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FBIS4-7901_2 | Unhealthy Habits Blamed for Shorter Lives | in the world--more than 150 liters (39.75 gallons) per person every year. The average Czech also smokes around 1,900 cigarettes yearly, down slightly from an all-time high of over 2,100 four years ago. One of the organizations attempting to curb this lethal overconsumption is the National Center for Health Promotion. Z... |
FBIS4-7905_0 | Deputy Protests Treatment of Dissidents | BFN [Text] Budapest, April 5 (MTI) -- "They should go home!", opposition MP Zoltan Trombitas of the Federation of Young Democrats (Fidesz) shouted after Deputy Speaker of Parliament Vince Voros had greeted the Chinese justice minister [Xiao Yang] and his delegation in the box of honour at Hungarian Parliament today. La... |
FBIS4-7922_0 | WEU Secretary General Arrives, Meets Daskalov | BFN [Text] Sofia, April 6 (BTA) -- The secretary general of the Western European Union [WEU], Mr. Willem van Eekelen, arrived on a five-day official visit here today. This is his second visit to Bulgaria (the first one was in the autumn of 1991). He will meet with Foreign Minister Stanislav Daskalov, National Assembly ... |
FBIS4-7960_2 | Army's Lack of Supplies, Housing Examined | believed. In Transylvania alone, and just in the near future, the cadres of that army would need a total of 4,587 apartments. The Ramnicu Sarat clothing factory is seriously behind with its deliveries of uniforms, and therefore the recruits have been given worn-out clothing. The boots, and generally, all the footwear p... |
FBIS4-8010_4 | Lasic Defends Croatian Policy in Bosnia | supported by President Tudjman, and mostly they have been taken over in the present preliminary agreement between the Croats and Bosnian Muslims. The effective instructions of President Tudjman were never directed at any point toward the breakup of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I can personally testify to that. Of course, on... |
FBIS4-8012_0 | Health Minister on Undernourishment, Epidemics | BFN [Interview with Professor Mustafa Beganovic, health minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina, by Senada Cumurovic; place and date not given -- recorded] [Excerpts] [Cumurovic] World Health Day and the 70th anniversary of the Health Protection Institute of Bosnia-Herzegovina are being marked this year under grave living condi... |
FBIS4-8013_0 | Berisha on Possible Greek-FYROM Compromise | BFN [Text] Tirana, April 8 (ATA) -- In his interview with the Greek agency ANA, President Berisha expressed the belief that the Albanian-Greek relations will be further promoted in the future. "Albania and Greece have overcome crisis and are improving relations following the visit of the Foreign Minister Karolos Papoul... |
FBIS4-8032_0 | News Conference Reported | BFN [Text] The prime ministers of Poland and the Czech Republic have met in Czocha Castle in the Jelenia Gora province near the frontier. At a news conference following their informal meeting, Waldemar Pawlak and Vaclav Klaus described their talks as very concrete. They concerned, above all, economic cooperation, but n... |
FBIS4-8035_0 | European Integration Discussed | BFN [Relayed by Warsaw TV Polonia Network] [Text] Slovak Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan has said that Poland's and Hungary's application for membership in the European Union will also facilitate Slovakia's integration with West Europe. The Slovak minister's talks in Warsaw focused primarily on economic cooperation. This... |
FBIS4-8042_1 | Jovanovic Views Bosnian Conflict, Sanctions | the United States and Turkey. Russia is a country that is traditionally interested in the Balkans and it will always maintain that interest, because the Balkan region is close to their political and geographic consciousness and important for their own security. As far as we, as a country and a people, are concerned, we... |
FBIS4-8048_0 | Bukoshi Seeks `International Protectorate' | BFN [Text] Taking the floor at the international conference on the Balkans [in Istanbul], Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosova Dr. Bujar Bukoshi called on the United Nations, the Security Council, the CSCE, the United States, Russia, and all the governments of democratic countries to help Kosova to avoid the confli... |
FBIS4-8117_5 | Comments on Accord, Foreign Policy | will support the idea of Slovakia's integration into the structures of Western Europe as soon as possible. This is our principal strategic goal. What we want is to join both the Western European Union and NATO. I believe that the fundamental directions of the political strategy of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary,... |
FBIS4-8137_0 | Pardon for Three Ethnic Hungarians Overruled | BFN [Bogdana Paun report: "Three of the Ethnic Hungarians Pardoned by Iliescu Have Not Been Released From Jail"] [Text] Three of the eight ethnic Hungarian convicts who were pardoned by Ion Iliescu, namely Istvan Illyes, Ferenc Boldizsar (both inhabitants of the village of Zetea), and Mihaly Balint (of Cristuru Secuies... |
FBIS4-8142_0 | Official Views Arms Trade, Military Complex | BFN [Interview with Ivan Kolev, deputy chairman of the Interdepartmental Council on Issues of the Military-Industrial Complex and Mobilization Readiness, by Ventsislav Todorov; place and date not given: "We Are Encountering Difficulties in Restoring Lost Positions"] [Excerpts] [passage omitted] [Todorov] Recently the c... |
FBIS4-8174_1 | Work of Economic Intelligence Agencies Viewed | contractors and subcontractors as well as regular clients. The better these data look, the more attractive the given firm's business image, which in turn helps to make business contacts and secure new contracts. In Poland, that sort of information is often deliberately withheld and made "classified" by the firms themse... |
FBIS4-8206_2 | Sources of B-H Government Finances | had not fulfilled their obligations" within the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), but he expressed confidence that "with the help of the Islamic countries, the war will not be lost." On that occasion an official figure was presented to the effect that aid in the amount of $53 million had been obtained since... |
FBIS4-8211_4 | Commentary on UN Decision on Turkish Troops | using almost all the Turkish ports and shipyards. The ships of the U.S. 6th Fleet are anchored very frequently in the port of Iskenderun in the Mediterranean. There are very important radio-locating [as published] stations in Synop and Pyrinchyluk, while 14 Nage [not further specified] stations of the NATO anti-aircraf... |
FBIS4-8236_3 | Government Statement on Incident | say in January 1994 that Northern Epirus is northern Greece. The Balkans and Europe know well the policy and morale of the Greek bands. Many a time, in the first half of this century, Greek armed units have penetrated into the Albanian territory, committing massacres, setting fires, and carrying out destructions and ma... |
FBIS4-8247_1 | Press Comments on NATO Air Strikes in Gorazde | No More Air Strikes on Bosnia" (DEMOKRATSIYA, the daily of the Union of Democratic Forces). "NATO's air strikes showed that the Serbs had obviously misjudged the patience of the international community. After what happened, there is hope that they will rethink their position and will return to serious negotiations," sa... |
FBIS4-8257_0 | Trade Union Organization Holds First Congress Falbr Elected Union Chairman | BFN [Text] Prague, April 9 (CTK) -- Richard Falbr, 54, has been elected chairman of the Bohemian and Moravian Chamber of Trade Unions (CMKOS), it was announced officially at the CMKOS 1st congress shortly after midnight. Until now CMKOS deputy chairman, Falbr received 943 out of a total of 1,362 valid votes in the firs... |
FBIS4-8288_0 | Walesa: Europe Needs New `Vision of Openness' | BFN [Text] Warsaw, April 11 (CTK) -- Europe needs a new "vision of openness" to solve many of its present problems, similar to the era of "Renaissance, free trade and states without borders", Polish President Lech Walesa said in an interview with CTK today. Among topics discussed at the meeting of the seven Central Eur... |
FBIS4-8296_0 | Daily Views Nation's `Diplomatic Offensive' | BFN [Quotation marks as received] [Text] Bucharest ROMPRES, 11/4/1994 -- The government's daily VOCEA ROMANIEI writes in a comment on the recent visit in Bucharest of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic that Romania has recently launched a diplomatic offensive in the Balkans," starting from its position of stability i... |
FBIS4-8314_1 | Slatinski Criticizes NATO Attacks on Serbs | and internationalized the armed conflict, they could have led to a confrontation between the great powers in an extremely risky way, they could have turned the international community from a part of the mechanism regulating the conflict into a part of the problem itself; there still is such a danger," the statement say... |
FBIS4-8330_0 | FRY Ambassador Condemns NATO Strikes | BFN [Text] Bucharest, ROMPRES, 12/4/1994 -- "Deciding for armed actions, the United Nations has forsaken the role of peacemaker it used to play, overtly siding with the Muslims in the civil war going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and has discredited the role of this organization in the subsequent evolution of events," Desi... |
FBIS4-8352_0 | Poll Measures Unpopularity of Parties | BFN [Unattributed report: "Undecided Voters With Antipathies"] [Text] Before the elections, when deciding on which party to vote for, the voters apply both positive and negative considerations. Thus, they regard some parties as worthy of their votes and exclude others. However, at the end of this decision process, some... |
FBIS4-8355_2 | Editorial Views Activity of NATO AWACS | whether it is aiming at NATO membership or not. (Regarding the weight of the national interest, let me bring up the example of the NATO-member Greece, which, out of fear for its territory, placed Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM] under a boycott, although this is precisely the post-Yugoslav... |
FBIS4-8356_0 | Official on Trade With Former CEMA Countries | BFN [Interview with Lajos Berenyi, deputy state secretary at the Ministry of International Economic Relations, by Agnes G. Barta; place and date not given: "Council for Mutual Economic Assistance Foreign Trade -- Conditions Becoming Settled"] [Text] Our trade relations are developing well with the former CEMA [Council ... |
FBIS4-8356_1 | Official on Trade With Former CEMA Countries | was made worse by the increasing economic crises among our partners, especially in the Soviet Union of the time. The Hungarian Government's efforts were aimed at stopping the decline in trade and establishing new types of economic relations that have a future and are in accordance with modern times. According to the st... |
FBIS4-8369_1 | Highlights of Government Policy Statement | believe very strongly that it needs to be explained before we start assessing this government's policy statement. To start with, I would like to talk about something personal. When I think about public affairs, I often think about what happened in November 1989. At that time, I was with my students at the Comenius Univ... |
FBIS4-8419_3 | Economic Prospects of Srpska Republic | Established Boundaries of the Serbian Space Certain extremely profitable industries, like the alumina mill in Zvornik, are also on Serbian territory. According to Jefto Subotic, its manager for many years, this firm, which employs about 2,500 workers, had exports in 1990 worth $296 million, which is more than our prese... |
FBIS4-8427_0 | Reportage on Official Visit of Strobe Talbott Commentary Previews Talks | BFN [Article by O. Korinek, TA SR correspondent in Washington: "Partnership for Peace a Priority; Prior to Strobe Talbott's Visit to Bratislava"] [Text] Strobe Talbott, U.S. deputy secretary of state, is the thus-far highest U.S. representative to visit independent Slovakia. What is even more important, however, is tha... |
FBIS4-8432_0 | Orthodox Church Group Condemns `Barbarian Act' | BFN ["`Every Piece of the Albanian Land Is Sacred For Us' -- Statement by the National Committee for Protection the Autochepaly of the Albanian Orthodox Church" -- ATA headline] [Text] Tirana, April 13 (ATA) -- The National Committee for Protection the Autocephaly of the Albanian Orthodox Church condemned through a sta... |
FBIS4-8435_1 | Committee Examines UN Sanctions Enforcement | Ministry Secretary Petko Angelov, in connection with an incident involving the Bulgarian ship Khan Kubrat, BTA learned from the Government Press Office. The press release recalls that on the committee's proposal, the Council of Ministers adopted a decree banning the export, transit and re-export of petroleum products f... |
FBIS4-8443_0 | NAA Delegation Arrives, Meets With Officials | BFN [Text] Prague, April 12 (CTK) -- President Vaclav Havel met a delegation from the North Atlantic Assembly (NAA) and discussed Czech integration in West European structures, presidential spokesman Ladislav Spacek told reporters today. Havel explained to them that the post-communist countries of Europe were rather "i... |
FBIS4-8454_0 | Kovac Previews Meeting of Presidents | BFN [Text] Bratislava, April 13 (CTK) -- Slovak President Michal Kovac, in an interview with CTK today on the forthcoming meeting of seven Central European presidents in the east Bohemian town of Litomysl, pointed to its importance for the future of the Central European region and the prospects of the region's integrat... |
FBIS4-8493_2 | Assessment of NATO's Role, Aims in Bosnia | is paving the way for similar actions by NATO in the future in this and some other regions. It would not be superfluous to recall that it was precisely in Bosnia's case that NATO, with the decisive role of the United States, first succeeded in becoming something of an extended hand of the United Nations in the peacetim... |
FBIS4-8500_0 | Bukoshi Rejects Autonomy Within FRY | BFN [Unattributed report: "Invitation to Democratic Governments To Recognize the Will of the Albanian People"] [Text] Istanbul, April -- Dr. Bujar Bukoshi, prime minister of the republic of Kosova, spoke at the Balkan Conference held in Istanbul on 7-10 April. We publish here the closing section of his speech at this m... |
FBIS4-8532_1 | Profitable Trade of Ethnic Groups in War | cripples, to marvel at the fact that they have nothing while the realists are getting rich. For example, there is a well-reasoned theory to the effect that the war in Laos (1960-75) was not waged against communist aggressors, but was instead about achieving a monopoly over the opium trade. In order to turn war into suc... |
FBIS4-8532_2 | Profitable Trade of Ethnic Groups in War | for this transformation were created very quickly in the 1990 Balkan wars. Specifically, the belligerent Serb lands, the republic of Serbian Krajina [RSK] and the republic of Srpska, are very poor. Under the normal conditions of the old Yugoslavia, they survived exclusively as part of an economic and market entity and ... |
FBIS4-8532_12 | Profitable Trade of Ethnic Groups in War | would rather not be that someone. The list of other candidates is not a long one.... Here we arrive at one interesting political speculation of a completely hypothetical nature, although it is quite reasonable. In the event of a successful Bosnian-Croat alliance, it is not only Abdic and Susak who are superfluous and d... |
FBIS4-8554_2 | Horn Outlines Steps To Improve Slovak Ties | it needs to be said that we have a competent team of politicians and experts to translate those principles into reality. I myself was a member of Nemeth's cabinet, which had a European hallmark [punc] abroad as well as at home. [Gembicky] Even though you top the pre-election polls with between 30 and 33 percent of the ... |
FBIS4-8562_7 | Defense Expert Views NATO, Russia, Security | impact of the decision to widen NATO on the political situation in Russia. --Second, a disorganization in the area of NATO's doctrine, structure, and development of forces. --Third, under conditions of economic recession, tensions would increase in the area of assets that have been excessively reduced to begin with. --... |
FBIS4-8562_14 | Defense Expert Views NATO, Russia, Security | disadvantageous to us, the Partnership creates a chance for gaining the necessary protection against possible dangers. We for Ourselves While striving to be integrated with the West, we must show our understanding for the complexity of the circumstances surrounding policies of the countries that make up the West, and a... |
FBIS4-8566_1 | Activities of Extreme Right-Wing Groups Viewed | Vaclav Havel's statements on the deportation of Sudeten Germans after World War II and calling for "the highest possible penalty" for any politicians "opening the door to the Germans." "Whenever the Germans have wanted to expand into Europe, they have always turned to Czechoslovakia first," pronounced Sladek form his p... |
FBIS4-8566_2 | Activities of Extreme Right-Wing Groups Viewed | of breaking up the Czechoslovak federation and weakening it before an expansionist Teutonic neighbor. "The Germans did the same thing in Yugoslavia: They encouraged rival factions to fight, and then in the ruins they bought up the Adriatic coast for a few pfennigs." The demonstrations were interrupted by outbreaks of v... |
FBIS4-8569_3 | Report Assesses Role of Black Market | Republic's limited liability companies, which have stringent reporting procedures, generated 84 percent of the country's official GDP, while the country's 670,000 entrepreneurs contributed just 16 percent. He suggests that those figures hint at under-reporting by the entrepreneurs. --Tax evasion. In 1993, tax fraud amo... |
FBIS4-8620_0 | Muslims, Croats Sign Prisoner Exchange Accord | BFN [Text] An agreement on the release of prisoners from prisons under the control of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Army and the Croat Defense Council has been signed. Those charged with or sentenced for the most serious criminal offenses will not be released if the signatories show the Red Cross by Sunday that charges have b... |
FBIS4-8622_0 | U.S. Said `Lost in the Maze' of Balkan Policy | BFN [By Borislav Lalic] [Text] Belgrade, April 15 (TANJUG) -- A U.S. journalist recently advised President Bill Clinton that, if he is uncertain about the effects on the United States of the bombing of Gorazde, he should meet with the Vietnam veterans or, better still, with the American soldiers who recently returned f... |
FBIS4-8631_0 | Ministry Lodges `Sharp Protest' With Italy | BFN [Text] Belgrade, 14 Apr (TANJUG)--Ambassador Branko Brankovic summoned Italian Charge d'Affaires Laura Mirachian to the Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs today and lodged the Yugoslav Government's note of sharp protest over the use of Italian airports for NATO military actions against the Serb people in the Srps... |
FBIS4-8633_0 | Deputy Prime Minister Protests Bombings | BFN [Text] Belgrade, April 12 (TANJUG) -- Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Zeljko Simic on Tuesday said that U.N.-sponsored air strikes against Bosnian Serbs and the biased view of the Bosnian civil war must stop. Otherwise, the international community would be directly responsible for an escalation of the conflict with ... |
FBIS4-8646_1 | Walesa on Domestic, International Situation | is a large country which has been developing very dynamically, a country with 40 million citizens and free of ethnic, religious or other conflicts. [Turowski] Why would you not sign the 1994 budget, which had been approved by the IMF and the World Bank and would make it possible to reduce Poland's debt to the Club of L... |
FBIS4-8665_15 | Highlights of Government Policy Statement | percent in 14 districts, with the district of Rimavska Sobota reporting a rate of unemployment of 26.7 percent. The growth of long-term unemployment (the average period of registration represented 229 days at the end of 1993), as well as the fact that, by the end of 1993, the category of young people under 25 represent... |
FBIS4-8665_17 | Highlights of Government Policy Statement | families with children, -- to analyze the functionality of the National Insurance Company, -- to create legislative foundations for a system of supplementary pension insurance, -- to continue to gradually create conditions for humanizing the care of physically and mentally severely disabled persons and elderly citizens... |
FBIS4-8673_0 | Daily Views Conflict | BFN [Article by J.B.L.: "Deputies' Initiative Causes a Coalition-Belvedere War; Constitutional Blackmail"] [Text] After the statement was issued that the deputies of the Polish Peasant Party [PSL] and the Democratic Left Alliance [SLD] want to amend the Small Constitution, Lech Walesa stated that if the coalition attem... |
FBIS4-8673_1 | Daily Views Conflict | president"). They also recall that for the time being it is only an initiative launched by a group of deputies and within a week the clubs will take a stance on it. Speaker Oleksy said that the amendment bill might be discussed by the Sejm at the beginning of May at the soonest. Some (Marek Borowski, for instance) beli... |
FBIS4-8674_0 | Implications of `War' Examined | BFN [Article by Robert Krasowski under the "Analysis" rubric: "Pawlak To Wage a War Against Walesa?"] [Text] The coalition's decision means waging a war against the Belvedere. It is also obvious that the coalition had known from the very beginning that its initiative will cause precisely these kinds of consequences sin... |
FBIS4-8680_1 | Yugoslav War Crimes Commission Finishes Report | belligerents -- Serbs, Croats and Moslems in the former Yugoslavia, the retiring head of the commission Sherif Bassiouni told reporters Friday. But "there is certainly one group in the conflict where a lot more violations have been reported than among the other groups," he said -- a reference to the Serbs. The commissi... |
FBIS4-8683_2 | Central European Presidents Meet in Litomysl Integration, Balkans Discussed | question which is, of course, as legitimate as in the case of other nations. However, there is a question mark over the forms and methods used to solve this question. From the point of view of the Paris (?meeting) and [word indistinct] principles this method of ethnic cleansing and of forceful border changing is in eff... |
FBIS4-8707_0 | Jovanovic, Greek Counterpart Cited on Sanctions | BFN [Text] Athens, 15 Apr (TANJUG) -- The sanctions of the international community against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia have become an obstacle to the restoration of peace and stability in the Balkans, FRY Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic and Greek Foreign Minister Karolos Papoulias concluded at their talks i... |
FBIS4-8716_1 | SNS Wants `Secret' Hungarian Accord Revealed | of Slovakia. It states, among other things: "A dangerous development has occurred on the Slovak political scene. Under the formal cloak of democracy, political culture and ethics have been trampled underfoot, the regular results of the free elections of 1992 have been reversed, and power has been seized by political en... |
FBIS4-8720_1 | SNS Wants `Secret' Hungarian Accord Revealed | of Slovakia. It states, among other things: "A dangerous development has occurred on the Slovak political scene. Under the formal cloak of democracy, political culture and ethics have been trampled underfoot, the regular results of the free elections of 1992 have been reversed, and power has been seized by political en... |
FBIS4-8724_7 | Tudjman Interviewed on Bosnian Issues | we were compelled to extend aid to the Croat population to defend itself against Serb aggression? At that time, when the Muslims were not yet prepared and when they did not believe the Yugo-communist army and Serbia and Montenegro would attack Bosnia, our Croats in Bosnia- Herzegovina were prepared precisely because th... |
FBIS4-8802_5 | Serreqi Views Greek Crisis, Relations | at all a source of the increase of crime in Greece, a claim which has been several times put forward by the Greek side. I want to remind you that if we make an analysis of the Greek emigrants in other countries, we will recollect that at its peak, the Greek emigrants in the United States have the responsibility for the... |
FBIS4-8821_0 | Goncz Views Results of Lytomysl Meeting | BFN [Interview with President Arpad Goncz by Gyorgy Jozsef Farkas; place and date not given: "Agreement on Evaluating Central Europe"] [Text] The meeting of seven presidents in Litomysl focused on the situation of the region and provided an opportunity for bilateral meetings. In the framework of these bilateral meeting... |
FBIS4-8868_4 | Foreign Minister Comments on UN Membership | we still have not regulated our membership because the negotiations with GATT need a long process of difficult negotiations, step by step, on all forms of non-customs measures of protection, something that cannot normally be expected to be solved in less than a year of negotiation. The problem is not of a political, bu... |
FBIS4-8873_0 | Commentary on Visit of Deputy Secretary Talbott `Confusion' in U.S. Foreign Policy | BFN [Commentary by Jozef Janto: "U.S. Confusion and the Integration of Europe"] [Text] One of the architects of the Partnership for Peace, Deputy Secretary of State Talbott, said at a meeting in our capital on Tuesday [12 April] that Slovakia was not in a security vacuum. He was reacting to our fears, and those of Poli... |
FBIS4-8896_1 | Commentary on Visit of Deputy Secretary Talbott U.S. Must Offer More Than `Partnership' | among the countries of the Western world and why it is naive to expect Moscow to renounce its interests in its erstwhile empire. After all, even the colonizers of America, Africa, and Asia have retained to this day indirect influence in their lost dominions. Slovakia's and its neighbors' heading toward NATO will theref... |
FBIS4-8941_0 | Official: UN Sanctions Caused 30,000 Deaths | BFN [Text] Geneva, April 19 (AFP) -- The rump Yugoslavia Tuesday [19 April] said UN sanctions against it had caused the deaths of 30,000 people, including 15,000 children. Yugoslav deputy health minister Svetlana Arsenic told the UN children's committee here that despite provisions to allow medical equipment into Yugos... |
FBIS4-8959_2 | Gligorov Meets U.S. Group, Views Upcoming Talks | for both sides, the Macedonian president said: "It is important that goodwill and desire for discussion win, and let us not use threats and embargoes, because reasonable people can always reach a solution through discussion." Asked about the part of the [Macedonian] Constitution that Greece is calling upon Macedonia to... |
FBIS4-8961_1 | Commentary Views `Dangerous' Greek Policy | minority in Albania, and also because that piece of the Balkans is in Albania and not Greece! In some Athens newspapers this "Front" is still threatening new operations. This should now serve as an alibi for Papandreou's state and, according to its loudspeakers, the whole affair should stop here. For its part, official... |
FBIS4-8967_0 | EKGP Chairman on Election, Coalition | BFN ["CS.I."-signed interview with Agricultural Minister Janos Szabo, chairman of the United Smallholders Party; place and date not given: "Our Program Is Based on Four Years of Achievements"] [Text] In our series, we publish interviews with heads of parties who presented national lists. It is clearly an electoral adva... |
FBIS4-8968_0 | `Very Angry' Vorontsev Cited on Air Strikes | BFN ["Pool" item by Vjekoslav Radovic] [Text] New York, April 19 (TANJUG) -- Only a few hours after Bosnian Moslem presidency President Ejup Ganic, to his own admittance, "implored and begged" the U.N. secretary-general to do something about Gorazde, Butrus Butrus-Ghali asked NATO Secretary- General Manfred Woerner to ... |
FBIS4-8983_2 | Center Alliance's Kaczynski Interviewed | Alliance [SLD], which, after all, share the same Polish People's Republic [PPR] pedigree--unable to arrive at a joint position in such key questions? [Kaczynski] At present, we have a triangular configuration between the Belweder, the SLD, and the PSL. There is open war going on along two arms of the triangle. Sparks a... |
FBIS4-8986_0 | Voivodship `Investment Risk' Map Listing | CSO [Editorial Report] GAZETA PRZEMYSLOWA I HANDLOWA, a Warsaw-based "weekly for entrepreneurs and employers," published a lengthy article in its 15-21 March edition, detailing the contents of a report by the Gdansk Research Institute on Market Economy (IBnGR) that provides a "map" of investment risks in Poland, intend... |
FBIS4-8988_0 | `Very Angry' Vorontsev Cited on Air Strikes | BFN ["Pool" item by Vjekoslav Radovic] [Text] New York, April 19 (TANJUG) -- Only a few hours after Bosnian Moslem presidency President Ejup Ganic, to his own admittance, "implored and begged" the U.N. secretary-general to do something about Gorazde, Butrus Butrus-Ghali asked NATO Secretary- General Manfred Woerner to ... |
FBIS4-9004_1 | Supports Lifting Sanctions on FRY | affairs, linking it to a so far unclear positive effect on the peace process in the former Yugoslavia," Videnov said. He believes that "Bulgaria cannot uphold a view that in April 1994 the embargo is a strong peace factor in the Balkans." He said he objected to Bulgaria's positive official view on the embargo rather th... |
FBIS4-9005_0 | More Deputies Expected To Leave BSP | BFN [Text] Sofia, April 16 (BTA) -- Several more MP's of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) are expected to join the independent Civil Alliance for the Republic (GOR) next week, according to GOR leader Alexandur Tomov. Then it will be clear if their number is sufficient to form a new faction. Even if no BSP MP's join ... |
FBIS4-9014_0 | Meets With Yordanov, Matinchev, Zhelev | BFN [Report by Evgeniya Drumeva] [Excerpts] Sofia, April 19 (BTA) -- The signing of an agreement on reciprocal protection and promotion of investments was the last item on the agenda of the official visit of Sweden's Foreign Minister Ms. Margaretha af Ugglas. [passage omitted] The Swedish guest this afternoon was recei... |
FBIS4-9074_2 | Foreign Minister Reviews Policy Priorities | to Kosovo? [Serreqi] We believe that the problem of Kosovo is the key to settling the crisis in the former Yugoslavia -- a crisis which could spread to the whole of the Balkans. Under real conditions, Albania takes a clear stand: We are opposed to altering borders by force. We have repeatedly advocated the inviolabilit... |
FBIS4-9087_1 | Party Officials View Election Prospects MDF's Lajos Fur | am convinced that the things formulated at Lakitelek are being carried out. Naturally, the best ideas do not appear crystal clear in everyday politics. [MAGYAR HIRLAP] People with a national commitment find it difficult to accept that the political forces committed to national values are so much divided that they almos... |
FBIS4-9090_0 | Walesa Resumes Cooperation With SLD Group | BFN [Text] Warsaw, 20 Apr--During Wednesday's meeting between Lech Walesa and the Democratic Left Alliance [SLD] parliamentary floor group, the president announced a return to cooperation with the SLD in order to create a new constitution of the Polish Republic. "A manly decision: We are returning to cooperation," Wale... |
FBIS4-9098_1 | Economic Freedoms, Development Discussed | on private ownership. There is no justification for distinguishing so-called strategic branches that are supposed to remain in the state's hands. Telecommunications, transportation, and the energy industry should be subjected to the same kinds of requirements as other economic sectors. A long-term development of the co... |
FBIS4-9103_1 | Albanian Press Rejects Autonomy as `Slavery' | cannot be solved if the independent status of Kosova is not accepted. Only an independent and sovereign Kosova is a guarantee of peace and security in this area and even in the entire region." Nevertheless, the first kinds of statement rather than the second make a greater impression in the media darkness of Kosova, in... |
FBIS4-9140_0 | Foreign Ministry Issues Statement on Gorazde | BFN [Text] The Foreign Ministry issued a statement today regarding developments in the situation around the Bosnian town of Gorazde. The statement recalls the Bulgarian viewpoint stated on 12 April 1994, which expressed alarm regarding the possible development of a chain reaction of military actions and an escalation o... |
FBIS4-9152_7 | Reportage on Crans Montana Forum Conference 'Arafat, Peres Hold News Conference | ['Arafat] The most important thing is to reach a conclusion and an agreement between the two sides. To be an adviser of one or the other side, well, I hope that in either case I would hope that an urgent withdrawal takes place, as well as a quick implementation of the already signed accords. [Peres] As far as Israel is... |
FBIS4-9156_0 | Human Rights Activist Cited on Kosovo, Croatia | BFN [Unattributed report: "A Conflict in Kosovo Would Be 10 Times the Size"] [Text] "The situation with human rights in Croatia is very worrying because of the war being misused not only for liberating the Croatian territories under occupation, but also for settling differences with what I often call statistical and ma... |
FBIS4-9157_1 | Concern Voiced Over `West Europeanization' | reason, then, I have decided to adopt the term suggested by Michelle Bertelli: "Not Western Europe." The difficulty of locating Eastern Europe on a map these days--does any country now identify itself as East European?--leads me to suspect that "Europe" itself is merely the figment of our political imagination. But "We... |
FBIS4-9157_7 | Concern Voiced Over `West Europeanization' | of whom are certainly not living as Estonians, but still enjoy the vodka-and-misery lifestyle of the dear old USSR. If we want to find another country to put somewhere near the top of the list, Poland looks like a good bet. Its population is pretty much homogeneous, but it doesn't quite fulfill the border requirement, ... |
FBIS4-9165_3 | Columnist Says Walesa Destabilizes State | because the system itself has not been defined. In reality, the Small Constitution is a compromise solution--some say it is a rotten compromise, which the president imposed on the previous weak parliament and weak government in order to widen his powers. The Constitution is a provisional document that regulates the sys... |
FBIS4-9172_0 | Oppression of Sandzak Muslims Documented | CSO [Article by Ivkica Bacic: "Strike Wherever You Can"] [Text] Belgrade (From VJESNIK's permanent correspondent) -- Electric shock, beating with billy clubs on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, sexual abuse with a stick, the beating of bound arrestees, the striking of all parts of the body with metal o... |
FBIS4-9177_2 | Kanis on Defense Policy, `Partnership' Plan | of special technology could be very interesting. [Rusko] You are a civilian. What do you feel when you decide on issues that have always been dominated by soldiers? [Kanis] It is true that I am the first civilian defense minister in this country. It has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is, above all, tha... |
FBIS4-9243_2 | Netherlands Officials Visit, View Cooperation | human rights, Bulgaria's position on the conflict in ex-Yugoslavia, the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Balkan relations. In Mr. Matinchev's opinion, the ongoing process of Bulgaria's settling its debts to the Paris Club of official creditors and the London Club of creditor banks is a light at the end of the tunne... |
FBIS4-9246_1 | FYROM President Gligorov To Visit 25-26 Apr | a Macedonian Consulate General in Sofia. In December 1993 the diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Macedonia were upgraded to embassy level. The recognition of the Republic of Macedonia by the Bulgarian Government marked the beginning of an intensive development of trade and economic relations. In 1991 commercial ... |
FBIS4-9261_1 | _O_Economic Relations With Croatia Examined | Slovenia. Croats in Slovenia do not have the status of an ethnic minority, VECER points out, and are therefore not entitled to rights, such as education in their native language, granted to the recognized minorities: Italians and Hungarians. An article in the 31 March issue of the Zagreb daily VJESNIK analyzing Croatia... |
FBIS4-9279_0 | Further Reportage on Crans Montana Forum Iran's Velayati Meets Officials | BFN [Text] Foreign Minister Velayati, in meetings today with Croatian, Bosnian, and Albanian officials on the sidelines of the world forum foundation [Crans Montana Forum] in Bucharest, discussed the status of Muslims in the Balkan peninsula and the latest developments in Gorazde. Here is our correspondent's report: [C... |
FBIS4-9282_0 | Further Reportage on Crans Montana Forum Peres on Middle East, Bilateral Ties | BFN [Interview with Israeli Foreign Minister Shim'on Peres by Raluca Dana Cotruta in Bucharest on 22 April -- recorded, in English with superimposed translation into Romanian; translated from the Romanian] [Text] [Cotruta] Mr. Minister, you have made lots of political statements these last few days. Now that the end of... |
FBIS4-9282_1 | Further Reportage on Crans Montana Forum Peres on Middle East, Bilateral Ties | certain extent in sports, on the soccer fields, where confrontations slightly resemble wars. Aggressiveness is also manifest in road traffic; many people will not allow other cars to overtake them. Intolerance is an accumulation of fears and uncertainties. [Cotruta] Do you think that intolerance, this kind of disease -... |
FBIS4-9282_10 | Further Reportage on Crans Montana Forum Peres on Middle East, Bilateral Ties | a country whose army should be poised to fight against an enemy, but the enemy that might justify the size of that army simply does not exist. [Cotruta] I have two more questions. The first one is concerning what we usually call the great powers. You said that many weapons were sold to the Middle East, something that c... |
FBIS4-9282_11 | Further Reportage on Crans Montana Forum Peres on Middle East, Bilateral Ties | should a country like Russia or the Soviet Union spend an estimated $180 billion to finance and support various parties in the Middle East in the way of arms, credits, and so forth? The answer is that this confrontation between the two superpowers was not only a strategic and economic one but an ideological one, too. E... |
FBIS4-9285_7 | Iliescu Interviewed on Past, Future of Europe | the European Union and, furthermore, Greece is the first country that ratified the treaty of Romania's association to the European Union? [Iliescu] I believe that the official visit to Greece, which will take place on 30 and 31 March, represents an extremely important moment both for our bilateral relations and for dev... |
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