Sejm a draft law on the ratification of the concordat between Poland and the Holy See, a...
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Commission Supports Ratification of Concordat
Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Warsaw, Jan. 5 -- The joint commission of the Polish Government and the Roman Catholic Church in Poland said after its debate on Wednesday that the government should urgently forward to the Sejm a draft law on the ratification of the concordat between Poland and the Holy See, a...
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Bosnia-Croatia Talks Conclude in Vienna Joint Statement Described
Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] A joint statement was issued and a meeting between President Tudjman and President Izetbegovic was announced in Vienna at the talks between the Croatian and Bosnia-Herzegovina delegations headed by Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic and Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Si...
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Deputy Prime Minister on Territorial Division
Language: Czech Article Type:BFN [Interview with Deputy Prime Minister Jan Kalvoda by Roman Krasnicky; place and date not given: "I Am Afraid of People's Apathy"] [Text] Jan Kalvoda, deputy prime minister and chairman of the Civic Democratic Alliance [ODA], is a politician who, unlike the prime minister, unequivocally ...
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Ministry Spokesman Views NATO Integration
media and international public opinion. The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has acknowledged with particular interest the statements made by the U.S. representative at the United Nations, Mrs. Madeleine Albright, whereby she emphasizes that the United States rejects the idea of creating demarcation lines in Centra...
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Zhirinovskiy Aide on Plans To Rule Balkans
Language: Bulgarian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Stanislav Stoilov, "economic expert" of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party, headed by Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, by Valeriya Veleva at Sofia Airport; date not given: "I Shall Be President of the Balkans, and We Will Throw the Parties Into the Sea"] [Text] A few minutes...
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`Expected Secessionist Crisis' Viewed
a part in controlling the sea and the traffic in the wider Otranto area, especially when the lifting of the sanctions or a laxer regime of navigation and traffic is expected, as is constantly being announced in Belgrade. A more acceptable explanation has been put forward in the Montenegrin public -- that all this is a ...
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Walesa Laments West's `Caution' on NATO
Bloodless revolutions brought freedom to the peoples of central Europe. The Berlin Wall fell. The Warsaw Pact ceased to exist. The imperial Soviet Union fell apart, while on the ruins of the totalitarian system the previously enslaved peoples could rebuild their sovereignty. In the East new, independent states came int...
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Discusses `Partnership,' EC Integration
Language: Polish Article Type:BFN [Text] Warsaw, 5 Jan -- President Lech Walesa told a PAP journalist on 5 January that in his opinion only the combining of the U.S. plan for a "Partnership for Peace" with his proposals to "extend" Europe, meaning a fast integration of former communist countries with the European Commu...
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Comments on Yeltsin, NATO
insecure. But the West hesitates. NATO membership is not within easy reach. On the eve of the NATO summit, Warsaw is being very clear. [Walesa] By not letting us join NATO, the West is betraying and hurting itself. After the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union broke up, we thought that the West wanted a unified Europe, an...