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FBIS4-31260_0 | Further on Pellumbi Comments | BFN [Report by Tirana special correspondent Marina Vikhou] [Excerpt] In an interview with Greek correspondents, Servet Pellumbi, first vice chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania, said that "the U.S. policy in the case of Albania is not unified. The State Department follows a different policy from that of the CIA a... |
FBIS4-31272_0 | Prime Minister Reportedly Available on Internet | BFN [Article by krzem, irem, PAP: "premier@urm.gov.pl; Mr. Prime Minister on Computer"] [Text] If you have a computer, a telephone, and a modem and pay 1.5 million zlotys [Z] to open an account on the Internet and Z1.5 million a month in subscription fees, from today on you can send your opinions to Prime Minister Pawl... |
FBIS4-31300_0 | Nation To Support U.S. on DPRK Sanctions | BFN [Excerpts] The UN Security Council is currently considering introducing sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. [passage omitted] In connection with the Czech Republic's membership in the UN Security Council, Czech radio has asked Ambassador Karel Kovanda, our country's permanent representative... |
FBIS4-31332_0 | FRY Views on Romania's Stance Published | BFN [Text] Bucharest ROMPRES, 2/6/1994 -- Appreciative statements about Romania's position to the crisis in the Yugoslav space made by several high-ranking officials of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia have been clustered by the daily newspaper DIMINEATA in its today's issue. Radoje Kontic, prime minister of the Fede... |
FBIS4-31344_2 | Meciar Government Caused Foreign Investment Drop | not solved those problems. But a new wave of optimism is filling the offices of government ministries. Many here hope that a turnaround in foreign investment can be put on track by year's end, thanks to a new government, headed by Jozef Moravcik, that has made economic reform the centerpiece of its policies. "A lot of ... |
FBIS4-31371_2 | Agoston Discusses Province's Autonomy | -- that is the essence of this democratic demand -- is the support of forces in Parliament, since only in that way can we expect the concept to be realized in practice, can we expect a development in international relations, which will help to make it clear to all the leading political forces in the country that the DZ... |
FBIS4-31382_4 | Article Accuses Greece of `Raising Tensions' | possibility of being "left by itself." Thus, when the international community discourages Serbia is its aggressive policies Greece attempts to embolden Serbian aggression again, even more than the interests of the Serbs in this direction demand, by tolerating terrorism and enforcing blockades and embargoes against her ... |
FBIS4-31391_5 | Mesic Voices Disagreement With Tudjman | the offer of 66 percent of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Serbs? [Mesic] I think not. [Paripovic] Did that agreement include resettlement of Serbs and Croats? I would recall for you just two almost identical such movements of population of both Serbs and Croats in which both suffered. I am speaking of t... |
FBIS4-31393_2 | Programs of Possible Coalition Partners | of our foreign and domestic debt. The goal of the MSZP is to reduce expenses, the deficit, and also the withdrawals first of all by reducing expenses on state administration and other low-efficiency expenses. The SZDSZ wants to reduce the budget deficit by streamlining the executive state apparatus, reforming the army,... |
FBIS4-31396_8 | Daily Publishes Extracts of Benes Decrees | fellow-culprits, fellow-guilty, participants, or aiders and abettors; if other persons are criminally answerable for them, the MLS will try them if a public prosecutor recommends that they be prosecuted by them (Article 24). (2) The local authorization of the MLS is determined by the regulations contained in the crimin... |
FBIS4-31398_2 | Ganic's Assessment of Federation Positive | that this will be a turning point in the relations with the Serbs? [Ganic] This is a concept that will enable Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, which are internationally recognized, to retain their borders. It will also stop the Serbian annexation policy. This is something that has repeated itself every 20 years in the B... |
FBIS4-31410_7 | Deputy Minister on Trade With Russia | They might cooperate in the area of modernization of our armies and in exporting equipment to third markets. Another area of this cooperation might include the adjustment of production capacities in these industries, which are too high, to civilian needs. [Krauss] You failed to include the settlement of old debts on th... |
FBIS4-31413_1 | Measures To Combat Unemployment Viewed | yet discussed the other, associated costs of unemployment, which are, perhaps, less easy to measure and more difficult to evaluate or illustrate in statistical terms. Nevertheless, they are extremely burdensome.... [Grela] Indeed. They involve the losses and disadvantages suffered by society in general as a result of t... |
FBIS4-31421_0 | Defense Minister: `No Bargaining' Over Territory | BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] Belgrade, June 8 (TANJUG) -- Yugoslav Defence Minister Pavle Bulatovic said there can be no bargaining with no one, either at home or abroad, over territorial integrity of Serbia and Montenegro, i.e. the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. `That country is the result of historical processes and blo... |
FBIS4-31430_0 | OECD To Accept Visegrad Countries as Members | BFN [Article by M.P.: "Rich Men's Club Opens Its Door; Poland To Be in OECD in Two Years?"] [Text] The OECD has expressed its consent to accept four new countries as members: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia (those countries have already submitted their applications for membership). An agreement on coo... |
FBIS4-31447_0 | Zhelev Defines Role of `Partnership' in Balkans | BFN [Text] Sofia, June 8 (BTA) -- The Partnership for Peace Programme is called upon to ensure greater security for all regions of Europe at the same time, President Zhelyu Zhelev said in a speech before the Atlantic Club tonight. Dr. Zhelev is a member of the Honorary Board of Directors and a founder member of the Atl... |
FBIS4-31472_0 | Dlouhy Views Options for Refinery Privatization | BFN [Text] Prague, June 9 (CTK) -- Both the Czech and foreign options for the privatization of refineries entail high risks, although they are not of such decisive strategic importance, Minister of Industry and Trade Vladimir Dlouhy says in today's issue of the daily HOSPODARSKE NOVINY. When the crude oil pipeline from... |
FBIS4-31551_5 | Daily Views Cause of Split | government in which there were many persons affiliated to the VMRO-DPMNE, after which they missed the opportunity of forming a government in which they would represent the majority. The present debacle is a result of the numerous staements and deliberations of the party in which it called for rebellion (on 2 August 199... |
FBIS4-31554_6 | Jovanovic Interviewed on Balkan Crisis | interests have caused much evil and are the main reason for there still being no peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Forces from outside Europe, in particular, want this continent to be weakened by the prolongation of the crisis and the continuation of sanctions. Let us not forget that while the Serbs in Bosnia supported the ... |
FBIS4-31583_0 | Article Explains Differences in Poll Results | BFN [Article by Ludmila Benkovicova of the Slovak Statistical Office] [Text] We regularly publish the results of public opinion surveys conducted by various specialized institutions. Their results are not quite identical. We have asked Ludmila Benkovicova, of the Slovak Statistical Office, to compare the results and ex... |
FBIS4-31584_0 | Foreign Minister Views U.S. Congress Decision | BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanovic by Dragan Colovic on the "An Argument More" program; place and date not given -- recorded] [Text] [Colovic] Minister Jovanovic, our public received with great trepidation the news from Washington that the U.S. Congress House of Representatives had, by a great maj... |
FBIS4-31589_6 | Serb Indicted for War Crimes in Bosnia, Serbia | Muslims was only a cover for looting. "Tonight, we did our work in the nearby Muslim village with cold steel, we did not fire a round," the volunteers would relate in the restaurant, slapping the knives decorated with cockades that hung from their belts. Psychiatrists would have said of many of them that they are perso... |
FBIS4-31593_1 | Army Unit Action in Bosnia, Croatia Viewed | of an elite platoon of paratroops in the Legion. Motivated by events in Croatia, after arriving from the field in Africa in late 1990, he decided to leave the Foreign Legion. Although he still had two years of service to go under his contract in the Legion, working out cancellation of the contract through regular proce... |
FBIS4-31601_8 | UPR's Korwin-Mikke on Tax, Social Policies | justice, would insist that all of the Kowalskis who earn, say, Z1.4 million per month, receive benefits and privileges just because they are low-paid. But, among all of these Kowalskis, there may be some who try but just cannot earn more and some who do not even feel like trying. Justice cannot be collective. [Szczepul... |
FBIS4-31645_1 | _O_Growth of Organized Crime Fueled by Drug Trade | on the streets of our cities, one will be able to see scenes as depicted in the U.S. gangster films of the 1930's." Polish "Mafia" A 19 May ZYCIE WARSZAWY article entitled "How a Mafia Is Born" noted that, while Polish authorities reject the use of the term "Mafia" for Polish gangs, there are "well-organized gangs" tha... |
FBIS4-31666_1 | Silajdzic: Control of Borders `Key to Peace' | on the possibilities of reaching a political solution to the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and on the situation on the lines of separation. After the meeting, Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic told journalists that we cannot expect a complete peace in our country as long as the borders with Serbia and Montenegro are open. Unt... |
FBIS4-31686_5 | Review, Analysis of Coal Companies | industry is gaining 200,000 new customers, of which 100,000 are for gas heating of homes. An export offensive on the West European market might afford us an opportunity. Another, more long-term opportunity is presented by Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic countries. As for overseas markets, freight cost is too high to m... |
FBIS4-31688_17 | Kucan Discusses Relations With Croatia | the European Union and other political, economic, and defense associations. With the burden of unsolved bilateral problems we shall not be able to join European associations, though. This can best be proven by the example of bilateral difficulties Slovenia has with Italy. This problem could slow down the Slovenian inte... |
FBIS4-31707_2 | Efforts Made To Halt Illegal Border Traffic | chief occupation of the Hungarian border protection service, which at that time consisted of conscripts, was securing the western border against escape attempts from Hungary in the direction of Austria and--to a lesser degree--Yugoslavia. Today prospective Hungarian travelers have a passport issued to them, and the Aus... |
FBIS4-31730_5 | Foreign Minister Views Balkan Relations | interested in this. However, the discussions in Washington principally concentrate on bilateral questions and regional problems of interest to ourselves and to our partners, who want to hear our opinions and evaluations. [Karanfilovska] It looks as if the United States is choosing the more southern part of the Balkans ... |
FBIS4-31730_9 | Foreign Minister Views Balkan Relations | look for other directions knowing that they are creating problems on all sides and in all possible directions. I do not want to get into their motives for that. For our part, even in relations with Greece, the basis of our foreign policy is dominant, and that is the principle of equal distance with our neighbors. [Kara... |
FBIS4-31731_0 | MIC Reports `Provocations' by Serbian Church | BFN [Unattributed report: "New Provocations by SOC -- Three-Month Ultimatum"] [Text] The Serbian Orthodox Church [SOC] is continuing with provocations of the Macedonian [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM] Orthodox Church [MOC]. As it is known, the SOC has given the MOC a "three-month deadline to return... |
FBIS4-31739_2 | Reaction to `Strategy for Poland' Program Business Representatives Comment | not guard against anything but only serves as a bargaining chip. Salary negotiations should be conducted at the level of individual enterprises while the state may just be an umpire. Some method of salary regulation is applied everywhere, said Professor Danuta Hibner. In Poland, one receives a penalty for raising salar... |
FBIS4-31787_24 | `Strategy for Poland' | the budget and the inefficiency of the existing system may soon cause public finances to collapse, which would undo the reform efforts that have been made so far. The existing system does not allow for the exercise of effective controls over the method of subscription collection and does not guarantee appropriate recei... |
FBIS4-31787_31 | `Strategy for Poland' | undue benefits from the portfolio. --Controlling and rigorously executing payments, as well as decreasing the amount of overdue payments and, in effect, increasing the number of those who pay their subscriptions (for example, noncash settlements or inclusion of the subscription in the first installment [transza] of the... |
FBIS4-31795_0 | Army Compensated Gulf War Veteran for Illness | BFN [Text] Prague June 11 (CTK) -- "While the United States decided only this week to compensate American veterans from the Gulf War, the Czech Army paid compensation to a soldier from the Gulf of Persia several months ago," today's issue of the independent daily MLADA FRONTA DNES writes. Czech authorities paid compens... |
FBIS4-31798_0 | Commission Considers EU Membership `Priority' | BFN [Text] At this moment the State Chamber Commission for International Relations is examining our foreign affairs activities. Due to sensitivity of the international problems, a part of today's session was closed to the public. The Commission first gave its consent to the ratification of various agreements and initia... |
FBIS4-31822_0 | Manolic on Costs of Bosnia War, Kuna Issue | CSO [Interview with Josip Manolic, former Croatian Democratic Community official and current vice chairman of Croatian Independent Democrats, by Davor Butkovic; place and date not given: "War Between Croats and Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina Costs Croatia 3 Million German Marks a Day!"] [Text] Beginning with this issue,... |
FBIS4-31861_2 | _O_Health-Care Privatization Discussed | assured Havel that no great problems should be encountered in the course of transformation; the pace and nature of this transformation remains in question. In any case, the creation of some nonprofit organizations could be expected. In the DENNI TELEGRAF of 7 May, Rubas also criticized the low pay of the medical profes... |
FBIS4-31864_0 | Officials Meet With CSCE Delegation | BFN [Text] Belgrade, June 15 (TANJUG) -- Yugoslav Vice-Premier Zeljko Simic said on Wednesday [15 June] that political talks and diplomatic methods alone could bring about a peaceful and lasting settlement of the Yugoslav crisis. Meeting a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Conference on Security and Coope... |
FBIS4-31924_0 | Employers Meet Pawlak, Praise `Strategy' | BFN [Article by Bogdan Mozdzynski: "Employers in Favor of `Strategy'"] [Text] Employers say that it will not be possible to implement the goals of the "Strategy for Poland," which they think are correct, without their participation. Representatives of 42 organizations that are members of the confederation of Polish Emp... |
FBIS4-31926_1 | Results of Opinion Poll on Election Importance | 20 percent that the self-governmental ones are. Generally, then, the parliamentary elections are evaluated as more important than the local elections. The poll was carried out a week before the election date. Both kinds of elections are often compared. Public opinion researchers estimate that participation in the local... |
FBIS4-31945_6 | Schmognerova Discusses Transformation Issues | made when certain items that are really not luxury items found their way onto the lists. The government will rectify this. However, it is necessary to add that we would have had to adopt these measures whether we wanted to conclude an agreement on a loan with the IMF or not. So, we were faced with a dilemma: either to ... |
FBIS4-31945_7 | Schmognerova Discusses Transformation Issues | of issues, so my answer will also require more space. This involves a series of social issues. I would begin by saying that, compared with the past, the IMF and the World Bank have altered their approach to us and, thus, also their method of negotiating. While at the beginning--a year ago--these institutions came to Sl... |
FBIS4-31958_5 | Perisic Discusses Transformation of Army | human quality develops and grows throughout one's life. That is an exceptionally important quality in the Yugoslav army, I would say a quality without which tasks cannot be successfully completed. Therefore, in some important aspects, the officers must be proven patriots. To be a proven patriot means to be ready to hel... |
FBIS4-31965_1 | _O_Belgrade Weekly Views New Wealth of Serbs | goes into private pockets. The Dafiment Bank also played a significant role in the enrichment of individuals, in Posarac's opinion. "The lists of Dafiment depositors that have been made public account for the disappearance of only tens of millions of German marks, but the question of what happened to the 200 million th... |
FBIS4-31968_0 | EU Does Not Support Albanian Separatists | BFN [Text] Pristina, Yugoslavia, June 16 (TANJUG) -- The European Union maintains that Kosovo-Metohija should remain within Serbia and does not support ethnic Albanian separatist aspirations, a delegation of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (C.S.C.E.) parliamentary assembly said on Thursday. Delegat... |
FBIS4-31972_0 | New FRY Ambassador Deemed `Provocation' | BFN [Article by Mikel Ndreca: "Anti-Kosovar Provocation"] [Text] The Belgrade mass media reported a few days ago the appointment of Zivorad Igic as ambassador of Yugoslavia (!) to Albania. BUJKU rightly deplored this news. As is well known, after the disintegration of AVNOJ [Antifascist Council for the National Liberat... |
FBIS4-32047_0 | Poll Reveals Slight Change in Parties' Support | BFN [Article by "(zl)": "Miklos Duray Is the Most Unpopular"] [Text] Representatives of the Center for Social and Marketing Analysis (FOCUS) yesterday made available data from a poll conducted to ascertain public opinion before the parliamentary elections in the fall. It is apparent from the poll that, in the wake of t... |
FBIS4-32074_0 | Media Threatened by Proposed Restrictions | CSO [Editorial Report] In an article published in Belgrade in BORBA on 19 May, page 5, under the title "Minister Favors Some, Ignores Others," the Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia [NUNS] points out that a recently proposed law which would require all news media to obtain government approval prior to rec... |
FBIS4-32111_12 | Article Views Newly Appointed Diplomats | was elected chairman of the Socialist Association of Kosovo. At the inaugural congress of the Socialist Party of Serbia [SPS] in July 1990, he was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Main Board of the SPS, while three months later he was elected deputy chairman of the Regional SPS Board for Kosovo. In De... |
FBIS4-32115_0 | Serbs Accused of Monitoring Albanian Birth Rate | BFN [Unattributed report: "Natality in Kosova Under the Target of Serbian Regime" -- issued by the Democratic League of Kosovo] [Text] In spite of continued discrimination exercised by Serbian regime in the Kosova health system in order to reach "demographic equilibrium" Serbian doctors have recently publicly declared ... |
FBIS4-32122_0 | Excommunication of Macedonian Church Sought | BFN [Unattributed report: "Criminal Charges Against Macedonian Church"] [Text] Pahomije, bishop of Vranje and administrator of the eparchies of the so-called Serbian Orthodox Church in Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM] stated canon criminal charges would be brought against the Macedonian Ch... |
FBIS4-32131_19 | SRI Chief Magureanu Views Activity, Politics | various levels. [Lucaciu] I would like to mention the fact that I did not discuss all these issues with the acting director of the SRI, but rather with a person who is interested in political expertise. Do you intend to go into politics when you retire from the SRI? [Magureanu] That is an issue that will have to be dec... |
FBIS4-32143_1 | Ministry Denies Violating FYROM Border | the border area with the FYROM and that `the Serb army' has occupied the Straza observer post on Cupino Brdo," the statement issued by the ministry says. ``The Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs deems all the accusations unacceptable and unjustified, and rejects them entirely. ``The Yugoslav Army was deployed along t... |
FBIS4-32160_0 | New Party Advocates Moravian Autonomy | BFN [Text] Brno, South Moravia, June 18 (CTK) -- A new Moravian party, the Movement for Self-Governing Moravia and Silesia (HSMS), was established today electing Jan Smejkal its chairman. Smejkal told CTK that the priority goal of the HSMS, registered on June 1, was self-rule for Moravia. He said that the participants ... |
FBIS4-32188_1 | Police Report: No Foul Play in Horn Crash | heading--between 0.7 and 1.2 meters from the road's center line. In his statement to the police, the truck driver said he had not parked at the side of the road to change tires because the truck was hauling 80 quintals of canned food, and he was afraid that the vehicle might overturn. In addition, it would not have bee... |
FBIS4-32188_3 | Police Report: No Foul Play in Horn Crash | of the truck's body. After impact, the car kept skidding for about 40 meters and then stopped. Technical expert Gabor Meleg concluded from all this that, at the time of impact, the car's speed must have been between 98 and 102 kph. Laszlo Vincze, the other expert, estimates that the car's speed must have been between 8... |
FBIS4-32217_0 | Gligorov: Census Necessary for Building Future | BFN [Text] Kiro Gligorov, president of the Republic of Macedonia [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM] gave an interview for Macedonian Television yesterday [20 June] on Census 94, answering questions and giving personal opinions and evaluations on this statistical endeavor. Following are some excerpts. ... |
FBIS4-32241_0 | Deputies Demand Family Planning Implementation | BFN [Text] The Sejm Social Policy and Health Commissions have come out in favor of including contraceptives on the list of medicines for which only 30 percent of the price has to be paid. They have also come out in favor of introducting sex education in schools and of withdrawing handbooks containing inadequate sex inf... |
FBIS4-32242_5 | Roundup of 19 June Local Election Results | commentary by Bozena Wawrzewska noting that in the elections, party tickets prevailed over coalitions of residents, self-governmental activists, and citizens' groups. According to Wawrzewska, there could be several possible reasons for such an occurrence: A weak self-government mentality or a poor understanding of the ... |
FBIS4-32243_1 | Several Constitutional Drafts Considered | six months of the end of the presidential term. The president would be entitled to issue decrees, but only with consent from the Sejm. In case parliament is dissolved, the president would be able to issue decrees as he pleases. The president would lead the government, he would appoint and dismiss the prime minister, an... |
FBIS4-32247_9 | Trade Union Leader on Relations With MSZP | offset the reduction of social insurance contributions by reallocating tax revenues. To my mind, that is merely juggling. [Nagy] The contradiction you mentioned exists only partially, and there is an answer also to the dilemma of reducing social nsurance contributions. The contributions are so high at present because w... |
FBIS4-32256_0 | Mission Briefs CSCE Summit on Kosovo, Greece | BFN [Text] Tirana, June 18 (ATA) -- Due to insistence of the Albanian delegation, a paragraph concerning the situation in Kosova was included in the final document approved by the CSCE senior officials at the 27th meeting of its committee, according to an information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Emphasizing the ... |
FBIS4-32259_0 | FRY Embargo Affecting Private Enterprises | BFN [Text] Malesi e Madhe, June 21 (ATA) -- During the 1992-1993 period a great number of enterprises have been created and established economic and trade relations with Montenegro, according to the Taxes Office of the Shkoder district. But the cooperation of those enterprises did not succeed because Albania is observi... |
FBIS4-32270_1 | Multinationals Said Moving in Without Inducements | because I would not be able to give it," Klaus said in English to a crowd of Czech, British, Japanese and American company officials. While clearly disappointed that the government would not offer help, AVX company officials already consider the project a success. In just three months, the factory has become one of the... |
FBIS4-32273_0 | Government Walking `Environmental Tightrope' | CSO [Article by Gary Byrd: "Government Doing an Environmental Balancing Act"] [Text] The Czech government is walking an environmental tightrope between hindering the country's industrial productivity and making noticeable improvements in its neglected ecology. Industrial giants and government ministries have relied on ... |
FBIS4-32325_1 | Government Announces Property Compensation Decree | the Law 7771 of 7 December 1993 "On the Status of Former Political Prisoners and Detainees," in implementation of Articles 8 and 9 of the aforementioned Law, will receive in the form of bonds an annual compensation of 120,000 leks. For the purposes of calculation, the calendar year will be considered equal to 365 days.... |
FBIS4-32328_2 | Importance of Havel's Visit Emphasized Iliescu Salutes Havel | on the market economy. Now, after more than four years, we are facing a time of political realism and concrete solutions, which are capable of giving real support to our hopes. Those comprehensive discussions and arguments that took place during our official talks, which focused on cooperation between our countries in ... |
FBIS4-32329_0 | Importance of Havel's Visit Emphasized Havel Proposes Toast | BFN [Speech by Czech President Vaclav Havel at a dinner given in his honor by Romanian President Ion Iliescu, in Bucharest on 21 June -- recorded; Havel speaks in Czech with passage-by-passage translation into Romanian; translated from the Romanian] [Text] Esteemed Mr. President, esteemed ladies and gentlemen, it is a ... |
FBIS4-32344_1 | Government Announces Property Compensation Decree | the Law 7771 of 7 December 1993 "On the Status of Former Political Prisoners and Detainees," in implementation of Articles 8 and 9 of the aforementioned Law, will receive in the form of bonds an annual compensation of 120,000 leks. For the purposes of calculation, the calendar year will be considered equal to 365 days.... |
FBIS4-32427_0 | Social Security To Increase by End of 1994 | CSO [Article based on announcement at news conference by Jindrich Vodicka, minister of labor and social affairs: "Toward the End of the Year, Social Security Payments Will Rise"] [Text] Prague--An increase in social security transfers, including pensions, is being readied by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Th... |
FBIS4-32502_0 | Effects of Privatization Restart Examined | CSO [Article by Jozef Hajko: "Voucher Privatization Will Become Catalyst of Further Changes"] [Text] The almost forgotten voucher privatization is beginning to take on realistic dimensions after the report on its planning was discussed by the government. The expectation is that it will become an accelerating element of... |
FBIS4-32530_1 | Islamic `Terrorists' Reportedly Arrive | Muslim authorities in Sarajevo. The United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) and Izetbegovic's ambassador to the U.N. Muhamed Sacirbej claimed at the time that the group included not more than 'several hundred' mujaheddin. The Turkish daily MILLIYET last year for the first time mentioned about 1,300 fighters from Ira... |
FBIS4-32532_0 | Simic on Normalization of Relations With Croatia | BFN ["Pool" item] [Text] Kragujevac, Yugoslavia, June 26 (TANJUG) -- Yugoslav Vice-Premier Zeljko Simic on Sunday hoped that normalization of relations between Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro) and Croatia would shortly be resumed. Simic based his optimism on "the political reality that relations between Belgrade and Zagr... |
FBIS4-32545_0 | Police Involvement in Politics Alleged | CSO [Article by Zoran Petrov: "The Thorny Path Leading to Self-Discovery"] [Text] It is now clear that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is still not free from a variety of political pressures. What happened to the "eight" who were the main protagonists in numerous affairs and subsequent police cases? We have a variety ... |
FBIS4-32568_0 | Owen Says FYROM Discussed at Corfu Summit | BFN [Text] Skopje, 25 June (TANJUG) -- "We mentioned the problem of Macedonia's [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia -- FYROM] northern border with Serbia during the Corfu talks. We decided to discuss this issue in detail and, if possible, to resolve it appropriately," said Lord Owen, cochairman of the conference... |
FBIS4-32576_0 | Social Security Collections Exceed Transfers | CSO [Article by Jan Rezac: "Last Year Social Security Saved the State Budget 11.4 Billion Korunas"] [Text] The final state budget report presented by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, which was discussed by the government yesterday, indicates that revenues based on social security premiums and other revenues of... |
FBIS4-32588_1 | Commentary Views Appointment of U.S. Envoy | activities in his capacity as U.S. ambassador, had become the topic of discussion and interpretation, ranging from truth to conjecture, from naivete to presumption. None of the analysts or observers denied that his role in Albanian political developments over the last three years had been obvious, and this had been pos... |
FBIS4-32588_4 | Commentary Views Appointment of U.S. Envoy | or harm that the guest might commit while under the host's hospitality. Nevertheless, as masters of Albania until the next elections, the Albanian people have chosen those politicians to whom they gave their votes on 22 March 1992. 2. At a election meeting in March 1992, in the city of Korca, Mr. Ryerson is supposed to... |
FBIS4-32644_1 | Government Statement on Developments in Bosnia | rise to hope that this tragic civil war will soon be stopped, which would in turn create conditions for the resolution of some other important questions in the former Yugoslavia. ``The FRY Government expects that full advantage will be taken of the current favorable period and is making efforts towards contributing in ... |
FBIS4-32677_0 | Italy's Martino Visits, Discusses Crisis Foreign Ministry Statement on Talks | BFN ["Foreign Ministry Statement on Italian Foreign Minister's Visit" -- TANJUG headline] [Text] Belgrade, 28 Jun (TANJUG) -- Antonio Martino, foreign minister of the Republic of Italy, paid a one-day visit to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [FRY] on 28 June. The talks with Federal Foreign Minister Vladislav Jovanov... |
FBIS4-32677_1 | Italy's Martino Visits, Discusses Crisis Foreign Ministry Statement on Talks | the two countries' contribution in this respect, and certain bilateral issues. The Yugoslav side informed its Italian collocutors about the constructive efforts the FRY is making toward ending the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina as soon as possible by reaching a peace agreement, with respect for the legitimate interest... |
FBIS4-32681_3 | Liquidity of Banks Deteriorating | banks would have to supply 80 percent and the purchasers 20 percent. The banks would provide most of the funds from federal or republic deposits, and they would use the legal reserves to a lesser extent. Statements to the effect that there will not be any adverse monetary effects are based on the assumption that the fe... |
FBIS4-32694_5 | Weiss Discusses Coalition Work, Differences | Do you consider it normal that members of the government cannot defend themselves against accusations of cooperation with the [communist-era secret police] StB only because there is no one to issue screening certificates? [Weiss] The screening law must be abolished because screenings have, from the very beginning, serv... |
FBIS4-32707_0 | Italy's Martino Visits, Discusses Crisis Italy Assuming `Decisive Role' | BFN [Text] Belgrade, June 28 (TANJUG) -- Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Martino said on Tuesday that the new Italian Government had assumed a more decisive role in the quest of a solution to the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, for which he said it had quite a few reasons. Martino, who is on a brief working visit to ... |
FBIS4-32764_0 | Ministry Backs Quick Ratification of Concordat | BFN [Text] Warsaw, June 28 -- The Foreign Ministry is supporting the fast ratification of the concordat between the Vatican and the Republic of Poland, a department director at the ministry Janusz Stanczyk said at a press conference organized in Warsaw Tuesday before the first reading of the draft ratification law to t... |
FBIS4-32781_4 | Article Views End of Embargo Against Vietnam | as long as Vietnam does not receive most favored nation (MFN) status in trade with the United States, the possibilities of purchasing U.S. goods are limited. A reduction of tariffs is imperative to position our products in the United States and to have the cash to compete with China or Thailand, two countries awarded M... |
FBIS4-32798_0 | Defense Committees Urge Support for Measures | BFN [Text] Havana, 28 May (PL) -- The National Directorate of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), the largest people's organization in Cuba, today called on the population to support the measures adopted to cleanse the national economy and increase surveillance against crime. Sixto Batista Santana, ... |
FBIS4-32802_0 | Specialists To Debate Alternate Energy Sources | BFN [Text] Havana, 25 May (PL) -- Santiago de Cuba will play host to solar and aeolian energy enthusiasts, who will attend an international workshop from 20 to 22 June. The meeting is sponsored by the Eurosolar organization, UNESCO, and other organizations. The workshop was organized by the Cuban Ministry of Science, T... |
FBIS4-32804_1 | Israeli Foreign Minister Interviewed on Visit | and Israel like the one that exists between the United States of America and Israel. Second, we would like to avoid double taxation. Third, we would like to establish scientific and technological cooperation between Mexico and Israel. Fourth, and most important from my viewpoint, is the need to strengthen our cultural ... |
FBIS4-32817_3 | Fidel Castro Varadero News Conference | sugar fields were used to grow other crops, to meet urban growth demands, or to establish industrial parks. Above all, the sugar industry is very difficult and entails extremely hard work. The introduction of slavery in the Caribbean was followed by the development of the sugar industry in the tropical heat. It is such... |
FBIS4-32817_11 | Fidel Castro Varadero News Conference | depleting the world's natural resources? That question has no answer. They are condemned to grow. This is why when one speaks of sustainable development, no one knows what one is talking about. We ought to speak of societies that can sustain themselves or that can survive as they are by recycling and reducing levels of... |
FBIS4-32819_0 | Minister, Spanish Official Sign Investment Accord | BFN [From the NTV newscast] [Text] Today, Cuba and Spain signed a bilateral agreement on promoting and protecting investments in Havana in the presence of Politburo member Carlos Lage and other high ranking Spanish and Cuban officials. Cuban and Spanish experts at the fourth Spanish-Cuban joint commission for economic ... |
FBIS4-32821_1 | Spanish Official Views Results | at reorganizing the island's economy. In a brief news conference, Ruiz said he met with Vice President Carlos Lage and other members of the Cuban economic cabinet, who explained the difficulties in accelerating these changes. In any case, Ruiz added, Spain perceives that the measures adopted by the Cuban Government, su... |
FBIS4-32832_0 | Defense Minister Cited on Reductions in Army | BFN [Text] Tegucigalpa, 26 May (ACAN-EFE) -- The Honduran Armed Forces will continue to implement a plan to gradually reduce its military units due to "the lack of economic resources," Defense Minister General Reynaldo Andino Flores announced today. The Army will dismantle artillery, armored cavalry, and infantry units... |
FBIS4-32875_8 | Wasmosy Interviewed by Argentine Paper | FINANCIERO] If we consider other less traumatic models, if you consider the Argentine transition with Raul Alfonsin, and the Uruguayan transition with Julio Maria Sanguinetti, which one do you think was better? [Wasmosy] Sanguinetti, Sanguinetti! [AMBITO FINANCIERO] Can you explain your reasons? [Wasmosy] I want to tel... |
FBIS4-32879_0 | Foreign Debt Down 1.4 Percent From 1993 | BFN [Editorial Report] Asuncion ULTIMA HORA in Spanish on 17 May publishes on page 20 an unattributed 300-word article on the Paraguayan foreign debt's current standing. The article says: "According to an official report by the Technical Planning Secretariat, Paraguay's foreign debt totaled $1.2316 billion during the f... |
FBIS4-32892_1 | Samper, Pastrana in `Virtual Tie' | a simple majority today's primary elections. Contrary to poll estimates, both candidates finished in a virtual tie: liberal candidate Ernesto Samper, the favorite, garnered 45.2 percent of the votes, while conservative candidate Andres Pastrana obtained 44.9 percent. Former guerrilla Antonio Navarro Wolff of the "Commi... |
FBIS4-32904_1 | Samper Favors Maintaining Cuban Ties 27 May | error. The peace I achieve will be permanent. Meanwhile, my peace proposal is based on continuing the modernization process in the Armed Forces, complemented by a greater effort in the intelligence field and conceived within respect for human rights. Likewise, some minimum commitments to humanize the war must be establ... |
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