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FBIS4-29848_0 | Ministry: DPRK `Ill-Prepared' for `Total War' | BFN [By Reporter Yi Sang-ki] [Text] As North Korea's nuclear issue has been entering a stage of tension, people's anxiety about a war has been increasing. Indeed, how much possibility is there for a war to break out on the Korean peninsula? Generally speaking, it may be senseless to try to reach a "clear-cut" conclusio... |
FBIS4-29856_0 | Police Arrest Students for Train Stoppage | BFN [Text] Seoul, June 21 (YONHAP) -- Students belonging to Namchongnyon (The Federation of Student Councils in Kwangju and South Cholla Province) arrested in connection with violent demonstrations in Kwangju and Seoul over the weekend, including the forced stoppage of a Seoul-bound train near Kwangju, increased to 109... |
FBIS4-29977_0 | Trade Ministry Reports Economic Situation | BFN [Summary] The Trade Ministry has reported that Singapore is currently Cambodia's most important trade partner. Up to 40 percent of all imported goods on sale in Cambodian markets are from Singapore, which also tops the list of countries bringing in major goods such as oil worth around 350 millions dollars [currency... |
FBIS4-29990_0 | Country Said Now Third Largest Coal Exporter | BFN [Text] Ambyo Mangunwijaya, president director of the state-run Bukit Asam Coal Mining Company, said Indonesia, with coal export figures of 20 million tons in 1993, has become the world's third largest coal exporter. He said that the constant boosting of production would also increase Indonesia's coal exports, which... |
FBIS4-30011_0 | Government Urged To Take Actions on Dollar Decline | BFN [Editorial: "Go For Policy Coordination Without Panicking Over '99 Yen' per Dollar; from NIHON KEIZAI SHIMBUN 23 Jun Morning Edition] [Text] The yen's value against the dollar has reached the double-digit level for the first time in history. In the New York currency market on 21 June, the yen, for a while, was post... |
FBIS4-30012_1 | G-7 Summit's `Central Issues' Discussed | to be the central issues at the summit because of worsening unemployment. In particular, the United States and other nations are expected to strongly urge Japan to continue its tax cuts and to increase public investment substantially in order to expand domestic demand through fiscal measures. One of the focal points of... |
FBIS4-30013_0 | Plan for 10-Nation SAC Begins To Take Shape | BFN [By Kenichiro Hirano] [Text] Manila, 19 Jun -- A plan for a "Southeast Asian Community" [SAC] consisting of 10 nations -- the six ASEAN member states plus Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Burma -- is beginning to take shape. According to a copy of the written agreement of these 10 Southeast Asian countries on an unoffic... |
FBIS4-30016_0 | Article Views Effects of Stronger Yen | BFN [Article by Chirawat Na Thalang and Nopphakhun Limsamanphun: "Strong Yen Muscles Firms Out of Japan"] [Text] Since the yen soared to nearly Y100 to US$1 last August, the pace of Japanese relocation has gained momentum. In the past few months, Japanese companies have announced plans to move capacity out of their hom... |
FBIS4-30017_2 | Spokesman: Stronger Yen Benefits Economy | lower-cost crude oil. Local refining capacity increases have also lessened the impact, said Mr Phisit. On the trade picture, Mr Phisit said in the long run, a strong yen could force Thai importers to turn to other countries, while exports to Japan could benefit. Since Thailand is currently a net importer from Japan, ho... |
FBIS4-30020_0 | Deputy Minister Previews ASEAN Forum | BFN [Text] As the chairman of the ASEAN Standing Committee in 1994, Thailand will organize a forum dealing with security in Asia, or the ASEAN Regional Forum -- ARF, on 25 July. Deputy Foreign Minister Surin Phitsuwan talked to a VOFA [Voice of Free Asia] correspondent about the ARF. [Begin recording] [Surin] July the ... |
FBIS4-30053_0 | Students Stage `Violent' Demonstration | BFN [Text] Kwangju, June 22 (YONHAP) -- About 1,000 students of the Namchongnyon organization violently demonstrated Wednesday afternoon here in Kwangju demanding the stoppage of what they called "Namchongnyon suppression" and the release of arrested students. The demonstration lasted about one and half an hours beginn... |
FBIS4-30110_0 | Finance Minister Views Dollar Drop | BFN [Excerpt] Thai finance officials have been instructed to put the U.S. dollar on the priority watch list after falling against the yen over the past two days, hitting at one time the post-World War 11 record low of Y99.85 on the New York market. Finance Minister Tharin Nimmanhemin said, "The U.S. dollar has just sta... |
FBIS4-30111_0 | War Veterans Delegation Visits U.S., France | BFN [Text] Hanoi VNA June 18 -- A delegation of the Vietnam War Veterans's Association led by Sr. Lt. Gen. Tran Van Quang president of the association, paid a working visit to the United States and France from mid-May to early June. The visit came at the invitation of the president of the International Committee for Fu... |
FBIS4-30115_0 | Paper on Reasons for Withdrawal From IAEA | BFN ["Who Can Trust IAEA?" -- KCNA headline] [Text] Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- The withdrawal of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is entirely attributable to the unfair and insolent acts of the IAEA Secretariat, declares NODONG SINMUN in an article today. It... |
FBIS4-30124_0 | Industry Minister Departs for Burma | BFN [Text] Kuala Lumpur, June 23 (OANA/BERNAMA) -- Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Dr. Lim Keng Yaik left for a six-day visit to Myanmar [Burma] Thursday at the head of an official delegation to enhance bilateral trade relations between the two countries. Priority areas for discussions during the visit would be p... |
FBIS4-30132_1 | * Fragility of Political Party System Discussed | be present for party politics to function well, notwithstanding the contents of the electoral system. Conversely, even if changes are seen just by introduction of the system, the development of stable party politics should not be expected when the proper base for that is meager. That is to say, the more we are a nation... |
FBIS4-30143_3 | Summary of BOJ White Paper on Finance | adjustment process on three fronts to include a) cyclical stock adjustment; b) balance sheet adjustments required as a result of the collapse of the bubble, and c) pressure to adjust the industrial structure based on changes in international competitiveness emanating from a strong yen throughout 1993. 7. Fluctuations i... |
FBIS4-30197_0 | Long Life Attributed to Health Care System | BFN [Text] Pyongyang, June 23 (KCNA) -- Recently, Yun Chin-ok in Songnam-tong, Kim Chaek City, North Hamgyong Province in the northern area of Korea, received a 100th birthday table from the dear leader Comrade Kim Chong-il. Such a great honor was also granted some time ago to Mrs. Om in Okchon-ri, Kim Chaek City, Kim ... |
FBIS4-30199_1 | Editorial Stresses ARF's Stability Role | But as Apec [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] makes it clear, America's centre of economic gravity has shifted from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. A testimony to the changing times is the constitution of the ARF's membership which is drawn from both sides of the Cold War divide -- the six Asean countries, the Uni... |
FBIS4-30199_2 | Editorial Stresses ARF's Stability Role | needs to be found to allow Vietnam and China to cool down the temperature in the Spratlys -- which can then become congenial to confidence-building measures among all claimant countries. Also, the dispute between Malaysia and the Philippines over Sabah is the most salient and serious intra-Asean territorial dispute. Th... |
FBIS4-30209_1 | Commentary Reviews Relations With Japan | the pasts years, relations between Vietnam and Japan have developed rapidly. The turning point of the development was the visit to Japan by Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet in March 1993. During this visit, the Japanese Government welcomed and highly valued Vietnam's policy for renovation. After the resumption of Japan's ODA... |
FBIS4-30232_0 | Government Rejects Excess Plutonium Possession | BFN [Text] Tokyo, June 24 a government panel on Friday [24 June] approved a long-term plutonium use program that rules out the manufacturing and possession of plutonium in a greater amount than needed for its nuclear power generation, officials said. The peaceful plutonium use program received approval by the Atomic En... |
FBIS4-30245_2 | * Prospects, Methods for ROK-Russian S&T Cooperation | companies making products (for example, medical instruments, communications instruments, and measuring instruments) other than memory chips and similar mass-produced items could select Russian organizations as good partners for the dedicated-IC design and manufacture of electronic-circuit portions of related products. ... |
FBIS4-30245_4 | * Prospects, Methods for ROK-Russian S&T Cooperation | the form of a joint venture. Russia is producing TDX (time division exchanges) and other telephone-switching instruments, but its performance is very backward compared to our ROK technology. Therefore, cooperation is possible on the sale or on-site production of ROK products. In the case of cellular-phone, satellite-co... |
FBIS4-30267_0 | Suharto Assails Nations' Economic Policies | BFN [Text] President Suharto says Indonesia must work hard during the upcoming APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] meeting to ensure that the future policies of developed nations will no longer harm the interests of Indonesia and other developing nations. The head of state said this when he received delegates atte... |
FBIS4-30270_0 | Protests Against Publications Ban Reported `Violently' Broken Up | BFN [Excerpts] Jakarta, June 27 (AFP) -- Baton-wielding police and soldiers violently broke up a demonstration Monday involving some 300 demonstrators protesting the Indonesian Government's suspension of three popular weekly newspapers. At least 10 people were arrested and at least several were injured and bleeding aft... |
FBIS4-30273_0 | Finance Minister Comments on Weak Dollar | BFN [Text] Finance Minister Tharin Nimmanhemin said the current fluctuation of major currencies should be temporary and that the situation would stabilize soon. In an interview with reporters at Government House this morning, the finance minister said the current appreciation of the baht is both good and bad for Thai e... |
FBIS4-30274_0 | Paper Calls for Stability of Baht | BFN [Editorial: "Take Care of Baht Value"] [Text] As the whole world is mesmerized by the ongoing world soccer tournament, a monetary crisis has suddenly broken out. The world's major currency, the U.S. dollar, has plunged in value while Japanese yen has skyrocketted. On Wednesday, one dollar fetched only 99.85 yen, th... |
FBIS4-30276_0 | Agreement Reached on Setting Up Forex Forum | BFN [Text] Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have agreed to set up Foreign Exchange (Forex) Southeast Asia Forum, to jointly develop new financial knowledge and technology. The four countries will sign a memorandum of understanding and a document of establishment tomorrow in Bangkok. Executive Vice President... |
FBIS4-30374_1 | Than Shwe Receives Malaysian Ministers | was John Tenewi Nuek, Malaysian ambassador, at the meeting. Accompanied by Malaysian Ambassador by John Tenewi Nuek, Datuk Sri Dr. Lim Keng Yaik, primary industries minister of Malaysia, and his entourage called on Lt. Gen. Chit Swe, minister of forestry affairs, at the International Business Center at 1400 today. They... |
FBIS4-30375_0 | Commentary: US Role in Asia-Pacific Security | BFN [Station commentary] [Text] The end of the Cold War has provided Asia-Pacific countries with a golden opportunity to determine the future of the region themselves. It has also presented a scenario whereby they no longer need to be new pawns of the great power's chess board. Even this, there is no need then for the ... |
FBIS4-30375_1 | Commentary: US Role in Asia-Pacific Security | transfer. It could also include defense information and access to state-of-the-art training. This, for instance, could help Malaysia in its effort to modernize its defense capabilities. The U.S. currently does not have a permanent military base in Southeast Asia. Some argue that with its drawdown of the U.S. forces and... |
FBIS4-30376_0 | Trade With Singapore Records Annual Growth | BFN [Text] A Press conference on Myanmar [Burma] International Exposition '94 jointly sponsored by the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development, Ministry of Hotels and Tourism, Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd and Applied Investment (Asia) Pte Ltd of Singapore was held at the Tatmadaw [Defense Servi... |
FBIS4-30386_0 | Minister Views GTs in Non-ASEAN Nations | BFN [Text] Kuala Lumpur, June 27 (OANA/BERNAMA) -- Non-ASEAN Southeast Asia can also spawn viable and active growth triangles (GTs) to the same level of success as those in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, says Deputy Finance Minister Mustapa Mohamed. He said that although the idea of GTs, aimed at accelerat... |
FBIS4-30407_8 | * Masaharu Gotoda on Political Issues, Realignment | that money moves politics. As anticorruption measures that would lessen any further public distrust in politics, we need to strengthen the regulation holding a candidate jointly responsible for election fraud and to expedite trials for election law violations. A trial in Japan takes too long. I don't understand why no ... |
FBIS4-30408_1 | Government, BOJ To Counter Yen's Appreciation | dollar at the Tokyo foreign exchange market. The government and the BOJ are worried the rapid rise in the yen's value may reduce profits from export-oriented industries and have negative impacts on the domestic economy, which is beginning to recover. While there is a rumor the United States may increase its interest ra... |
FBIS4-30410_0 | Editorial Comments on Yen Appreciation | BFN [Editorial: "Strong Yen Is Distorted Reflection of the Economy"] [Text] The dollar temporarily dropped to 99-yen [Y] in European and U.S. markets and the "era of one dollar equals to less than Y100" has arrived. Although the dollar dropped to the Y100 level last August, significance of breaking the psychological ba... |
FBIS4-30416_0 | Japanese S&T Developments Reported | CSO The following news items were taken from the Tokyo Digitized Information Database, which translates and summarizes in English Japanese press reports related to Japan's scientific/technical industries. This material will also be carried in the FBIS publication JAPAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. NEC has developed a dry etch... |
FBIS4-30422_2 | Daily Interviews Foreign Minister on Summit | sincerity of North Korea's will to implement what it pledged is more important. Thus, the government will watch how the situation develops with keen interest and make efforts to solve the North Korean nuclear problem. [Hwang] What is your assessment of the reasons behind North Korea's prompt acceptance of the proposal ... |
FBIS4-30434_0 | North Korea as Seen From Dandong, China | CSO [Article in five installments by reporter Im Chae-chong: "A Yalu River Spring: North Korean Change Seen from Dandong, China"] [8 May 94 pp 1-2] [Text] [Boxed item: If one goes to Dandong, China, Sinuiju looks close. The railway bridge linking Dandong and Sinuiju is shorter than the Han River Bridge. However, it can... |
FBIS4-30441_0 | Commentary Claims Foreign Press Sowing Dissent | BFN [Unattributed commentary: "Buck-Toothed"] [Text] No buck-toothed guys have charged Cambodian papers printed in the West of violating the press law. Not just those printed in the West, even the Thai newspapers have spread so much divisive news to sow dissension among Cambodians without even an iota of truth. For exa... |
FBIS4-30450_0 | ASEAN Working Group Stresses Foreign Investment | BFN [Passages within slantlines published in English] [Text] Nusa Dua, Bali, REPUBLIKA -- ASEAN members undeniably need foreign funds, but they are by no means competing neck-to-neck to attract foreign investors. "ASEAN members will not compete with one another to attract foreign investors, but will instead cooperate i... |
FBIS4-30453_0 | Malaysian Delegation Calls on Mines Minister | BFN [Text] Visiting Malaysian Primary Industries Minister Datuk Sri Dr. Lim Keng Yaik and delegation called on Lieutenant General Kyaw Min, member of the State Law and Order Restoration Council [SLORC] and minister of mines, at the latter's office at 1400 this afternoon. At the meeting, the visiting Malaysian minister ... |
FBIS4-30487_2 | Experts Discuss Major Economic Policy Issues More Social Welfare | 500,000. [ASAHI SHIMBUN] However, wouldn't that mean a huge fiscal burden? [Masamura] Using the 500,000 figure, assuming personnel costs of 10 million yen per home helper per year, the total cost would come to 1 percent of GNP. The question is whether that figure is high. Shortchanging a program and making its outlook ... |
FBIS4-30487_3 | Experts Discuss Major Economic Policy Issues More Social Welfare | will rise as a percentage of personal income? [Masamura] The Provisional Council for the Promotion of Administrative Reform and Provisional Administrative Research Council have consistently stressed that the government will take action to ensure that the public's burden will not rise above 50 percent (compared to an es... |
FBIS4-30488_1 | Experts Discuss Major Economic Policy Issues Tax System for Local Autonomy | [Miyajima] As suggested in the 21st century welfare vision program, a senior citizen society will mean an inevitable rise in the public burden whether it be taxes or social security premiums. However, the current tax system is designed to impose the burden on members of the active work force. A major issue consists of ... |
FBIS4-30496_2 | Finance Minister Views Effect of Dollar Drop | The dollar's dive began last Tuesday and it dipped below 100 yen for the first time since the end of World War Two. The depreciation of the dollar against the yen stemmed from a failure by the U.S. and Japan to resolve trade deficits in February and the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata on Saturday. T... |
FBIS4-30510_0 | Talks With Counterpart | BFN [Text] Hanoi VNA June 27 -- Foreign Minister Nguyen Manh Cam held talks here this morning with Lao Foreign Minister Somsavat Lengsavat who is now on a working visit to Vietnam. Among those present at the talks were Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Khoan and many senior officials of the Foreign Ministries of Vietnam and L... |
FBIS4-30582_0 | Thai Prime Minister Addresses Businessmen | BFN [Report from Seoul by Correspondent of the Public Relations Department Somphon Kitphonprasoet] [Text] Today Prime Minister Chuan Likphai attended a luncheon hosted by four Korean associations at the (Tibra) Hotel. The prime minister delivered a speech, during which he noted to Korean businessmen that relations betw... |
FBIS4-30629_1 | Importance of Lobbying in U.S. Talks Viewed | by the methods employed in the Bali talks. In fact, everyone anticipated that the talks would end in failure. Some Indonesian textile producers stated to the press last month that they expected the textile talks to fail after noting their previous lobbying efforts in Washington. Further talks will collapse if Indonesia... |
FBIS4-30629_4 | Importance of Lobbying in U.S. Talks Viewed | was a bit too late. That was the reason the USTR delegation had to follow certain "trends" laid down by Washington during the Bali talks. Lobbying was previously conducted to ascertain how seriously Indonesia's request for an increased quota would be taken by the United States and its demand for concessions for its pro... |
FBIS4-30635_0 | Suharto's | Son Heads Business Concern With Burma BK2706034094 Jakarta KOMPAS in Indonesian 16 Jun 94 p 2 BK2706034094 Jakarta KOMPAS Indonesian BFN [Excerpt] Jakarta, KOMPAS -- There are numerous opportunities for Indonesian businessmen in Myanmar [Burma] in several sectors, particularly in the investment and services sectors. In... |
FBIS4-30636_0 | Philippine Official on Regional `Think Tank' | BFN [Text] The Philippines and other Southeast Asian [SEA] countries have initiated efforts to create a powerful "think tank" in the Asia-Pacific region, National Security adviser Jose Almonte said last weekend . Almonte said a "building block" composed of government and private individuals from ASEAN and four Indo-Chi... |
FBIS4-30637_0 | Pact Signed on Tackling Regional Health Problems | BFN [Text] The health ministers of Cambodia Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand yesterday signed a joint statement to better tackle regional health problems. The statement, issued on the last day of a two-day ministerial meeting in Phatthaya on Regional Cooperation in Health Development, ignores political boundaries. It would ... |
FBIS4-30651_0 | Demonstrators To Appear in Court | BFN [Text] Jakarta, June 28 (AFP) -- Up to 21 people arrested Monday during demonstrations protesting a government ban on three weekly publications were to appear in Central Jakarta district court Tuesday. There will be three separate hearings for the demonstrators, who include prominent poet Rendra, said court officia... |
FBIS4-30663_0 | Ramos Inaugurates Zambales Thermal Power Plant | BFN [Text] Another power project will be constructed in the Philippines. President Ramos, on Monday, led the groundbreaking rites for the Masinloc coal-fired thermal power plant in Zambales in northern Luzon. The $525.6 million project will add 600 megawatts of electricity to the Luzon grid by 1998. In his speech, the ... |
FBIS4-30668_2 | * Central Bank Chief, Others on Money-Laundering Specialist Sees Problems | The foreign currency that flowed into the country will go to other countries that do not have such a law. This will put our domestic economy at a disadvantage as compared with that of neighboring countries. Some groups hold differing views. Some think that this will infringe on people's personal rights. Others think th... |
FBIS4-30683_0 | Orientation of U.S. Asian Policy Discussed | BFN [Article by a "Japan-U.S. relations reporting team"; seventh and last in series entitled "Japan and the United States -- The Picture Shakes": "The Swift Current Is Carrying the Economic Superpower Off its Footing"] [Text] The book entitled "Global Engagement -- Cooperation and Global Security in the 21st Century," ... |
FBIS4-30683_2 | Orientation of U.S. Asian Policy Discussed | shifting of nations." The remarkable advance being made by U.S. firms in China and other Asian nations is a good example. A New World Called China General Electric Co., which is said to be the bellwether of U.S. business management, was the first to go into action. In the autumn of 1992, General Electric established it... |
FBIS4-30683_4 | Orientation of U.S. Asian Policy Discussed | different systems?" According to Ito, "Chinese people were eager to follow the example of Japan, as they are also an Asian people." Japan Is Left Out in the Cold However, what Ito said is now a thing of the past. The fact is that China seems to have chosen the United States as its model. In 1993, Merrill Lynch & Compan... |
FBIS4-30684_4 | Kakizawa on DPRK, UN Security Council Bid | That would surprise me. If it becomes a permanent member, Japan is prepared to assume a higher financial burden. Also, precisely because of the pacifist commitments in the Constitution, Japan may seek to influence the UN role more clearly toward preventive diplomacy. As was the case in Cambodia. Finally, Japan will be ... |
FBIS4-30686_2 | Exchange Rate Policy To Occupy Naples Summit | percent. Interest rate differentials between the two nations, which stood at about 1 percent in the spring, have shrunk to about 0.2 percent. Such trends have recently encouraged money that was concentrated in dollar-denominated assets to shift to European investments such as mark-denominated assets, causing the recent... |
FBIS4-30691_0 | MITI To Introduce New Regulation for Exports | BFN [Text] The Ministry of International Trade and Industry [MITI] plans to introduce a new export regulation system for about 100 general-purpose items, including machinery and materials, by the end of this year in an effort to prevent proliferation of mass-destruction weapons such as nuclear arms. Under the system, c... |
FBIS4-30702_3 | Paper: DPRK Issue Revives Cold War Alliances | than (for example) Syria which is presently courted by Washington as an associate in the Middle East peace process. With these considerations in mind, it is unlikely that China would cooperate in levying sanctions. Without active Chinese support sanctions would not work, as more than half of North Korea's trade is with... |
FBIS4-30709_1 | `Special' Trade Consideration for U.S. Rejected | Omnibus Trade Law's Super 301 clause (the so-called telecommunications clause). And in the end, on 12 March, like Pavlov's dog, Japan swallowed U.S. demands, bringing a "resolution" to the problem. In this course of events, however, there are some important matters that are being half forgotten. First, Japanese bureauc... |
FBIS4-30710_2 | Article Links U.S. Economic Problems, Cold War | rates and achieving a high economic growth rate" is not functioning properly. The market has come to recognize these ills of the U.S. economy, and this was precisely the reason for the gloom of the MIT school people. How seriously does the Clinton administration regard these ills? There is good material that is said to... |
FBIS4-30710_4 | Article Links U.S. Economic Problems, Cold War | situation, the East-West Cold War at the time did not allow the United States to retreat toward giving priority to the economy. -- What should have happened was for the United States to switch its policy toward giving priority to the economy in the Reagan era of the 1980s. But President Reagan chose the line of expandi... |
FBIS4-30712_0 | Minister Views New U.S. Defense Partnership | BFN [Text] Washington, June 29 (OANA/BERNAMA) -- The United States looks favourably at the prospect of forging a new defence partnership with Malaysia based on access to sophisticated technology, technology transfer, exchange of information and joint military exercises rather than maintaining its physical presence in t... |
FBIS4-30721_0 | Libyan Official on Efforts To Lift Sanctions | BFN [Text] Kuala Lumpur, June 29 (OANA-BERNAMA) -- Libya welcomes any effort by any country or grouping, like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), to arrange negotiations aimed at getting the United Nations Security Council to lift sanctions against the country. The secretary for foreign affairs in the L... |
FBIS4-30726_1 | National Bank Reports on Economic Situation | example some observers suggest that Thai textile firms might set up manufacturing operations here. Currently, cloth and textiles amount to 16.3 per cent of total imports, thus adding to the burden of the trade deficit, which has to be improved, as increased exports of goods are a valuable source of much needed hard cur... |
FBIS4-30758_9 | Minister Dlouhy Considers Impact of GATT | the OECD member countries, which are the traditional target of Czech exports, the protection will be reduced most significantly by metals (62 percent), products made of wood and paper (57 percent), machines and equipment (approximately 50 percent), and by chemical products (43 percent). A lower than average reduction o... |
FBIS4-30775_0 | Integration, NATO Membership Policy Goals | BFN [Text] Integration into West European and trans-Atlantic structures, and the creation of conditions for full membership of Slovakia in NATO are the fundamental goals of our foreign policy, as formulated in the presentation document submitted by the Slovak delegation at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on 25 May. A... |
FBIS4-30821_1 | Effects of Sanctions Examined | "We cannot be under blockade. Perhaps in a thousand years (the embargo could have some effect). But a few years? That is nothing." -- Slobodan Milosevic, president of Serbia "1.2 million children are starving in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia." -- Vlada Curguz, chairman of the Commission for Cooperation with UNICEF... |
FBIS4-30825_1 | Zantovsky Interviewed on U.S. Economic Ties | and economically very promising partner. The United States is still interested in our market, access to our market, and investments. A mission from the government agency for foreign private investments, OPIC, will arrive in Prague in June, bringing with it several dozen interested American entrepreneurs. We only have t... |
FBIS4-30825_2 | Zantovsky Interviewed on U.S. Economic Ties | documents are being handed over. These documents will determine the specific modalities of the participation of individual countries. It is important that we have succeeded, for the time being, in preserving the principle of the equality of all countries participating in the program. By granting special status to any c... |
FBIS4-30835_49 | Tudjman Interviewed on Currency, Serbs | other former superpower. [Boris Kandare, of Croatian Party of Rights] I would like to ask you what influence the Russian Federation and its policies will have on future political events in the Republic of Croatia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina and how you personally intend to resolve this burning issue? [Tudjman] This is a ... |
FBIS4-30856_8 | Rugova Discusses Albanian `National Cause' | and indeed since 1912 and 1913 when Kosova was invaded, under Montenegro, Serbia, and the former Yugoslavia we have unfortunately never had positive cooperation with the mother country. Even the war ended without any cooperation, if we look at matters as events. Now we have managed to create this cooperation. President... |
FBIS4-30879_5 | Political Scientist Analyzes Elections | people to themselves. It is possible -- in fact, likely -- that even if these people do place themselves on the right to left or socialist-liberal to conservative scale, or on any ideological or world view scale, then this is not identical with the notions the parties themselves have. Naturally, we have no reason to as... |
FBIS4-30880_3 | Iliescu Views Foreign Relations, Minorities | ethnic groups. The referendum was based on the principle of majority, which was contradicting the constitutional principle of the republic, since that was based on the principle of consensus. Then, the Bosnian conflict emerged. Before 1990, the Croats and Slovenes advanced a proposal to turn the federation into a confe... |
FBIS4-30932_0 | Spokesman Condemns Greek `Policy of Threats' | BFN [Text] Tirana, May 30 (ATA) -- Commenting on the storm of threats, slanders and offenses towards Albania and Albanian authorities as well as the war mongering calls of the most senior authorities of Greece over the last weekend, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry said that all these aim at stirring up tensions a... |
FBIS4-30943_0 | Bosnia's Ljubijankic Attends Nonaligned Meeting | BFN [Text] On Pakistan's initiative, a meeting of the contact group of the Islamic Conference Organization is going to be held in Cairo today to discuss the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Our delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Irfan Ljubijankic, who is attending the (?conference) as a guest, was informed of this ... |
FBIS4-30947_2 | Ministry Official Views Balladur Plan, Conference | an adequate settling of the minority issue does not meet with the approach of either our regional partners or our Western partners? [Gyarmati] Our position regarding the borders is unchanged: There are no open border issues for Hungary. Our neighbors are also aware of this; nor do they claim that there is such an issue... |
FBIS4-30971_0 | Terrorist Activities of Arrested Serbian Agent | CSO [Article by Damir Dukic: "A Muzzle for `Labrador'"] [Text] The arrest of Radojko R. Radojcic, age 42, from Zagreb, who was once an official of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia, continues the Labrador affair, which has dragged on for two-and-a-half years now, and whose exposure, along wit... |
FBIS4-30972_5 | Government's `Strategy for Poland' Outlined | of the accounts of the individual participants of the system; 3. Principles of paying the subscriptions by employees and employers will be introduced which will make it possible to control the state of the account by any interested person at any time; as a result, private and state-owned companies will better observe t... |
FBIS4-30982_0 | Slovak-Russian Agreement on Visa-Free Travel | BFN [Text] Shortly before noon Slovak Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan and Russian Ambassador Sergey Yastrzhembskiy signed an agreement between the Government of the Slovak Republic and the Government of the Russian Federation on conditions for visa-free travel by citizens of the two states. Maria Mikusova has just return... |
FBIS4-31020_0 | Treaty With Hungary To Simplify Border Crossing | BFN [Text] Bratislava, May 31 (CTK) -- The signing of the Hungarian-Slovak readmission agreement, the draft of which was approved by the Slovak cabinet today, would open new prospects in relations between the two countries, Slovak Interior Minister Ladislav Pittner told CTK today. "The signature of the readmission agre... |
FBIS4-31027_5 | Part 2 of Article Published | could really be observed, as hard currency requests for imports intended to be used to produce export products ought to be exempted. This means that the companies will continue to buy hard currency for speculation purposes, which has negative consequences upon the leu. The superficial way and the haste with which they ... |
FBIS4-31030_8 | Poland | sure that people's ownership rights are respected. Let us not forget that Poland is obliged to respect, for instance, the recently initialed European Convention Concerning the Defense of Fundamental Freedoms and Human Rights." Andrzej Karnkowski, chairman of the Committee for Defense of Private Ownership, says: "This d... |
FBIS4-31090_1 | Continued Cuts in Budget Subsidies Discussed | in the budget. One can also achieve regional policy by proving capable of implementing it even on the basis of other resources. I do not require any of my own resources to initiate what I am trying to do. The value of the individual projects that are beginning to be realized in the individual regions lies in the fact t... |
FBIS4-31126_2 | _O_Officials See Recovery Despite Sanctions | to 40 percent above world market prices for its imports while its exports sell for 30 to 40 percent below market prices. He is also concerned by shortages of petroleum and drugs. On the other hand, Avramovic said he is comforted by the fact that "the country can feed itself well," a "capable" light-industry sector, and... |
FBIS4-31130_3 | Importance of Kosovo in Balkan Peace Effort | further and that we will develop other forms of institutional activity. [Ramajli] After the proclamation of the republic of Kosova and the promulgation of the Constitution of Kacanik on September 1990, the state organs of the republic of Kosova were restructured and their activity was adapted to constitutional provisio... |
FBIS4-31146_1 | U.S. Policy Toward Balkans Examined | of the Muslim-Croat federation. Whereas in Vienna Mr. Redman, Clinton's special emissary for the former Yugoslavia, supported on behalf of the United States the demand for the future Bosnian federation to embrace 58 percent of the total territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, U.S. Secretary of State Christopher suddenly r... |
FBIS4-31148_3 | Interview With Mihanovic Published | to establishment of the new party by people from your own ranks? [Mihanovic] I do not think it was on constitutional grounds. Individuals felt that they had not been satisfied in their claims and vanities. They thought that they did not have enough power. Some perhaps thought that it was they who should be conducting t... |
FBIS4-31182_1 | Growing U.S. Presence in Balkans Examined | the additions to the U.S. "blue helmet" contingent, the gradual replacement of Scandinavian troops with U.S. troops,... all these are only some of the steps being made to step up the military activities of the United States in the southern part of the Balkans, now that it is free of Russian influence. Although the forc... |
FBIS4-31184_0 | Organizations React to Tudor Statement Protesters Demand Lifting of Immunity | BFN [Text] A protest rally was organized this morning by the Association of Romanian Revolutionaries in Bucharest's Revolution Square, in front of the headquarters of Romania's Senate. The protesters demanded the withdrawal of parliamentary immunity and the start of legal proceedings against Corneliu Vadim Tudor [presi... |
FBIS4-31214_0 | News Conference on Work of Constitutional Court | CSO [Editorial Report] On 29 April the Macedonian-language Skopje daily NOVA MAKEDONIJA publishes on page 4 a report by L.K. on the 28 April news conference of the Constitutional Court of The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Jordan Arsov, chairman of the Constitutional Court, told reporters that the year ... |
FBIS4-31230_1 | Pittner Views Regime on Czech-Slovak Borders | travel with the documents provided for in the existing treaty. The objective is to accelerate clearance at the border crossings. By conducting controls on our territory, we will have the opportunity to learn about third country nationals and take legal measures against illegal immigration. [PRAVDA] What will be require... |
FBIS4-31239_0 | Poll on Implementing Government Promises | BFN [Article by A.Sl.: "Public Opinion Research Institute for RZECZPOSPOLITA on Inflation, Wages, and Unemployment; Faith in the Government Increases Along With Incomes"] [Text] Only 20 percent of adult Poles believe in the government's promises that inflation will be decreased to less than 10 percent by 1997 and that ... |
FBIS4-31247_0 | Industry Minister on Plans for Special Zones | BFN [Interview with Industry and Trade Minister Marek Pol by Maria Nowak; place and date not given: "Opening Doors for Business Community; Special Economic Zones Will Be Established"] [Text] [Nowak] Around the world, several hundred special economic zones [S.E.Z] are in operation. They are also called industrial zones,... |
FBIS4-31256_5 | Report Assesses Strength of Bosnian Army | own request -- was demobilized early in 1992, but the circumstances remain unclear. On the eve of the war he was selling books in Bas-Carsija [Sarajevo old town]. Some claim it was a gesture of his determination, while others say it was just a camouflage covering the fact that he was a KOS [Counterintelligence Service]... |
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