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FBIS4-11079_0 | Paper Predicts Consequences From GATT Final Round | BFN [Text] The conclusion of the Uruguay round of GATT talks and the creation of the World Trade Organization, which took place in Marrakech, will have important consequences for Argentina. Tariffs applied on international agriculture and industrial trade will drop, and world agriculture protectionism will also start t... |
FBIS4-11085_2 | Raul Castro, Rosales del Toro Close Army Meeting | on the status of the nationwide efforts to solve difficulties in alternative energy sources efforts. Earlier, the FAR minister's work group and the members of the military council visited the Limoncito hydraulic complex designed to irrigate plantain plantations by gravity. The project, with a capacity of 7.14 million c... |
FBIS4-11107_0 | U.S. Support for UN Council Bid Reported | BFN [Text] Tegucigalpa, 20 Apr (NOTIMEX) -- The United States will support Honduras in its aspirations to join the UN Security Council, the Foreign Relations Ministry reported today. In a communique, the Honduran Foreign Ministry announced U.S. Ambassador to Tegucigalpa William Pryce expressed Washington's support for ... |
FBIS4-11108_0 | Lacayo, Ministers Explain ESAF Consequences | BFN [By Alfonso Malespin Jiron] [Text] In a news conference to announce that the government has already signed the letter of intent for the ESAF [Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility] with the IMF, Presidency Minister Antonio Lacayo explained that fuel prices and electricity and water rates will increase continuousl... |
FBIS4-11123_4 | Cuban Foreign Minister Robaina Interviewed | and cultural ties. [LA REPUBLICA] Is the U.S. commercial blockade imposed more than 30 years ago the only obstacle to Cuba's new political opening being fully successful in the near future? [Robaina] We have never said that the blockade is the only cause of our problems. The problems Cuba has experienced lately are the... |
FBIS4-11138_1 | Political Parties' Government Platforms Viewed | included in the preliminary PDT platform are: -- Tax reform, by reducing the number of federal taxes from eight to four (Article 153). -- Increase national budget allocations for social programs -- such as health, basic education, and housing -- for states and municipalities (Articles 20 and 32). -- Modify the number o... |
FBIS4-11145_1 | Roles, Influence, Structure of NGO's Viewed | in crisis-ridden Brazil, where they devote themselves chiefly to ecological and humanitarian causes. According to the most recent survey, which was conducted two months ago, there are over 5,000 NGO's in the country, or twice as many as two years ago. Together they administer approximately $700 million per year, or mor... |
FBIS4-11145_19 | Roles, Influence, Structure of NGO's Viewed | war between Serbs and Croats. They manage to see each other twice a year at most. "It is a hard life, but I like what I'm doing," La Rocca says. The Axe Project, established in 1989, is the result of an agreement between the Brazilian NGO known as the National Movement for Street Boys and Girls and the Italian Internat... |
FBIS4-11148_1 | Nation, Emigre Community Conference Begins Conference Spokesman Details Events | this very moment being discussed behind closed doors. About the discussions that took place following the lecturers' speeches, spokesman Alfonso stressed to the press: [Begin Alfonso recording] I would like to point out here something I think is important for you to know about: the tone of respect and high-mindedness o... |
FBIS4-11153_0 | Nation, Emigre Community Conference Begins Conference To Conclude `With Modest Results' | BFN [Excerpts] Havana, 23 Apr (AFP) -- A meeting between the Cuban Government and 215 moderate Cuban opposition representatives living abroad -- mostly in the United States -- will conclude tomorrow in Havana with modest results. The government organized the "The Nation and the Emigrants Conference" and limited its goa... |
FBIS4-11156_0 | PRENSA LATINA Writer Cites Blockade Effects | BFN [Commentary by PRENSA LATINA reporter Nicanor Leon Cotayo from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The effects of the U.S. blockade on Cuba reared their heads in a particularly harsh fashion in the first months of 1994. Contrary to what happened over the previous three years, several effects of the si... |
FBIS4-11156_1 | PRENSA LATINA Writer Cites Blockade Effects | main objectives of the blockade was to try to curb as much as possible the inflow of foreign financial resources essential to Havana in its efforts to keep its economy afloat and meet the basic needs of Cubans. Last year, because of limited exchange opportunities; because of the lack of imports required by the sugar ha... |
FBIS4-11157_0 | DPRK Attache Extols Nuclear Energy's `Peaceful Purposes' | BFN [Text] Colonel Kim Hwi-paek, military attache of the DPRK Embassy in Cuba, held a news conference on the occasion of the upcoming commemoration, on 25 April, of the 62d anniversary of the creation of the DPRK Army. The diplomat stressed the efforts conducted in the last 62 years to develop and strengthen the Armed ... |
FBIS4-11160_0 | Commentary Views New Ministries | BFN ["Our Opinion" commentary by Orlando Contreras] [Text] The Council of State decree published in GRANMA responds to Cuba's current and future needs. It is basically a matter of having the necessary ministries and organizations and eliminating superfluity from the administrative apparatus. What was adopted, following... |
FBIS4-11194_0 | TSE Reports Polls Closed | BFN [Text] San Salvador, 24 Apr (NOTIMEX) -- The Salvadoran presidential elections ended at 1700 local (2300 GMT) today, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal [TSE] reported. The elections, which began at 0700 (1300 GMT), were characterized by voter apathy and low turnout, the extent of which has not yet been estimated. The T... |
FBIS4-11206_0 | Foreign Ministry Expects U.S. Aid To Be Reduced | BFN [From the "National Newscast"] [Text] Sources at the Nicaragua Foreign Ministry have said it is expected U.S. aid to Nicaragua will decline over time because, beginning in 1995, the United States will channel its foreign aid to our country through multilateral financial organizations, such as the IMF and the World ... |
FBIS4-11214_0 | Economy, Health Officials on Patent Law's Affect | BFN [Text] Buenos Aires 21 Apr (NA) -- Economy Vice Minister Carlos Sanchez today stated that the enactment of a patents law to protect pharmaceutical products "will neither entail an increase in the price of medicines nor necessarily foster the establishment of monopolies" on the Argentine market. He said: "We must as... |
FBIS4-11224_0 | Czech Prime Minister Announces Visa Elimination Accord | BFN [Text] Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus has promised to eliminate visas for Chileans who want to visit Czechoslovakia. The prime minister reported that Chile and the Czech Republic have completed an agreement to eliminate entrance visas. The Czech prime minister made this comment at the end of a lecture he gave to... |
FBIS4-11238_1 | Army Continues Offensive Against SL Columns | fugitives who, according to military sources, are headed by two SL leaders known as "Rayo" and "Pescadito." The military forces involve 380 men, of which 200 are combat troops and 180 support troops. They are closing in on the terrorists' retreat. Gen. Rodriguez explained that the Peruvian troops are using a "pincer" m... |
FBIS4-11246_1 | Army Continues Offensive Against SL Columns | fugitives who, according to military sources, are headed by two SL leaders known as "Rayo" and "Pescadito." The military forces involve 380 men, of which 200 are combat troops and 180 support troops. They are closing in on the terrorists' retreat. Gen. Rodriguez explained that the Peruvian troops are using a "pincer" m... |
FBIS4-11249_0 | Editorial Criticizes U.S. GATT Position | BFN [Editorial from the "Notes and Information" page: "The Fallacy of Social Dumping"] [Text] The speech with which U.S. Vice President Al Gore closed the GATT meeting gave the wrong tone to the transition period that the multilateral trade organ has now begun toward its transformation into the World Trade Organization... |
FBIS4-11249_2 | Editorial Criticizes U.S. GATT Position | levels, at which it is impossible to run a farm. Copper, which guaranteed prosperity of an extractive agricultural country like Chile, is today anachronistic, and fiber optics and other energy transmission techniques are expected to soon declare its final death as a generator of wealth. All this has produced compulsory... |
FBIS4-11252_0 | Trade Mission Departs for Vietnam | BFN [Text] The first Brazilian trade mission since the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1989 departed on 15 April for Hanoi. The group, which is headed by Ambassador Celso Marcos, chief of the Itamaraty Trade Promotion Department, is made up of diplomats and representatives of several sectors of ... |
FBIS4-11279_1 | Poll Shows 65 Percent of Public Optimistic | on to say that there are many signs of recovery: "Every time a factory goes into operation, Cuba advances a millimeter down the runway for its takeoff. A few months back, we put the cardboard factory in Santa Cruz del Norte into operation. That is good news. We believe the current sugar harvest will be a bit better tha... |
FBIS4-11281_0 | Outages To Spread | BFN [Text] Power outages could spread today in different parts of Cuba as the result of a breakdown that occurred at the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes thermoelectric power plant in Cienfuegos. The breakdown occurred in a line at that plant, and there is intense work going on with a view to solving the problem as quickly as... |
FBIS4-11282_0 | Cienfuegos Mills Increase Electric Self-Sufficiency | BFN [Text] Cienfuegos Province sugar mills have attained, during the current phase [of the harvest], 83.2 percent of the plan for self-sufficiency in electrical energy. This is some 2.6 percent more than in the same period in 1993. Scheduled repairs to the sugar installations are designed to restore the areas that gene... |
FBIS4-11283_0 | Sugar Industry Needs Electric Self-Sufficiency | BFN [Text] Electric power self-sufficiency in the sugar-growing sector is of vital importance to the national economy. Sancti Spiritus Province is among the best in the nation in self-sufficiency. The goal of ceasing to be a burden to the national electric power system is being consolidated in Sancti Spiritus Province,... |
FBIS4-11284_7 | Basic Industry Minister on Power Outages | very important. We cannot make any real projections because we do not know the country's capacity, considering the difficulties it has to confront, such as the blockade and current harrassment. It is important to generate part of our electricity by using our own fuel, a national fuel. And this fuel is much better than ... |
FBIS4-11284_41 | Basic Industry Minister on Power Outages | there are two thermoelectric plants under construction. One in Holguin, specifically in Felton. Both were made by Czechoslovakia. But the company that had supplied them has fulfilled its commitment. In previous years when we had a serious fuel shortage that also affected the nickel plant located in the same province, t... |
FBIS4-11284_67 | Basic Industry Minister on Power Outages | Russian and Cuban Governments have confirmed their will to do everything they possibly can to finish the CEN -- the first and second reactors -- their will, desire, and interest. Both governments need a third partner to participate in the Juragua CEN. The three countries would have to share that investment, and then, l... |
FBIS4-11290_0 | Over 20 Persons Reportedly Killed | BFN [Excerpts] Port-au-Prince, 25 Apr (AFP) -- More than 20 persons were reportedly shot dead last Friday during a police operation in the low-income neighborhood of Raboteau in Gonaives (152 km northwest of Port-au-Prince), according to reports received by AFP. Three bodies were found last Saturday, and some 20 others... |
FBIS4-11294_1 | Peasant Involvement in Fuel Trafficking Analyzed | system built over a decade ago by Presidents Duvalier and Blanco is unequally distributed and a bag of fertilizer selling for 200 gourdes is out of reach of small farmers. One is forced to conclude that farming in the region today is a rich man's trade. Robert, a 37-year-old farmer lucky enough to attend school for fou... |
FBIS4-11297_0 | Article Views Groups To Attend Emigre Conference | BFN ["Exclusive" article by Tomas A. Granados: "Another Wall Shows Its Cracks"] [Text] Havana [dateline as received] -- After leaving Cuba tired of economic difficulties or moving because of ideological discrepancies, or even for the sheer adventure of it, thousands of Cubans who migrated to the United States, Spain, a... |
FBIS4-11300_0 | Comment on Significance of Conference | BFN [Report by Javier Rodriguez] [Text] Havana, 21 Apr (PL) -- Cuban emigrants today expressed their confidence in the success of the process that has just began, which seeks to normalize their relations with the island. The group is currently in Havana to attend a conference organized by the Foreign Ministry. Luis Men... |
FBIS4-11306_0 | Alarcon on Efforts To Revive Economy | BFN [Text] Havana, 22 Apr (PL) -- Cuban parliament President Ricardo Alarcon has described changes in the country's state organizations that were announced today as "measures to revive the economy without adopting neoliberal models that would hurt countless workers." In statements to the media during a recess at the Na... |
FBIS4-11310_0 | Ultraconservatives Said Losing Influence | BFN [By Javier Rodriguez] [Text] Havana, 23 Apr (PL) -- Today, Patricia Gutierrez, a guest at The Nation and the Emigrants conference being held in this capital, said the groups of ultraconservative Cubans living in the United States are increasingly losing their influence over the rest of the community. In an intervie... |
FBIS4-11312_2 | Participant Views Conference | living abroad do not have the right to dictate what should happen in Cuba; that is up to those who live on the island." I believe changes must be made on the island because of the severe economic crisis the country is confronting. Even the government admits this. But these changes must be made in accordance to the need... |
FBIS4-11317_0 | Investment Opportunities Confirmed | BFN [Article by Javier Rodriguez] [Text] Havana, 24 Apr (PL) -- Cuba confirmed today that Cuban emigrants will be able to make investments in Cuba, although it noted that the pertinent regulations will be decided in the future. Speaking to the plenum of "The Nation and the Emigrants Conference," Carlos Lage, vice presi... |
FBIS4-11325_0 | Experts Cited on U.S. Immigration Policy | BFN [Report by Aissa G. Garcia] [Text] Havana, 21 Apr (PL) -- The U.S. immigration policy, which has given Cubans favored [diferenciado] treatment since 1960, is held hostage by ultraright-wing U.S. immigration sectors and is the center of criticism by other, less favored nations, experts have asserted. Milagros Martin... |
FBIS4-11336_1 | CIA Problems in Wake of Ames Case Assessed | past couple of years a number of U.S. congressmen have been insisting on the need to redesign the role of the CIA in today's world. But the search for the identified enemy in today's world is more complex than it was when the East-West confrontation existed; that is to say, capitalism vs. communism. Obviously, there st... |
FBIS4-11337_0 | More on Decree-Law 147, Government Structure | BFN [Text] Havana, 22 Apr (PL) -- The Cuban Government has a new structure by virtue of a decree-law published today that calls for the elimination of several organizations of the central government and their incorporation into various ministries, including a few new ones such as the Ministries of Economy, Foreign Inve... |
FBIS4-11413_2 | Failure of Constitutional Reform Analyzed | reform of the system of proportional representation and greater freedom for voters became merely a set of limited proposals that sought to reform practically nothing of substance within the Constitution. It is obvious that we need a true constitutional reform to eliminate many of the superfluous or harmful articles and... |
FBIS4-11423_0 | PCC Provincial Committee Assesses Sugar Harvest | BFN [Report by Granma Province correspondent Jorge Luis Batista] [Text] A meeting was held yesterday in Bayamo at the headquarters of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba [PCC] to analyze the progress of the sugar harvest during the second 10 days of April. Alfredo Enriquez Pina, the PCC's top leader... |
FBIS4-11428_0 | Overall Environmental Cleanup Plan Under Way | BFN ["First Thing" program health segment by Dr. Miguel Barroso Molina -- live or recorded] [Excerpts] [Barroso] Good morning, listeners. Today we are going to talk about the very important, overall environmental cleanup plan. My guest today is Dr. (Adelaida Ibaz Monet), a specialist in hygiene and epidemiology from Ha... |
FBIS4-11428_1 | Overall Environmental Cleanup Plan Under Way | wastes. Along with this has come an increase in the incidence of infestations of different kinds, such as mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches, and rodents. All this brings with it a deterioration in hygiene and health habits, which in turn brings significant changes in the incidence and mortality rates of contagious disease... |
FBIS4-11429_0 | Roundup of Criminal, Judicial Action | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on criminal activity and related judicial actions carried on Havana television in Spanish between 16 and 22 April. Tele Rebelde and Cuba Vision Networks at 0000 GMT on 16 April report that Alexis Duque Velazquez, the manager of a consignment st... |
FBIS4-11432_0 | Armed Forces Defend Killings | BFN [Text] Port-au-Prince, 27 Apr (EFE) -- Today, the Haitian Army Staff justified the killing of more than 20 people on the evening of 22 April by soldiers and members of the Revolutionary Front for the Promotion and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH) in Raboteau neighborhood, Gonaives. In a news release, the Armed Forces High... |
FBIS4-11439_2 | Private Sector Measures for Foreign Trade | to evaluate trade agreements with other countries. These organizations have proposed broad-based negotiations by goods and services groups. They have called for honesty in the negotiations process, whereby the community will be informed beforehand of the scope of negotiations, and for the institutionalization of the wo... |
FBIS4-11454_0 | Defense Minister Criticizes Military Bill | BFN [Text] Defense Minister General Reynaldo Andino Flores has clearly stated tonight that the Armed Forces accept President Carlos Roberto Reina's proposal to change the compulsory military service to one that is voluntary, educational, social, humanistic, and democratic only because the Armed Forces remain subordinat... |
FBIS4-11455_0 | Menem: `Just Bad Luck' If U.S. Applies Sanctions | BFN [Text] Buenos Aires, 27 Apr (NA) -- President Carlos Menem today downplayed possible U.S. sanctions against Argentina if the draft law on medicine patents is not approved. Menem said that if the Bill Clinton government adopts this measure "then it will be just bad luck; we have done what we should have done. We hav... |
FBIS4-11474_0 | Government Cites Position on UN Population Conference | BFN [Text] Chile has established its position on the UN Population and Development Conference to be held in September. Pope John Paul II has already criticized this conference. Sernam [National Women's Secretariat] Director Josefina Bilbao explained Chile's position on this conference which will be held in Cairo. She e... |
FBIS4-11481_7 | Presidential Candidates Hold Last Debate | Competitiveness, and Employment Pact established in Mexico, which seeks to generate more jobs "without worsening working conditions." He adds: "I believe we can reach such a point through a concerted effort. I believe we must not worsen Panamanian working conditions." Blades says new formulas must be presented in order... |
FBIS4-11490_2 | Concern Expressed Over Economic Trends | while inflation remains stubbornly at around 23 percent, the exchange rate is declining at 8 to 10 percent a year. As a result, it is impossible to sustain the real exchange rate (another of the Bank of the Republic's goals) and to prevent a greater revaluation of the peso, to the detriment of the production sector and... |
FBIS4-11514_0 | Pilcomayo River Presidential Summit Viewed | BFN [Article by "special correspondents" Roque Gonzalez Vera, Hilarion Acosta, and Jorge Caceres] [Text] Formosa, Argentina -- Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia have decided "at the highest level" to give the highest priority to the handling and solution of all matters pertaining to the Pilcomayo River, and they also de... |
FBIS4-11516_0 | Foreign Economic Minister Condemns Blockade | BFN [Text] On 26 April, Ernesto Melendez, Cuban minister of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, condemned the U.S. blockade at the 25th meeting of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean being held in Cartagena, Colombia. Melendez also condemned U.S. pressure on countries in the region to p... |
FBIS4-11520_3 | Finance Head Cites Agreement With U.S., Canada | a lot of information within the framework of this new relation between the two countries. [Zabludovsky] I want to take advantage of my conversation with you to broach a Mexican domestic problem. As a result of the tragic and cruel death of Luis Donaldo Colosio, financial markets have been upset; how has this affected M... |
FBIS4-11524_1 | Business With PRC, South Africa Increases | a business delegation will accompany President Itamar Franco to the PRC, and in September another business mission will travel to China, South Korea, and Indonesia. Priority Southeast Asia is one of Itamaraty's priorities. "It is the fastest growing region in the world, and China is the largest country in the region," ... |
FBIS4-11530_1 | Cuban Ambassador Answers Newspaper's Editorial | of the blockade, that is, on the obstinate manner in which the United States violates international law and the freedom of trade it pretends to impose worldwide. This evidence shows how successive U.S. administrations placed obstacles and tried to prevent other countries from trading or carrying out financial operation... |
FBIS4-11543_0 | Commentary Views British Oil Exploration | BFN [Commentary by Juan Buria] [Text] Many economists have pointed out that before 1959 Cuba had a strong economic dependency on the United States. Recently Cuba also had strong ties with countries of the socialist bloc, ties which were abruptly broken. That, together with the U.S. blockade, brought our country to the ... |
FBIS4-11553_3 | Journalists Discuss Political, Social Stability | our independence or the dignity of the Cuban people." Sexto adds: "If we look at the trend and the fact that the country continues to survive after a three-year crisis, that it remains standing with determination to overcome the crisis, this means that this country, the Revolution, the government, and the social regime... |
FBIS4-11556_0 | Tampering With Mail Reported | CSO [Editorial Report] Havana TRABAJADORES in Spanish of 11 April 1994 on page 2 reports that, at a meeting of the National Committee of the Communications Workers Union, members discussed crimes committed by workers and problems affecting the telephone sector related to transportation and fuel shortages. Agustin Lopez... |
FBIS4-11594_0 | Troops Move To Prevent Roadblocks | BFN [Text] La Paz, 28 Apr (AFP) -- The authorities have reported that Armed Forces troops moved on Thursday to prevent striking peasants and teachers from establishing roadblocks on highways and railroads across Bolivia. The strikers are demanding salary increases. Some observers say the tense situation has submerged t... |
FBIS4-11597_1 | Police, Workers Clash in La Paz | this afternoon. Union leaders, policemen, and even common criminals participated in acts of violence. The COB rally scheduled for this afternoon in San Francisco Square was not held. Police took positions over the entire city of La Paz, and prevented every form of street protest. As soon as a group of workers began to ... |
FBIS4-11610_0 | Brazil Space, Nuclear, S&T Notes | CSO [Editorial Report] RUSSIAN ENVOY ON TRADE OBSTACLES, SPACE PROJECTS -- Russian Ambassador to Brazil Iosif N. Podrazhanets, who recently assumed the post, believes that it will be very difficult to raise the level of commercial trade between the two countries, currently ranging between $300 million and $400 million,... |
FBIS4-11624_8 | Defense Minister Views Volunteer Military Service | The institution will also prove its subordination to the civilian government. I believe this is the most important thing -- independent of the question of whether the measures are indeed positive -- the Armed Forces will obey. The president, as head of the Republic and commander in chief, commands the Armed Forces. We ... |
FBIS4-11627_2 | _O_ Crime, Human Rights, Unemployment Statistics | 8 percent in 1993. However, 70 percent of those arrrested were only drug possessors or consumers; drug traffickers were a small percentage of those arrested. Guayas, Pichincha, and El Oro Provinces have the highest incidences of drug-related crimes. Human Rights -- Citing the monthly journal PEOPLE'S RIGHTS, 4 April HO... |
FBIS4-11640_0 | Papers Could Face Investigation for `Incorrect' Reports | BFN [Text] Judicial sources have confirmed that they will ask the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation on 28 March to investigate the AL-SAFIR and AL-DIYAR newspapers for publishing on 26 and 27 March incorrect reports pertaining to a current investigation, including AL-DIYAR writing that retired Major Fu'ad Mal... |
FBIS4-11661_5 | Political Islam Review: 'AQIDATI 22 Mar | enter paradise except those who have virtuous hearts that know no hatred and love others as they love themselves." ISLAMIC CULTURAL OPTION VERSUS WESTERN CULTURE An approximately 700-word article by Islamic writer Dr. Muhammad 'Amarah on page seven discusses the Islamic cultural project, analyzing the factors that make... |
FBIS4-11663_0 | ICO Issues Statement on Palestinian Land Day | BFN [Text] Jeddah, March 30, (SPA) -- The general secretariat of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) [ICO] has reaffirmed the Islamic nation's solidarity with the just struggle of the Palestinian people to restore their firm, unequivocal national rights of self-determination and the establishment of an ind... |
FBIS4-11677_0 | Tehran Warns Armenian Government About C-130 Incident | BFN [Station commentary] [Text] The first political commentary of today is in connection with the outcome of the investigation into the cause of the crash of an Iranian C-130 plane in Nagorno-Karabakh. With the issuing of a statement by our country's Foreign Ministry, which highlights the direct role of the Armenian Go... |
FBIS4-11678_0 | Plans Urged To Prevent Reoccurrence of Incident | BFN [Text] It has been precisely clarified, following the return of the special expert team of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Karabakh, that the C-130 plane belonging to the Iranian Air Force has crashed in Karabakh region due to a missile fired by the Armenian forces stationed there. Based on the investigations condu... |
FBIS4-11686_0 | Commentary Examines Expanding Ties With Kuwait | BFN [Station commentary] [Excerpts] In his meeting yesterday with Kuwaiti Amir Shaykh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Sabah, our country's Roads and Transport Minister Akbar Torkan submitted to him a message from Mr. Hashemi-Rafsanjani, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Although the content of the president's message has no... |
FBIS4-11700_0 | Commentary Examines Article by U.S. Official | BFN [Commentary by 'Aqiva Eldar: "The Fourth Side"] [Text] A visitor from the moon stumbling upon the latest issue of the FOREIGN AFFAIRS magazine might think the Middle East is a major inducer of insomnia among Washington decisionmakers. Writing in the magazine, National Security Adviser Anthony Lake says that ever si... |
FBIS4-11710_0 | Political Islam Review: AL-USRAH AL-'ARABIYAH 17 Mar | BFN [Editorial Report] The following review of the 17 March issue of Cairo AL-USRAH AL-'ARABIYAH summarizes articles that are Islamic in nature. CONTENTS: 1. Call to Revive Islamic rule 2. Secularism Versus Islam 3. Antinormalization Committee 4. Roots of Jewish Thought Examined 5. Anti-Sudan British Conspiracy CALL TO... |
FBIS4-11710_4 | Political Islam Review: AL-USRAH AL-'ARABIYAH 17 Mar | project. As a result our trained cadres emigrated." Shaykh al-Ghazali says that after the collapse of the caliphate, the Islamic world's enemies multiplied and communists and secularists became stronger. He remarks that alienation from Islam has rendered the Muslims very weak and notes that if the Islamic nation realiz... |
FBIS4-11711_2 | Political Islam Review: AL-SHA'B 22 Mar | Popular Awakening Must Continue in Order To Correct Our Internal Conditions." The report says that Murad is accused of inciting hatred of the regime, preventing the state authorities from exercising their powers, and supporting the ideas of the fundamentalist groups. SHAYKH 'ABD-AL-KAFI BANNED FROM PREACHING A 150-word... |
FBIS4-11714_0 | Velayati's African Tour Assessed as `Beneficial' | BFN [Unidentified commentary] [Text] Iranian Foreign Minister Dr. 'Ali Akbar Velayati, leading a key political delegation, yesterday left on an official tour of six African states. During his African tour, Dr. Velayati will visit Guinea-Conakry, Burkina Faso, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Kenya. At present, the Islami... |
FBIS4-11731_0 | Paper Notes Saudi Opportunity To Prove `Good Will' | BFN [Editorial: "Capitalizing on Politicization of Hajj"] [Text] This spring provides an auspicious opportunity for the leadership of Saudi Arabia to prove its good will towards all Muslims including the people of the Islamic Republic by making independent policy decisions relating to the Organization of Petroleum Expo... |
FBIS4-11732_0 | Official Discusses Expansion of Ties With Turkey | BFN [Text] Ankara, March 29, Irna -- Issues of common interest were discussed here today between Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister For Commonwealth of Independant States (CIS) Morteza Bank And his Turkish counterpart Uzdom Sunberg. The two sides agreed on expansion of bilateral ties to promote stability and security in th... |
FBIS4-11737_0 | Punishment Urged for Plane Crash | BFN [Editorial: "Who Was Responsible for the Crash of the C-130 Plane?"] [Text] Iran's experts looking into the cause of the crash of the C-130 Hercules transport plane that killed 32 Iranians have not found the black box and are leaving Karabakh for Tbilisi and Baku where they hope to find clues from both airports' to... |
FBIS4-11743_0 | Western Envoys Briefed on Arab Support for Libya | BFN [Text] Cairo, 31 Mar (MENA)--Arab League Secretary General Dr. 'Ismat 'Abd-al-Majid met today with French Ambassador to Cairo Patrick LeClercq, British Ambassador Christopher Long, and U.S. Charge d'Affaires David Hill. Dr. 'Abd-al-Majid briefed the three envoys on the Arab League Council resolution from its recent... |
FBIS4-11756_1 | Article Questions 'Arafat Identity, Leadership | questions. Television reporters have persistently asked 'Arafat to tell viewers about Jerusalem, his birthplace, and about the playground of his childhood. He refused. When pressed, however, he said: "I was born in the al-Aqsa Mosque." A witty person commented: It seems Mr. 'Arafat does not know that the al-Aqsa Mosque... |
FBIS4-11776_0 | Fresh Offensives Reported in South; Many Homeless | BFN [Text] Gonaveh (Bushehr), March 31, IRNA -- Scores of Iraqi families have been made homeless as a result of the Iraqi regime's fresh offensives on the southern marshlands, reported reliable sources here today. According to the fresh arrivals, the people in the Iraqi marshlands especially the women and children, are... |
FBIS4-11780_0 | Columnists on `Development' in UN Blockade Stance | BFN [Editorial Report] Baghdad AL-THAWRAH in Arabic on 23, 24, 25, and 27 March 1994, and Baghdad BABIL in Arabic on 26 March 1994 publish articles by Iraqi columnists on the latest UN Security Council debate over the Iraqi blockade. All articles note a "development" in the UN Security Council stance, saying now that I... |
FBIS4-11819_0 | Topics for al-Asad Tehran Visit Noted | BFN [Report by Salwa al-Ustuwani: "Al-Asad To Visit Iran Next Month and Might Mediate Between It and Algeria"] [Text] Damascus -- Syrian political sources have announced that President Hafiz al-Asad will visit Iran for summit talks with Iranian President Hashemi-Rafsanjani on international, regional, Islamic, and Arab ... |
FBIS4-11828_0 | Coptic Pope Shanudah on Violence, Jerusalem | BFN [Interview with Coptic Pope Shanudah by 'Abdallah al-Sinnawi; place and date not given] [Excerpts] [Al-Sinnawi] What were the motives of the attack on the al-Muharraq Monastery? According to your information, was it an isolated incident or was it premeditated? [Shanudah] I do not know the motives of those people; t... |
FBIS4-11828_2 | Coptic Pope Shanudah on Violence, Jerusalem | with violence. [Al-Sinnawi] Some people say monasteries and churches are storing weapons for the decisive time. [Shanudah] What is the decisive time? [Al-Sinnawi] When the prestige of the state is about to fall and the groups of political Islam come close to governing. [Shanudah] No. The state's prestige cannot be lost... |
FBIS4-11860_1 | Arab League Chief Views Libyan-Western Crisis | Foreign Office spokesman, who, I am sure, knows very well what I am talking about. The idea, as discussed by the seven-member committee and in the meeting of the Arab foreign ministers, is that we apply Scottish law, as the incident took place in Scotland. Judicial rules say that when an incident takes place in a count... |
FBIS4-11881_7 | Session Ends; Statement Issued | developments of the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and it lauds the international efforts made to force the Serbs to withdraw their artillery from Sarajevo, and it urges the international community to take similar measures in the other security zones. The council welcomes the signing of an agreement on the establishm... |
FBIS4-11884_0 | Government Seeking International Help With Oil Slick | BFN [Text] Al-Fujayrah, United Arab Emirates, April 2 (AFP) -- The Gulf emirate of al-Fujayrah called Saturday [2 April] for international help to fight an oil slick which has hit 30 kilometers (18 miles) of coastline, killing fish and turtles. Al-Fujayrah officials said Saturday that 15,900 tonnes of oil -- more than ... |
FBIS4-11894_6 | Government Responds to Remarks of U.S. Envoy | has exerted great efforts regarding privatization of the Sudanese economy to an extent that exceeded what is usually recommended by the IMF. It applied a tough policy of self-reliance and market economy which resulted in economic hardship. Unfortunately, the IMF has ignored its adviser's technical view, which praised S... |
FBIS4-11895_0 | Foreign Minister Comments | BFN [Excerpt] Khartoum, 2 April (SUNA) -- Foreign Minister Husayn Sulayman Abu-Salih made a press statement today regarding the statement by Madeleine Albright, a U.S. envoy, on Sudan. The U.S. statement was issued in Addis Ababa on 1 April. The foreign minister said that Sudan, on the basis of its overall national str... |
FBIS4-11896_0 | Official Comments on `Strain' in U.S. Ties | > EA0304185094 Khartoum SUNA in French 1615 GMT 3 Apr 94 EA0304185094 Khartoum SUNA French BFN [Excerpts] Khartoum 3 April (SUNA) -- The chairman of the External Relations Committee of the Transitional National Assembly (TNA) Professor Muhammad Shakir al-Saraj has attributed the strain in Sudanese-U.S. relations to Sud... |
FBIS4-11897_4 | Commentary Assesses Visit of U.S. Envoy | the United States, in reality -- according to evidence -- sponsors terrorism and protects those who practice terrorism. It also assists those who terrify peaceful people and it spreads terror and a lack of tranquility among peoples. No two people disagree on U.S. support for organized international terrorism. Moreover,... |
FBIS4-11903_1 | Yazdi Friday Prayers Second Sermon | in employment and in the execution of government affairs. They voted that women should respect Islamic norms once they accept responsibility in organizations of the system. The republic has voted for the sovereignty of Islam. All people have called for the sovereignty of Islam. In some cases, it is true, votes are cast... |
FBIS4-11903_11 | Yazdi Friday Prayers Second Sermon | group; it had nothing to do with the government. A few days later, they kill a number of other people. Then they say, yes, it was such and such a group and it had nothing to do with the government. They use trickery and wear different clothes, then they massacre Palestinian youths, and then they give some other explana... |
FBIS4-11920_1 | Paper Reports al-'Aqaba-Bound Ship Denied Entry | the Gulf of Aqaba on Friday. After two inspections of the St. Vincent-flagged ship, inspectors aboard the U.S. frigate which intercepted the Dolphins 1 ruled that they did not have accessibility to inspect the lower holds where the Jordan-bound cargo was stowed and therefore could not allow it to proceed to al-'Aqabah.... |
FBIS4-11923_0 | Papers Demand U.S. Lift `Siege' of al-'Aqabah `Cruel Tool of Pressure' Assailed | BFN [Unattributed editorial: "Pressure With No Name"] [Text] There is no doubt that Jordan is being subjected to tremendous pressures from regional and big powers to fall into line with new arrangements in the Middle East, especially a full peace based on the dictates of Israel. That pressure is being manifested in man... |
FBIS4-11943_1 | Editorial Views Outcome of Raphel's Visit | to those Raphel was able to meet in New Delhi. Despite this, the female diplomat was accorded a very cordial reception in the Indian capital. What is the reason for this cordiality? Our weakness toward the white-skinned people is perhaps the main reason behind this attitude. It is also due to the enthusiasm of some of ... |
FBIS4-11966_2 | Lake's Dual Containment Said Cause for Concern | the Hizballah control of Lebanon, what will block radical Islam in Egypt, Algeria, and Sudan? And what is Israel's contribution to the war against the Islam? An even greater danger is the possibility that establishing one pro-Western pact will immediately generate another composed of Iran and Iraq, Libya and India, Afg... |
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