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FBIS4-14945_1 | Border Troop Commanders Meeting Views Problems | troops, meeting participants told a news conference. They have also met Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. Commander-in-chief of the Russian Border Troops Colonel General Andrey Nikolayev told correspondents they also dwelt on the future concept of protection of the commonwealth outer borders to include purely... |
FBIS4-14954_0 | Gas Pipeline Agreement Signed With Turkey, Iran, Russia | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] An agreement was signed in Ashgabat on the transportation of natural gas from Turkmenistan via pipeline through Iran and Turkey to Europe. According to TRT correspondent Yavuz Kocak, the relevant ministers of the cosignatory countries attended a committee meeting this morni... |
FBIS4-14999_0 | Foreign Ministry Urges Participation in Cocom | BFN [Text] The Latvian Government must still adopt a resolution on participation in the Cocom [Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls] organization, the multilateral strategic export control coordination committee (?to) monitor the export of weapons, strategic resources and technology to former countri... |
FBIS4-15013_0 | Commission Issues `First Study' of Airbus Crash | BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Anatoliy Yurkin] [Text] Moscow, 5 Apr -- "According to the information we have from the flight recorder, it has been established that the son and the daughter of a member of the crew, who were flying as passengers, were on the flight deck. Contrary to the regulations, he had been demonst... |
FBIS4-15062_0 | Kurdish Leader Accuses Moscow of Terrorism | BFN [Text] During a press conference on Tuesday Director-General of the International Kurdish Cultural Center Tariel Broyev accused the Russian Government of "terrorism against the Kurdish people and of trying to mend the Russian economy at the Kurds' expense." To quote Broyev, the Kurds of the Middle East and the CIS ... |
FBIS4-15068_0 | Duma Economic Chief Urges `Active' Policy | BFN [Interview with Sergey Glazyev, chairman of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy, by Yelena Tokareva; place, date not given: "I Am for Order in the Economy and Finance"] [Text] Sergey Yuryevich Glazyev, age 33, chairman of the State Duma Committee for Economic Policy. Doctor of economic sciences. Author of ... |
FBIS4-15109_2 | State Committee Details Genocide in Abkhazia | Abkhazian mass media, scientific journals, and other sources had been constantly accusing the Georgians of artificially reducing the size of the local Abkhazian population. It became all too obviously clear that the Georgian population was doomed to annihilation. However, who was to fill that huge vacuum formed as a re... |
FBIS4-15205_0 | Joint Exercise Seen as Protection of `U.S. Ownership' | BFN [Undated letter from Candidate of Historical Sciences Ivan Bondarev, followed by editorial office note, under the "Reader's Response" rubric: "Is It Not Worth Our Generals' While Holding Exercises in the State of Iowa?"] [Excerpts] In the 20th century the United States has repeatedly tried to get a foothold on Russ... |
FBIS4-15206_4 | U.S. `New Approach' to Relations Viewed | did the plunging would like. The people formulating the "new approach," leaving aside this basic fact, should look at the democracy of the ballot box, which now seems different from that of the speeches made by politicians elected previously. The latest example being the Ukrainian elections, where inhabitants of easter... |
FBIS4-15207_0 | U.S.-Russian Trade Declines in 1993 | BFN [Report from roundup of news agency reports] [Text] The volume of U.S.-Russian trade in 1993 was $1.2 billion, which is $395 million less than in 1992. U.S. exports to Russia were 74.5 percent of exports to other CIS countries. Russia has become the United States' 28th-ranking trade partner in terms of U.S. imports... |
FBIS4-15213_0 | No Information on DPRK Mistreating Russian Diplomats | BFN [From the "Diplomatic Panorama" feature: Reports by Diplomatic Correspondents Dmitriy Voskoboynikov, Igor Porshnev, Vitaliy Trubetskoy and others] [Text] Russian Foreign Ministry has no information concerning facts of mistreatment with respect to Russian diplomats in Pyongyang on the part of the authorities of the ... |
FBIS4-15260_1 | Arms Import-Export Company's Director Interviewed | conditions, the system of credit provision, and much else besides -- quite apart from the fact that the arms trade business, as a rule, is strictly secret and foreigners are not privy to these secrets? But this was not all. Often the interests of such businessmen overlap with the interests of our state, and buyers play... |
FBIS4-15276_5 | Progress of Economic Reforms Viewed | Western countries goes to private consumption. When the share of private consumption is so small, the trend of developments in GNP is not that important, but the Russians' living standards are likely to rise sharply over the next few years because consumption's share of GNP should increase considerably. Another explana... |
FBIS4-15283_0 | State Arms Company Director Interviewed | BFN ["Exclusive" report No. 14 of 64] [Text] According to experts, arms trade was one of the most profitable spheres of Soviet foreign trade. In Russia the exports and imports of weapons and military equipment have been entrusted to the government-owned company Rosvooruzheniye recently formed by a decree of President B... |
FBIS4-15308_1 | Shevardnadze on Misgivings, Reminiscences | history. Do you see any difference, any progress? [Shevardnadze] There is greater pluralism, but apart from that I would not say that we have come much further. [Chiesa] What balance can be drawn from the two years that have gone by since your triumphal return to Tbilisi? [Shevardnadze] It is a complicated balance. I a... |
FBIS4-15355_2 | Malk: Talks End `Without Any Result' | the work of the delegations' military issues working groups has no prospects. I don't understand what's the purpose of our meetings," Tiiman said. Tiiman told the press Estonia put forward an "entirely new idea" for dismantling the Paldiski nuclear reactors, which Russia is at present studying. He declined to disclose ... |
FBIS4-15358_0 | Luik on EU Relations, Russian Troop Withdrawal | BFN [Report on interview with Estonian Foreign Minister Juri Luik by Francoise Delstanche in Brussels; date not given: "Estonia Expects Firmer Support From The Twelve"] [Text] An ambiguous European attitude is prompting the countries of Eastern Europe to come banging on its door. Still wary of Russia, Estonia is seekin... |
FBIS4-15363_0 | Investigation Team Formed; 58 Kurds Arrested | BFN [Text] The police arrested 58 Kurdish illegal immigrants in a house in Tallinn yesterday. The Kurds claim to have been smuggled over the border in sealed containers. A joint police, defence police and border guard investigation team was formed, headed by border guard director Tarmo Keuts. |
FBIS4-15424_1 | Election Official Views Regional Results | Of course, there were violations -- quite a lot of them. And it would have been strange if we had completely avoided them, after all, it is all being done for the first time. There is nothing to be surprised about here. While there are only political assessments of the very important sociopolitical campaign that the el... |
FBIS4-15428_0 | Cabinet Issues Statement | BFN ["Unofficial translation" of statement issued by the Latvian Cabinet of Ministers in Jurmala on 6 April] [Text] On April 6, 1994 of this year, the Government of the Republic of Latvia received at its disposal decree No. 174 signed by Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin on April 5, in which the Russian Federa... |
FBIS4-15564_0 | Kozyrev on Talks | BFN [By ITAR-TASS diplomatic correspondent Gennadiy Kochuk] [Text] Moscow, 8 Apr -- Answering questions from journalists, Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev said he and Colombian Foreign Minister Nohemi Sanin Posada de Rubio discussed the Cuban question during their talks today. Andrey Kozyrev declared that Russia... |
FBIS4-15640_0 | Most Election Victors Newcomers | BFN [By UKRINFORM correspondent Viktor Chamara for TASS] [Text] Kiev April 11 TASS -- The results of the elections in Ukraine, whose second round was held in 350 constituencies last Sunday, remain to be specified. It is already clear, however, that the elections did take place, and as a result of them a new Ukrainian p... |
FBIS4-15697_2 | Novosibirsk Voter Turnout Detailed | the first place, 11 deputies from the former city soviet were vying for mandates at the same time: the largest number--three--in Kalininskiy Rayon, and not a single one in Pervomayskiy, Tsentralnyy, or Zheleznodorozhnyy. Only one of them was ultimately successful: Vasiliy Krivoshchekov was elected in Kalininskiy Rayon.... |
FBIS4-15741_0 | Economic Cooperation Treaty Signed | BFN [By ITAR-TASS special correspondents Lyudmila Aleksandrova, Nikita Yermakov, Yuriy Sizov, and Vladimir Shekhovtsov] [Text] Madrid, 12 Apr (ITAR-TASS) -- An agreement on economic and industrial cooperation was signed by Oleg Davydov, Russia's minister for foreign economic relations, and Javier Gomez-Navarro, ministe... |
FBIS4-15796_15 | Shevardnadze `Live Dialogue' Interview | of Eurasian states? [Shevardnadze] You know, I am aware of many initiatives by President Nazarbayev. I was in Kazakhstan and we held very interesting and substantive talks. This was several months ago, and Nursultan Abishevich never mentioned this idea in principle. I think that this is a very interesting idea which de... |
FBIS4-15878_2 | Grachev on Size, Role of Army; Fatalities | units are operationally efficient, in this call-up we need to recruit a minimum of 500,000 men, not taking other departments into account. We have come to the conclusion that this spring we can recruit not only for the Armed Forces but also for all other departments only 216,000 men. That's the second reason, and, natu... |
FBIS4-15878_5 | Grachev on Size, Role of Army; Fatalities | interrupts with some statistics on deaths in the Army: In 1994, about 2,500 people have died for various reasons. Grachev agrees, people are being killed. "The statistics are these -- first, your figures are insufficient. If you want to be objective, in 1993 1,349 people were killed or died. Fifty percent of those died... |
FBIS4-15944_0 | Approval of New Tax Reduction Program Unlikely | BFN [Natalya Varnavskaya, Valeriya Ochinyan report in the "New Tax System Debated" column: "Yekaterinburg Is For a New Reform"] [Text] Addressing a conference of heads of oblast and republic administrations in the Urals region on 9 April, Sergey Glazyev, chairman of the State Duma Economic Policy Committee, stated that... |
FBIS4-15958_1 | Minister on Oil Terminal, Energy Prices | is worth more than the total value of its equipment and other assets as it can generate profit. The sale price of analogous West European refineries with considerably more up-to-date equipment does not exceed $200-300 million, because there is a lack of demand. Therefore, statements that "Nafta" is a great asset that c... |
FBIS4-15968_0 | Duma Drafts Statement on Balkans Conflict | BFN [Text] If the State Duma does not support the draft statement on the latest events in former Yugoslavia, this document will be published on behalf of the factions of the Liberal-Democratic, Communist, Agrarian and Democratic parties, and possibly of the Party of Russian Unity and Concord and the New Regional Policy... |
FBIS4-15976_2 | Yaroslavl Oblast Assisting Defense Conversion | yet. And returns on investment have not always justified the expenditure. Thus, despite using a R238-million loan from the oblast budget and R235 million from its own resources, the "Mashpribor" Plant produced output worth just R197.4 million. The oblast conversion program has been under way for 6 months, and a number ... |
FBIS4-16009_0 | Official Condemnation of Bombing | BFN ["Text" of Armenian Government statement on 9 April] [Text] Azerbaijan's military aircraft infiltrated the airspace of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic [NKR] and bombed several residential areas, including Stepanakert, on 10 April. The bombed areas are far away from the front line. The densely populated market-place a... |
FBIS4-16033_0 | Political, Social Groups Protest Gorazde Bombings | BFN [Text] The central executive committee of the Russian Communist Party distributed a statement among the deputies of the State Duma Tuesday protesting against NATO's actions in Bosnia. "While diplomats of all interested sides are trying to find a way out of the Balkan crisis, NATO is openly interfering in the civil ... |
FBIS4-16169_7 | Churkin Discusses Ideas for Balkans Settlement | said to me that Germany wanted to see Croatia and Slovenia as independent states. They have their own historic ties. But it would be an exaggeration to say that Germany's position and the sentiments there were the prime cause of the breakup of Yugoslavia. The decision on recognition, even it was a mistake, as events su... |
FBIS4-16170_1 | Bosnian Bombing Seen as Snubbing Yeltsin, Russia | it were, the failure of the American operation in Somalia. Now he states: "We have risen to the occasion." A rather doubtful statement. Amazingly, Moscow had not been even informed in advance about the planned bombing. What can account for such an attitude of Clinton to President Yeltsin, who once already opened to the... |
FBIS4-16266_0 | Economic Development Course Examined | CSO [Dialogue between Sergey Volkov, editor of the analysis section of the newspaper ABV, and Mikhail Ustyugov, editor of the economics section of the newspaper EKSPRESS K: "It Seems the Asphalt Is Melting With the Last Snow. Whatever the Demand for Democracy-- Such Will Be the Supply"] [Text] [Volkov] Regardless of ho... |
FBIS4-16277_0 | Ukrainian, Slovak Border Authorities Agree on Cooperation | BFN [Text] Negotiations between the chief border representatives of Ukraine, Valeriy Hubenko, and the Slovak Republic, (Pavol Nyunyuk), ended in Kiev on 14 April. The results of the work done in 1993 to protect the state borders of the two states were summed up and a mechanism to organize interaction for their protecti... |
FBIS4-16298_0 | `People's Alliance' Council Members Outline Platform | BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Tamara Ivanova] [Text] Moscow, 14 Apr -- Sergey Glazyev, Andrey Golovin, Oleg Rumyantsev, Aleksandr Tsipko, Veniamin Sokolov and other politicians have announced the formation of a Russian movement, the People's Alliance [Narodnyy Alyans]. Members of the founding council have called upon... |
FBIS4-16348_5 | Election Runoff Results Published Results Analyzed | were the minister of forestry, the deputy minister of energy, the former deputy minister of finance, and the distinguished economist, Mykola Syvulskyy. In Rivne, the much anticipated victory did not materialize for Valeriy Korotkov, the very rich but not very well-disposed to Ukraine Russian businessman with a criminal... |
FBIS4-16349_0 | Election Runoff Results Published Opinion Poll on Repeat Elections | BFN [Volodymyr Skachko report: "Everything Will Have To Be Proved"] [Text] In accordance with the data of the sociological opinion poll involving 1,200 persons that was conducted on 29 March-7 April by the "Democratic Initiative" Center in various regions of Ukraine, just 10 percent of the respondents stated that they ... |
FBIS4-16409_0 | Paper Publishes Accord on Settling Abkhazia Conflict | BFN [Georgian-Abkhazian "Statement on Measures for a Political Settlement of the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict" signed in Moscow on 4 April in the presence on representatives from the UN, Russian Federation, and CSCE] [Text] 1. The third round of negotiations on a full-scale settlement of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict ... |
FBIS4-16429_1 | Further Reportage on CIS Leaders Summit 15 Apr Kazakh Premier Predicts Support for Union | adopted) are not carried out. If two, three or four states interested in a close cooperation join the Eurasian union, it will work," Suleymenov suggested. He said many people were worrying that establishment of over-national organizational structures might violate the sovereignty. "However, Kazakhstan is not afraid of ... |
FBIS4-16468_0 | Finance Minister Reports | BFN [Unattributed report: "Draft Budget Discussed"] [Text] Yesterday the State Duma session examined the draft federal Law "On the Federal Budget for 1994." Sergey Dubinin, acting Russian finance minister, and Mikhail Zadornov, chairman of the Duma Committee for the Budget, Taxes, Banks, and Finances, delivered reports... |
FBIS4-16582_16 | Birkavs Gives Speech on Security | state, our state, exists. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe is another element in the architecture of European security, in which professionals in diplomacy are actively working and which has already been involved in bringing order into Latvian-Russian relations. CSCE representatives will take part i... |
FBIS4-16622_0 | Family Health Protection Program To Be Implemented | BFN [Summary from poor reception] A three-day symposium entitled A Healthy Family Means a healthy Society, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development ended in Almaty. Over 150 medical professionals of Kazakhstan and heads of the family planning service participated in it. Delegation from Central Asian r... |
FBIS4-16633_1 | Kravchuk Interview on Economic Union, Issues | the future. IF Note: On 15 April after discussing the implementation of the treaty of the economic union the Moscow summit formed the commission of the union. An agreement on the gradual formation of a free trade zone was also signed. INTERFAX: Some politicians are disappointed with the low efficiency of the CIS and of... |
FBIS4-16643_0 | Accent Placed on Improving Conciliation Mechanisms | BFN [Vasiliy Kononenko report: "CIS: Politics Continues To Impede Integration"] [Text] The CIS is demanding fundamental reforms, since it has still not proved possible to lay down common "ground rules." But politics is impeding economics, and that is why the principle chosen has been that there should be no abrupt move... |
FBIS4-16653_0 | `Yabloko' Bloc Leader Yavlinskiy Interviewed | BFN [Interview with Grigoriy Yavlinskiy, leader of the "Yabloko" parliamentary faction, by Ilya Smirnov; date and place of interview not stated: "Grigoriy Yavlinskiy: Not Walking Backward"] [Text] State Duma Deputy Grigoriy Yavlinskiy, leader of the "Yabloko" parliamentary faction, advocates serious amendments to the r... |
FBIS4-16671_0 | Chernomyrdin Decree | BFN [Decree No. 318 of the Russian Federation Government signed by Russian Government Chairman V. Chernomyrdin and dated Moscow, 14 April 1994: "Questions of the Customs Tariff Regulation of Foreign Economic Relations"] [Text] The Government of the Russian Federation resolves: 1. In partial amendment of Russian Federat... |
FBIS4-16674_0 | Latsis: Economic Decline Has Bottomed Out | BFN [Otto Latsis report: "Russia's Economy on the Bottom. Is It Not Time To Climb Back?"] [Text] Up-to-date information has been received from the State Committee for Statistics on Russia's socioeconomic situation in the first quarter. It testifies not only to the continuation of known processes in the economy, but to ... |
FBIS4-16688_1 | Russia Reaping Fruits of Past Mistakes on Bosnia | any new NATO ultimatum to the Bosnian Serbs, and the session of the State Duma which condemned NATO's raids. What decisions were reached in Brussels against that backdrop? As for new ultimatums -- nothing was decided. None of the 16 member countries even raised that question either with regard to Gorazde or to other re... |
FBIS4-16734_0 | Deputy Minister on Tackling Social Crisis | BFN [Interview with Mirian Murdzhikneli, first deputy minister of finances, by Spartak Nikolaishvili; place and date not given: "In Pursuit of Prices"] [Text]Statistics inexorably show: Over 90 percent of the republic's population are living below the poverty line. As Head of State E. Shevardnadze has emphasized, a cat... |
FBIS4-16738_1 | `Passivity' of Population | the Politicians Are Active"] [Text] A Civic Accord Assembly will be convened in the Kremlin on 28 April for the signing of the Agreement on Civil Peace. The document will be open for amendments, comments, and suggestions until 20 April. Thus there is very little time left. However, no great activeness has been observed... |
FBIS4-16750_2 | Summit Makes Progress in Strengthening CIS | present a comprehensive program for a new alliance at the next summit meeting. However, the CIS' reserves of strength are not yet exhausted, as the Moscow meeting showed. Above all, a number of questions aimed at the practical realization of the treaty of economic union were examined. Ukraine acceded to it as an associ... |
FBIS4-16775_6 | Air Flight Structures in `Collapse' | have to pay the few people in this country who own this apparatus. And if flight simulators are thought of as an expensive piece of equipment even in the West, what hope do we poor sinners have! Having stopped financing companies altogether, the state seems to have forgotten that it is the guarantor of safety. Moreover... |
FBIS4-16775_10 | Air Flight Structures in `Collapse' | Malinovskiy says, crews are forced to cover for the moonlighting activities and unfinished work of other personnel by flying off with the problems and responsibilities of those remaining on the ground. Salary size is in direct proportion to the number of hours and kilometers flown. If a pilot decides not to take off be... |
FBIS4-16816_0 | Russia's Failure To Veto NATO Actions Criticized | BFN [Yevgeniy Popov article: "A `Blue Sword' for Harakiri?"] [Excerpts] [Passage omitted] The NATO air strikes on the Serbian positions near Gorazde created an entirely new situation in the Bosnian war. The United States and the other Western countries, using the mandate of the UN peacemaking forces, have effectively e... |
FBIS4-16833_0 | Albanian Envoy Seeks Settlement of Kosovo Issue | BFN [By ITAR-TASS diplomatic correspondent Valeriy Sevryukov] [Text] Moscow April 20 TASS -- Albania insists that a solution of the Kosovo question should become a component part of an all-round settlement of the Yugoslav crisis, Albanian Ambassador to Russia Arben Cici said in an exclusive interview with ITAR-TASS her... |
FBIS4-16842_0 | Russia's Choice Urges Antipoverty Laws | BFN [Lyubov Tsukanova report: "Poverty Is a Threat to Civil Peace"] [Text] This warning [reference to headline] has been issued in the State Duma by representatives of the "Russia's Choice" and "Yabloko" democratic factions who are members of the Committee on Labor and Social Support. In their opinion, poverty in our c... |
FBIS4-16865_0 | Foreign Ministry `Condemns' Serb Actions in Bosnia | BFN ["Immediate release" from the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tallinn on 19 April: "Statement in Connection With the Situation in Bosnia" -- received via Internet E-LIST] [Text] The Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Estonia expresses its concern in connection with the increased military activity in Bosnia... |
FBIS4-16948_0 | Government Promises Duma To Liberalize Trade | BFN [Dmitriy Kuznets report under the "Hearings" rubric: "Government Plans To Liberalize Foreign Trade Over Resistance of Deputies and Bureaucrats"] [Text] At the State Duma hearings on foreign economic policy yesterday officials from the Foreign Economic Relations Ministry [FERM], the government staff, the Finance Min... |
FBIS4-16951_4 | Findings of Upper Chamber Hearings | crime. It is necessary to learn lessons and draw conclusions from the shortcomings and mistakes in crime policy and lawmaking activity. The participants in the parliamentary hearings believe that the process of adopting laws suffers from serious drawbacks and is not in line with practical requirements. Draft laws are o... |
FBIS4-17013_0 | Decree Clarifies Edict on Taxation, Pay | BFN [Russian Federation Government Decree No. 336, signed by Premier Chernomyrdin and dated 15 April 1994: "On the Procedure for Determining in 1994 the Regulated Amount of Expenditure on the Remuneration of Workers at Enterprises and Organizations"] [Text] In execution of Paragraph 3 of Russian Federation Presidential... |
FBIS4-17103_0 | Collapse of `Strong-Arm Peacemaking' Seen in Bosnia | BFN [Reports by Aleksandr Stepanov in Berlin and Vladimir Peresada in Brussels under the "`New World Order' in Action" rubric: "Collapse of `Strong-Arm Peacemaking.' Will the United Nations and NATO Be Able To Draw the Proper Conclusions?"] [Text] Berlin, 19 April -- The latest bloody impasse into which the resolution ... |
FBIS4-17104_0 | Plan To Expand UN Peacekeeping Forces Noted | BFN [Sergey Ivanov report: "Somalia and Bosnia Not on Offer. United Nations Forms Additional Contingent of `Blue Helmets'"] [Text] An interesting progression. Whereas in 1987 peacekeeping operations were carried out by UN forces in five areas of the planet and the number of "Blue Helmets" was then 10,000 soldiers and o... |
FBIS4-17130_2 | First Round of Talks Ends | led by Otakhon Latifi, the chairman of the Coordinating Council of the Democratic Forces of Tajikistan in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Ambassador Ramiro Piriz-Ballon, the United Nations secretary general's special envoy was a mediator in the course of talks. The talks were held in a working, open, and mutual... |
FBIS4-17202_0 | Brzezinski's Criticism of U.S. Partnership Assailed | BFN [Article by Vyacheslav Yelagin, section head at the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Information and the Press, and Valentin Ovsyannikov, senior counselor: "Back to the Cold War. Former Presidential Security Adviser Z. Brzezinski Calls for This"] [Text] It was noted long ago that certain... |
FBIS4-17215_1 | Military Cooperation With Turkey Viewed | between the two countries' defense industries. Competent sources in the Russian Federation Defense Ministry say that the Turks are interested in gaining access to some modern Russian technology in the area of creating armored hardware, rotary-wing aircraft, and aviation. At the same time, Russia would like to borrow fr... |
FBIS4-17236_0 | U.S. To Provide Aid in Aral Sea Disaster Clear-Up | BFN [Text] [No dateline as received] -- On 20 April in Tashkent, the Government of Uzbekistan signed a memorandum with the U.S. Agency for International Development on the provision of help to the population of the Aral region. Khorezm Oblast and the Republic of Karakalpakstan will receive technical assistance, materia... |
FBIS4-17258_0 | Latvia Off U.S. Arms Export Ban List | BFN [Text] From 4 April this year, the U.S. State Department will remove Latvia from the list of countries to which it is forbidden to export arms. The Latvian Foreign Ministry reports that the United States has officially announced that Latvia, Albania, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Estonia, and Romania are no longer to be incl... |
FBIS4-17391_28 | `Full Text' of Tajik Draft Constitution | cannot engage in entrepreneurship. Article 89 Judges enjoy immunity. A judge may not be subjected to arrest and criminal proceedings without the permission of that authority which has elected him. A judge may not be arrested except while committing a crime. Article 90 Legal assistance is recognized in all stages of the... |
FBIS4-17409_0 | Plans To Build Strategic Port on Gulf of Finland | BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Nikolay Krupenik] [Text] St. Petersburg, 23 Apr -- The project to build a port in the Ust-Luga firth certainly is in line with Russia's national interests and fully meets the economic needs of the Russian Federation, said Yevgeniy Fedorov, chairman of the State Duma Security Committee, a... |
FBIS4-17430_1 | Emigration Becoming `National Disaster' | because the majority of them retain their residence permits, thus confusing the sociologists' and statisticians' charts. However, for a republic with a population of just 3 million, the departure of even 300,000 people is too much. And whereas people closed their eyes to this fact until recently, it is now causing seri... |
FBIS4-17535_0 | Mediator Says Georgia, Abkhazia Moving Apart | BFN [Text] During their talks in Geneva, the Georgian and Abkhaz delegations "adopted mutually exclusive positions, backing farther away from the commitments they signed in the political declaration of 4 April." Feliks Kovalev, the roving ambassador who is heading the Russian delegation, said this in an interview with ... |
FBIS4-17663_2 | Parliament Speaker Views Elections, Crimea | of the "radical right" will remain. It is a normal phenomenon. Nor do I see a tragedy in the fact that many well-known people's deputies failed to gain a victory at these elections. Objectively, people are looking forward to changes and are associating these changes, at the new stage, with new democratic forces. Those ... |
FBIS4-17683_0 | Chernomyrdin on Social Policy, Employment | BFN [Unattributed report: "Viktor Chernomyrdin: `Taxes Should Not Be Detrimental to the Citizens.' Government Approves Basic Spheres of Social Policy for 1994"] [Text] The Russian Government has determined "the stabilization of the living standard of Russian Federation citizens, with its subsequent rise as the economy ... |
FBIS4-17722_0 | People Arrested for Handing Out `Antigovernment' Leaflets | BFN [Report by ITAR-TASS correspondent Galina Gridneva] [Text] Dushanbe, 28 Apr -- The Tajik Special Services arrested several people in Dushanbe on Wednesday [27 April] for disseminating antigovernment leaflets calling for the armed overthrow of the Republic's present regime. Those arrested were caught red-handed with... |
FBIS4-17842_0 | Columnist Views Relations With U.S. | BFN [Report by UNIAN correspondent Volodymyr Teteruk: "Ukrainian Army Is More Reliable Than Its Economy"] [Text] After the signing of the trilateral declaration by the Russian, U.S., and Ukrainian presidents in Moscow in January 1994, the foreign policy gap between Washington and Kiev has been lessened primarily due to... |
FBIS4-17927_1 | Hopeful on Cooperation With West | process quickly enough," Russian Foreign Minister Andrey Kozyrev commented on the results of his working meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, which took place on 26 April in Geneva. The partnership is working, he told Russian journalists. Our Western colleagues are paying attention -- though, perhap... |
FBIS4-17940_0 | Higher Tariffs Economically Motivated | BFN [Text] Moscow, Apr 28, BNS -- Russia was not guided by political motivation, but proceeded exclusively from economical reasoning when introducing the new import tariffs, to become effective from July 1, Russian Agriculture Minister Victor Khlystun told his Estonian counterpart at a meeting in Moscow. Khlystun said ... |
FBIS4-18004_6 | Envoy Views Relations With Austria, Russia | power plants, including the damaged Chernobyl one. Therefore, it is an issue of national security to receive information from the IAEA, and to ensure safe operation of our 15 power units. We must establish a national system of inventorying nuclear materials with the help and cooperation of the IAEA. A civilized state s... |
FBIS4-18011_5 | Crimea's New Finance Minister Interviewed | not have the power to issue its own currency. A deficit-free budget must not be a dogma. Inflation will be pumped across to us from the mainland -- from Ukraine, from Russia. Imagine a tiny ship in a stormy sea. How can the ship's helmsman influence the elements, does the strength of the wind or the height of the waves... |
FBIS4-18070_0 | FRG Observers `Maltreated' in Turkey | BFN [Text] Bonn -- German observers staying in Turkey during the Nevruz Kurdish new year celebrations were severely maltreated by Turkish security forces. Several spokespersons of human rights groups and pro-Kurdish organizations said in Bonn on Wednesday [30 March] that Germans attending the Nevruz celebrations and mu... |
FBIS4-18071_0 | SPD Advocates Sending UN Observers to Turkey | BFN [Text] Bonn -- The Social Democratic Party of Germany [SPD] has called for sending civilian United Nations observers to the Kurdish areas in Turkey. This would help to protect the lives of threatened people more efficiently, Deputy Chairperson Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul told journalists in Bonn on Wednesday [30 Marc... |
FBIS4-18073_0 | Interior Ministry Denies Report on Kurds Deportation | BFN [Excerpts] Bonn (DPA) -- In addition to the Alliance 90/Greens and the refugee relief organization Pro Asylum, the Hesse Office for the Protection of the Constitution has also warned against deporting Kurds to Turkey. [passage omitted] Greens politicians Angelika Beer and Claudia Roth said that a possible agreement... |
FBIS4-18074_0 | Parties Debate Using Bundeswehr for Internal Security | BFN [Text] Bonn -- The Social Democratic Party of Germany [SPD] and the Free Democratic Party of Germany [FDP] have again rejected a proposal made by the Christian Democratic Union [CDU] to use Bundeswehr troops in the event of threats to German internal security. Juergen Ruettgers, CDU/Christian Social Union [CSU] Bun... |
FBIS4-18091_1 | ENEL Chairman Dismissed for Kickback Allegations | organised crime gangs is heavy. Other top ENEL executives were also detained in connection with kickbacks allegedly paid for contracts at the still unfinished plant. Charges levelled against some of their co-defendants include Mafia association and ties because most of the contracts were handed out to alleged Mafia com... |
FBIS4-18104_0 | Major: Cease-fire Designed to Deceive `Gullible' | BFN [By Chris Moncrieff and Ian Graham, PRESS ASSOCIATION] [Text] The Prime Minister today accused the IRA of using its "self-serving and cynical" three-day ceasefire to deceive the gullible into believing it was a road to peace. Mr Major, on a lightning tour of Northern Ireland, said: "The fact is the gullible ought n... |
FBIS4-18108_2 | PRC's Yang Xiao Rejects Human Rights Criticism | situation in China." It is true that there are signs that the independence of the courts is being enhanced and law enforcement functions exercised by bodies not connected with the courts are being reduced. However, reports provide grounds for concern. People accused must have the opportunity to defend themselves. Inter... |
FBIS4-18110_0 | Activists Claim Bonn Backs Turkey Against Kurds | BFN ["rex"-signed report: "Bonn Supports War Against Kurds"] [Excerpt] Bonn -- With weapons deliveries, Chancellor Helmut Kohl is supporting the terrorism of the Turkish Army against the Kurds. This accusation was leveled by Tilman Zuelch, president of the Association for Threatened Peoples. Between 1985 and 1991 alone... |
FBIS4-18111_0 | Deportations to Special Jails Suggested | BFN [Report by Ferdos Forudastan: "Special Prison for Kurds?"] [Text] Bonn, 29 Mar -- Interior Minister Manfred Kanther (Christian Democratic Union) seems to be considering concluding an agreement with Turkey under which deported Kurds would be detained in special prisons to which human rights organizations would have ... |
FBIS4-18112_0 | Current Policy Opposed | BFN ["pra"-signed report: "Stammheim at the Bosporus?"] [Text] The political reaction to the Kurdish protest has lost all perspective. The Kurds are accused of breaking the law. The deportation at any cost, which is propagated by the FRG interior minister, is nothing else -- namely the announcement that international a... |
FBIS4-18115_10 | Aviation Official Discusses Eurofighter | national weapons industry, and that we urgently need the technological potentials of the aviation and aerospace industry. [Schmalz] If a teacher called you, asking you for advice on how he can convince his students, what would you tell him? [Piller] I would advise him to take his students on a mental journey and to ask... |
FBIS4-18118_1 | Brandenburg Reports on Right-Wing Extremism | extremism. Despite the fact that the wave of violence in Brandenburg, which reached its climax at the end of 1992, has abated, right-wing extremism remains a central challenge to state and society. This was stressed by Interior Minister Alwin Ziel (Social Democratic Party of Germany) on the occasion of presenting the 1... |
FBIS4-18120_1 | Thuringia's Economic, Political Situation Viewed | years. [FOCUS] The 1989-90 vision spoke of "flourishing landscapes"; the reality are prefabs, industrial ruins, and old ecological burdens. When will the landscapes finally start to flourish? [Vogel] I will not give you any specific date, but things are flourishing, as one can see, and they are flourishing more in the ... |
FBIS4-18121_0 | Article Views Differing Tax Proposals in SPD | BFN ["hal" signed report: "Discussion About Tax Plans Within SPD"] [Text] Bonn, 27 Mar -- Views within the Social Democratic Party of Germany [SPD] on the party's tax policy in the event that the SPD wins the upcoming Bundestag elections continue to differ. Whereas Rudolf Scharping, SPD Chairman and chancellor candidat... |
FBIS4-18150_2 | Ciller Views Relations With Bulgaria, PKK | has wholeheartedly supported a foreign policy based on the principles of common sense. In accordance with such principles, we are willing to establish good neighborly and friendly relations with all countries, to develop relations and cooperation in all spheres in the peoples' interests, to respect mutual independence,... |
FBIS4-18153_1 | Golhan on Success in Fight Against PKK | conference Golhan discussed the reports of an extension of military service that had appeared on television and in newspapers. Golhan said, "There was a potential threat that led to the decision to extend military service by four months for those soldiers who were supposed to be discharged in February and May. Apart fr... |
FBIS4-18154_1 | Greek `Financial Aid' for PKK Detailed | that Hasan Dag, head of ERNK [Kurdish People's Liberation Front], which is the PKK's political wing, and Retired Admiral Andonios Naksakis, who facilitates PKK's activities in Greece, appealed to the Governor's Office in Athens to approve the establishment of the society. It has been reported that the society will be b... |
FBIS4-18165_2 | Balladur, Bildt Exchanges on Possible Missile Deal | needs and the merits of the various missiles. In the formal letter Carl Bildt leaves no room for a generous interpretation of France's advantage. Competition for the missile deal is tough. Some time ago the U.S. Pentagon announced that the FMV had asked to buy 500 Amraam missiles valued at 3.7 billion kronor. The FMV s... |
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