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FBIS3-7463_0 | Government Supports East ASEAN Growth Area | Language: Indonesian Article Type:BFN [Text] The Indonesian Government supports the East ASEAN Growth Area because its development coincides with Indonesia's asecond long-term development master plan which seeks to spur the development of eastern Indonesia. Kosim Gandataruna, fourth assistant to the coordinating minist... |
FBIS3-7471_1 | Further on Party Secretary's Visit to Malaysia NHAN DAN Publishes Editorial | economic development and belief that Vietnam will develop and prosper like other nations in Southeast Asia. General Secretary Do Muoi's visit has enhanced the mutual understanding and trust between the leaders and peoples of the two countries. Vietnam's important achievements in the renovation and its open-door foreign... |
FBIS3-7473_0 | Radio Denounces Exiled Monk in Australia, Part 2 | Language: English Article Type:BFN [From the "Talk of the Week" feature] [Text] Dear listeners: In our program Talk of the Week last Friday, we told you about the character of Nguyen Xuan Chu, who is now in the Van Hanh Monastery in Australia. This time we would like to talk about his sabotage activities while he was i... |
FBIS3-7474_6 | Catholic Paper Interviews Prime Minister | or people's council elections. It also prohibited them from setting up or participating in any associations, as this may cause division in the church. Elder Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh and some other bishops convinced the Vatican that in Vietnam joining the National Assembly or people's councils is just for the purpose ... |
FBIS3-7512_0 | Russia Reportedly To Support UNSC Resolution | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, March 29 (YONHAP) -- Russia would support a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on North Korea to accept nuclear inspections, while seeking an international meeting to discuss the issue attended by South and North Korea, the United States, Japan, Russia, C... |
FBIS3-7516_0 | `Voices of Caution' on DPRK Said Decreasing | Language: English Article Type:BFN [By staff reporter Yi Song-yul] [Text] Following North Korea's repeated intimidation of going to war against the South and the United States, the pro-con debates on the resumption of Team Spirit military exercise and deployment of Patriot anti-air missiles in the South seem to have al... |
FBIS3-7520_0 | Editorial Cautions Against U.S. Trade Pressure | Language: Korean Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The Super 301 Provision and the Uruguay Round"] [Text] The U.S. Government is likely to make strong demands on our country's opening of its auto market in the 16th ROK-U.S. working-level trade talks to be held 4-5 April in Washington. This demand is not new. In previous wo... |
FBIS3-7527_0 | Meetings, Comments of Mikhail Gorbachev Noted Meets National Assembly Speaker | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, March 28 (YONHAP) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev predicted Monday that North Korea would have to change amid the current of reform that is sweeping the world. "All kinds of reform that are taking place internationally will ultimately affect North Korea," Go... |
FBIS3-7536_0 | International Role of Nonaligned Nations Upheld Urged To `Reform' UN | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["NODONG SINMUN Calls for Reform and Democratization of UN" -- KCNA headline] [Text] Pyongyang, March 29 (KCNA) -- NODONG SINMUN today calls on the non-aligned countries to invigorate the efforts for the reform and democratization of the United Nations. In a by-lined article calling f... |
FBIS3-7549_3 | Governor Ota Discusses Okinawa Issues | There seem to be few Okinawans who have really mastered English. Here there seems to be a more open culture in which speaking English does not necessarily mean that one has become internationalized. [Ota] There are many U.S. military personnel stationed on Okinawa, but exchanges cannot be conducted easily because they ... |
FBIS3-7559_2 | Article Proposes Solution to Spratlys Dispute | areas, it might consider settling for less shares in the Spratly area. Since Brunei claims only a tiny portion of the core area, its share would be very small. The remaining shares would be allocated among Vietnam, the Philippines and Malavsia. Although China and Taiwan might argue that their 51 percent share in the Sp... |
FBIS3-7562_2 | Editorial Sees Flaws in Market-Opening Package | spread the trend of protectionist trade and managed trade all around the world. Japan's external imbalance is not confined to the bilateral issue between Japan and the United States, but is becoming a factor of instability in the world economic system. In other words, Japan can no longer continue its external imbalance... |
FBIS3-7567_16 | Impact of Tax Reform Assessed | similar to that of Japan. Otherwise, it is evident that the direct taxes to be borne by the workers will become heavier. The ratio of tax burden and social security burden against national income is called the national burden rate. In 1992, this rate was 38.1 percent in Japan, 51.3 percent in Germany, 62.1 percent in F... |
FBIS3-7567_20 | Impact of Tax Reform Assessed | pension paid to pensioners (a couple) is Y195,492, which is equivalent to 80 percent of the wages earned by the working generations (source: "Suggestions on the Pension System Reform" by the Ministry of Health and Welfare). According to a survey of the actual situation of aged people conducted in 1973 by the Ministry o... |
FBIS3-7567_23 | Impact of Tax Reform Assessed | affluent life. According to the result of a commodity price survey announced in 1993 by the Economic Planning Agency, price index in Tokyo was 131 (New York = 100). According to a survey conducted around the same period by "International Economic Forum," a private organization in Switzerland, the price index at major J... |
FBIS3-7654_0 | PRC, Indonesia, Thailand, EU in Exchange Rates | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Seoul, March 29 (YONHAP) -- The currencies of China, Indonesia, Thailand and the European Union will be included in daily foreign exchange rates posted by the Korea Financial Telecommunication and Clearings Institute starting April 11, the Bank of Korea announced Tuesday. The m... |
FBIS3-7676_1 | Philippine President Continues Visit Discusses Cooperation With Le Duc Anh | president will be crowned with success, thus opening up a new chapter in the relations of friendship and cooperation between our two nations for the interests of the two peoples and for peace, stability, cooperation, and prosperity in Southeast Asia and the world. President Le Duc Anh proposed a toast for the developme... |
FBIS3-7679_0 | Philippine President Continues Visit Visit Called `Most Significant' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Filipino President Fidel Ramos has described his tour of Vietnam as one of the most significant visits he has ever made. He told the media on Tuesday before leaving Hanoi that the Philippines, together with Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia, wish to share a common d... |
FBIS3-7689_0 | Trade Minister Discusses ASEAN, APEC | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Australia's new trade minister, Bob McMullen, reaffirmed yesterday his country's desire to see the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) group start moving towards a free trade agreement, perhaps in the next two years. Because of the sensitivity of the idea, he was careful n... |
FBIS3-7692_1 | Commentator Views Post-Cold War Security Issues | With the end of the Cold War, the structure of conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union collapsed, and the threat of nuclear war faded. However, the forces that moved the world became dispersed, creating a complicated structure and making it difficult to grasp the situation in terms of figures. In Bosnia... |
FBIS3-7705_1 | Former Ambassador Discusses Information Analysis | I had dinner with the foreign minister of Thailand. If Washington had known about the possibility of war, there was a possibility that it would have already discusses it only with the top leaders of the world. So I briefed Mr. Nakayama on the subject, just in case, but it was not brought up during the dinner. Later we ... |
FBIS3-7705_11 | Former Ambassador Discusses Information Analysis | concessions. Instead, they are playing "a game of chicken," in which two cars run at each other on course for a head-on collision, and the one who turns the steering wheel first is the "chicken." February will be like that. One way Japan can avoid such a situation is to persuade U.S. economists and open-minded legislat... |
FBIS3-7711_0 | Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Visits Meets SLORC's Khin Nyunt | Language: Burmese Article Type:BFN [Text] Lieutenant General Khin Nyunt, secretary-1 of the State Law and Order Restoration Council [SLORC] of the Union of Myanmar [Burma], paid a courtesy call on Mr. Goh Chok Tong, prime minister of Singapore who is currently on a goodwill visit to Myanmar, at the Seinlekantha state g... |
FBIS3-7713_0 | Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Visits Gives News Conference in Rangoon | Language: Burmese Article Type:BFN [Text] Mr. Goh Chok Tong, prime minister of the Republic of Singapore, who is currently on a goodwill visit to Myanmar [Burma], held a news conference with local and foreign journalists at 1115 today at Seinle Kantha Guest House. The news conference was attended by responsible officia... |
FBIS3-7715_0 | Agriculture Delegates Visit Thailand, Malaysia | Language: Burmese Article Type:BFN [Text] A Myanmar [Burma] delegation led by Deputy Agriculture Minister U Tin Hlaing and five others left Yangon [Rangoon] for Thailand by air at 1640. They will study agricultural activities under the Thai-Myanmar bilateral technical cooperation program at the invitation of the Thai G... |
FBIS3-7724_0 | U.S. Policy Objectives in Balkans Examined | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Mate Piskor commentary: "Peace Without the 6th Fleet?"] [Text] "When will the 6th Fleet arrive?" many wondered at the beginning of the aggression on Croatia. What is the United States waiting for, why do they allow the destruction of the Yalta system, others wondered, marvelin... |
FBIS3-7732_2 | Rugova Hails Clinton Statement on Kosovo | appeal, President Rugova said, for preventive measures against repression in Kosova. Talking about the recent initiatives for a settlement to the problems of the former Yugoslavia, Ibrahim Rugova said that Yeltsin's initiative should not supplant a comprehensive settlement, or replace a conference for the overall solut... |
FBIS3-7797_3 | Milosevic `Associate' Views B-H Conflict | the military. The greatest danger is that in defending themselves, the Serbs may shoot down U.S. aircraft. Then no one will be able to stop the war -- the United States will have a reason to seek vengeance, and Russia will have to intervene as well. If world public opinion is really interested in ending this war, why d... |
FBIS3-7814_1 | Official Discusses Changes in Security | I speak of cleansing, I certainly do not mean the former communists. They represented 90 percent of the Army. [Adamickova] So, whom do you have in mind? [Fejfar] If I am interested in anyone at all, they are two categories: There are the former members of military counterespionage, several hundred of whom have remained... |
FBIS3-7817_4 | Gligorov Views Relations With Greece, Serbia | are quite independent and have been deployed in compliance with a special agreement. The deeper and more profound reason for their presence here, even if it involves only a symbolic 300 troops, is undoubtedly an expression of the U.S. desire to prevent the spreading of the Balkan conflict further south. From their poin... |
FBIS3-7817_13 | Gligorov Views Relations With Greece, Serbia | its main principles, and what we can expect from it. Which is to say, it was a meeting of the representatives of two friendly countries, and it was a good opportunity for both delegations to become better informed and to make agreements on more dynamic cooperation, particularly in the field of economics. The arrival of... |
FBIS3-7820_0 | Official Views Border Disputes With Slovenia | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Hrvoje Kacic, head of the State Commission for Borders, by Vado Rajic; place and date not given: "The Sovereignty of Croatia Must Not Be Jeopardized"] [Text] Just a couple of days after Croatia and Slovenia signed a package of intergovernmental agreements, a mix... |
FBIS3-7821_3 | Serbian Intelligence Services Join Forces | of the aggression against Croatia he participated in numerous negotiations with Croatian authorities. Together with the majority of the commanders in the Fifth Military Region he moved with his family from Zagreb to Slunj in May 1991. His boss, General Zivota Avramovic, joined him there somewhat later. He performed the... |
FBIS3-7837_0 | Daily Comments on Downing of Bosnian Aircraft | Language: Polish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Maria Wagrowska: "Why Now?"] [Text] The shooting down of the aircraft over northern Bosnia has been the first military intervention in the Yugoslav conflict as well as the first combat action in the 45-year-long history of NATO. The possibility of an operation by the Wes... |
FBIS3-7847_0 | Fate of Bosnian Serb Pilots Described | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Belgrade, March 1 (AFP) -- A pilot who flew one of the four Serb planes shot down by NATO warplanes over Bosnia ejected from his aircraft before it was hit and is safe, the Belgrade daily POLITIKA said Tuesday [1 March]. His plane crashed in territory controlled by Bosnian Serb... |
FBIS3-7884_0 | UN Representative Reports on Serbian `Abuses' | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Report of Mr. Mazowiecki for Kosova" -- ATA headline] [Text] Prishtina, February 25 (ATA) -- "The situation on the human rights in Kosova is going worse as a result of the discriminating acts of the Serbian authorities," stressed Mr. Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the special reporter of the U... |
FBIS3-7886_0 | Ministry Cites `Defamatory' Yugoslav Memorandum | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Statement by spokesman of Albanian Foreign Ministry"--quotation marks as received] [Text] Tirana, February 23 (ATA) -- The spokesman of the Albanian Foreign Ministry issued today a statement concerning a memorandum recently published by the Federative Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ... |
FBIS3-7888_0 | Foreign Ministry Statement on B-H Air Clash | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sofia, February 28 (BTA) -- In connection with the incident which led to the shooting down of warplanes near Banja Luka, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry states the following: The Foreign Ministry is deeply concerned over the violation of the United Nations "no-fly" zone declared... |
FBIS3-7889_1 | FRY Envoy Supports `Peaceful Co-existence' | constitute a free, democratic and developed part of Europe or will not exist at all," he said. In his opinion, the sanctions against Yugoslavia have long become unwarranted, as Serbs are no longer involved in the war in Bosnia; the war is now between Croats and Muslims and among Muslims themselves. Besides, Bulgaria an... |
FBIS3-7894_0 | Air Strike in B-H Seen as `Important Step' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Prague, March 1 (CTK) -- Czech Foreign Ministry said Tuesday [1 March] it considers the radical and effective strike of NATO air force against Galeb combat aircraft in Bosnia to be an important step in the direction of respecting the decision of the U.N. Security Council on no-... |
FBIS3-7919_1 | BSP Official Views FRY Visit, U.S. Policy | I will not succumb to this temptation and will only say that it is the constant position of the Bulgarian Socialist Party [BSP] the dialogue between all forces should never stop, and that this especially applies to crisis situations, when specific decision related to national interests are required. In all my public ap... |
FBIS3-7933_2 | Ganic Sees Military Pressure as Turning Point | note). But I am satisfied with the official Russian statements. "We could have refused the Russian soldiers access for the same reason that the United Nations rejected offers from Turkey, Pakistan, and Iran, because those countries would have taken sides in the war. But we accept the Russian soldiers who will perhaps s... |
FBIS3-7943_1 | Official Views Constitutional Dispute | object to this idea, but he did suggest a different solution whereby any organized group of citizens may submit its own draft Constitution to the National Assembly Constitutional Commission. The idea of dissolving parliament should parliament's own draft Constitution be rejected in a referendum has nothing to do with u... |
FBIS3-7965_0 | Minister on `Devastating' Effects of Sanctions | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Belgrade, March 1 (TANJUG) -- The international economic sanctions against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia have had the most devastating effects in the area of transport and communications, where direct losses have reached the figure of nearly ten billion dollars over the pa... |
FBIS3-7969_0 | LDK Condemns Killing, Warns of `State Terror' | Language: Albanian Article Type:BFN [Text] A public communique issued by the Kosova Democratic Alliance [LDK] Presidency condemns the murder of Selman Daci by the Serbian Army at Hani i Elezit and considers it as an organized state crime of Serbia against Albanians. The communique states that whenever the international... |
FBIS3-7980_5 | Article Outlines Trade With Russia | [of commerce]. A View From the Other Side Alexander Safonov, chief of the Economic Department at the Trade Mission of the Russian Federation, explains in good Czech that the Czech-Russian trade has gotten over the "shocks" already. In 1991, this trade survived the transition to convertible currencies, in 1992, the brea... |
FBIS3-7981_0 | Iliescu Discusses European Integration | Language: Romanian Article Type:BFN ["Interview granted by President Ion Iliescu for the magazine FORUM published under the aegis of the Council of Europe"; place and date not given: "Back to Our Natural Political Habitat"] [Text] [FORUM] Mr. President, what does Romania's admission to the Council of Europe represent? ... |
FBIS3-7989_3 | Fur Interviewed on MDF Ideological Issues | or we can switch over to a democracy in a constitutional and legal framework in a disciplined manner. Today, although the situation is not as keen, the question is what will happen to the country. Knowing society's sober attitude, I hope that anarchy is not threatening the country, but the danger of a left-wing change ... |
FBIS3-8026_0 | Politicians View Walesa's Political Moves | Language: Polish Article Type:BFN [Article by Eliza Olczyk: "Aim--Second Term of Office; President in Action"] [Text] "I wanted to, but they would not let me"--this is one of Lech Walesa's favorite sayings. He wanted to give each citizen 100 million zlotys, but nothing happened. He wanted to leave only socks on affair ... |
FBIS3-8031_2 | FRY Envoy on FYROM, Other Issues | by air strikes. Those who speak on behalf of the old Europe should know that "blood is the wrong food for men." [passage omitted] [Kulinski] Is the idea still alive that the Macedonians are "southern Serbs?" [Smilkovic] Ideas do not die; they are realized, disappear into history, or are forgotten. As regards the expres... |
FBIS3-8043_1 | Role of State Intelligence Service Questioned | And -- who are the ShIK's informers? Has a new network been created from scratch, or have old connections been partially maintained? We have reason to believe that the latter is true, when we see today, as in days of yore, certain "curious" individuals at whom people point their fingers as "provocateurs." This intertwi... |
FBIS3-8066_0 | Karadzic Assesses Confederation, Moscow Visit | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Report by Jelena Vidic -- recorded] [Text] [Vidic] President [of the Srpska republic] Karadzic assessed that the visit to Moscow was very significant and that the resolution of the Bosnian crisis will take a new direction. He assessed that Russia's involvement in the search fo... |
FBIS3-8071_0 | Commentary on `Russian Factor' | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Mirko Sagolj: "Russians Did Not Come by Chance"] [Text] The decision of Milosevic's and Karadzic's (general staff) to withdraw their heavy artillery placed around Sarajevo before the ultimatum expires, and the way in which Russia is (again) getting involved in so... |
FBIS3-8087_2 | Tudjman Address on Croat-Muslim Agreement | Serb and the Muslim sides until the agreement was signed in Washington. The implementation of the agreement signed in Washington by Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mate Granic, Prime Minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina Haris Silajdzic, and Kresimir Zubak, president of the presidential council of the Croa... |
FBIS3-8101_2 | Article Views Advantages of EC Association | issues, expressed his "deepest regrets" for the terms imposed on Romania in the agricultural chapter. Being more confident in their own forces, the Trilaterale countries had put up a fierce fight to protect their interests. Dissatisfied with the EC terms, Poland and Hungary in 1991 left the negotiating table, although,... |
FBIS3-8102_3 | Jovanovic on Muslim-Croat Federation Agreement | three sides. And the third side, which was probably the most significant in this situation, was not included in the process of agreeing and decision making, so that it remains completely unclear as to what further attitude the authors of the agreement and the people interested in its implementation are going to have to... |
FBIS3-8106_2 | Commentary Assesses Russian Action in Bosnia | the battlefields after the heavy weapons have been withdrawn. Russia had also brought the necessary balance into the peace process and had reestablished the confidence of the Bosnian Serbs in the UN and the international community in general. The view was also expressed that future relations between Russia and the Unit... |
FBIS3-8112_1 | Unemployment Trends for 1994 Examined | the total population of registered unemployed. The only optimistic accent in this situation is that there are a few more job vacancies on the labor market (in January there were 41,171 vacancies, compared to 28,000 in December). At the same time, there is still a tremendous differentiation in this index between differe... |
FBIS3-8150_0 | Ministry Condemns `Irresponsible Acts' | Language: Albanian Article Type:BFN [Statement issued by the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry on 6 March; place not given -- read by announcer] [Text] As reported, on 5 March 1994 in Pogaj village in Has District, near border marker D-7, 100 meters into Albanian territory, 20-year-old soldier Saimir Pal Zefi from Mir... |
FBIS3-8166_3 | Woerner Views Russians' Role in Balkan Crisis | that they do not understand themselves as the Serbs' protective power but as a power that is trying to tackle the problem impartially. [Bertram] Do you welcome the presence of Russian troops in Bosnia? [Woerner] When some people complain today that Russia is becoming active there, I do not share this view at all. First... |
FBIS3-8171_1 | Rugova Endorses NATO Action, Croat-Muslim Pact | that the border with Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM], "which is illegal for us," began a toll of its first victim. The week behind us was characterized by heavy movements of Serbian army and their build up in different areas such as in the bordering stripe Gjakova-Prizren, in the vicinity... |
FBIS3-8181_2 | Union of Labor's Bugaj on Sociopolitical Scene | in that area is not deteriorating. [Onichimowski] The second sphere of concern is our internal security. [Bugaj] Here a very considerable deterioration took place over the past years. Some people believe that this should be counteracted primarily by building up the numeric strength of our police force. Unfortunately, t... |
FBIS3-8200_0 | `Full Control' of Borders Sought | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] Zagreb, March 5 (TANJUG) -- Croatia will seek from the U.N. Security Council before the expiration of the U.N. peace-keepers' mandate on March 31 to restore full control of its borders, the Croatian Defence and National Security Council ruled on Saturday. "We have... |
FBIS3-8213_2 | Karadzic on Federation, NATO `Interference' | [DER SPIEGEL] Is it not becoming increasingly likely that there will be a new Yalta in the Balkans, with Serbia falling into the Russians' sphere of interests? [Karadzic] The Russian culture, the Russian people and its religion are very close to us. However, when we are pushed under the Russian wing in political terms,... |
FBIS3-8244_1 | U.S. Interests in B-H Air Incident Examined | envisages a "clear sky" over Bosnia, i.e. a ban on military flights that have not been authorized by the United Nations Protection Forces [UNPROFOR], has been violated. The truth is yet to be established, but a fact is well-known. The three fighting sides have violated the ban on flights since the day the resolution wa... |
FBIS3-8244_2 | U.S. Interests in B-H Air Incident Examined | of the sides of violating the resolution, nor has UNPROFOR publicly warned any of the fighting sides. Without justifying the actions of those who violated the resolution, and regardless of whether the airplanes were Serbian or not, it is obvious that NATO's operation comes at a very inappropriate moment -- precisely wh... |
FBIS3-8249_9 | Socialist Party Issues Election Program A Proper Human Environment! Help for Backward Areas To Catch Up! A Just Distribution of Public Burdens and A More Thrifty State Budget! Rapprochement With Our Neighbors and Living As Hungarians in Europe | avoid taxes. We will considerably increase the corporate tax, and we will make the invested incomes free of tax; however, we will tax the accumulation of property. We will eliminate the tax on the interest on forint and hard currency saving accounts and the minimum tax, and we will restore the tax exemptions encouragin... |
FBIS3-8249_10 | Socialist Party Issues Election Program A Proper Human Environment! Help for Backward Areas To Catch Up! A Just Distribution of Public Burdens and A More Thrifty State Budget! Rapprochement With Our Neighbors and Living As Hungarians in Europe | the welfare system and the development of supplementary insurance. A Stronger Social Security! The source of the most severe tensions in the coming years is that welfare expenses can only increase slightly. However, the burdens of the most helpless strata of the society cannot be increased any more. Therefore, we need ... |
FBIS3-8251_0 | UDMR Declaration on Ethnic Rights Summarized | Language: Romanian Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "The UDMR Offensive"] [Text] The 26-27 February meeting of the Council of Representatives of the UDMR [Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania], which was held in Miercurea Ciuc, adopted a declaration regarding the way in which Romania's obligations stipulate... |
FBIS3-8272_15 | News Conference by President Tudjman | the Yugoslav army, held the whole of Croatia. They were holding one third, and then we liberated a part of it -- there is still a quarter of our territory under the protection of the peace-keeping forces, or under Serb occupation. It is also a fact that they are holding two thirds of Bosnia- Herzegovina under their aut... |
FBIS3-8272_16 | News Conference by President Tudjman | of Serbs in Croatia is set out in the Croatian constitution and in a special constitutional law which we adopted in agreement with the EC arbitration commission and the European conference on the former Yugoslavia, so statements by individuals along these lines cannot change anything. Your other question -- on guarante... |
FBIS3-8272_18 | News Conference by President Tudjman | that the agreement in itself, and especially its implementation, will have a considerable impact not only on the revival but also on the development of tourism in Croatia at a level higher than before. Your first question referred to the succession. Concerning the Croatian delegation and the delegations of the other co... |
FBIS3-8290_2 | Cimoszewicz on Coalition, Constitution, Law | but the day that happens is a very long way off. This involves not so much legislation as social consciousness and the attitudes of politicians. The law is still regarded as a means to an end. Even in recent years, violations of the law have been excused on grounds of so-called necessity. The civic ombudsman says that,... |
FBIS3-8293_18 | Jaruzelski on Reforms, 1981 Martial Law, SLD | economy. It is worth recalling how many apartments were built in the martial law period: in 1982, approximately 185,000; in 1983, over 195,000; in the years that followed, until 1989, the numbers were similar. At the same time, I still remember the charge that was leveled at me: One has to wait for an apartment as long... |
FBIS3-8300_0 | Request for More UN Troops in Bosnia Assessed | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Slavoljub Susic] [Text] The latest request for additional UN troops in the former Bosnia-Herzegovina could be understood more as the confirmation of the assessment of the better informed analysts that the Balkans is a special experimental arena of the creators of... |
FBIS3-8304_0 | Leader of Banned Party on Interethnic Struggles | Language: Bulgarian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Ilija Ilijevski, chairman of the Human Rights Party of FYROM, by Galya Nikolova; place and date not given: "Our Party Was Banned Because of Its Good Relations With Bulgaria"] [Text] [Nikolova] Mr. Ilijevski, when and why was your party banned? [Ilijevski] It was bann... |
FBIS3-8307_0 | Central European Initiative Adopts Statement | Language: Czech Article Type:BFN [Text] A two-day meeting of the foreign ministers of the 10 countries of the Central European Initiative [CEI] ended in Trieste in northern Italy today with the adoption of the document on political and economic issues. In the document the ministers welcomed the recent Washington agreem... |
FBIS3-8309_0 | `Bosnian Federation' Supported | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Trieste, March 5 (TANJUG) -- A two-day session of the foreign ministers of the countries of the so-called Central European Initiative ended on Saturday evening, after lending all-out support to the Washington agreement between the Bosnian Croats and Muslims and expressing hope ... |
FBIS3-8313_2 | Vacaroiu on Ties With Slovakia, Foreign Policy | especially concerned about harmonizing certain steps of common interest. Dealing with the issue of the Hungarian minority in Romania, however, is our internal affair. We are merely interested in ensuring that all the citizens of our states have the same rights and responsibilities, but not privileges. Our laws guarante... |
FBIS3-8326_2 | Boross Discusses Regional Security Concerns | has no place in Hungarian history." Recently, a man returned to Hungary from abroad and formed a group with a good 30 members. "Currently, the prosecution service is dealing with them; they are more of an irritation than a danger. There is nothing to indicate that they are spreading to the provinces." This kind of extr... |
FBIS3-8342_1 | Koljevic: Bosnian Serbs Should Join Talks | be working with all sides to reach something that will be accepted and not refused." Although the Serbs were not involved in the first stage of negotiations on the plan, they nevertheless, in Redman's words, "received some information and were given some documents. We hope that in the second phase we will maintain clos... |
FBIS3-8372_0 | Government `Diplomatic Offensive' Against RSK | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Belgrade, March 8 (TANJUG) -- Croatia will intensify its activities and initiate "a diplomatic offensive" in an effort to re-integrate the Republic of Serb Krajina (R.S.K.) into Croatia, TANJUG learned on Tuesday from well-informed Croatian sources. The R.S.K. is now one of the... |
FBIS3-8377_0 | Minister on CSCE Intervention, Minority Issues | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Belgrade, March 8 (TANJUG) -- The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia will not allow the arrival of permanent missions of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in its territory until it is readmitted as a full member of this organization because this country re... |
FBIS3-8433_0 | `Certain Countries' Backsliding on Minority Rights | Language: Hungarian Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Istvan Kulcsar reports on the foreign affairs spokesman's regular press briefing today. [Kulcsar] [Passage omitted] At the news conference Foreign Affairs Spokesman Janos Herman took several questions regarding the foreign ministers' meeting of the Central European Initia... |
FBIS3-8488_10 | Kovac Gives `State of Republic' Speech | discredit the political opponent. Our internal political scene ceases to be a place where there is a constructive exchange of views, a search for common ways out of a complicated situation. It is changing into an arena with a number of duels leading nowhere, in which many lose their judgment, their own face and charact... |
FBIS3-8489_1 | Granic Calls Washington Agreement `Historic' | of a decentralized Bosnia-Herzegovina and the proposed peace plans since the beginning -- from Cutiliero's to Vance-Owen's to Owen-Stoltenberg's -- which offered various degrees of decentralization. The Croat-Muslim talks on a confederation started as early as last fall, when several models of the organization of Bosni... |
FBIS3-8492_0 | President, NATO Official on Affiliation | Language: Albanian Article Type:BFN [Text] President Sali Berisha this afternoon received Loic Bouvard, president of the North Atlantic Assembly, and Peter Corterier, secretary general of the alliance. I would first like to express my deep gratitude for the contribution made to Albania's associate membership in the Nor... |
FBIS3-8499_1 | Andrejcak Discusses Defense, Military Issues | adopting specific technical and organizational measures and by creating the financial and material resources necessary for peace time and a possible conflict. [Hric] The fact of the matter is, we are drafting a defense doctrine in Slovakia for the first time. Until now, we have always accepted them from our powerful pa... |
FBIS3-8499_5 | Andrejcak Discusses Defense, Military Issues | renamed. The aims are the same, regardless of the name. However, it would make no sense at all to form such units in peace time, within the framework of the permitted numbers, to the detriment of the units that have far more complex equipment and training. [Hric] Did Mr. Klepac not have something else in mind when he m... |
FBIS3-8504_0 | Holds News Conference | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] Belgrade, 11 Mar (TANJUG)--The European Union (EU) remains active in the peace process in the former Yugoslavia, Greek Foreign Minister Karolos Papoulias stressed upon his arrival in Belgrade today. In his statement to reporters at Surcin airport, Papoulias said the Bosn... |
FBIS3-8558_0 | NATO Official Addresses Parliament | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["We Are Looking Forward to Albania's Participation in NATO -- the Speech of Louis Bouvard, chairman of the North Atlantic Assembly to the Albanian Parliament" -- ATA headline] [Text] Tirana, March 10 (ATA) -- "The chairman of the North Atlantic Assembly has the honour of addressing o... |
FBIS3-8568_0 | Fur Presses for Autonomy for National Minorities | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Budapest, 9 March (MTI) -- The ethnic Hungarian minorities living outside of Hungary would gain the best chance for survival by being granted autonomy, Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) Chairman Lajos Fur told a rally at Salgotarjan, northern Hungary, tonight. "Hungary's interna... |
FBIS3-8634_0 | Ambassador to Croatia Views Federation | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Bisera Turkovic, the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina's ambassador to Croatia, by Milan Jelovac; place and date not given: "The Serbs Will Also Accept the Federation"] [Text] Mrs. Bisera Turkovic is the ambassador of Bosnia-Herzegovina to Croatia, a country which,... |
FBIS3-8634_4 | Ambassador to Croatia Views Federation | peace, normalize relations, and save human lives, which should be our first goal. The U.S. formula is ideal: It enables the preservation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, very substantial rights, and the national identities in this case of two nations, and it also gives a chance to the third one within the framework of the propos... |
FBIS3-8667_0 | Papoulias Comments | Language: Greek Article Type:BFN [Text] Foreign Minister Karolos Papoulias concluded his talks in Belgrade with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic on the Bosnian issue. After their meeting, Mr. Papoulias described the talks as successful and expressed the hope that the crisis will be overcome. He further noted that h... |
FBIS3-8668_1 | Criticism of Foreign Involvement in Bosnia | reexamine the relations between the Unites States and Western Europe and the United States and Russia. These relations are also being mutually reexamined and reshaped precisely on the issue of the war in the former Bosnia-Herzegovina. It has transpired that Western Europe--that is, the European Union--for a long time f... |
FBIS3-8668_2 | Criticism of Foreign Involvement in Bosnia | Union--for a long time failed to contribute toward a solution for the Balkan war zone. Therefore, the United States has taken the initiative, more to demonstrate to the European Union that it is not capable of resolving such a problem than to actually solve the problem, and even less to solve it justly. The political m... |
FBIS3-8673_32 | Text of Address | only a few weeks ago called for a strong action in Komarno [where Hungarians called for autonomy] saying that there was a need to use force. If this does not serve as a reminder it does not matter. But do not regret it afterwards. As regard to matters connected with the further development of our political system, at i... |
FBIS3-8721_0 | Official Accuses Muslims of Provoking Conflict | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] New York, March 14 (TANJUG) -- Islamic countries are trying, in cooperation with the Bosnian Muslims, to provoke a conflict in Raska, a region stretching across both the Yugoslav Republics of Serbia and Montenegro, and are, thereby, endangering the sovereignty and... |
FBIS3-8730_1 | Stoltenberg Interviewed on Bosniak-Croat Accord | in the efforts at putting an end to the war in former Yugoslavia. Stoltenberg gave an interview to MLADA FRONTA DNES on this subject. [Palata] Mr. Stoltenberg, how do you evaluate the most recent peace agreement concluded between Zagreb and the Bosnian Muslims and Croats in Washington? [Stoltenberg] The Washington trea... |
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