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FBIS4-6220_0 | Cambodia Issue Explanation to ASEAN Planned | BFN [Text] THAILAND will explain the recent border conflicts with Cambodia to other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations next week, Foreign Minister Prasong Sunsiri said yesterday. ASEAN senior officials will gather in Phatthaya for a three-day meeting starting on Monday to prepare agendas for the fore... |
FBIS4-6307_13 | Politicians, Economic Circle on Political Reform | for "clean money" that has no linkage of vested interests between politicians and particular corporations, also generated various forms of "exterior" and "interior" worlds. How much money in total is flowing from where to where? Many people involved in this within the LDP and the economic circle say that only Mr. Natsu... |
FBIS4-6332_0 | Iranian Speaker Continues Official Visit Blames U.S. for `Tragic' Fate of Gorazde | BFN [Text] Kuala Lumpur, April 20, IRNA -- Majles Speaker 'Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri Tuesday termed the fall of Gorazde as an "intolerable crime" and said that the tragic catastrophe was indicative of a conspiracy masterminded by the U.S. and its Western allies. Speaking at a press conference here the speaker reiterated tha... |
FBIS4-6334_1 | UN Urged To Lift Sanctions Against Iraq | 1990. By now, the Iraqis would have learned their lesson. They know very well that having designs of future invasions would be met with tough retaliatory military measures. Therefore, those obstructing the lifting of sanctions are not being fair to Iraq. Questions are being raised over the discrimination and policy sel... |
FBIS4-6338_0 | Government Denies U.S. Teenager `Tortured' | BFN [Text] Singapore, April 19 (AFP) -- The Singapore Government Tuesday denied US media reports that an American teenager was tortured and forced to confess to acts of vandalism for which he has been ordered caned by a Singapore court. The Ministry of Home Affairs said that a probe by a special police unit carried out... |
FBIS4-6350_0 | Romulo To Strengthen Trade Ties With Burma | BFN [Text] Foreign Affairs Secretary Roberto Romulo yesterday said that a "growing interest" in expanding links between the Philippines and Myanmar (formerly Burma) should be explored by encouraging an intensified exchange of private sector representatives from both countries. "There is an enormous potential still wait... |
FBIS4-6360_0 | Daily Backs Government Stand on Cambodian Charges | BFN [Editorial: "A Reminder to Cambodia"] [Text] It is a pity that there is a resurgence of the old attitude Thailand once had toward Cambodia in history. This should not be allowed to happen; it is the duty of both the Thai and Cambodian people to prevent a repeat of history. A feeling of rift is re-emerging between T... |
FBIS4-6389_0 | Production of Magnesia Clinker Reported | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Magnesia clinker of Korea is popular at the international market. It is exported to more than 10 countries and the needs for it are on a steady increase. Korea is one of the biggest magnesia clinker producers in the world. The country abounds in magnesite minerals needed for the... |
FBIS4-6399_18 | Foreign Ministry Publishes Nuclear `Memorandum' | the United States feigns ignorance of the nuclear development programme in some countries, but on the other hand it "persists in its efforts to fault North Korea's alleged `nuclear development' and its declared intention to withdraw from the NPT despite its faithful implementation of the NPT obligations because, in a n... |
FBIS4-6421_2 | ASEAN Members Agree To More Active World Role | Round. Dr Suphachai said the idea of Thailand's candidature came from two meetings on Tuesday: the informal meeting of ASEAN economic ministers where he proposed that Thailand should be ASEAN's spokesman on agriculture in the WTO, and a bilateral meeting with Australian trade minister Bob McMullen who said the committe... |
FBIS4-6427_0 | Bilateral Talks Held With Thai Foreign Minister | BFN [Text] The foreign minister, Squadron Leader Prasong Sunsiri, and his delegation are paying an official visit to the Union of Burma at the invitation of His Excellency Burmese Foreign Minister U Ohn Gyaw from 19 to 20 April. During his visit, the foreign minister met and held talks with Burmese leaders such as Seni... |
FBIS4-6437_0 | Reportage Continues on Regional Civil Unrests Sporadic Strikes Continue | BFN [Text] JAKARTA, April 20 (AFP) -- Sporadic strikes continued outside the Sumatran city of Medan on Wednesday, but emotions in the city appeared calmer as it remained quiet into the afternoon following a day of anti-ethnic Chinese rioting. Potential trouble-makers may have been discouraged by what witnesses said was... |
FBIS4-6521_0 | Korea Reported Fourth in Steel Consumption | BFN [Text] Seoul, April 16 (YONHAP) -- The average Korean used 606 kilograms of steel last year, putting the country at No. 4 in the world, the Korea Iron and Steel Association (KOSA) said Saturday. Per capita steel consumption rose 14.4 percent from 1992's 530 kg thanks to a business boom in the shipping and automobil... |
FBIS4-6527_0 | Prime Minister Chuan Leaves for Malaysia | BFN [Text] Prime Minister Chuan Likphai and his delegation left for Malaysia this morning. He will hold official discussions with the Malaysian prime minister and co-chair the signing of the agreement between the PTT Exploration and Production Company and Petronas Carigali Company, the Malaysian national oil company, o... |
FBIS4-6543_4 | Distortion in Productivity Among Industries | consideration here, but basically the high yen is the main cause. The exchange rate in December 1993 was $1 equals 109.7 yen, but the purchasing power parity of industrial product wholesale prices was $1 equals 146.92 yen. The difference of both is about 37 yen and has greatly expanded from 20 yen in 1991. The yen rate... |
FBIS4-6561_11 | Phan Van Khai Discusses Banking Sector Duties | urgent and complicated issue for the banking sector in its duty to control inflation and stabilize the currency. Capital is badly needed to maintain and expand current business and production enterprises, build new establishments, and create economic transforming steps for industrialization and modernization. When the ... |
FBIS4-6630_0 | Chuan Reviews Talks With Malaysian Counterpart | BFN [Text] Prime Minister Chuan Likphai returned from Malaysia this evening. Talking to reporters upon his arrival at Don Muang Airport, he said that his talks with the Malaysian prime minister on issues of common interest proceeded in a good atmosphere. [Begin recording] [Chuan] In brief, I held talks with the Malaysi... |
FBIS4-6635_1 | Envoy Discusses Diplomacy in Central Asia | If such anxiety really does exist, what should the Japanese do about it? Roughly speaking, there are two courses for us to take. Since the area is not closely related to us, one course is to assume the attitude of an onlooker. This by itself is a fully justifiable choice. Over the past several decades, there have been ... |
FBIS4-6635_5 | Envoy Discusses Diplomacy in Central Asia | regarded as second-class citizens. However, with Uzbekistan becoming an independent state, and by virtue of the "National Language Law," Uzbeks of Turkish descent constitute the leading stratum, with those of Persian descent forming a subordinate class (though there are many Persian descendents who speak Uzbek fluently... |
FBIS4-6666_0 | Ozawa Said Behind `Pro-U.S.' MOPT Policy | BFN [Article by journalist Seiichi Takagi: "The Calculations of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in Choosing a Pro-Ozawa/Pro-U.S. Course"] [Text] The stir caused by a comment made by Koremasa Egawa, director of the Broadcasting Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications [MOPT], re... |
FBIS4-6667_0 | * U.S. `Isolationist' Posture Analyzed | CSO [Article by Tadae Takubo, Kyorin University professor: "`U.S. Stern Expression Which Abandons Japan'; in special edition `Fearsome Neighbors'"] [Text] Buchanan's Exasperation I think there are many people who have forgotten the name Patick Buchanan. He is the neoisolationist who in the 1992 U.S. presidential electi... |
FBIS4-6698_0 | Police Arrest Suspected PRC Alien Smugglers | BFN [Text] Tokyo, April 19 KYODO -- Tokyo police and immigration authorities arrested five Chinese Tuesday [19 April] for allegedly assisting some 150 compatriots looking for work in Japan to sneak into the country in February and March. Police also arrested six more Chinese for allegedly trying to sneak in Japan. All ... |
FBIS4-6704_0 | TSE Studies Foreign Firm Withdrawal Prevention | BFN [Text] Tokyo, April 19 KYODO -- Minoru Nagaoka, head of the Tokyo Stock Exchange [TSE], said Tuesday [19 April] the exchange is studying measures to prevent foreign firms from pulling out of the market. Nagaoka said the study will focus on ways to reduce listing costs, and the exchange will accept some documents pr... |
FBIS4-6723_0 | Firm Invests in Power Line, Stations | BFN [Text] Power Supply Corporation No. 2 has invested 19 billion dong to build three power transformer stations and a 76-km-long power transmission network to bring electricity from a 35-KV and a 20-KV powerline to three remote districts, U Minh, Thoi Binh, and Cai Nuoc in Minh Hai Province. The U Minh District people... |
FBIS4-6832_0 | DPRK-Europe Economic Contacts `Become Brisk' | BFN [Text] Seoul, April 25 (YONHAP) -- Contacts between North Korea and European banks and businesses have become brisk with inter-Korean consultations almost suspended, relevant authorities and business sources here said Monday. A few European banks, including ING (Internationale Netherlanden Bank M.V.) of the Netherl... |
FBIS4-6862_1 | Tokyo, Washington Differ on Goal of Framework | which was reached between the Japanese and U.S. leaders in July last year. The statement stipulated that a goal of the framework talks is to "substantially increase access and sales of competitive foreign goods and services." While the United States believes that this goal is applied to every individual sector such as ... |
FBIS4-6878_7 | * Senior EPA Official Assesses State of Economy | which is plant and equipment investment: This is being affected negatively by the prospect that attempts by business firms to dispose of their excess property holdings, such as office buildings and other structures, will be a time-consuming proposition; thus, not much can be expected of this element in the near term. C... |
FBIS4-6878_8 | * Senior EPA Official Assesses State of Economy | believe, is the question of how widespread and how deep are these personnel reductions. A Structural Turnabout of Japan's Economy--Pros and Cons [KANKAI] The view attributing the current recession phase to two factors--the effect of the bubble's collapse and a cyclical force--has been around for some time now, but late... |
FBIS4-6898_0 | Commentary Lauds Malaysia-Thailand Joint Cooperation | BFN [Station commentary] [Text] A further reflection of the going cooperation between and among countries of ASEAN was seen in Kuala Lumpur two days ago, where Malaysia and Thailand signed an agreement to jointly explore and exploit oil and gas resources in the Gulf of Thailand. The signing has paved the way for the la... |
FBIS4-6911_0 | Firm Invests Power Line, Stations | BFN [Text] Power Supply Corporation No. 2 has invested 19 billion dong to build three power transformer stations and a 76-km-long power transmission network to bring electricity from a 35-KV and a 20-KV powerline to three remote districts, U Minh, Thoi Binh, and Cai Nuoc in Minh Hai Province. The U Minh District people... |
FBIS4-6925_13 | * Academic Calls Ichiro Ozawa Undefinable | people that politics is not the function of passing out benefits freely to various regions and groups in the country. With respect to the tax reform bill to reduce income taxes and secure public works revenues by increasing the consumption tax rate, he has presented plausible estimates. However, for example, if running... |
FBIS4-6993_3 | Editorials Analyze Foreign Debt Issues KOMPAS on Mounting Foreign Debts | yen's appreciation. More caution is needed in pursuing developments. There is a need to scrutinize the management of foreign loans from time to time. Second, the business circle's commercial loans have spiralled in recent years. The loans taken by the private sector within a brief period accounted for 40 percent of Ind... |
FBIS4-7006_9 | Phan Van Khai Speaks at Party Conference | need to motivate all available sources of capital and we also need to foster and utilize skills. (With investment projects that produce fast economic benefits such as hotel, services, and so forth, we let foreign investors contribute most of the capital for joint ventures, because the motivation of domestic capital in ... |
FBIS4-7006_10 | Phan Van Khai Speaks at Party Conference | fund should be the main source. The electricity and communications networks have been strengthened, but the work done so far is still inadequate. The water supply and drainage systems; the transport system; facilities for education, public health, scientific research, technology, and so forth require greater investment... |
FBIS4-7006_12 | Phan Van Khai Speaks at Party Conference | the "socialization" work that we should fulfill with the people's support. Our main efforts at present should be to combine "development with suppression": we need to develop cultural, educational, health, and social activities, and at the same time strive to suppress social vices -- namely, prostitution and drug abuse... |
FBIS4-7050_3 | Article Encourages Nation To Join UNRCA | from the US and other Western countries would be well documented and could be identified. Within Asean, Malaysia has proposed the establishment of a Regional Arms Register to complement the work of the UN Register. So far, there has not been any consensus among Asean countries on this issue. The attitude of the Indochi... |
FBIS4-7057_2 | Regional Economic Cooperation Proposal Announced | Vietnam. In the energy sector, he welcomed the shift of emphasis from self-sufficiency to a more integrated approach. He urged a well-planned energy management system for the sub- region and serious consideration of the possibility of a grid connection. On the environment, he expressed concern over air pollution and ma... |
FBIS4-7059_0 | Peace Adviser on MNLF Chief Over Ramos Remark | BFN [Text] Acting Presidential Adviser on Peace Process Manuel Yan called for understanding and accommodation in order to advance the peace talks between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front [MNLF]. Yan, who is also the chairman of the government negotiating panel with the MNLF said the peace talks whi... |
FBIS4-7104_0 | Impact of SDPJ Split on Framework Talks Cited | BFN [Unattributed article] [Text] The breakaway of the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ] from the coalition is very likely to make it difficult to resume the stalled Japan-U.S. economic framework talks. With no way found to raise the consumption tax in an effort to secure financial resources to make up for a fisc... |
FBIS4-7110_0 | Seminar Discusses Measures To Reduce Poverty | BFN [Text] Ulaanbaatar, April 27 (OANA-MONTSAME) -- The number of needy people in Mongolia is over 587 thousand people as of today and some 137 thousand of them are referring to the poorest strata of the population. This implies that the destitute people account for some 26.2 per cent of the total population of Mongoli... |
FBIS4-7115_0 | Paper Views AFTA-CER Link, ASEAN Trade | BFN [Commentary by Greg Sheridan from the "Focus" section: "Australian Eyes On Asian Horizons"] [Text] Prime Minister Keating's plan, outlined this week in Bangkok, to create a formal fusion between Australia and New Zealand and the six tiger economies of the Association of South-East Asian Nations is in many ways one ... |
FBIS4-7116_0 | Paper on Importance of Keating's Indochina Trip | BFN [Editorial: "Keating's Mission to Asia"] [Text] After the black comedy of Mr Keating's mad squabble with the Vietnam veterans, readers will be relieved to hear that there was a serious purpose to the Prime Minister's visit to Thailand, Laos and Vietnam and that, by all accounts, it went quite well. The excuse for t... |
FBIS4-7116_1 | Paper on Importance of Keating's Indochina Trip | makes Thailand a particularly important friend. The Thais' shrewd and predictable diplomacy and their distance from Australia mean that Australian-Thai relations tend to be more stable than our relations with Malaysia and Indonesia. (Curiously, distance does seem to be an important factor; for example, Thailand's human... |
FBIS4-7117_1 | Importance of Ties With Thailand Stressed | to Indochina. For Australia, the $42 million [currency further not specified] bridge symbolises efforts both in strengthening regional links generally and in employing Australia's technological capacity for the benefit of the region. Australia and Thailand have often taken their relations too much for granted, as offic... |
FBIS4-7118_0 | Bureau To Help Clean Up Chinese Waste Sites | BFN [Text] Australia and China have launched a joint project to help clean up China's mine waste sites which take up more than 20,000 square kilometers -- about one third of the size of Tasmania. Australian International Development Assistance Bureau has allocated Australian $3.5 million to fund the four-year technical... |
FBIS4-7171_2 | Summit Meeting Held With Indonesia in Jakarta Addresses State Banquet | said 35 years ago when he visited Indonesia. Dear President Suharto, ladies, and gentlemen; Visiting the fraternal Indonesian country, we are happy about the great achievements made in the past 25 years by the Indonesian people under the president's leadership and under the national ideology of Pancasila. On this occas... |
FBIS4-7172_2 | Summit Meeting Held With Indonesia in Jakarta Suharto Speaks at Banquet | to impartially settle a number of issues affecting the bilateral relations between Vietnam and Indonesia. `As neighbouring countries that share the same historical affinities, I sincerely hope that we can conclude the ongoing negotiation in a satisfactory manner, particularly on the issues of the continental shelf boun... |
FBIS4-7203_0 | Biographical Sketches of New Cabinet Members Education Minister Ryoko Akamatsu | BFN [Text] Tokyo, April 28 KYODO -- Gender equality advocate Ryoko Akamatsu retained her portfolio as education minister and is expected to continue her campaign for greater recognition of women's rights. Akamatsu, 64, who has served as director general of the Labor Ministry's Women's Bureau, once remarked that the lac... |
FBIS4-7231_0 | Indonesian Version of Summit Meeting With SRV Suharto Hosts Banquet | BFN [Text] President Suharto hosted a state banquet in honor of visiting Vietnamese President Le Duc Anh and his wife at the National Palace in Jakarta tonight. Addressing the banquet, President Suharto reiterated that all countries in Southeast Asia have the common responsibility of maintaining peace and stability in ... |
FBIS4-7235_0 | Libya Seeks Aid With Ending UN Sanctions | BFN [Text] The Libyan Government has called on Indonesia as chairman of the Nonaligned Movement [NAM] to play a more active role in efforts to end the economic sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council on Libya three years ago. Ibrahim al-Yarabu, secretary general of the International Islamic Missionary Movement, to... |
FBIS4-7261_2 | Keating's New Indochina Diplomacy Viewed | least once -- and in several cases a number of times - as part of what is undoubtedly now his major policy and intellectual obsession: Australia's engagement with Asia. Adopting the highly personal style that worked so successfully with Do Muoi, Keating has embarked on a mission to develop a series of significant diplo... |
FBIS4-7279_5 | * Ichiro Ozawa Discusses Diplomacy, Politics | must choose. [Oikawa] The United States has given particular emphasis to these problems, and has referred to Japan's bureaucracy as a "cancer." Make Better Use of the Bureaucrats [Ozawa] You have to expect resistance when you try to change a system that has existed for a long time. But the real problem isn't a matter o... |
FBIS4-7279_22 | * Ichiro Ozawa Discusses Diplomacy, Politics | the opposition, and non-unionists the ruling party. Urban residents supported the opposition, and agricultural and rural districts the ruling party. I think that from now on our citizens will vote for politicians who share their views on issues that affect them directly. Some will want our regulated society to stay the... |
FBIS4-7292_0 | `Infrastructure Woes' Cloud ASEAN Future | BFN [Report from "The Regional Desk"] [Text] For much of the past decade, Southeast Asia's economic growth has been the envy of the world. The region has been held up as a model of development by the World Bank and its success has led to a rethink of the way economies are managed in the recession-mired West. In its rec... |
FBIS4-7315_0 | Vehicle Output Reportedly Falls 12 Percent | BFN [Text] Tokyo, April 25 KYODO -- Domestic production of cars, trucks and buses fell in fiscal 1993 for the third year in a row, slipping 12.0 percent to 10,849,827 vehicles for the biggest fall in nearly 50 years, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Monday [25 April]. It is the first time in the post... |
FBIS4-7325_0 | Delegation Leaves for Thai Border Meeting | BFN [Text] A 23-member Myanmar [Burmese] delegation led by Major General Ket Sein, commander of the Southeast Military Command, and including Maj. Gen. Saw Tun, commander of the Eastern Military Command, left for Thailand this morning on a special military aircraft to attend the ninth meeting of the Myanmar-Thai Region... |
FBIS4-7385_1 | * Prime Minister Responds to Bishops' Resolutions | this. Decree 69 and Circular 02, for example, state that "bishops who go to carry out tasks in a diocese and priests who go to carry out tasks in a parish for which they are responsible do not have to request permission." 2. Assigning and transferring priests in a diocese is to be done based on the work requirements of... |
FBIS4-7392_9 | * Article Comments on Religion, Human Rights | activities. Because it is responsible for controlling society, the state must examine and control the social aspects of religions. This is because besides its relationship to the church and the community that shares the same religious beliefs, a religion also has a relationship with and affects society. The state must ... |
FBIS4-7394_0 | Northern Provinces Form Special Economic Region | BFN [Text] An integrated economic region for the industrialization and market orientation will be formed by Hanoi, Haiphong, and some other provinces in north of Hanoi. The project is called planning orientation for key northern areas. The region has great resources of minerals and labor as well as enormous potential a... |
FBIS4-7402_0 | * Influence of Islamic Boarding Schools Noted | CSO [Article by Suryansyah: "Not Looking for Influence"] [Text] Islamic boarding schools have been put to the test for a long time. The strength of these "institutions" lies not only in the area of education. Their influence has spread into the political arena as well. Islamic boarding schools have actually been influe... |
FBIS4-7445_0 | Leaders Comment on Federation Agreement Komsic on Territorial Integrity | BFN [Report by S. Despot: "Turning Point in Relations Between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina"] [Text] Zagreb -- "The most important achievement of the Washington Agreement and its documents is that the conflict between the Croats and the Muslims-Bosniaks, which was artificial from the beginning, has been ended. The Was... |
FBIS4-7473_2 | German Defense Minister Promises `Full Support' | between your two ministries, especially in staff education. What projects have been implemented and which ones will be put into effect in the future? [Ruehe] This year our two armies carried out a lively exchange of officers, through which your officers visited various Bundeswehr educational institutions. Many Bulgaria... |
FBIS4-7474_0 | VMRO-SMD Official on FYROM Issues | BFN [Interview with Evgeniy Ekov, secretary of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization-Union of Macedonian Societies, by Svetlana Tikhova; place and date not given: "Revolutionary Terror Is Part of History"] [Excerpts] [passage omitted] [Tikhova] Do great differences exist between the Internal Macedonian Rev... |
FBIS4-7478_0 | Poll Reveals Fear of Political Extremism | BFN [Unattributed report: "Everyone Fears A Different Extremism"] [Text] Fears of extremist political trends have slightly increased in the past 18 months; however, on the basis of public opinion, the danger of left-wing extremism is considered to be small in Hungary, and the danger of right-wing extremism only slightl... |
FBIS4-7478_1 | Poll Reveals Fear of Political Extremism | to 100 and representing the feeling of danger, we find 29 points for extreme left-wing danger in the autumn of 1992 and 33 points in the spring of 1993; regarding extreme right-wing danger, the figures are 38 in 1992 and 40 in 1993. Both in 1992 and 1994, a third of people said they did not notice any extreme left dang... |
FBIS4-7497_4 | PDP President Views Albanians' Political Role | of territory. [Dzambazovski] It is true that official Albania supported your faction in the long process of divisions within the PDP. Why? [Arben] That is how it looks from the outside. If we analyze the pictures, we come to that impression. Albania's influence I think, must be relevant in Macedonia, because it is a st... |
FBIS4-7499_1 | Commentary Views U.S. Involvement in Balkans | man to try and finish the job. U.S. President Bill Clinton's special envoy, New York lawyer Matthew Nimietz, was very clear: "We bear in mind the fact that we have very friendly relations with both sides, but also the fact that this issue is of concern to the region and the world." He was even more plain in Athens: "Th... |
FBIS4-7508_0 | Commentary Condemns Turkish Involvement | BFN [Commentary by Zorana Suvakovic: "Fable and Bosnia"] [Text] General [Bertrand] de Lapresle was quite bewildered and surprised when questions started showering upon him in the International Press Center in Belgrade about the Turkish return to the Balkans. It is a credit to the French general that, in less than a wee... |
FBIS4-7511_1 | Tudjman Address to Government Session | Republic is slightly ahead of us. All others are far, far behind Croatia in all aspects, in the political and economic sphere. In other words, these results have been achieved due to Croatia's policy as a whole and to its government and, as Prime Minister Valentic has just said, they provide us with the basis to remain... |
FBIS4-7526_3 | _O_Notes From the Press | his trade with the Serbs? Has Voce, with the blessing of the Croatian Government, been selling the goods to Fikret Abdic...? Has Voce, once the largest export firm in the former Yugoslavia, which lost the majority of its partners after the disintegration of that former state, created, in the autonomous province of west... |
FBIS4-7534_1 | Official Discusses Czech-German Border Treaties | Czech-German border regime. We asked Alexandr Vondra for details. [CESKY DENIK] Deputy Minister, have there been any agreements signed yet to regulate the local borderland traffic [maly pohranicni styk] and the state-border problems? [Vondra] Not so far. Both agreements were discussed at the expert level. In the instan... |
FBIS4-7543_1 | Moravcik Views Relations With Hungary | I mean the coming Paris conference. No doubt, we would both benefit if we could solve our problems without outside assistance like the International Court, and if we succeeded in preventing phenomena that lead to instability. This requires the creation of foundations that facilitate a more rational solution of our prob... |
FBIS4-7561_0 | Moravcik To Settle `Tense' Hungarian Relations | BFN [Text] Bratislava, March 30 (CTK) -- Slovak Premier Jozef Moravcik believes that preserving integration and cooperation at "its current level at least" is a priority in relations between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The preservation of the Customs Union was important from the point of view of the expected integ... |
FBIS4-7627_3 | NATO's Interest in Region Examined | of the Bosna River or the Drina, is becoming increasingly certain. It is with this in mind that one must view the pronounced interest of Washington in the Croat-Muslim conciliation and the presence of U.S. soldiers in Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM] (the Vardar valley is still an extremel... |
FBIS4-7627_5 | NATO's Interest in Region Examined | unsafe borders. It would be much better to have a friendly neighbor without having to expect a strategic surprise from the territory. We would also gain with regard to strategic depth of the territory; consequently, Dalmatia and Slavonia would not have to fear a flank attack. Geopolitically and geostrategically speakin... |
FBIS4-7636_0 | Italian Foreign Minister Interviewed on Ties | BFN [Interview with Italian Foreign Minister Benjamino Andreatta for PULS by unidentified correspondent; place and date not given: "Italy Interested in Stability in Macedonia"] [Text] Just a few days before the parliamentary elections in Italy, Italian Foreign Minister Benjamino Andreatta gave an exclusive interview fo... |
FBIS4-7637_4 | Perspectives on Military Developments | present is to protect humanitarian convoys, which in a way are the last crumb of hope for numerous unfortunates in Bosnia. With the possible withdrawal of the peacekeeping forces, in addition to the loss of any control and any sort of influence and mediation among the combatants, UNPROFOR may become their common enemy,... |
FBIS4-7638_5 | Kljusev Interviewed on Stabilization Program | of the debt to the World Bank, and so actually a bridge arrangement is being established, a bypass arrangement to settle the obligations to these financial institutions, in the amount of $137 million. We are also prisoners in that respect. [Jovanovski] We will have to face repayment of the debt at some point. Now we wi... |
FBIS4-7648_0 | Melescanu, Papoulias Examine Yugoslav Crisis | BFN [Text] Bucharest ROMPRES, 1/4/1994 -- Besides bilateral ties, the consultations held on 31 March in Athens between Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu and his Greek counterpart, Karolos Papoulias, have occasioned a thorough analysis of the crisis in former Yugoslavia, both sides insisting on the need to expa... |
FBIS4-7665_0 | Jeszenszky on EU Membership, Slovak Relations | BFN [Text] Budapest, April 2 (MTI) -- "The fact that Hungary was the first among the Visegrad countries (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) to submit its membership request to the European Union does imply a particular advantage. We still have much to do prior to membership. This opportunity is mainly ac... |
FBIS4-7676_0 | Human Rights Leader Appeals for International Aid | BFN [Text] Tirana, April 3 (ATA) -- "Serbian police and army have been openly collaborating with the paramilitary groups for intensifying the violence and terror against the Albanian population in Kosova", Adem Demaci, holder of the "Saharov" Prize, and chairman of the Pristina Council for Human Rights Protection, appe... |
FBIS4-7680_1 | Role in Fleet Scandal Explained | he would be denigrating!"] The photographs were taken in 1990, at the official opening of the Ermis company in Bucharest, when Adrian Nastase and Traian Chebeleu chatted with Greek shipping tycoon Ioannis Alafouzos. The difference between 1990 and 1994 is that in 1990 Iannis Alafouzos was one of the supporters of the M... |
FBIS4-7682_5 | Data on Weapons Possession, Confiscation | Directorate of Weapons, Explosives, and Toxic Substances have? [Toroiman] Each officer has a pistol. Just like each military man in the country. [Cristina] During the 1989 events, weapons were taken from the headquarters of the police. How many were taken? [Toroiman] The total number of weapons taken is 1,897, if we ta... |
FBIS4-7692_0 | Romanian Minister Voices Support for Belgrade | BFN [Text] Belgrade, April 4 (TANJUG) -- Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's visit to Romania on Tuesday and his meeting with Romanian President Ion Iliescu is a step forward in the search for a solution to the problems of the region, Romanian Education Minister Liviu Maior said in Belgrade on Monday. Maior, who is ... |
FBIS4-7697_2 | Gligorov Discusses Milosevic's Motives | a war on NATO's northern [as published] border, in which all the Balkan states would be involved. In addition, there could be a conflict between the two NATO states, Greece and Turkey. [DER SPIEGEL] Last spring Serbia's President Milosevic arrived unexpectedly for a brief visit to Lake Ohrid. What did he want from you?... |
FBIS4-7739_3 | Boross Rejects Idea of `Grand Coalition' | of national minority contacts, I must mention that two neighboring countries received suggestions from the Council of Europe on membership. These suggestions are generally verified. [passage omitted] [NEPSZABADSAG] Mr. Boross, speaking of various government scenarios, one can hear of the possibility of a grand coalitio... |
FBIS4-7742_4 | Policy Blamed for `Failing' Export Sector | resulting in mass bankruptcies because of the strict regulations. The tightening of monetary policy as of 1992, the abolition of prefinancing for exports, the shortcomings in the system of export guaranties, and recession in the West further aggravated the economic players' impossible situation. Cutbacks, one of the te... |
FBIS4-7756_0 | CR To Participate in Work of COCOM Successor | BFN [Article by Milos Sklenka: "COCOM as a Symbol of Confrontation Has Ceased To Exist"] [Excerpt] The Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls, known as COCOM, was dissolved with final validity yesterday. This happened on the basis of a decision by all 17 member states of this international institution,... |
FBIS4-7763_4 | Daily Views Walesa's `360-Degree Turnaround' | really trust him. He can also see, however, that their support may prove to be very beneficial for him. After he called them "screwups," he started trying to win the favors of those groups: On one day, the right-wing coalition severely criticizes the new "popiwek"; on the next, the president vetoes this law. During his... |
FBIS4-7785_0 | Crowded Hospitals Reported | BFN [Enes Musovic report from Gorazde] [Text] This is the eighth day that the Chetniks have been furiously attacking the free Gorazde territory. Their shells, like the whirlwind -- which is the name of the latest Chetnik offensive on the Gorazde territory -- have been claiming human lives almost every hour. There are h... |
FBIS4-7796_2 | Serbian President, Jovanovic Arrive for Talks Iliescu on Expanding Relations | to find the best ways to solve this conflict. During our talks, we tried to find out in what way the leadership of Serbia regards the evolution of the situation in Yugoslavia, including the conflict in Bosnia, and the effort made to find political and peaceful solutions to problems. We have also discussed bilateral rel... |
FBIS4-7807_1 | Poll Shows MSZP Ahead, MDF Support Waning | [SZDSZ] or the MDF, which follow the MSZP. In the middle of March 1994, 24 percent of the population did not know which party they would vote for "if elections were held next Sunday in Hungary"; a tenth said that they would not vote, and 6 percent refused to answer this question. The uncertain people who do not (yet) k... |
FBIS4-7811_6 | Government Ties to Organized Crime Examined | more difficult for us to obtain evidence, without which criminal proceedings cannot be started, Trajanov stated categorically. Now there are already various indications, information, and above all facts showing that organized crime exists in Macedonia and that above all, the state institutions of the executive branch a... |
FBIS4-7813_3 | Martic Views Current Relations With Zagreb | quickly and as part of the same package as Bosnia-Herzegovina? [Martic] At the moment, the most important thing is for the Croats to honor what they have signed in the Russian Embassy in Zagreb, and for peace to come to these areas. This will create conditions for negotiations of an economic and political nature. What ... |
FBIS4-7841_2 | _O_Prime Minister's Past Reexamined, Revealed | his membership until the end of January 1990." Even as the communist regime was foundering in the winter of 1989-90, Moravcik was "still trying to convince people from Public Against Violence [the post-1989 Slovak anticommunist movement] that the Communist Party represented the only road to a bright tomorrow." Schutz a... |
FBIS4-7844_10 | Mladic's Career, War Crimes Reviewed | quite angry, said "with a characteristic sly expression on his face," "Not at all, he was a refined and mild person, who cannot get angry. It must be that this Belgrade sun got in his eyes, and so it seems to you that he is angry." And in response to a reporter's question about what was the biggest obstacle to peace, M... |
FBIS4-7886_0 | Daskalov, Belgium's Claes Discuss Relations | BFN [Text] Sofia, April 4 (BTA) -- After their two-hour talks today Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Willy Claes and Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Stanislav Daskalov signed a joint political declaration. Mr. Daskalov was invited to visit Brussels. The declaration points out the two countrie... |
FBIS4-7889_1 | WEU Assembly Leader Cites `Enhanced Status' | to the states of the Visegrad group, Mr. Slatinski added. At present Bulgaria holds the status of a permanent observer in the WEU. We should not aim at the highest possible as regards Bulgaria's future status in the WEU; in this respect I am moderately optimistic, Ivan Gaytandzhiev MP told journalists. As an associate ... |
FBIS4-7892_1 | Turkish Representatives Meet Zhelev, Matinchev | said, answering a journalist's question. Earlier in the afternoon the Turkish delegation met Deputy Prime Minister Evgeni Matinchev, now sitting in for Prime Minister Berov during the latter's sick leave. The talks focused on the achievements of the military cooperation, control of drug trafficking and organized crime,... |
FBIS4-7901_1 | Unhealthy Habits Blamed for Shorter Lives | they wouldn't necessarily make him change his habits. "Everything is to blame here: the air, the water, the poor hospitals and the food," said the 30-year-old businessman. "But lunch is a break from work, so I'm not going to worry about my health when I'm eating." According to Rudolf Poledne, head of a laboratory condu... |
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