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FBIS3-57847_6 | Cetin's Foreign Policy Statement Detailed | security. Bilateral issues can also be discussed during the bilateral meetings of the foreign ministers. Turkey has no problem with Iraq. Iraq's problem is with the international community. We are of the strong belief that the 3.5 years of isolation Baghdad has suffered is enough, and all parties, particularly Iraq, sh... |
FBIS3-57849_0 | Ciller Gives News Conference in Diyarbakir | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [News conference by Prime Minister Tansu Ciller and Deputy Prime Minister Murat Karayalcin at Dicle University in Diyarbakir -- live] [Excerpts] [Ciller] Valuable citizens of Diyarbakir and prominent members of the press and television, I salute you. We arrived to embrace the citizens... |
FBIS3-57849_8 | Ciller Gives News Conference in Diyarbakir | other provinces who are living in tents. Although I was not asked, I would like to make it very clear that it is our aim to extensively implement the rules of democratization in the southeast of the country as well. As the prime minister noted, it is one of our primary goals to reduce and eventually eliminate terrorism... |
FBIS3-57850_0 | PKK-Related Casualty Figures for 1993 Given | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara--Despite official statements that the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) received a major blow in 1993, official figures show a twofold increase in terrorist activities during the first 11 months of the year in comparison to the same period in 1992. According to off... |
FBIS3-57854_0 | EC Issue Causes Record Political Instability | Language: Norwegian Article Type:CSO [Article by Ole Nygaard: "Great Movement Within the Electorate"] [Text] The 1993 Storting election resulted in the biggest migration within the electorate since World War II. Between 1989 and 1993, 44 percent of the voters changed party. The election study of 1993 features striking ... |
FBIS3-57870_0 | Bani Sadr Alleges Complicity Between France, Iran | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Veziane de Vezins report: "The Cold Fury of Bani Sadr -- At His Home in Versailles, the Former President Deposed by the Mullahs Does Not Mince His Words"] [Text] While the presumed assassins of the opponent of the Tehran regime, Kazem Rajavi, are heading back to Tehran, one Iranian, t... |
FBIS3-57876_0 | Berlusconi Interviewed on Economic Objectives | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Fininvest President Silvio Berlusconi by Mario Sechi; place and date not given: "Berlusconi: There Is a Limit to Taxes"] [Text] He has not tasted the bitter cup yet but he already wants to change the Constitution to put the brakes on a tax mechanism that has gone crazy... |
FBIS3-57887_0 | PKK Members Reportedly Train at Camps in Armenia | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Gorsel Polat: "PKK Will Attack With ASALA in the Spring"] [Text] Ankara--It has been reported that the Kurdish Workers Party [PKK] members, who train in several camps in Armenia, and ASALA [Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia] militants will carry out joint o... |
FBIS3-57888_0 | Ankara Reportedly Ready To Receive Iraqi Delegation | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Muharrem Sarikaya: "First Official Contact With Iraq"] [Text] Ankara--The Turkish Grand National Assembly passed the government bill on the extension of the Hammer Force mandate yesterday. Meanwhile, the government conveyed a message to the Baghdad administration informing ... |
FBIS3-57893_0 | _o_ Media Notes: Relations With Skopje Discussed | Article Type:CSO [Editorial Report] Developments in the Balkans have been the subject of reporting and commentary in the Greek press. U.S. Role in Balkans Favored In the 12 December Athens weekly TO VIMA TIS KIRIAKIS, Nikos Marakis reports on the views of the Greek Government and the opposition regarding the role the U... |
FBIS3-57896_0 | Ankara, Brussels Disagree on PKK Incidents | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article by Agnes Gorissen and Alain Guillaume: "Ankara and Brussels Split Over Interpretation of Incidents"] [Excerpt] The violent clashes that took place this weekend between groups of Turks and Kurds in the Brussels communes of Saint-Josse and Schaerbeek have had rapid repercussions... |
FBIS3-57897_1 | Sudan's Ambassador on Expulsion, Bilateral Relations | first place. [Yasin] Well I'm really sad for being expelled from the United Kingdom because of the retaliation to what has been done by my government, but it is known in international practice in a situation like this, but I thought the British Government would have thought otherwise by substituting Peter Streams with ... |
FBIS3-57902_0 | Cetin Warns Against PKK Incidents in Europe | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin has said that the incidents in Belgium show us the proportions that such incidents might attain in the event the separatist terror organization is not banned in the other European countries as well. Cetin was repl... |
FBIS3-57905_0 | Turkes' Group To Attack Kurdish `Mafia' in Europe | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Mehmet Salih Ceviker] [Text] Frankfurt -- There are indications that the Idealist [Turkish right-wing organization affiliated with the Grey Wolves of Alparslan Turkes] mafia in Germany is getting ready to attack the Kurdish mafia. A source that once was a member of MHP's [N... |
FBIS3-57906_0 | Kinkel Discusses Ban on Kurdish Terrorist Group | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN ["Text" of exclusive interview with German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel by MILLIYET correspondent Regaip Minareci in Bonn; date not given] [Text] Bonn--[Minareci] Germany was the first country to describe the Kurdish Workers Party [PKK] as a terrorist organization and ban its activit... |
FBIS3-57907_1 | Kinkel Notes Plans To Ease Arms Export Controls | exports easier. According to information obtained by our Bonn office, talks on this have been conducted between the Defense, Economics, and Foreign Ministries. Yesterday the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union [CDU/CSU] parliamentary group spoke in favor of easing the export provisions. The Social Democra... |
FBIS3-57908_1 | CDU/CSU Faults Strict Controls | a newspaper that the German arms export guidelines put German companies at a disadvantage: "Thousands of jobs and high-tech know-how that are of enormous importance for the civilian industry threaten to be lost." Lamers demands a uniform European Union [EU] policy on arms exports. This is also mentioned as an objective... |
FBIS3-57911_1 | Editorial on International Withdrawal from Bosnia | Article Type:BFN [Unattributed editorial: "Discouragement"] [Text] It is not yet headlong flight, but the signs pointing to a withdrawal of the international community from the Yugoslav conflict are growing clearer. The early recall -- at his request -- of General Francis Briquemont, head of the "Blue Helmets" in Bosni... |
FBIS3-57922_0 | Turkish Embassy Reportedly Involved in Clashes | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article by Alain Guillaumme and Alain Lallemand: "Clashes in Brussels: Agitators Come From Everywhere -- French-Speaking Community Subsidized Grey Wolves"] [Text] Foreign Minister Willy Claes and Interior Minister Louis Tobback met Monday [3 January] and Tuesday with representatives o... |
FBIS3-57938_1 | Demirel Cited on Foreign Issues, Election, PKK "No One Can Run in the Name of the PKK, for the State Knows Everything" | one knows. But our defense system is flexible. It could readjust at any time. Of course, a new assessment of a threat will be made eventually. I believe the General Staff will brief us on this issue in the first week of January. [Yalcin] Assuming Turkey can engage in political activity over a wider area when there are ... |
FBIS3-57943_0 | Ciller's Talks With Clinton Previewed; PKK Developments | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Column by Ertugrul Ozkok: "The Days That Will Decide the PKK's Fate"] [Excerpt] Internal Affairs Minister Nahit Mentese will leave for Syria in the next few days. Police Director General Mehmet Agar was supposed to visit that country two weeks ago. However, it was decided that Mentes... |
FBIS3-57946_0 | Poll Shows Pasqua's Popularity on Rise | Language: French Article Type:CSO [Article by Charles Rebois: "Pasqua's Rise in the Polls"] [Excerpts] Although jobs remain the French people's top priority, public safety is also one of their major concerns. They said as much--in spectacular fashion--on the FIGARO MAGAZINE-SOFRES [French Opinion Polling Company] barom... |
FBIS3-57948_1 | Firm Allegedly Helped FRG Arms Producer Evade Bans | pretending to import the weapons into Britain as the "end-user" and then exporting them to their real destinations, many of which were affected by German, and in some cases, international embargoes. Sources close to the prosecution have told the INDEPENDENT that they have evidence of 50 examples over 10 years. The case... |
FBIS3-57948_2 | Firm Allegedly Helped FRG Arms Producer Evade Bans | over 10 years. The case is focusing on a shipment of 1,100 Heckler & Koch machine-guns, some of which were seized in Italy in 1987 on their way to the United Arab Emirates, a destination banned under German law. Their true destination, however, was thought to be Iraq, according to the Italian police, who made the origi... |
FBIS3-57961_2 | Lamassoure on European Enlargement, Schengen | in France. These are small firms, but all the same. In the paper sector, we have seen prices collapse and some large French companies are on the verge of bankruptcy. We have decided to closely monitor imports from Finland. At the same time, experts from both countries are going to get together to work out an acceptable... |
FBIS3-57982_0 | Delegations Issue Joint Statement | 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 Croatian and Bosnia-Herzegovina delegations, headed by Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic and Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silaj... |
FBIS3-57994_1 | * Poll: Continued Strong Support for Peacekeeping Role | Finns so that they could participate in peace enforcement with combat forces. Nearly 60 percent of them oppose this system. Reports have appeared on a poll commissioned by the National Defense Information Planning Board in which Finns' opinions on our security policy are analyzed. It is also evident from them that more... |
FBIS3-57999_0 | Kinkel Plans `Construction Collaboration' With Greece | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- On the occasion of the EU [European Union] presidency passing from Belgium to Greece, German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel wishes the Greeks good luck and success. With a view to Germany taking on the presidency itself in six months, he announced today that there w... |
FBIS3-58033_2 | Ciller: Partnership for Peace Is `Too Gradual' | it's a realistic kind of attitude. I feel that we should be looking not for the separation of Europe, but for the unification of Europe. The Partnership for Peace proposal is even too gradual as far as we are concerned, maybe we should move a little faster," she said. Mrs Ciller warned that the West should take serious... |
FBIS3-58063_2 | Ciller: Partnership for Peace Is `Too Gradual' | it's a realistic kind of attitude. I feel that we should be looking not for the separation of Europe, but for the unification of Europe. The Partnership for Peace proposal is even too gradual as far as we are concerned, maybe we should move a little faster," she said. Mrs Ciller warned that the West should take serious... |
FBIS3-58077_0 | Government Captures 49 PKK Members | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] The Adana Governor's Office has announced that 38 members of the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terror organization, one of them a woman, have been captured in Adana. The statement notes that the suspects were involved in four separate murde... |
FBIS3-58079_1 | Turkish Attitude Toward Kurds Denounced | to the Kurds' right to self-determination. VU [People's Union] Senator Nelly Maes said that, according to confidential information that she obtained from Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are the main customers for Belgian manufacturers of light weapons. Her colleague, Willy Kuijpers, asked fo... |
FBIS3-58088_0 | * New Health Minister Profiled | Language: French Article Type:CSO [Article by Marie-Claude Lortie: "`A Tax on Illness Is Out of the Question!'" [Text] The new minister of health pledges that she will defend the universality of health care. Ottawa--For Diane Marleau, the new federal minister of health, there can be no discussion of it: Public funds ma... |
FBIS3-58090_1 | * Developments in Presidential Race Viewed * Paper on Election System Problems | Article Type:CSO [Unattributed editorial: "Childhood Diseases of Direct Elections"] [Text] Eleven candidates finally succeeded in capturing slots in the first direct presidential elections. Based on the game rules currently in effect, the number could easily have been even larger. This makes one think of tightening the... |
FBIS3-58091_0 | Trade Minister Cited on EC Environmental Agreement | Language: Norwegian Article Type:BFN [Article by Trade Minister Bjorn Tore Godal: "Norway and the EU Agreed on High Environmental Standards"] [Text] In the negotiations for Norwegian membership of the EU [European Union], one of Norway's main objectives has been to uphold our standards in the fields of health, safety, ... |
FBIS3-58093_3 | Dinkelspiel on EU Membership Negotiations | it is better than expected, but in institutional terms is worse: "For me it is incomprehensible that the `no' side is so strongly critical of the EEA agreement because of its institutional solutions (Swedish influence) and then opposes EU membership." He pointed out that the EEA agreement also embraces Sweden's state a... |
FBIS3-58093_5 | Dinkelspiel on EU Membership Negotiations | before the summer, the European affairs minister said. But a referendum could very well take place before then, he pointed out. A popular version of the result of the negotiations will be published. The whole government machine is chugging along as if membership were on the cards, whereas public opinion poll figures sh... |
FBIS3-58134_0 | EU Institutions To Adopt Vetting To Counter Espionage | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Report from John Carvel in Brussels: "EU Prepares To Counter Espionage"] [Text] Senior Eurocrats are preparing defences against espionage in European Union [EU] institutions now that their activities have been expanded into sensitive areas of foreign policy and counterterrorism. Posi... |
FBIS3-58139_0 | Newspapers Comment on U.S. Government Policy Clinton Learns `A Lot' About Europe | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "Shoulder to the Wheel. Clinton Draws Closer to Europe"] [Text] When President Clinton comes to Europe next week to attend the NATO summit he is not going to offer much satisfaction to the Poles, Czechs and Hungarians who are knocking at the doors of NATO and demanding pro... |
FBIS3-58140_1 | Newspapers Comment on U.S. Government Policy Clinton Policy May End in `Catastrophe' | Mr Clinton. For months on end, the Administration did not fill the middle-level positions in the State Department, and those expected to run foreign and security policies assumed that they were still on the university benches. Hefty documents poured out of the White House, all advocating "engagement" or the "enlargemen... |
FBIS3-58166_0 | Turkey's Ciller Meets Leaders at NATO Summit | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Eriz Oktar telephone report from Brussels over video] [Excerpt] The question of NATO membership for Central and East European countries is the main element behind the importance of this NATO summit. The leaders of NATO member countries, including U.S. President Bill Clinton, French P... |
FBIS3-58170_4 | Report on Zhirinovskiy's Business Contacts | which Ivanovic operates in Montenegro with partners from Titograd and whose deals are violating the UN sanctions against Serbia and Montenegro. An investigator believes Ivanovic came to Carinthia for the following reasons: "There are hints that one of Zhirinovskiy's financial advisers is establishing cover companies in... |
FBIS3-58173_0 | Turkish Prime Minister Comments on PKK Incidents | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Prime Minister Tansu Ciller has declared that the incidents caused by the terrorist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] organization in Belgium must be condemned by the whole world, and added that international cooperation in the struggle against terrorism is inevitable. TRT co... |
FBIS3-58175_0 | Request for U.S. Troops in Bosnia Lacks `Credibility' | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Lubbers Says Request for U.S. Support in Bosnia Still Lacks Credibility"] [Text] The Hague -- Prime Minister Lubbers believes the countries of Europe must first try to bring the violence in Bosnia under control before asking the United States for help. He believes... |
FBIS3-58177_0 | Ciller Confirms Operation into Syria | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Ihsan Akdemir and Aydin Hasan report: "Ciller Confirms Operation Into Syria"] [Excerpt] Adana--Prime Minister Tansu Ciller has confirmed the MILLIYET report on the operation the security forces have carried out in Syria. She said: "Cross-border operations have taken place." While fly... |
FBIS3-58184_0 | Iraqi Delegation Begins Contacts in Ankara Under Secretaries Meet | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] An Iraqi delegation headed by Iraqi Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Riyadh al-Qaysi, who arrived in Turkey yesterday, began to hold contacts in Ankara today. Al-Qaysi first visited Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Ozdem Sanberk. The two deleg... |
FBIS3-58185_0 | Iraqi Delegation Begins Contacts in Ankara Iraqi Official `Pleased' | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin today received and conferred with Iraqi Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Riyad al-Qaysi, who arrived in Ankara yesterday. Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Ozdem Sanberk and Iraqi Ambassador to Ankara Rafi' Dahham al-Tikriti were also present at the... |
FBIS3-58186_0 | Iraqi Delegation Begins Contacts in Ankara `Positive, Fruitful' Talks End | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Ankara, Jan 9 (AA) -- Official talks between Turkey and Iraq which were sponsored by Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Ozdem Sanberk and his Iraqi counterpart Riyad al-Qaysi ended on Sunday [9 January]. Sanberk told at a press conference that during the talks they reviewed the p... |
FBIS3-58194_3 | * Energy Policy To Stress Natural Gas, Renewable Sources | had that all along," said Palmgren. "But the money we now pay to have our waste taken care of and processed in Tchelyabinsk also helps the Russians finance the cleanup of the area, which suffered heavy radioactive contamination in the 1950's." Palmgren thought the government had yielded to outside political pressure in... |
FBIS3-58197_1 | Editorials on Prospects for NATO's Eastward Expansion Expansion Favored | and the interests of the states in Central and East Europe as well. Germany's interests: In NATO and in the European Union we are the country with the most neighbors in the uncertain East. For unrest and upheavals, civil war, and migrations of poverty there not to endanger stability here we must promote stability in th... |
FBIS3-58201_0 | Documentary Details Zhirinovskiy's Views | Article Type:BFN [Editorial report] At 2050 GMT on 9 January 1994 Cologne RTL-Plus Television Network in German in its "Spiegel TV" magazine program carries an unattributed 15-minute report on Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovskiy, nicknamed Adolfovich because of his Hitlerite views. The report begins with clips in Zhirinovs... |
FBIS3-58217_0 | Government Reportedly Launches Operation Against PKK | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] It has been discovered that the preparations for a wide-scale operation against the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] this winter has been intensified, special commando units in the garrisons have been transferred to sensitive areas, and several special army units have been base... |
FBIS3-58227_6 | Woerner on Expansion, `Partnership' Benefits | is aimed at everyone who is interested. There will come a time when we will differentiate. [DER SPIEGEL] After all, the fear is that the European continent will be divided into spheres of influence as in the past: here NATO, there the former Soviet Union, and the rest remains an unstable Europe in between? [Woerner] NA... |
FBIS3-58228_0 | Impact on NATO-WEU Relationship | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report by Stefan Kornelius: "Draft for Final Communique of Summit Meeting: NATO Offers East Europe Cautious Rapprochement, While at the Same Time Strengthening the Alliance in West Europe"] [Text] Bonn, 9 January -- The NATO heads of government and the foreign ministers will take caut... |
FBIS3-58241_0 | French Leadership on NATO's Role in Bosnia Mitterrand on NATO's `Determination' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Brussels, Jan 11 (AFP) -- French President Francois Mitterrand on Tuesday [11 January] emphasised NATO's "determination to eliminate obstacles" preventing the UN Protection Force from accomplishing its mandate in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He told a press conference at the end of the ... |
FBIS3-58243_0 | WEU's Van Eekelen Views Gains From NATO Summit | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Western European Union (WEU) Secretary General Willem van Eekelen by Leonardo Malsano in Brussels; date not given: "`Three Reasons for a Success'"; first paragraph is IL GIORNALE introduction] [Text] Brussels -- "It will be a success, a fantastic success, a turning poi... |
FBIS3-58259_0 | Andreatta Views `Ambiguities' of NATO Pact | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Italian Foreign Minister Beniamino Andreatta by Bernardo Valli in Rome; date not given: "`Europe Will Respond to the East's Fears'"] [Excerpt] Rome -- [introductory passage omitted] The election results in Russia took almost everyone by surprise, and now Vladimir Zhiri... |
FBIS3-58273_0 | Ciller on Regional Security, Kurds | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Interview with Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller by Nicole Pope and Luc Rosenzweig in Ankara on 5 January: "Tansu Ciller: `We Are Aiming at Democratization for All of Turkey'" -- first paragraph is LE MONDE introduction] [Text] Ankara -- Since assuming power in July 1993, Tansu Cill... |
FBIS3-58274_0 | Defense Minister Discusses `Foreign Threat' | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Telephone interview with National Defense Minister Mehmet Golhan by Mehmet Ali Birand; place not specified -- live] [Excerpts] [Birand] How are you, Mr. Minister. [Golhan] Fine, thank you. This is the first time in 15 years I have attended the opera. I have left the hall to watch you... |
FBIS3-58276_0 | Security Forces, `Terrorists' Clash Near Sirnak | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over still of regional map] [Excerpt] Three terrorists were killed last night in a clash that erupted between the security forces and terrorists, who used mortars, rocket launchers, and rifles in Cizre, a district of Sirnak. Five citizens were killed when their ... |
FBIS3-58280_0 | Journalist Accuses Government of Torture, Reprisals | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with Mehetsah Yildiz, OZGUR GUNDEM journalist, by Monika Hoehn; place and date not given: "If This Is Democracy, I Am Against It"] [Text] At noon on 25 November 1993, on the road from Diyarbakir to Bismil: A police patrol arrests a group involved with caring for Kurdish refu... |
FBIS3-58283_1 | Commentaries Discuss Brussels NATO Conference `Historic' Chance To Expand | security structure -- but not in this specific partnership model. The school of thought trying to achieve this as well will not succeed. On the other hand, any signs indicating that Russia is actively excluded from the European security framework are to be avoided. It is doubtful whether this will succeed. Russian poli... |
FBIS3-58285_1 | Commentaries Discuss Brussels NATO Conference Clinton's `European Year' | heavily criticized in Washington -- of neglect and rapt disinterest. This has entailed a mixture of basic, but diffuse good intentions on the part on the new government (toward Germany for example) along with ominous statements such as those made by Foreign Minister Christopher on how the Americans' "Eurocentric" condu... |
FBIS3-58287_0 | Commentaries Discuss Brussels NATO Conference East's Chances for Membership | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Article by Winfried Muenster: "Back Door for East European NATO Membership"] [Text] Brussels, 9 Jan -- The formula Partnership for Peace, which allows our East European neighboring states to enter the NATO waiting room, has at least been accepted on this side of the Oder and Neisse. I... |
FBIS3-58292_0 | CDU/CSU Opposes Looser Arms Export Controls | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report signed "K.B.": "Unexpected Protest Against Easier Arms Exports"] [Text] Bonn, 5 Jan -- Several leading members of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union [CDU]/[CSU] Bundestag group have criticized foreign policy spokesman Lamers for his statements on arms export ... |
FBIS3-58305_1 | CIA Reportedly Warns of Plan To Kill Ciller | yesterday. It has been discovered that the CIA received an intelligence report that the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] planned to assassinate Ciller. It immediately informed Ankara and the police in Belgium about the matter. Acting on that information, the police in Belgium took maximum security measures. Meanwhile, ... |
FBIS3-58308_0 | Future Role of Western European Union Discussed | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Report by Jos Klaassen: "European Union's Defense Task: A Little Work on the Side"] [Text] Does the "European defense identity" remain a stepchild of NATO, even if at present Washington is ready to take this "identity" a little seriously? This question is the only point on the agenda o... |
FBIS3-58316_0 | Government To Study Option of Cutting Social Benefits | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Unattributed report: "Social Benefits To Be `Examined'"] [Text] Vienna -- On Tuesday [11 January], Chancellor Franz Vranitzky announced that he would examine the option of establishing income ceilings for receiving social benefits. Vranitzky was reacting to a proposal by Social Affair... |
FBIS3-58330_0 | Dailies Comment on Brussels NATO Summit Step Toward Security Policy | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Eberhard Wisdorff editorial: "Consideration for Yeltsin"] [Text] For the third time since the collapse of the East Bloc, the 16 heads of state and government of the NATO countries tried at their summit in Brussels to give clearer contours to a new comprehensive security structure for ... |
FBIS3-58337_0 | Fascist Group Threatens Gysi With Murder | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Report signed "ND-Noelte": "Gysi Threatened With Murder"] [Text] Berlin -- A fascist group in Berlin, which calls itself "Weissensee Aryan Resistance" (WAW), threatens Gregor Gysi and all "Reds" and "asylum-seekers" with murder. A threatening letter that the Weissensee district office... |
FBIS3-58339_0 | `Thousands' Commemorate Rosa Luxemburg's Death | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Berlin (DDP/ADN) -- Thousands of Berliners have been demonstrating since this morning at the memorial of the socialist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in Friedrichsfelde. The cofounders of the German Communist Party (KPD) were killed by volunteer corps officers in ... |
FBIS3-58349_3 | Giraud Cited on Unemployment, Social Security | generate, on its own, a number of jobs likely to significantly reduce unemployment. However, the government is justified in hoping for the full effect of the emergency measures (law of 27 July 1993), the five-year law (better organization of work, training, youth employment...), and the 1994 budget. Thus, during the se... |
FBIS3-58349_4 | Giraud Cited on Unemployment, Social Security | the reform of social security funding. Do you advocate a more rapid implementation of the timetable to include family contributions in the budget or a new reduction in the sickness benefit contribution? [Giraud] The pursuit of the reform of social security funding and its implementation provisions require a concerted a... |
FBIS3-58351_1 | De Villiers To Lead Anti-Maastricht List | group led by Philippe de Villiers (UDF-PR [Republican Party], will make its presence felt in an attempt to reignite the debate that went on during the Maastricht ratification campaign, on behalf of those whose opposed the Treaty. "We want a sovereign France in a new Europe. We want the election on 12 June to be an oppo... |
FBIS3-58361_0 | Papandreou Discusses Balkans, Cyprus With Clinton | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [Report by Mirella Kalostipi from Brussels--recorded] [Text] The Greek side appears completely satisfied with the results of the Brussels visit, both with regard to the outcome of the NATO summit and inter-Atlantic cooperation as well as with the prime minister's contacts with the U.S. ... |
FBIS3-58363_2 | Clinton's Policy on Iraq, Disappointment Viewed | pipeline, which has begun to corrode, in return for Iraq's debts to Turkey. Consequently, Ciller is looking for a new escape route. Can She Persuade Saddam? Considering Washington's approach, Ankara has moved to find a way to persuade Baghdad. That was why the under secretary of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs wa... |
FBIS3-58369_0 | Security Forces Kill 33 `Terrorists' in Southeast | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Statement by the Office of the State of Emergency Region Governor; dated 12 January 1994 -- read by announcer] [Text] So far, eighteen terrorists were killed during operations started by the security forces on Kato Mountain near Hakkari on 10 January and which were supported by air u... |
FBIS3-58371_0 | Dehaene: Government Will Not Outlaw PKK | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] During the NATO summit, Prime Minister Dehaene has repeated that Belgium does not intend to outlaw the Kurdish nationalist PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] party, but Belgium does condemn the terrorist activities of the PKK. Dehaene had a short talk with his Turkish colleague C... |
FBIS3-58373_0 | Pasqua: No Explanations To U.S. Needed on Iranians Case | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Interview with Charles Pasqua, minister of state for Interior and Terrritorial Development, by Franz-Olivier Giesbert, in Paris--live] [Excerpts] [Giesbert] Charles Pasqua, good morning. [Pasqua] Good morning. [Giesbert] You are the deputy prime minister of the government. So far, eve... |
FBIS3-58378_0 | Praises Partnership for Peace | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] The NATO summit ended in Brussels this morning. [passage omitted] Armando Pires, our special envoy, reports. [Pires] [passage omitted] During a meeting with Portuguese journalists, Prime Minister Cavaco Silva described as historic the decisions made at this summit. Cavac... |
FBIS3-58400_2 | `Clinton's Summit' Renews Transatlantic Relations | use of combined joint task forces, in which it neither wants to nor is able to participate itself -- the Europeans will have to show they are ready for the role. At the same time, the U.S. leadership will not be compromised in any way. It is an old truth that the alliance only works well under clear U.S. leadership. In... |
FBIS3-58401_1 | Editorialist Says U.S. Took `Gamble' at Summit | Council), whose creation aimed to fill the political and military gap created by the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and the collapse of communism. We can, therefore, now be certain that real cooperation will be established on the European Continent, even if the prospects offered by the Partnership remain vague. The t... |
FBIS3-58405_0 | Iran's Foreign Minister Velayati Begins Dublin Visit Discusses Bilateral Ties With Reynolds | Language: Persian Article Type:BFN [Text] 'Ali Akbar Velayati, our country's foreign minister, is currently in Ireland to attend the second joint commission of Iran and Ireland. He met this morning with the prime minister of Ireland. The Central News Unit reports that during this meeting Irish Prime Minister Albert Rey... |
FBIS3-58406_0 | Iran's Foreign Minister Velayati Begins Dublin Visit Confers With Robinson on Bosnia, Relations | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Dublin, Jan. 12, IRNA -- The Irish President Mary Robinson in a meeting with the visiting Iranian Foreign Minister 'Ali Akbar Velayati here today expressed hope for the expansion of relations between the two countries. Referring to Iran and Ireland as two spiritual countries, R... |
FBIS3-58417_1 | Iranian Offical Meets Bundestag Leader | that German national, Helmut Szimkus, sentenced to death for espionage, be pardoned by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah 'Ali Khamene'i. Referring to Iran's policy in Central Asian republics, Larijani who arrived here last Monday, said Tehran was to provide security to its borders with those countries. He ... |
FBIS3-58429_0 | Giugni: Economy Has `Structural' Disadvantages | Language: Italian Article Type:BFN [Text] Italy lacks at least three million jobs. This is a "structural" disadvantage compared to other European countries which, together with a low level of education, makes the Italian situation especially difficult. This was said by Labor Minister Giugni at the presentation of a stu... |
FBIS3-58447_0 | Cindoruk Receives U.S. Delegation; Golhan on Military Aid | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Husamettin Cindoruk, speaker of the Turkish Grand National Assembly, has declared that the establishment of an artificial state in the Middle East will further exacerbate the conflicts in the region. Cindoruk received members of the U.S. Congr... |
FBIS3-58448_0 | Cross-Border Operation Launched Into Northern Iraq | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] The security forces have launched an operation into northern Iraq to capture the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] members who attacked a Gendarmerie post in Cukurca District of Hakkari. It was learned that the commando units crossed the Turkish-Iraqi border early this morning a... |
FBIS3-58452_5 | SPD Chairman Answers Kohl's Address on NATO | not depend, first and foremost, on whether the equipment of its Army is NATO-compatible. What is decisive is progress in efforts to improve people's opportunities in life. [applause] Only if, Ladies and Gentlemen [applause], only if this proves successful can we create stability, without which there can be no lasting p... |
FBIS3-58452_6 | SPD Chairman Answers Kohl's Address on NATO | I believe the government means what it says, but we should not forget that Germany on its own cannot possibly deliver the support that is expected. I repeat, what is needed is an integrated concept for security and development that is supported and materially backed by all our Western partners, if possible by Japan as ... |
FBIS3-58469_1 | Commentary Says PRC Treats France, U.S. `Differently' | Here is the gist of the official statement, released yesterday: "Aware of China's concerns, the French Government undertakes not to allow French companies to contribute to Taiwan's armament in the future." Last year, the PRC had been enraged by the announcement that France would sell 60 Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft and... |
FBIS3-58485_0 | Karayalcin Warns Against Linking Water, Terrorism | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Inci Tanriover video report from New York] [Text] In New York, Murat Karayalcin, state minister and deputy prime minister, issued the message that the struggle against terrorism will continue. Karayalcin explained that terrorism cannot be surmounted solely through measures to be adop... |
FBIS3-58486_0 | Ciller Views Kurdish Issue, Russia, Cyprus | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Interview with Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller by Pierre Lefevre; place and date not given] [Text] [Lefevre] Do you think there is a military solution to the Kurdish problem in Turkey? [Ciller] There is no military solution. There is a solution which must come from implementation ... |
FBIS3-58497_0 | OIC Renews Call for Air Strikes in Bosnia | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Geneva, Jan 17 (AFP) -- Islamic countries meeting here Monday [17 January] renewed a call for air strikes on Bosnia and issued a veiled threat of economic sanctions against countries backing a partition of the former Yugoslav republic. Foreign ministers from the Organization... |
FBIS3-58501_5 | Butrus-Ghali on UN Security Council Reforms | the veto right -- even if the resolution has been passed by a national assembly in which there is no veto right. [LE FIGARO] So...? [Butrus-Ghali] To my mind, what counts is not so much the reform, but the fact that via this reform I can attain greater participation by the most important member states in the role of th... |
FBIS3-58515_0 | Confidence in Future Airbus Orders Noted | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Article by Pierre Sparaco: "Airbus: A Year Fraught With Every Danger"] [Text] Last year, the three major airliner manufacturers [Boeing, Airbus, McDonnell Douglas] faced one business difficulty after another. Together, they sold fewer than 300 aircraft and suffered some 400 cancellati... |
FBIS3-58517_1 | Defense Minister on NATO, U.S. Foreign Policy, Russia | fact that the Eastern reform states have not been accepted as members is not primarily a concession to Russian President Yeltsin. The foremost consideration in this is the alliance's unity. Homogeneous political, economic, and social structures are the real strength of NATO. This requires an adaptation process of sever... |
FBIS3-58523_3 | `Fear' Delays EU Moves Toward Common Interior Policy | officials have embarked on a fundamental review of immigration and asylum. They are examining not just the question of access but far wider issues such as the economic factors that lead people to uproot themselves from their homelands in the first place and ways in which they can best be integrated once they have reach... |
FBIS3-58532_1 | Commentaries View Accomplishments of Clinton's Trip Presents for Yeltsin | Peace and it contains -- with Western approval -- a Russian right of veto concerning the military relationship between NATO and Moscow's former satellites in East Europe. The Partnership proposal is full of sweet words, and includes some attractive offers for the reform countries, but excludes membership in the allianc... |
FBIS3-58559_0 | Foreign Minister Comments on Middle East Peace | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin has described as a positive development that U.S. President Bill Clinton included the activities of the separatist terror organization on the agenda of his meeting with Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad. ANATOLIA Agency reports that Cetin drew... |
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