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FBIS3-8732_0 | Commentary Views Embargo, U.S. Response | Language: Macedonian Article Type:BFN [Emilija Geleva commentary: "Greek Embargo or a `Military Act'?"] [Text] Washington, March -- During the past few weeks U.S. President Bill Clinton has made several important foreign political decisions: the recognition of the Republic of Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of ... |
FBIS3-8734_0 | RFE Journalists Attacked by Demonstrators | Language: Slovak Article Type:BFN [Text] We have a report that there are about 600 people in front of the Primate Palace [in Primate Square, Bratislava]] today. My colleagues from Radio Free Europe and I estimate that there were over 1,000 people there at the time I left the Primate Palace, shortly before 1730. I shall... |
FBIS3-8760_1 | Pawlak Leaves for Moscow To Discuss Economy | Prime Minister Pawlak's journey to Moscow. As one of the high-ranking Polish diplomats put it, if this is pulled off, we will be able to consider the entire visit a success. It is worth adding that Polish-Russian economic relations are now in a deep crisis, which to a considerable degree is also related to the noticeab... |
FBIS3-8765_8 | Milczanowski Interviewed on Intelligence | used to secretly inform on their friends and neighbors? Are you still employing informers? [Milczanowski] It is not out of the question. It is not easy to discuss this matter. Many people find the idea of being an informer disgusting. And yet many informers acted out of patriotic motives. [ZYCIE] Most informers are pai... |
FBIS3-8768_5 | New Defense Minister Explains Priorities | Romanians -- not to mention the ones living outside our borders -- who can read and write; there are 23 million Romanians who were involved in immense efforts, even if some of those efforts were made to achieve projects that later proved to be lacking viability. Let us not forget that all those projects were completed ... |
FBIS3-8779_3 | MDF Chairman Argues Case for Election | damaging processes. Under the rule of their great expertise, only the negative things were accumulated. However, what is really dangerous is that many people are making irresponsible promises to the nation. Should they get into government, it would soon be discovered that they have misled society, and this would result... |
FBIS3-8781_2 | SRI Denies Material Leaked to Press | article has used the favors of certain former cadres of the counterespionage of foreign intelligence services, who, by putting together and interpreting certain data, arguments, and suppositions, have managed to confer an aura of professionalism on that article. A possible argument in favor of this supposition is the f... |
FBIS3-8813_2 | General Views Polish Army Foreign Engagement | Within the CSCE, Poland has already been participating with other countries in achieving stability in the region. Poland is also taking part in extinguishing conflicts and supervising the implementation of conventional arms-control agreements such as the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty and the 1992 Vienna document... |
FBIS3-8814_1 | Kontic Seeking Extension of UN Mandate in RSK | called for the extension of the mandate of the U.N. Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in the U.N. protected areas (UNPAs) (Krajina), which expires on March 31, 1994, and set out that the "UNPROFOR presence in the UNPAs is necessary until a political settlement is reached." The Republic of Serb Krajina (RSK) was proclaimed a ... |
FBIS3-8815_19 | Marjanovic Presents Government Program | main orientation must not be questioned at any time. The serious efforts that the government has to put in in the next few months and years to achieve economic revitalization are indeed necessary in order to alleviate the effects of the sanctions. These efforts will continue to be necessary even after the sanctions are... |
FBIS3-8830_0 | Redman, Galbraith View Croat-Bosniak Accord | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] The Washington accord and the course of the Vienna talks give us every reason to believe that the senseless war between the Croats and the Bosniaks is finally over; whatever ensues, the fact remains that this accord has saved lives. This was underlined by U.S. Ambassador... |
FBIS3-8838_0 | Commission Tightens Sanctions Enforcement | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sofia, March 15 (BTA) -- The Government Commission on UN Sanctions met today with its head, Deputy Prime Minister Evgeni Matinchev, in the chair. The meeting was attended by Finance Minister Stoyan Aleksandrov. The commission was briefed on the incident involving the Khan Kubra... |
FBIS3-8890_1 | Official Explains Temporary Cutoff at RFE | that said that Slovak Telecommunications was suspending transmission of RFE broadcasts via transmitters in Velke Kostolany and Poprad. The document was entitled "Cessation of a Contract or Cancellation of a Contract." This cannot be a cancellation of an agreement because there is one more transmitter, the one in Presov... |
FBIS3-8907_1 | TANJUG Views Russian Initiative on Croatia | Churkin crowned his unexpected visit to Belgrade on Wednesday by announcing that Moscow was raising a new initiative for the resolution of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia. The initiative is aimed at having an agreement reached between the Republic of Croatia and the republic of Serb Krajina (RSK) on the cessation o... |
FBIS3-8987_1 | Commentary on Russian Influence, Federation | and to reestablish the southern Slav part of Balkans as their interest sphere. For the time being, at least as far as the first objective is concerned, Russia is doing more improvising than actually playing the role that it would like to play in the Bosnian crisis. Using a cheap trick in cooperation with its friends in... |
FBIS3-8996_1 | General Staff Chief Views NATO Relations | behavior of the candidates or international circumstances? [Petrov] The admission of any Eastern European state depends on NATO's leadership. According to the Washington Charter it alone can propose and invite new members. Naturally, the activity of the candidates in strengthening the structures of international securi... |
FBIS3-9005_12 | Defense Doctrine, National Security Texts | the fundamental changes that have taken place throughout the world recently. The Slovak Republic considers the transition from a bipolar world to the new multi-polar world to be its fundamental characteristic feature. The change in geopolitical conditions in Europe and throughout the world is leading to the collapse of... |
FBIS3-9010_0 | FYROM, Slovene Presidents View Balkan Crisis | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Bernt Conrad report: "The Picture of the Balkans Is Tragic and Grotesque"] [Text] Bonn -- The presidents of Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM] and Slovenia, Kiro Gligorov and Milan Kucan, have called for resolute West European support for the young democrac... |
FBIS3-9022_0 | Cabinet Approves Support for Libya Sanctions | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Prague, March 16 (CTK) -- At its session today, the Czech government approved a bill on the Czech Republic's measures aimed against Libya, which would enable the Czech Republic to implement the UN Security Council's tightened sanctions against Libya, a government spokeswoman to... |
FBIS3-9053_0 | Ministry Confirms Policy on Troops in B-H | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sofia, March 14 (BTA) -- Since the beginning of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia Bulgaria has been consistently supporting all initiatives of the United Nations, NATO, the European Union and other international institutions seeking a lasting and just solution of the crisis, ... |
FBIS3-9057_0 | Daskalov on Cooperation With EFTA, EU | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Sofia, March 17 (BTA) -- Foreign Minister Stanislav Daskalov had a meeting with the ambassadors of the European Free Trade Association member states in Sofia, BTA was told by the spokesman for the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry. The sides discussed the possibility of activating Bul... |
FBIS3-9071_8 | Croatian, Bosnian Officials Sign Agreements Comments on Washington Agreements | had under the 1974 Constitution of the former SFRY [Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]. What do you think about that? [Tudjman] I think that such claims are nebulous. Kosovo is a province inhabited not only by a huge national minority, but also by almost 2 million Albanians who have a 90 percent majority and liv... |
FBIS3-9073_0 | Croatian, Bosnian Officials Sign Agreements `Text' of Confederation Agreement | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN ["Text of the preliminary agreement on the establishment of a confederation between the Republic of Croatia and the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina" signed in Washington on 18 March -- read by announcer] [Text] The Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia h... |
FBIS3-9101_0 | Figures on Killed, Wounded in War Issued | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] From the beginning of the aggression on the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina up to the present, 142,592 people have been killed, have died of exposure or starvation, or are missing. In the area of 61 municipalities, 162,341 have been wounded, 72,532 of whom sustained serio... |
FBIS3-9108_4 | Granic on Country's Role, Confederation Plan | Yugoslavia prove so unacceptable for the same Europe which now accepts the Russian intervention and interests in Serbia? [Granic] Throughout this period, Germany's stance has been very positive, especially in the humanitarian sense, and in promoting dialogue between Croats and Muslims. On the Russian presence, most of ... |
FBIS3-9114_1 | Tudjman Letter to Butrus-Ghali on UN Mandate | the necessity of improving UNPROFOR's performance. Full implementation of all relevant Security Council resolutions remains the most essential, yet still unfulfilled, task of UNPROFOR. With more than 16,000 UN peace-keeping troops deployed in Croatia, and considering the precise goals inscribed in the Vance plan (S/232... |
FBIS3-9123_0 | High Rate of Military Service Waivers Viewed | Language: Polish Article Type:BFN [Article by Z.L.: "Our Defender Is Under Treatment"] [Text] On the eve of the Army's springtime conscription, the military is raising the alarm: If this time around the same kinds of poorly prepared recruits find their way into the barracks, as was the case this past fall, training pro... |
FBIS3-9138_0 | Simic Says Contacts With Croatia `Encouraging' | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] Geneva, March 19 (TANJUG) -- Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister Zeljko Simic has described Yugoslavia's contacts with Croatia as encouraging and said that bilateral meetings are aimed at seeking concrete solutions to humanitarian problems and not at producing spectacu... |
FBIS3-9156_4 | Says Allegations Attack on Iliescu | by] of Cornescu, because he did not offer terms and items that were of any interest to the Romanian army. Contrary to him, other companies were successful, such as the Alouette-3-type helicopter, for which, initially, we imported spare parts, after which we imported the whole manufacturing technology. [MEDIAFAX] Do you... |
FBIS3-9191_1 | Official Explains Relations With NATO | Republic's Army, the NATO command here in Brussels, and other command posts. This is multinational cooperation among NATO's multinational staffs. [Fiala] Have you noticed any progress in that cooperation? [Pisklak] We have made a great deal of progress, about which we do not know much in our country. Actually, we are p... |
FBIS3-9199_0 | Krakow Leader Sees No Dialogue With Center | Language: Polish Article Type:BFN [Interview with Krakow President Jozef Lassota, local self-government activist and member of the President's Council for Local Self-Government Affairs, by Antoni Lewandowski; place and date not given] [Text] During the meeting between the delegates of the Polish Cities Union and local ... |
FBIS3-9200_0 | Farmers Trade Union Leader Discusses Movement | Language: Polish Article Type:BFN [Interview with Andrzej Lepper, chairman of Samoobrona (Self-Defense) Farmers Trade Union, by Ewa Koszur and Andrzej Sondej; place and date not given] [Excerpts] [passage omitted] [GLOS SZCZECINSKI] What is "Lepperism"? [Lepper] Lepperism is certainly neither Stalinism nor Hitlerism, n... |
FBIS3-9200_2 | Farmers Trade Union Leader Discusses Movement | a group of younger farmers who can use my agricultural machinery and equipment and, in return, cultivate my land in addition to their own. But my yields are now much lower than in the past, when I sometimes collected as much as 60-90 hundredweights of wheat grain per hectare, working with quite poor--4th-, 5th-, and ev... |
FBIS3-9210_0 | Alcohol Consumption Rises Again | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Richard Byrne Reilly: "Freedom May Be Driving People To Drink"] [Text] Experts are alarmed at the sharp rise in alcohol consumption--and its twin sister, alcoholism--among Czechs since 1989. According to a report released by the Prague Psychiatric Center in Bohnice, the us... |
FBIS3-9212_0 | International Cooperation Helps Silesia | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Andrew Hawker: "Fingers Pointed in Silesia"] [Text] In the ecologically and economically blighted region of Silesia--weighed down by outdated heavy industry, houses heated by coal, and a lack of funds--many prefer not to even address the issue of the environment. Others, h... |
FBIS3-9247_0 | Ilinden OMO Leader Details Macedonian Claims | Language: Bulgarian Article Type:BFN [Interview with Jordan Kostadinov, chairman of the Ilinden United Macedonian Organization, by Valeriya Veleva; place and date not given: "Whoever Tries To Prove Macedonians Are Bulgarians Is Waging Propaganda for War in the Balkans"; first paragraph gives biographical details that a... |
FBIS3-9256_0 | Jovanovic `Suspicious' About U.S. Objectives | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Interview with FRY Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic by Christophe Lamfalussy in Brussels on 22 March: "The European Union Must Keep Its Promises"] [Text] [Lamfalussy] Minister, you are going to meet with Andre Adam, director general of policy at the Foreign Ministry. What is the n... |
FBIS3-9259_0 | Commentary on U.S.-German `Rivalry' in NATO | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Milan Mijalkovski: "Partnership for Discord"] [Text] The United Nations is generally seen as the most significant international organization in charge of the preservation of peace and security in the world. Since the two world wars started in Europe, and the Cold... |
FBIS3-9260_0 | Milosevic, Greek Communist Delegation Meet | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] Belgrade, March 22 (TANJUG) -- President of the Yugoslav Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milosevic and Honorary President of the Communist Party of Greece Charilaos Florakis said here on Tuesday they believed that the Balkan nations, in accordance with their vital int... |
FBIS3-9270_1 | Tudjman News Conference on U.S. Visit, RSK | of historical significance, as a watershed in the efforts to resolve the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, and as a resolute step toward peace. The talks I had at the United Nations with Secretary General Butrus Butrus-Ghali and all his aides and, in particular, my speech in the Security Council--which met with Madame A... |
FBIS3-9309_5 | Ceka Interviewed on `Political Violence' | these highlanders remain the victims of what this writer called "a beauty that kills," victims of the silence of a state that appears on television with luxurious offices, take-offs and landings of aircraft, and the same twisted smiles at official receptions. As long as Gjovalin Cekini's murderers are not arrested, the... |
FBIS3-9399_1 | Official Outlines Draft Law on Organized Crime | so-called laundering of dirty money. The second part defines legal means and procedures that would make it possible to expose and document serious criminal activity in a way that could be used as evidence in court [s procesnou posobnostou]. The course of action by the bodies involved in criminal proceedings has until n... |
FBIS3-9411_1 | Ministry Allegedly Planned To Bug MLADINA | supervised and information should be collected about them in order to act more effectively against them." MLADINA continues: "It seems that VOMO was not directly engaged in this activity, but only its section connected to the special brigade Moris. The core of this parallel organization, which won the nickname `Paravom... |
FBIS3-9412_0 | EU's Role in Peace Process `Marginal' | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Pool" item by Borislav Lalic] [Text] Belgrade, March 24 (TANJUG) -- Now that all the "peace plans" of the European Union (E.U.) have fallen through and when their peace-making role in the former Yugoslavia has become marginal, all the E.U. was left with was to stand aside and watch ... |
FBIS3-9415_1 | Opposition Leader Views Milosevic, Greece | Bosnia there will be no war in Macedonia or Kosovo. However, democratic Serbia is prepared to facilitate the solution of any problem in the Balkans, even the Macedonian one. This is a major issue for Bulgarian policy and you cannot ignore it. Naturally, we respect this. Simultaneously, however, Serbia should not get in... |
FBIS3-9436_1 | Horn: MSZP Phones Tapped, Officials Watched | with compensation. However, the opposition is not aware of what kind of domestic, or perhaps international, payment obligations the government has undertaken in the period before the elections. We asked the government to inform Parliament about the country's true financial and economic balance but this was refused. Par... |
FBIS3-9441_0 | Jovanovic on Accords, Foreign Involvement | Language: Dutch Article Type:BFN [Report on interview with "Serbian" Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic by Axel Buyse in Brussels; date not given: "Officially Yugoslavia Sees Chances for Peace"] [Text] Brussels -- Yugoslavia is supporting "every effort aimed at bringing peace a step closer." Including, therefore, the... |
FBIS3-9472_7 | Srpska President Karadzic Addresses Assembly | which forced us to make some political and territorial concessions. We are not asking them to make a final judgement about the inadequacy of the sanctions, that Serbia is not to blame, that it is not responsible and is not involved in fighting. We are asking for a practical approach to the Serbs in their carrot-and-sti... |
FBIS3-9491_0 | Kucan Views Peace Process in Balkan Crisis | Language: German Article Type:BFN [Interview with President Milan Kucan by Robert Hochner in the ORF studio in Vienna -- recorded; Kucan speaks in Slovene with superimposed German translation] [Text] [Hochner] Good evening, Mr. President. [Kucan] Good evening. [Hochner] Mr. President, only 40 km south of your country a... |
FBIS3-9512_0 | Embassy News Conference Reported | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Text] President Suleyman Demirel has been continuing his contacts in Romania. Stressing that Turkey wants stability in the Balkans and in Europe, Demirel indicated that once the two-year human shame in Bosnia-Herzegovina is eradicated, the region will enter a new cooperation environm... |
FBIS3-9523_0 | Kontic Concerned Over UN Plan To Send Turks | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] Belgrade, March 24 (TANJUG) -- Yugoslav Prime Minister Radoje Kontic expressed his concern in Belgrade Thursday over the decision of U.N. Secretary General Butrus Butrus-Ghali to send Turkish troops within the UNPROFOR [UN Protection Forces] forces. During his mee... |
FBIS3-9526_0 | Turkish President Arrives on Official Visit | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Bucharest, Romania, Mar. 23 (A.A.) -- President Suleyman Demirel, on an official visit to Romania, said on Wednesday that Ankara and Bucharest should cooperate to boost ties and help secure peace and stability in the Balkans. "I believe the conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasu... |
FBIS3-9541_0 | CEFTA Plans for Liberalization on Track | Language: English Article Type:CSO [Article by Michele Kayal: "Central Europe Accelerates Free Trade"] [Text] The economic leaders of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia pledged early this month to speed up the liberalization of trade among their countries and create a free trade zone in less than five yea... |
FBIS3-9563_0 | Survey Examines Voter Attitudes | Language: Hungarian Article Type:BFN [Andras Kovacs article: "Whom Would You Not Elect?"] [Excerpts] [passage omitted] What are the chances of a campaign that is conducted against the competing parties in Hungary? We wanted to get an answer to this question on the basis of a survey of a 1,000-head sample representing t... |
FBIS3-9564_1 | Poll Assesses Parties' Economic Programs | of the people surveyed had heard about this meeting, and this also shows that the good position of the SZDSZ is due not so much to information, but to the fact that a considerable number of citizens have consistently regarded the SZDSZ (as well as the Hungarian Democratic Forum [MDF]) as a program party since the 1990 ... |
FBIS3-9585_0 | Kontic Elaborates on 1994 Economic Program | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Report by Brana Filipovic and Radovan Radovanovic] [Text] Federal Prime Minister Radoje Kontic is currently visiting the Timok region. Addressing the leadership of the municipality and the Bor mining and smelting works, the federal prime minister for the first time fully outli... |
FBIS3-9631_0 | Turkish Troops in B-H Could Cause `Escalation' | Language: English Article Type:BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] Belgrade, March 25 (TANJUG) -- Yugoslavia warned on Friday that sending Turkish troops to the former Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina could directly influence further escalation of conflicts in the region. A decision by U.N. Secretary-General Butrus Butrus-... |
FBIS3-9637_2 | Demirel on Ties, Balkan Issues | reflects the desire for peace by the two peoples. With these thoughts I am looking forward to my visit to Romania. [Oroveanu] Considering the political, historic, and geographical situation, in your opinion, what role may Turkey and Romania play together in our area and in the existing overall international relations? ... |
FBIS3-9639_0 | Further on News Conference | Language: Turkish Article Type:BFN [Report by Serdar Dimli from Bucharest] [Text] President Suleyman Demirel and Romanian President Ion Iliescu held a joint news conference this morning in Bucharest where they assessed the outcome of Demirel's visit and answered reporters' questions. Iliescu stated that Demirel's visit... |
FBIS3-9659_0 | Commentary Views Regional Security Issues | Language: Macedonian Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Mirka Velinovska: "Season of Confederations"] [Excerpts] Even if it is proven that most of the world's media have assessed the United States' and Russia's performances badly, saying that they only appeared to be participating in the settlement of the Balkan problems ... |
FBIS3-9663_0 | Martic Letter Protests Croatian `State Terror' | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:BFN [Text] Knin, 28 Mar (TANJUG) -- Milan Martic, president of the republic of Serb Krajina [RSK], sent a letter today to Butrus-Ghali, secretary general of the UN Security Council, in connection with the extension of the UN peacekeeping forces' mandate. The letter says: Excellency... |
FBIS3-9696_0 | Claes To Support EU Associate Membership | Language: Slovene Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] Belgian Foreign Minister Willy Claes is visiting Slovenia. He has already met with the highest state officials, namely, President Kucan, Prime Minister Drnovsek, and Foreign Minister Peterle. After the talks Willy Claes and Lojze Peterle signed a bilateral agreement on road ... |
FBIS3-9706_2 | Daily Views Possible Support for Walesa | the Sopot Public Opinion Research Institute [PBS], as many as 46 percent of rural area inhabitants declare support for him. So far, the Confederation for an Independent Poland [KPN] has not demonstrated its reluctance toward the president. KPN deputies backed (along with the Democratic Union--UD--and the BBWR) the pres... |
FBIS3-9744_0 | Iliescu Views Upcoming Visit to Greece | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Bucharest ROMPRES, 28/3/1994 -- In an interview with a press correspondent of the Macedonian news agency of THESSALONIKI, President Ion Iliescu of Romania said his visit to Greece over 30-31 March "has a special political significance, both for the bilateral relations and for t... |
FBIS3-9755_0 | Crvenkovski Meets With Bulgaria's Daskalov | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] Skopje, March 27 (BTA corr. Nikolai Koev) -- On his way to Tirana Bulgarian Foreign Minister Stanislav Daskalov stopped in Skopje and had almost two-hour talks with his Macedonian [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM] counterpart Stevo Crvenkovski. Mr. Daskalov i... |
FBIS3-9820_0 | Serbian-Muslim Trade Along Front Lines | Language: Serbo-Croatian Article Type:CSO [Article by Branko Peric: "Mark Brothers"] [Text] The top government leadership of the Srpska republic was alarmed in early January by the emergence of a special form of war profiteering: large-scale trade with the enemy. Data of the security services indicated that prohibited ... |
FBIS3-9824_0 | Daily Views Admission Request | Language: Polish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Maria Wagrowska: "A Signal for the West"] [Text] Poland will soon submit a motion requesting admission to the European Union [EU]. This very act itself will not really draw us closer to membership in this organization; however, it will confirm to all of Europe and to the... |
FBIS3-9864_0 | Embargo on Oil Products Seen as Economic Loss | Language: Bulgarian Article Type:BFN [Krasimir Tsigularov commentary: "Yet Another Own Goal"] [Text] The Bulgarian Danube ports are no longer expected to handle petrol and liquid fuels for export. Such goods shall no longer be transported on the Danube. The ban not only applies to ferryboat transports. In this manner, ... |
FBIS3-9865_5 | Sarinic Comments on Accord | has been insisting on it. The problem of controlling the borders is naturally the fundamental problem, however, because it creates conditions for the prevention of an influx of weapons and special units from the east. This further creates conditions for the resolution of difficult problems, very complex problems, in a ... |
FBIS3-9880_0 | Central American Economy Ministers Meet, Review NAFTA | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Guatemala City, 23 Feb (NOTIMEX) -- Central American economy and commerce ministers today analyzed the impact that the North American Free Trade Agreement will have on the region, it was reported in this capital. Having established a Tariff and Customs Council, on Wednesday the... |
FBIS3-9884_1 | Molirena Candidate's Government Plan | Labor Code. Elimination of political influence in labor relations by reducing the government's participation in the regulating body. Training and skill-enhancement for personnel -- Special utility and port tariffs for export corporations B. Support for the Colon Free Zone and international trade activity -- Expansion o... |
FBIS3-9902_0 | Jose Luis Rodriguez Discusses Measures With Economists | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The presidents of the provincial executive councils of the National Association of Cuban Economists [ANEC] has met with the national organizing committee of the Cuban Economists Congress. Jose Luis Rodriguez, minister president of the State Committee for Finances, participated ... |
FBIS3-9904_2 | Roundup of Economic Activity | Havana Province municipalities are to have such structures in marginal lands, with a view to solving the demand for such production in the area. Also, three new tourist installations have been inaugurated in Holguin Province: a marina in Boca de Sama [Bay]; a new restaurant, El Fuerte, in Guarda la Vaca; and the La Roc... |
FBIS3-9919_0 | Mexican Agricultural Imports Ban Causes `Outrage' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Buenos Aires, 26 Feb (NA) -- Felipe Sola, agriculture, livestock, and fishing secretary, today stated that the government "will not remain indifferent to the outrage" caused by the Mexican Government's decision to forbid the import of some Argentine agricultural products. Sola ... |
FBIS3-9924_1 | Roundup of Electoral Developments | The FMLN Womens Group on 23 February presented their platform to the leftist coalition, demanding greater participation in the party and the government, free health care and education, and equal pay for equal work. The women proposed the creation of a women's ministry to protect women's interests. (San Salvador Canal D... |
FBIS3-9950_1 | Argentine Defense Minister Visits To Resolve `Bad' Ties | open conflict. The current situation has not reached that extreme but it is really bad. With difficulties in the process of Mercosur [Common Market of the South] and problems on economic matters, the foreign policies of the two countries are going in different directions: While Argentina is getting closer to the United... |
FBIS3-9960_0 | Expert Criticizes New U.S. Antidrug Policy | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Although it is the first time since 1904 the United States has admitted that drug trafficking is also a U.S. domestic problem, expectations regarding the U.S. Government's change of attitude regarding countries such as Peru and Bolivia are not very encouraging because "in their... |
FBIS3-9961_0 | Daily Downplays Hopes of U.S. Antinarcotics Strategy | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The Peasant and the New Antinarcotics Strategy"] [Text] U.S. President Bill Clinton recently announced a drastic change in the U.S. Government's antinarcotics strategy. The idea is to emphasize prevention rather than repression which, generally speaking, has been used sin... |
FBIS3-9977_0 | U.S. Support for Rangel Bill Increases | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Some 30 U.S. congressmen have expressed their support for a bill to lift the blockade of Cuba, which will be discussed next month at the initiative of U.S. Representative Charles Rangel. In statements to PRENSA LATINA, Rangel's spokesman, [name indistinct], said that hearings w... |
FBIS3-9980_3 | President Reina Holds News Conference | and very [word indistinct] proposal. Why this? Well, because there is a way to take advantage of these [words indistinct] and to become more efficient as an institution. [Reporter] Have the Armed Forces begun the debate on privatization? [Reina] This all depends on whether we are convinced it is good for Honduras. In a... |
FBIS3-9992_0 | President Disagrees With U.S. Antidrug Aid Reduction | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Cochabamba, 16 Feb (EL MUNDO) -- President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada said: "We disagree with the reduction of U.S. economic aid for interdiction and against drug trafficking. We believe we should have serious and permanent U.S. economic aid without disregarding national soverei... |
FBIS3-9993_1 | Editorials View New U.S. Antidrug Policy PRESENCIA | "emergency rooms are full of people who have been stabbed or shot," is a way of becoming familiar with a distant yet formidable tragedy. Those who want to imitate consumerism could hardly believe Mr. Clinton when he said that people are afraid of going onto the streets because of the violence prevailing there, and that... |
FBIS3-9994_0 | Editorials View New U.S. Antidrug Policy [LA RAZON] | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The Drug-Trafficking Problem: Unfavorable Winds Blow From Washington"] [Text] The U.S. antidrug policy seems to have taken an unexpected and dramatic turn. First President Clinton himself, and later on the main U.S. Government authorities responsible for this area, announ... |
FBIS3-10017_1 | Article Views Blame for Human Rights Violations | the rest of the world, especially continental Latin American countries, will soon be reviewed. At the same time, the Pentagon admitted and confirmed that it trained military leaders from Latin American countries, which were later charged with violating human rights in their respective countries. Regarding this, sources... |
FBIS3-10026_0 | Businessmen `Satisfied' With Prospects in Cuba | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Report by "special correspondent" Jose Maria Mayrink in Havana] [Text] Brazilian citizens Rodolfo Andriani and Leonardo Fares, who were in Havana in late January to negotiate an energy deal with the Cuban Government, were satisfied with the first contacts made. The businessmen com... |
FBIS3-10029_0 | Robaina: Time To Change Rules on Exit, Entry | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [By Javier Rodriguez] [Text] Havana, 25 Feb (PL) -- Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina said today in this capital that the holding of a conference with representatives of Cuban emigrants will take away from the United States the banner it has traditionally brandished against Cuba.... |
FBIS3-10033_1 | TRABAJADORES Article on U.S. Blockade | obstruct that bilateral supply until it was suspended early in the 1960's. They have later tried everything within their means to force the rest of the world to do likewise. The situation substantially worsened for the Cubans following the disappearance of socialist markets in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, which... |
FBIS3-10033_2 | TRABAJADORES Article on U.S. Blockade | import merchandise from ports and airports in Europe and other distant areas. Cuba: Were it not for the astronomical freight prices.... It is appropriate to remember that, since the implementation of this line of conduct, the White House has forbidden U.S. ships to load merchandise shipped from any country to Cuba or t... |
FBIS3-10033_4 | TRABAJADORES Article on U.S. Blockade | in medical assistance from Europe, one can see in airfreight alone $26,037 was spent. From the United States this would have only amounted to $2,413. With the $23,624, which Cuba was forced to pay due to the blockade, Cuba could have purchased 10,453 packages of methotrexate, which is used to treat children suffering f... |
FBIS3-10035_1 | U.S. Doctors Attend Havana Health Services Workshop | a bilateral workshop on health exchanges with another group of doctors and psychologists who came to Cuba at the invitation of the Center of International Policy. The meeting covered the subjects of public health in both countries in terms of their current situations and outlook, the consequences of the blockade on Cub... |
FBIS3-10038_2 | Military Industry Guarantees Supplies For Defense | of Eastern Europe. In response to the foreign diplomats and journalists, he said: "I assure you that we can produce sufficient amounts of ammunition to defeat any enemy no matter how powerful." For the first time since its creation in 1962, the FAR opened these installations to foreign visitors. According to appearance... |
FBIS3-10051_0 | Roundup of Reportage on Economic Activities | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities in Argentina through 24 February: Finance Secretary Ricardo Gutierrez reported that the nonfinancial public sector, excluding privatizations, registered a 5.121 billion pesos primary surplus in 1993, "the highest level ... |
FBIS3-10058_0 | Roundup of Unrest in Various Departments | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] La Paz Radio Fides Network in Spanish at 1100 GMT on 28 February carries, in its regularly scheduled newscast, several reports on demonstrations, clashes, and strikes nationwide. In a 90-second report from Oruro, the announcer comments on university students' plans to stage demonstra... |
FBIS3-10059_0 | Study Shows Increase in Percentage of Urban Poor | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] La Paz, 27 Feb (EFE) -- The percentage of poor families in Bolivian cities increased from 74.7 percent to 80.1 percent between 1987 and 1991, according to a study carried out by the Center of Studies for Labor and Agricultural Development (CEDLA) that was released today. CEDLA ... |
FBIS3-10065_0 | Use of Social Fund To Balance Budget Viewed | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Article by Carlos Alberto Sardenberg] [Text] After two months negotiating the Social Emergency Fund (FSE), the federal government budget bill for 1994 is as follows: Revenues totalling $89.5 billion, expenditures totaling $81.8 billion, and a primary balance of $7.7 billion (witho... |
FBIS3-10082_0 | Further on Remarks | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Santa Fe de Bogota, 28 Feb (DPA) -- Today, Colombian Prosecutor General Gustavo de Greiff said the U.S. Government is not interested in supplying evidence to condemn the chiefs of the drug trafficking mafia because it does not trust Colombian justice. In this manner, De Greiff ... |
FBIS3-10133_11 | FAA Official on Current State of Agriculture | economic plan. The FAA considers the economic policy to be "intrinsically perverse," meaning that it goes beyond the intentions of its authors and cannot set the right course for the Republic. During the past three years, the conversion plan has achieved something we can all appreciate--stability. It has come at the co... |
FBIS3-10134_11 | Finance Minister Gives News Briefing | the new currency. The answer is that we will implement it when the people think it is right. It will be implemented when the country has matured and has understood the rules, has understood that we will not implement any unfair practices here or there. Then the time will be ripe for the new currency. If we change our c... |
FBIS3-10134_13 | Finance Minister Gives News Briefing | permits the ironing out of differences. A government cannot work well if only one person speaks, even if he is the president, and least of all if he is just a minister. We all have the right and the obligation to give our opinions. Once something is decided we go ahead and implement the decision. That is real democracy... |
FBIS3-10141_0 | Mining Technology Accord Signed With Cuba | Language: Portuguese Article Type:CSO [Article by Sergio Danilo: "Brazil and Cuba May Sign Technical Cooperation Accord"] [Text] Rio de Janeiro--Acting through the Union of Mining Geologists, the Government of Cuba has accepted the proposal by the Mineral Resources Prospecting Company (CPRM) to sign a Brazil-Cuba accor... |
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