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FBIS3-53608_0 | Saudi Arabian Ties Enter `New Phase' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed commentary] [Text] Saudi Minister of Higher Education 'Abd-al-'Aziz al- Khuwaytir, who is carrying Saudi King Fahd's message for Mr. Hashemi-Rafsanjani, called on the Iranian President Saturday evening. During the meeting, Mr. Hashemi-Rafsanjani pointed to regional issue... |
FBIS3-53616_0 | Visiting Azerbaijani Official on U.S. `Plots' Against Iran | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Jan. 17, IRNA -- Head of Azerbaijan's Academy of Sciences Salayev Elder Monday [17 January] said "selfish and baseless" propaganda of the U.S. and the west are aimed at hatching plots against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Speaking at the seminar on the process of develo... |
FBIS3-53620_0 | Foreign Ministry Official on Ties With South Africa | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Tehran Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran First Program Network in Persian at 1600 GMT on 17 January carries in its "World of Politics" program a recorded interview with Mohammad Mahdavi, Foreign Ministry director general for Africa, on relations with South Africa. In reply to a q... |
FBIS3-53622_0 | Accord With Ireland Positively Appraised | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] London, Jan. 14, IRNA -- The new memorandum of understanding, signed in Dublin this week, offers wide-ranging possibilities in numerous areas of expanding and diversifying economic cooperation between Ireland and the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to the memorandum, mutual... |
FBIS3-53623_1 | Khamene'i Addresses Islamic Guard Corps | rule in the Islamic Republic. Everything that has been done since Imam Husayn's uprising has been an introduction to today for you. All those scholars, thinkers, philosophers, and speakers; all those efforts and all the Crusader wars -- throughout it all, Islam was protected and conditions were prepared for today, so t... |
FBIS3-53625_0 | Paper Criticizes Besharati Decision To Ban March | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Unattributed commentary: "In the Margin of the Interior Minister's Remarks in Majles"] [Text] The esteemed Interior Minister Mr. Besharati's answer to a question by Rasht Deputy Elyas Hazrati about why students of the Unity Consolidation Bureau [UCB] were not allowed to stage a rally... |
FBIS3-53684_0 | Vatican Firm on Inalienable Rights, Jerusalem | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] A PLO delegation that visited the Vatican during the last three days, has reached an agreement on the setting up of a joint committee to define the existing bilateral relations between the organization [PLO] and the Vatican, in an official document. The Vatican spokesman conside... |
FBIS3-53693_0 | Al-Bashir Cites Reasons for U.S. `Hostility' | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Lieutenant General 'Umar al-Bashir, president of the republic, has described the foreign interference in Sudan's internal affairs as an obstacle to the settlement of the country's problems through dialogue. He said that the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development ... |
FBIS3-53699_0 | ICO Meeting on Bosnia-Herzegovina Concludes ICO Chief on Air Strikes, Troops in Bosnia | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] The three Bosnian factions and the international mediators will meet in Geneva again today in order once more to discuss the peace plan which splits Bosnia into three territorial entities. Today, the foreign ministers of eight Muslim countries will be in Geneva to lend their ... |
FBIS3-53700_0 | ICO Meeting on Bosnia-Herzegovina Concludes Statement Issued on Bosnia-Herzegovina | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Geneva, Jan 18, SPA -- Foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Conference have called for a just settlement of the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Members of a ministerial contact committee, who concluded a meeting in Geneva yesterday issued a statement on behalf of t... |
FBIS3-53702_0 | Arab League Chief Comments on Syrian-U.S. Summit | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Alexandria, 16 Jan (MENA)--Arab League Secretary General Dr. 'Ismat 'Abd-al-Majid has praised Egypt's leading contribution to a peaceful settlement in the Middle East and to Arab reconciliation and solidarity. Speaking to reporters in Alexandria last night, Dr. 'Abd-al-Majid ... |
FBIS3-53722_1 | `Document of Pledge and Accord' Outlined | to take the appropriate measures regarding this. Regarding the security and military aspect, the document affirms the need to remove all checkpoints inside and outside the cities, whether these checkpoints are affiliated with the Interior Ministry, Defense Ministry, or both ministries. The Interior Ministry will be res... |
FBIS3-53746_0 | Birri on Beirut-Damascus Summit, Geneva Summit | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Chamber of Deputies Speaker Nabih Birri has revealed that an expanded Lebanese-Syrian summit meeting will be held at 1100 tomorrow. He said that the Geneva Summit has placed the key in the lock but we must not be hasty and think that the doors have been opened. Speaker Birri met... |
FBIS3-53777_0 | KEYHAN Criticizes Egypt's Overtures to Tehran Egypt's Representative in Kerman | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Text] The head of the office in charge of Egypt's interests in Iran declared Egypt's willingness to expand relations and industrial and agricultural cooperation with Iran. Dr. Faraj met the Kerman governor general on Sunday [2 January] and said that in view of the many common denomin... |
FBIS3-53778_3 | KEYHAN Criticizes Egypt's Overtures to Tehran Commentary on Diplomatic Activity | comes to the minds of readers of this report is: What is the common factor between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the anti-Islamic Government of Egypt, that the head of its interests office was permitted to meet a governor general of a province far removed from the center? Is this not the same Egypt that has surpasse... |
FBIS3-53791_33 | Saddam Delivers Gulf War Anniversary Speech | Otherwise, the punishment of the criminals is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. God is great. For all those concerned among the Arab rulers, we say: All that you have done against the people of Iraq is something that angers God, his prophet, the believers, all free Arabs, those who keep their pledges before Go... |
FBIS3-53792_0 | ICO Meeting on Bosnia-Herzegovina Concludes Iran's Velayati Meets Bosnian President | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Text] The Islamic Conference Organization [ICO] Liaison Group session on Bosnia-Herzegovina concluded in Geneva with an 18-point statement. In it, the foreign ministers in the group expressed their opposition to the occupation of the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina by means of force,... |
FBIS3-53825_0 | Paper Accuses U.S. of Antifundamentalist Plans | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Report by Mahmud Bakri] [Text] Al-SHA'B has learned that the U.S. Administration has conveyed a memorandum to some regional Arab countries containing the details of a U.S. plan that aims to exterminate Islamic fundamentalists this year. According to the memorandum, the step will be co... |
FBIS3-53902_0 | Paper Accuses U.S. of Antifundamentalist Plans | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Report by Mahmud Bakri] [Text] Al-SHA'B has learned that the U.S. Administration has conveyed a memorandum to some regional Arab countries containing the details of a U.S. plan that aims to exterminate Islamic fundamentalists this year. According to the memorandum, the step will be co... |
FBIS3-53936_1 | Consequences of Communist-Islamic Victory Viewed | now it was Pakistan, supported by private Saudi networks, which had tried to impose its favorite in Kabul and we condemned it for that. But Pakistani policy has now changed; similarly, the Saudi Government has made a clear break with the extremists. Unfortunately, these positive gestures did not mark the end of foreign... |
FBIS3-53953_2 | Rafsanjani, IRIB Head View Media Role, Prospects | important and basic projects in the country, including the construction of the biggest dams, power generators, refineries, silos, huge oil and gas platforms, and bridges, the development of the communication industries and transportation, the provision of gas to towns and villages, the manufacturing of petrochemical pr... |
FBIS3-53992_8 | Saddam Addresses Athens Conference Team | source, whether a Frenchman was killed, an Iraqi was martyred, or an American was killed. They all were killed because of this war. False information contributed to making the war decision. False information was disseminated in America and the U.S. President and his aides were aware of it. They learned about the story ... |
FBIS3-54044_0 | Pro-Baghdad Kurdish Party Assails `Conspiracy' | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] The [pro-Iraq] Kurdistan Revolutionary Party [KRP] has hailed with deep pride and appreciation leader President Saddam Husayn and his wise and brave leadership of our great Iraqi people. In a statement issued at the end of its Central Committee meeting, the KRP reiterated that i... |
FBIS3-54046_0 | Weekly: West's `Meddling' in North Threatens Security | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Jan. 23, IRNA -- The meddling of the West in northern Iraq is threatening the security and integrity of Iraq and its neighbors, commented KAYHAN HAVAI. In its latest issue, the bilingual weekly referred to the crimes committed by Jalal Talebani's Patriotic Union of Kurd... |
FBIS3-54071_3 | Culture Minister Discusses Government Crisis | north. How true is this report and why was it published? [Al-Kuhali] First of all this report is absolutely untrue. The YSP is aware of what war means, what it means to have a warplane bomb military positions. For a plane to mount combat missions means that war is actually going on. This is not a joke and therefore, th... |
FBIS3-54087_3 | Culture Minister Discusses Government Crisis | north. How true is this report and why was it published? [Al-Kuhali] First of all this report is absolutely untrue. The YSP is aware of what war means, what it means to have a warplane bomb military positions. For a plane to mount combat missions means that war is actually going on. This is not a joke and therefore, th... |
FBIS3-54093_0 | Pro-Baghdad Kurdish Party Assails `Conspiracy' | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] The [pro-Iraq] Kurdistan Revolutionary Party [KRP] has hailed with deep pride and appreciation leader President Saddam Husayn and his wise and brave leadership of our great Iraqi people. In a statement issued at the end of its Central Committee meeting, the KRP reiterated that i... |
FBIS3-54100_4 | Al-Qadhdhafi Addresses General People's Congress | sleep. It was a mistake. Reagan was crazy and insignificant. He did a great deal of harm to the American reputation in the world. He committed a horrible crime that made America speechless and very embarrassed. Let us turn a blind eye to Lockerbie even if the Libyans are behind it. Despite the fact that we did not do i... |
FBIS3-54100_15 | Al-Qadhdhafi Addresses General People's Congress | the victim of the imperialist policy; they treat him as they did Kennedy. They may get rid of this poor man as they did Kennedy. If he does not go along with them they will get rid of him. The CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency--I hope someone brave will come along one day and disband and destroy it. It is t... |
FBIS3-54211_15 | Al-Qadhdhafi Delivers Speech in Banghazi | before yesterday, or those stray dogs. Your children, who have joined the Muslim Brotherhood, are also traitors; those of them, who have joined heretics, are also traitors. Those calamities which are called Atonement and Flight, the Call, al-Jihad, the Party of Liberation, and the Muslim Brotherhood -- did they exist d... |
FBIS3-54218_1 | Official Criticizes Continued UN `Blockade' | the Security Council expressed strong protests. The Chinese ambassador called strongly for the lifting the blockade, while the ambassadors of Spain, Brazil, and Nigeria reiterated this stand. The French ambassador, as well as the British ambassador, noted the positive stands adopted by Iraq. Despite this, the Security ... |
FBIS3-54219_1 | Editorial: Use Exchange Rates To Judge Government | one hand and the implementing tools on the other. The following facts explain this: When the new cabinet took office and made a number of decisions, the dollar price jumped from D68 to D80. Later, the dollar jumped to D150, dropped to D130, and continued to range between D130 and D135. Now it stands at D171. The real d... |
FBIS3-54226_1 | Disagreements Reportedly Cause Discord in Hizballah | Beirut -- It is no longer a secret that the death of the supreme Shiite authority Mohammad Reza Golpayegani in December has provoked a direct confrontation between Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, the Shiite cleric, and the Qom seminary in Iran. This crisis has affected the relationship between Fadlallah and Lebanese Hizball... |
FBIS3-54238_0 | IDF Reports Provide Casualty Data for 1993 | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Three reports in Tel Aviv HA'ARETZ and one in Tel Aviv YEDI'OT AHARONOT in Hebrew on 20 January carry data presented by the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] on the number of incidents and casualties during military activity in 1993. A report from the Knesset by Gid'on Alon and Tzvi Zrahya... |
FBIS3-54252_4 | Al-Qadhdhafi Addresses General People's Congress | sleep. It was a mistake. Reagan was crazy and insignificant. He did a great deal of harm to the American reputation in the world. He committed a horrible crime that made America speechless and very embarrassed. Let us turn a blind eye to Lockerbie even if the Libyans are behind it. Despite the fact that we did not do i... |
FBIS3-54252_15 | Al-Qadhdhafi Addresses General People's Congress | the victim of the imperialist policy; they treat him as they did Kennedy. They may get rid of this poor man as they did Kennedy. If he does not go along with them they will get rid of him. The CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency--I hope someone brave will come along one day and disband and destroy it. It is t... |
FBIS3-54256_0 | Weekly: West's `Meddling' in North Threatens Security | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Jan. 23, IRNA -- The meddling of the West in northern Iraq is threatening the security and integrity of Iraq and its neighbors, commented KAYHAN HAVAI. In its latest issue, the bilingual weekly referred to the crimes committed by Jalal Talebani's Patriotic Union of Kurd... |
FBIS3-54261_0 | Hekmatyar Group To Meet Peshawar-Based Groups | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Peshawar, Jan 22 -- A four-member delegation, representing the four-party alliance fighting against Rabbani forces in Kabul, which had arrived in Peshawar on Thursday [20 Jan], is expected to hold meetings with Afghan leaders based here on Sunday [23 Jan]. According to reliable... |
FBIS3-54278_0 | Head of Human Rights Association Arrested | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Nouakchott, Jan 20 (AFP) -- The head of the Mauritanian Association for Human Rights, which is unrecognised by the authorities, has been arrested for alleged incitement to agitation, an informed source said Friday [21 January]. Sheikh Sadibou Camara, who is also a member of the... |
FBIS3-54279_0 | International Community Seeks Release | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Passages in italics recorded] [Text] With four days to go for the municipal elections in Mauritania the opposition is already crying wolf. It has denounced the attempts of massive fraud made by the Nouakchott government. In connection with these elections, Sheikh Sadibou Camara, influ... |
FBIS3-54291_4 | Prime Minister Al-'Attas: Accord `Last Chance' | faces immediately following unity. They carried out several actions harming security and targeting Yemeni national figures, particularly Yemeni Socialist Party [YSP] leaders and cadres and some leaders of the General People's Congress [GPC], and figures from other parties. In addition to this, these forces targeted oil... |
FBIS3-54296_0 | Tehran-Turkmenistan Ties Viewed | Language: Azeri Article Type:BFN [Text] President Saparmurad Niyazov's visit to Tehran was aimed at following up on the agreements concluded between Iran and Turkmenistan when President Hashemi-Rafsanjani visited that republic in October 1993. During his stay, President Niyazov visited Esfahan, [name indistinct], Shira... |
FBIS3-54300_1 | ABRAR Sees Need for Tehran To Form Alliances | Japan has become active in Asia and has extended the hand of friendship to Korea, China, and other countries in East Asia. Why? Many reasons can be listed. While Japan is a member of the G-7, it is also thinking of joining other alliances with its neighbors so that it will not be alone. And even though it is a big econ... |
FBIS3-54334_0 | Musa Meets With Nile Basin Countries' Ministers | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN ["Exclusive" to AL-ITTIHAD] [Text] Cairo -- AL-ITTIHAD has learned that, during his meeting with the irrigation ministers of the Nile basin countries at the end of their technical meetings in the Egyptian capital, Egyptian Foreign Minister 'Amr Musa discussed the political aspect of th... |
FBIS3-54335_3 | Al-Turaybi on U.S., Terrorist Accusations, FIS | was excited by the richness and precision of the French language, the culture, the history of the revolution, the relations between church and state, and the study of the different constitutions. I was not focused exclusively on my law studies. I went to the national library, I visited museums. During the university va... |
FBIS3-54335_4 | Al-Turaybi on U.S., Terrorist Accusations, FIS | representing 56 countries from four continents -- Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America -- took part in it. Nobody was excluded. Among the delegates were around 20 leaders of the Sunni clergy; muftis from Bosnia, Greece, and Albania; the rector of the Grand Mosque in Paris; German imams; several mullahs; imams from t... |
FBIS3-54345_0 | Editorial: Iraq's Disarmament Linked With Peace | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Cairo, 25 Jan (MENA)--AL-AHRAM writes that the United Nations' efforts to disarm Iraq, which are part of the preparations to implement long-term monitoring of Iraq's armament, again raise the issue of controlling nuclear, conventional, and nonconventional armaments in the Middle... |
FBIS3-54350_0 | Foreign Minister on Oil Pipeline Talks in Baghdad | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Muhammad Sa'id al-Sahhaf by Husnu Kaftan in Baghdad on 25 January -- recorded; in Arabic with superimposed translation into Turkish] [Text] [Kaftan] Mr. Minister, the talks in connection with the Karkuk-Yumurtalik oil pipeline were held between the Tur... |
FBIS3-54402_1 | Says Iraq To Supply Oil | officials and attended a meeting with the energy ministers of Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Turkey on linking the power grids of the five countries in a regional network. The agreement signed in Baghdad by Dr. 'Asfur and Mr. Jawad also renewed an arrangement under which Jordan will buy four million tonnes of crude and fuel oi... |
FBIS3-54403_1 | Transport Minister To Hold Talks With Iraqis | the sanctions on Iraqi imports of food and medicine exempt from the sanctions, but the overall volume of such cargo has decreased gradually, with Iraqi government agencies as well as private sector merchants turning to Iranian, Lebanese and Turkish ports for their imports to avert the costly delays incurred while impor... |
FBIS3-54439_16 | Rowhani Comments on Domestic, International Issues | esteemed leader's emphasis on relations with America shows that the system strongly rejects political relations with America. From the point of view of slogans, what political and ideological logic do you have to offer in justification of this policy? [Rowhani] Because of its historical, ideological, and religious root... |
FBIS3-54439_17 | Rowhani Comments on Domestic, International Issues | Feyziyeh School, which sparked off the 1342 [1963] movement and the 5 June 1963 incidents, his eminence the imam, may his soul be sanctified, told the shah: "Don't do whatever the Americans dictate to you. At least, think and see what they are dictating to you." Therefore, we see that this movement, which was a struggl... |
FBIS3-54460_7 | * Majles Investigates Activities of Voice and Vision Second Part of the Inquiry and Investigation Report of the Majles Concerning the Activities of the Voice and Vision Report on the Financial Situation of the Voice and Vision of the Islamic Republic of the Islamic Republic Balance of the Organization's Deposit Account... | Islam and the revolution, 55 percent were indifferent to Islam and the revolution or were deviant. Among the programs related to Islam and the revolution, 95 percent were in the form of direct messages, that is, speeches, news, call for prayers, and recitation of the Koran and 5 percent in the form of documentaries and... |
FBIS3-54460_25 | * Majles Investigates Activities of Voice and Vision Second Part of the Inquiry and Investigation Report of the Majles Concerning the Activities of the Voice and Vision Report on the Financial Situation of the Voice and Vision of the Islamic Republic of the Islamic Republic Balance of the Organization's Deposit Account... | serials that can be eliminated with changes in the dialogues. For example, in the serial "The Secret Army," which was an attractive serial, in the last section, the character of the antidomination and antiforeign strugglers was questioned somehow and, on the other hand, the character of a criminal element in Nazi Germa... |
FBIS3-54460_73 | * Majles Investigates Activities of Voice and Vision Second Part of the Inquiry and Investigation Report of the Majles Concerning the Activities of the Voice and Vision Report on the Financial Situation of the Voice and Vision of the Islamic Republic of the Islamic Republic Balance of the Organization's Deposit Account... | nature of this payment and examining document No. 6565 of 1368, it can be seen that physicians under contract with the organization requested the management of the organization to participate in the annual conference in San Francisco in connection with infertility research and also requested that that woman, due to a l... |
FBIS3-54461_29 | * Voice, Vision Response to Majles Inquiry Response of the Basij of the Voice and Vision to the Report of the Majles Inquiry and Investigation Group 2. Verification of the Balance Sheet of the Organization of the Supervisory Council 5. Inspection and Auditing of the Activities of the Organization 6. Noncentralized Syst... | section, it adds: If we consider the total programs of Networks 1 and 2, of the 85 weekly programs of the two networks in 1363, 39.5 hours concerned Islam and the revolution and in 1370 [21 March 1991-20 March 1992], out of 92 hours of weekly programs of the two networks, 33.5 hours concerned the revolution and Islam a... |
FBIS3-54461_99 | * Voice, Vision Response to Majles Inquiry Response of the Basij of the Voice and Vision to the Report of the Majles Inquiry and Investigation Group 2. Verification of the Balance Sheet of the Organization of the Supervisory Council 5. Inspection and Auditing of the Activities of the Organization 6. Noncentralized Syst... | been witnessed by everyone from the Vision. Second, Islamic cover is not only the chador. Islam has restrictions and limits regarding women's covering, which clearly all the religious jurists by interpreting the Koran have explained in the scholarly dissertations and other religious jurisprudent and Islamic sources. Fo... |
FBIS3-54461_125 | * Voice, Vision Response to Majles Inquiry Response of the Basij of the Voice and Vision to the Report of the Majles Inquiry and Investigation Group 2. Verification of the Balance Sheet of the Organization of the Supervisory Council 5. Inspection and Auditing of the Activities of the Organization 6. Noncentralized Syst... | number of professors and claiming not to choose them, states "the educational deputy in a letter asks the director of the organization to eliminate selection from entering students which is agreed to by the director of the organization and protested by the Supreme Council for Selection." Voice and Vision response: Thes... |
FBIS3-54464_6 | * Leadership Stops Voice, Vision Response to Majles | America. He said: Unfortunately the episode of the Voice and Vision organization's answer to the Majles inquiry and investigation report overshadowed the peerless remarks by the exalted leader on 13 Aban, which were the heart's desire of the Iranian nation, and little has been said about it. He said: When the exalted l... |
FBIS3-54466_3 | * SALAM Comments on Friend, Foe of Voice, Vision | the fact that he was the owner of the revolution and the founder of the sacred government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was the most knowledgeable theologian and the clear source of emulation, on matters of religious jurisprudence in the Voice and Vision organization such as the way women should appear on television... |
FBIS3-54479_0 | Iran Economic Ties Continue Despite Island Dispute | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report by Nadim Kawash] [Text] Abu Dhabi, Jan 26 (AFP)--The strong economic relationship between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran has remained intact despite worsening political ties due to a dispute over three strategic Gulf islands. Official Iranian figures released at a reg... |
FBIS3-54499_0 | SAIRI Leader Hakim Calls For UN Observers in South | Language: Arabic Article Type:BFN [Text] Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq [SAIRI], has reaffirmed the need to deploy UN observers in southern Iraq to prevent the regime from using heavy weapons against the civilians and to supervise the aid programs t... |
FBIS3-54502_0 | ICO Chief Meets With Iranian Leaders in Tehran Al-Ghabid, Hashemi-Rafsanjani Hold Talks | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Text] President Hashemi-Rafsanjani today received the Islamic Conference Organisation [ICO] Secretary General Mr. Hamid al-Ghabid, who is in Tehran. At the meeting, the president placed emphasis on the role and significance of the ICO in helping to resolve Islamic countries' problems... |
FBIS3-54503_0 | ICO Chief Meets With Iranian Leaders in Tehran Al-Ghabid, Velayati on Islamic Problems | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Text] In his speech at the fourth ministerial session of the Economic Cooperation Organization [ECO] in Tehran, the Islamic Conference Organization [ICO] secretary general called for the NATO forces to attack the positions of the aggressor Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina, self-determinat... |
FBIS3-54504_0 | ICO Chief Meets With Iranian Leaders in Tehran Further on al-Ghabid-Velayati Talks | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Jan. 27, IRNA--Major developments in the world of Islam and ways to strengthen cooperation among Islamic countries were discussed by secretary general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Hamid al-Ghabid and Iran's Foreign Minister 'Ali Akbar Velayati in ... |
FBIS3-54525_1 | Students Criticize Interior Minister, Condemn U.S. | Amir Kabir Industrial University; date not given] [Excerpts] Your Excellency, Esteemed Interior Minister, following your remarks in the Islamic Republic of Iran, which were full of accusations, when you hid under the cover of "solidarity against the United States" and attacked the purest Muslim forces that believe in t... |
FBIS3-54541_3 | Editorial Condemns Amnesty International Report | accept asylum seekers from among the applicants they get. With the kinds of laws adopted by many European countries regarding asylum, it seems unlikely that there will be many. Instead of preaching to Pakistan about standards of responsibility that we know better about, AI should concentrate on urging the West to atone... |
FBIS3-54543_1 | Government Official on Foreign Policy Decisions | for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation has said that the decisions taken by the basic people's committees relating to foreign policy were readily accepted despite the difficult political conditions which prevail in the world and the unjustly harsh blockade imposed on the Libyan people under the pretext of so... |
FBIS3-54553_0 | ECO Foreign Ministers Conference Wraps Up End to Afghan Trouble Sought | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Tehran, Jan 27 (AFP)--Foreign ministers of the 10-member Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO), winding up a meeting in Tehran on Thursday [27 January] search for ways of ending the civil war in Afghanistan which they consider a threat to the region. The ECO was founded in 19... |
FBIS3-54567_0 | Authorities Release Human Rights Activist | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] With the pressure being so strong, the Nouakchott authorities could not continue keeping Professor Sheikh Sadibou Camara in jail. The chairman of the Mauritanian Human Rights Association was released last night after four days of detention. After he was released last night he... |
FBIS3-54575_5 | King Addresses Journalists at End of U.S. Visit King Holds News Conference | immediately hailed what happened as a courageous step on both sides in terms of a vision of the future and a sense of responsibility towards generations to come. And we immediately, on the 14th of September, ratified the agenda that we had held up to that time to see some progress on the Palestinian track. Now we are d... |
FBIS3-54600_0 | Rowhani on Relations With Neighboring States | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Qom, Jan. 27, IRNA -- Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Dr. Hasan Rowhani, says despite the world power's becoming unipolar by the United States, the Islamic Republic of Iran has not changed its policies. Speaking to theologians in a mosque here Wedn... |
FBIS3-54635_3 | ITAR-TASS Carries Press Review for 31 Dec | implementation of laws rather than on arbitrary rule," Gorbachev stresses. "I believe that Russia can restore its economic, political, constitutional, legal and spiritual wealth," former chairman of the Russian Constitutional Court writes in the PRAVDA newspaper. "All of us should think over where we go, whom we elect ... |
FBIS3-54667_0 | Police Given `Temporary Rights' To Search | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Riga, Dec 30, BNS -- The Latvian Cabinet granted the state police and the Home Guard temporary rights to search transportation vehicles, their drivers and passengers on the basis of grounded suspicion, beginning Dec. 31. The government motivated the decision with the increas... |
FBIS3-54680_0 | Survey Shows 80 Percent Without Basic Foods | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The center of Sociological Research at the Armenian Academy of Sciences headed by Gevork (Bobosyan), based on the opinion polls conducted in November and December 1993, have come to the conclusion that about 80 percent of the urban population of Armenia are incapable of purchas... |
FBIS3-54696_0 | Diplomat Views Relations With Macedonia | Language: Macedonian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Jurij Trushin, representative of the Russian Federation in Macedonia, by Moscow correspondent Mirce Adamcevski; place and date not given: "Macedonian Policy -- the Future in the Balkans"] [Text] Moscow, December--The Russian Federation has recently appointed Jurij P... |
FBIS3-54697_0 | Article Views Peacekeeping Role, Efforts | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Aleksandr Nikolayev article: "Russia's Peacemaking Role. What Will It Be?"] [Text] At the Rome session of CSCE Foreign Ministers Council, the Russian delegation raised the question of giving a legitimate status within the CSCE framework to the peacemaking efforts of the Russian Feder... |
FBIS3-54702_3 | IMF's Foglizzo Views Russian Economic Reforms | that there must be a firm and unwavering desire for reforms, stabilization of the economy, and radical reduction of the rate of inflation. [passage omitted] [ROSSIYSKIYE VESTI] Is the IMF currently holding talks with the Russian Government on further cooperation? [Foglizzo] An IMF mission visited Moscow in the first ha... |
FBIS3-54726_18 | Kravchuk Holds 30 Dec News Conference | in relations with other states. If we have all this -- and I will say sincerely that as long as I am president I will do my utmost to ensure peace in every home, in every house, to prevent bloodshed in our land -- we will manage everything; we will build, restore, and take the democratic and law-governed road of develo... |
FBIS3-54745_5 | Government Said Violating New Constitution | canceled, the president in turn will cancel the results of the elections to the Federal Assembly. Either the Constitution imposed by means of a deception or presidential rule not limited by any laws -- this is the poor choice offered Russians today by the "Russia's Choice" limited partnership. There Will Be a Black Obe... |
FBIS3-54770_0 | Gaydar Interviewed on Outlook for Economy | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] Moscow Radio Rossii Network in Russian at 1330 GMT on 30 December carries an interview with First Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaydar by Arkadiy Bererov. The place and date are not given. Gaydar begins by reviewing the performance of the economy over the past year, noting that despite... |
FBIS3-54816_1 | Economic Stabilization Seen Unlikely in 1994 | fat cats will increase 11-fold. Academician S. Shatalin, the well-known "marketeer," has said the following: "The Russian Government is pursuing a not very well-conceived or responsible policy in this area. Governments throughout the civilized world regulate the population's income, and nobody considers this a violatio... |
FBIS3-54832_0 | New System of Taxes Becomes Effective 1 Jan | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] TALLINN, Jan 03, BNS -- Estonia's taxation law, which establishes excises, income tax, gambling tax, gift and inheritance tax, turnover tax, land tax, social tax and customs tax as state taxes, took effect as of the beginning of the year. Most of the taxes are regulated under n... |
FBIS3-54962_3 | Military Lobbyist Views Military Production | the military industry lasted as long as that. [Vida] How can the political situation that has emerged after the elections influence the prospects of the military industry? [Maley] All in all, the defense establishment came out victorious from the political shocks of the past few months. First of all, this is because we... |
FBIS3-55024_0 | Crack Forces Shutdown of Ignalina Turbine | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Vilnius, Jan 04, BNS -- The Ignalina nuclear power plant, Lithuania's chief electricity producer, shut down New Year's eve one out of two turbines of the first nuclear reactor, the RESPUBLIKA newspaper said. The stoppage reportedly resulted from a crack in the turbine's pipe sy... |
FBIS3-55093_0 | Reportage on Zviad Gamsakhurdia's Death `Shot Himself' 31 Dec | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Former Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the country's first democratically-elected head of state, shot himself dead at a hillside village in western Georgia on December 31 while being surrounded by members of the paramilitary Mkhedrioni unit, his wife Manana told Interfax... |
FBIS3-55142_15 | LPDR, Orthodox Church Official View Yugoslav Events Vsevold Gaplyn: In the Russian Christian-Orthodox Church We Have Monarchists, and Even Communists! | to ask you a question regarding the war in Yugoslavia, particularly because you support the Serbian side.... [Vengerovskiy] We usually find out what has been happening in former Yugoslavia from our members who have been there. Personally, I have been best informed by the author Edward Lymonov. You know from history tha... |
FBIS3-55200_2 | Democratic Process Needs Untainted New Blood | to this day the democratic process is somewhat cautiously and timidly based on science. It "trusts" only certain, staid elements, who were always geared toward power and prepared to serve any system for the sake of obtaining a portfolio. It is with equal success that they praised socialism, as indeed they reject it tod... |
FBIS3-55202_14 | Reforms Must Now Be `Adjusted' | for our prosperity; that we have to put up with this filth as other peoples have done in order to avoid coming full circle and finding ourselves back in long lines facing empty shelves in the stores like our Ukrainian brothers, for instance; that we are almost on the point of more or less getting out of this filth -- i... |
FBIS3-55208_0 | Editor Gives Reasons for Strike | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Chief editor Vitaliy Tretyakov article: "If `NG' Does Not Appear Next Week. We All Are in the Clutches of the State"] [Text] Our readers will know that an absolute majority of dailies and weeklies of Moscow and of all Russia are ready to interrupt their publication for the duration o... |
FBIS3-55212_1 | `Absurd' Lawsuits Against Media Questioned | which the interviewee -- Sergey Filatov, leader of the Russian Federation President's Administration -- termed Barannikov's behavior "treachery," clearly claiming that he had "worked for two camps." It is these expressions in quotation marks that the plaintiff is seeking to refute through the courts. Without in any way... |
FBIS3-55233_0 | Premier Addresses Diplomatic Corps on 29 Dec | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Speech by Prime Minister Vyacheslav Kebich at a meeting with diplomatic corps in Minsk on 29 December] [Text] Dear compatriots, ladies, gentlemen, colleagues! Let me pass my most sincere greetings and wishes of prosperity and happiness to you and the entire diplomatic corps. I want t... |
FBIS3-55236_0 | Democratic Party Leader Demands Reforms, Blames Apathy | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Aleksandr Dorovolskiy, leader of the United Democratic Party of Belarus, by Galina Dobrovolskaya; place and date not given: "Life Itself Will Force Us To Be Active"] [Text] [Malakhovskaya] After taking a short stroll along the Minsk streets, one of my friends from Mosc... |
FBIS3-55296_0 | New State Privatization Program Viewed | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Article by Aleksandr Velichenkov: "Privatization Dessert; In Late December Government Adopted New State Program of Privatization"] [Text] Behind this document we can discern the guiding hand of the GKI [State Committee for the Administration of State Property] leadership. Let us reca... |
FBIS3-55297_3 | Ways of Increasing Oil Well Yields Viewed | its development. The shortage of financial resources is fatally compounded by the overall crisis of nonpayment in the economy, whereby our enterprises, because of the rapid pace of inflation, take a long time to obtain money for the output they dispatch. The scale of the nonpayment problem -- debts to the fuel and ener... |
FBIS3-55326_0 | Talbott Explains Post-Election `Analytical Pause' | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Vladimir Nadein report: "Clinton Not Averse to Talking With Yeltsin in a Small Group"] [Text] Washington -- "There have been no zigzags in our attitude toward Russia," Strobe Talbott, U.S. deputy secretary of state, said in an interview with IZVESTIYA's correspondent on the eve of Pr... |
FBIS3-55326_1 | Talbott Explains Post-Election `Analytical Pause' | the question of whether or not representatives of pro-Communist factions in the new Russian parliament should be invited to the reception at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. But Talbott clearly hinted that the United States has already gotten over its analytical pause, has cleared up its conceptual blank spots, and is again... |
FBIS3-55330_0 | Adviser Warns Against `Illusions' on U.S. Trade | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By ITAR-TASS diplomatic correspondent Aleksandr Krylovich] [Text] Moscow January 11 TASS -- "One should have no illusions about trade and economic ties between Russia and the United States. If U.S. companies see no advantages, they will not go to Russia," said Anatoliy Porokhovskiy, ... |
FBIS3-55331_0 | Progress in U.S. Economic Ties Welcomed | Language: Russian Article Type:BFN [Article by Candidate of Economic Sciences A.G. Kvasov, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry's North America Department: "Russian-American Economic Relations Geared toward Era of Open Markets"] [Text] Russian-American relations occupy a special place in the multipolar geometry of t... |
FBIS3-55392_1 | Analogies With Weimar Germany Considered | sacrifices for the sake of victory over fascism. There is also a second conclusion: The democratic stratum in our society has proved all too thin and barren. During the years of the triumphal routing of totalitarianism the small number of true democrats has been swelled by a vast number of fellow travelers and timeserv... |
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