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FBIS4-34609_1 | Roundup of Economic Developments | rice. According to DANE, the total economy grew 5.3 percent in 1993. Sectors that helped achieve this increase were electric power, construction, and financial services. The construction sector grew 7 percent; trade 5 percent; and transportation and communications 4 percent. (Santa Fe de Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 16 ... |
FBIS4-34613_0 | Air Force Commander Views Drug Enforcement | BFN [Interview with General Jose Nadal Payva, Peruvian Air Force commander, by unidentified reporter; place and date not given] [Text] [EXPRESO] Gen. Nadal, could you tell us how the FAP participates in drug enforcement actions? [Nadal] The FAP has been carrying out joint operations with the PNP [Peruvian National Poli... |
FBIS4-34616_1 | DEA, Brazilian Police Find Drug Laundering Network | different Brazilian cities to several account holders, many of whom were fictitious. Brazilian and U.S. investigators asserted that all the financial resources used by the gang busted in Tocantins to purchase the aforementioned ranch, several aircraft, motor boats, cars, and even to set up at least three companies that... |
FBIS4-34621_8 | Fogade President Views Interventions | and in Barinas, which were the first two affected, there could not be interventions or closures at other banks because it would have been harmful and created instability. That is why the financial assistance plan was implemented. The problem with this plan was its duration. The financial assistance plan--as it was crea... |
FBIS4-34630_3 | Former President Sanguinetti Interviewed | the issue of social security reform? [Sanguinetti] For some years demographic trends have shown that today we are living longer and better, which is excellent and welcomed. But this, naturally, affects the social security system, which has become a real burden on our economy. During my administration we had two unsucce... |
FBIS4-34630_7 | Former President Sanguinetti Interviewed | [BUSQUEDA] ...and another fact is that the trade balance only measures goods rather than other exports like tourism. Do you take this fact into account? [Sanguinetti] Of course, but those have always been taken into account. That is nothing new. The main thing is that the balance of payments, as a whole, is already reg... |
FBIS4-34645_0 | GRANMA Editorial on Embassy Occupations | BFN ["Text" of editorial appearing in 21 June edition of GRANMA: "The Only Option for Embassy Invaders: Unconditionally Leave the Same Way You Entered;" read by Alfredo Forte from the "National Radio News"] [Text] A few more than 100 people have been guests of the Belgian and German Embassies and the Chilean Consulate ... |
FBIS4-34657_2 | Editorial: Relations With Argentina `Dangerous' | were rather due to the frozen Argentine exchange rate, an essential part of the Cavallo Plan. The Argentine Government knew beforehand about Minister Ricupero's candidacy to the WTO. Argentina maintains close trade relations with Brazil, a fact that is the embryo for a more serious economic, social, and political integ... |
FBIS4-34658_1 | Editorial Terms U.S. Embargo of Cuba `Irrational' | clear during the past 32 years that it is the Cuban people, not their leaders, who have suffered the blockade's effects. The embargo has not provoked the regime's downfall but rather a steady decline in the people's standard of living in general, especially now that Cuba can no longer count on the resources it used to ... |
FBIS4-34659_2 | Role of Castro at OAS Summit, Embargo on Cuba Viewed | pardoning of the Latin American foreign debt, and the abolition of Super Law 301. Ibero-American countries should really do their best to clarify the distorted image Cuba reflects. For the past decade, no Latin American country has subjected the island to any important or special trade restrictions and for the past dec... |
FBIS4-34661_0 | U.S. `Encouragement' of Illegal Departures Viewed | BFN [Report by Zenaida Costales for the "National Radio News"] [Text] For over 34 years, Cubans have witnessed the U.S. increased encouragement of illegal emigrations. Accounts of diplomatic mission violations, departures by sea, temporary trips without return, and Guantanamo Base infiltrations followed. Experts on the... |
FBIS4-34721_4 | Castro's Cartagena News Conference 16 Jun | them by material things as much as by the awareness they have created and the rapprochement they have caused, the contacts they have originated between Latin American leaders. This is what I say the summits have obtained from Cuba's modest contribution. Cuba has made a modest contribution in these areas. You asked abou... |
FBIS4-34721_5 | Castro's Cartagena News Conference 16 Jun | Even then, Cuba achieved important results at these Latin American summits. [Correspondent] Commander, even when the main topic of this summit was the Latin American economy and integration, in your opinion, what are the greatest obstacles which currently prevent Latin America's integration? [Castro] The United States ... |
FBIS4-34728_0 | U.S. International Leadership Role Viewed | BFN [Editorial: "Gulliver Tied Down By Moral Strings"] [Text] Delegates to the annual OAS meeting in Brazil expressed their opposition to an armed intervention in Haiti to restore Jean Bertrand Aristide's democratic government. The small English-speaking Caribbean countries expressed support for military action against... |
FBIS4-34733_1 | Editorial Approves Cancellation of Cavallo Visit | interview with the U.S. President. On this occasion, Menem has visibly offered the United States to simultaneously bomb two candidacies for the WTO presidency: Ricupero, who represents the developing countries, and Renato Ruggero, the former Italian economy minister who represents the EC. Within this context, Salinas s... |
FBIS4-34738_2 | Company Admits High Nicotine Tobacco Sent To U.S. | the United States -- ended up in the hands of Brazilian farmers. Souza Cruz does not produce tobacco in Brazil, but purchases the production of 65,000 farmers in southern Brazil. These farmers, however, could not have gained access on their own to the genetic code of the Y-1 plant. Brown and Williamson may have sent th... |
FBIS4-34740_0 | Canadian Minister of State Pays Official Visit Endorses Cuban Return to OAS | BFN [By Martin Hacthoun] [Text] Havana, 21 Jun (PL) -- Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage has commented that Canada's resumption of official economic aid to Cuba shows Canada's willingness to ensure continuity in bilateral talks. He added: "This pleases us, and we will work toward that goal." In statements to PRENSA LATI... |
FBIS4-34741_0 | Canadian Minister of State Pays Official Visit Urges Work To Break `Isolation' | BFN [Text] Havana, 21 Jun (PL) -- Today, Christine Stewart, Canada's minister of state for Latin America and Africa, stated her country's opposition to the policy of isolation of Cuba. Stewart discussed the development of bilateral ties with the local government. At a time the island is trying to resolve its problems a... |
FBIS4-34742_0 | Canadian Minister of State Pays Official Visit Endorses Foreign Investments | BFN [By Elsy Fors] [Text] Havana, 20 Jun (PL) -- Christine Stewart, Canada's minister of state for Latin America and Africa, today endorsed her country's investments in Cuba while addressing a conference organized by British publication THE ECONOMIST. Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage, Christine Stewart, and an executiv... |
FBIS4-34747_0 | U.S. Said Too Late To Invest in Mining | BFN [By Elsy Fors: "Portal: The North Americans Will Arrive Too Late for Cuban Mining"] [Text] Havana, 23 Jun (PL) -- The North Americans will not arrive late; they are already too late to invest in Cuban mining, Basic Industry Minister Marcos Portal has said here at the conference sponsored by the British publishing h... |
FBIS4-34753_2 | Article Assesses DPRK-ROK Nuclear Dispute | Washington's delegate to the United Nations, outlined the draft resolution's contents, which include severe measures leading to a tight embargo if Pyongyang does not change its position. The document, which has been endorsed by Japan, the ROK, France, Great Britain, and other Washington allies, proposes temporarily iso... |
FBIS4-34753_5 | Article Assesses DPRK-ROK Nuclear Dispute | government gets involved. In the past, they have been traumatized by defeats in Korea (1953) and Vietnam (1975). This fear was reflected in a survey published by influential NEWSWEEK magazine in its 18 June edition, the results of which showed that the majority of U.S. citizens favor a negotiated solution through the r... |
FBIS4-34759_1 | Discusses Human Rights | 1961, while in another -- though not precisely international -- arena our forces repelled the mercenaries' attack at the Bay of Pigs. That has been our style since 1959: exterior work based on what we Cubans are doing inside our country. Our foreign minister's diplomatic arguments were so solid because our people were ... |
FBIS4-34759_5 | Discusses Human Rights | the region. Nor of integration as an objective. Instead, I believe this is a process that in recent years has taken on great momentum. Do not forget that in the 1970's we began to develop cooperation plans for sectors like health care and education with other Caribbean countries. During our trip to the seven English-sp... |
FBIS4-34759_9 | Discusses Human Rights | I really think you should ask Spain that question. That said, let me point out that, in fact, Spain has historically served as the bridge between Latin America and the European Economic Community (now the European Union), and it has worked to defend the interests of the continent, which Cuba looks upon with favor. In t... |
FBIS4-34759_15 | Discusses Human Rights | end of our difficulties, which have other well-known causes, and against which we are also working every day. [Vinas Alfonso] You have just returned from a trip to Asia. What can you tell us about that region, which is both so remote and so close? [Robaina] Precisely that. It is worthwhile to travel that far, if only t... |
FBIS4-34764_0 | Mexico's Vitro Group Plans Investment | BFN [By Armando Torres] [Text] Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, 21 Jun -- Monterrey's Vitro Group is planning to make investments in Cuba and is thus considering buying a Cuban glass-manufacturing company, according to the company's director general, Ernesto Martens Rebolledo. The Vitro Group plans to invest $300 million in 1994... |
FBIS4-34766_0 | Ministers Report on Mining, Tourism Contracts | BFN [From the "First Thing" program] [Text] Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina has stressed that it is a Cuban foreign policy priority to continue denouncing the blockade. Robaina told the closing session of the international businessmen's conference in Havana, attended by 180 representatives from more than 20 countries,... |
FBIS4-34769_0 | Domestic Airline's Obsolete Fleet Creates Crisis | BFN [By Karl Morgenstern] [Text] Havana, 20 Jun (DPA) -- The Cuban Airline (Empresa Consolidada Cubana de Aviacion) that took over the Compania Cubana de Aviacion on 27 June 1961 has been badly affected by its Soviet inheritance. While its predecessor operated exclusively with British and U.S. airplanes, under Fidel Ca... |
FBIS4-34770_0 | New Society To Promote Renewable Energy Resources | BFN [Text] Cubasolar, the Cuban Society to Promote Renewable Energy Resources, has been established in Havana to educate and promote the use of renewable energy resources. Dr. Luis Perris Perez, president of [word indistinct], said this new nongovernmental organization wants to help solve economic and social problems b... |
FBIS4-34782_2 | Marcos Views Possibility of Peace, Elections | in the elections or the World Cup Soccer Tournament. If so, we should have been forgotten. I think they just followed the eight column headlines and full page publications, and never took the historic events that were occurring in the country into account. It is not true. In most cases, people are not interested in tho... |
FBIS4-34797_0 | Review of Second Day in Ottawa | BFN [Text] During the second day of his official visit to Canada, President Carlos Menem said that while he is president the peso will maintain its current exchange parity with the dollar. He reiterated that there is no possibility of devaluating the peso and confirmed that he will meet with his American colleague, Bil... |
FBIS4-34805_2 | Daily Summarizes `Map of Poverty' | such services and basic needs as education, health services, and housing." Poor As Anyone In 1992, 69.8 percent of the 1.4 million families surveyed were poor. This represents 70.5 percent of Bolivia's population, that is, 4.5 million out of 6.4 million people. In the rural area, poverty affected 94 percent of all home... |
FBIS4-34823_3 | Indian Affairs Secretary Defines Policy | sector. What is your response? [Duchicela] Because of the disunity within the Indian community, the government had great difficulty finding someone who could remain above all this; hence my appointment. [HOY] But why Luis Felipe Duchicela? Why not someone fron a tribe, from the Conaie [National Commission for Indian Af... |
FBIS4-34825_1 | Lawmakers Condemn U.S. Intervention in Haiti | military intervention in Haiti. In addition to condemning any unilateral or multilateral military intervention, through the agreement approved by the Chamber, the lawmakers also decided to reject pressure from the United States to receive quotas of Haitian refugees. The lawmakers also demanded an end to the economic bl... |
FBIS4-34842_0 | Editorial Views Dollar's Exchange Rate Tumble | BFN [Editorial: "The Dollar Falls"] [Text] The sharp drop of the dollar's foreign exchange rate with other international currencies during the past two days has been attributed to expectations of rising inflation in the United States due to the high price of commodities. The U.S. economic recovery has opened the way fo... |
FBIS4-34851_0 | Soto Meets Soskovets; Nuclear Plant Discussed | BFN [From the "First Thing" program] [Text] Russian Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets has expressed satisfaction with the progress made to establish the international association RosCuba, which consists of Russian and Cuban enterprises. During a meeting in Moscow with Leonel Soto, vice president of the Council of Mi... |
FBIS4-34854_0 | Pope Rejects U.S. Blockade, Urges Aid | BFN [From the "NTV" newscast] [Text] On 25 June, AFP reported from the Vatican that Pope John Paul II has denounced the U.S. blockade and called on international organizations to help Cuba. During a meeting with a delegation of Cuban bishops, the pope encouraged churches and international aid organizations to continue ... |
FBIS4-34865_0 | `Straight Talk' on Differentiated Incentives | BFN [Editorial Report] Havana Radio Rebelde Network in Spanish at 1600 GMT on 24 June carries a 15-minute edition of its regularly scheduled "Straight Talk" program, with Renato Recio from TRABAJADORES newspaper, and host Osvaldo Rodriguez from BOHEMIA magazine, on the issue of differentiated incentives for diverse sec... |
FBIS4-34866_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic developments monitored from Havana radio and television sources in Spanish between 18 and 25 June: Radio Rebelde at 0900 GMT on 18 June reports that the Cienfuegos Province Finance Directorate's fine control office collected 1.1 million pesos ... |
FBIS4-34866_2 | Roundup of Economic Developments | of vegetables. Cuba Vision Network at 0000 GMT on 24 June reports that following recent rains which affected the sugarcane harvest in Camaguey Province, six mills are currently grinding and workers are fully committed to repair the damage to the sugarcane fields. Cuba Vision Network at 0000 GMT on 24 June adds that 86 ... |
FBIS4-34882_3 | Defense Minister on Accord | high morale but very poor resources, Marxist-Leninism was not established in Guatemala. If it were not for the Guatemalan Army, we would now be regretting the establishment of Marxist-Leninism in Guatemala. Because of the Guatemalan Army, we have a better Guatemala. It is not as developed as it could have been if the s... |
FBIS4-34921_2 | Marcos: Convention Only Option to War | from reality. The media have pointed out that none of the parties has succeeded in achieving a consensus among those who abstain. That is to say, the parties are facing a very high degree of abstentionism and will share the votes. According to the official list, there are between 45 and 50 million registered voters, bu... |
FBIS4-34942_0 | Congress Probes Finance Minister's Performance | BFN [Report by Cecilia Callone] [Text] Congress is questioning Finance Minister Julio Sosa Rodriguez about his performance during the nation's current financial crisis. A vote of censure on the finance minister's performance could be taken today during the congressional session since a majority of legislators are criti... |
FBIS4-34943_1 | Investigation of Released SL Leaders Ordered | Rios Fernandez, also known as "Norman;" and Monica Feria Tinta, all of whom are SL leaders, released from jail. It was learned that Luis Alberto Arana Franco, also known as "Comrade Abel," a SL leader in charge of the logistics apparatus that operated at the Cesar Vallejo academy, is on parole. On 13 June, Daniel Espic... |
FBIS4-34956_0 | Spokesperson for U.S. Group on Congressman's Support | BFN [Text] Havana, 24 Jun (PL) -- U.S. Congressman Ronald V. Dellums, from California, has expressed support for the mission of the group "Freedom to Travel," which has defied U.S. restrictions impeding U.S. citizens from traveling to Cuba. During a news conference today in this capital, Medea Benjamin, the group spoke... |
FBIS4-34963_0 | Economic Ties Discussed With Turkish Officials | BFN [Text] Ankara, 21 Jun (PL) -- It was reported today that Turkey and Cuba have assessed the possibility of increasing economic ties, especially in the areas of commerce, tourism, and business. Those possibilities were studied during Cuban Ambassador to Turkey Jorge Castro's visit to the city of Izmir, an important a... |
FBIS4-34964_1 | UN Development Program Proposes Aid Renovation | The UNDP urges giving much more importance to human security than to hackneyed national security, on which the developed world spent approximately $815 billion in 1992. Developed countries used $125 billion in this sector, but those funds were almost all drawn from resources assigned to social programs at a human cost ... |
FBIS4-34964_3 | UN Development Program Proposes Aid Renovation | expense to a world pact favoring human development, is based on the need to find ways to share responsibilities. This implies new international agreements to replace those that the UNDP believes have an obsolete foreign aid criterion, so as to satisfy the new demands for human security, the focus of the organization's ... |
FBIS4-34966_0 | Alarcon: Economic Difficulties Will Be Surmounted | BFN [Text] Havana, 25 Jun (PL) -- Ricardo Alarcon, president of the National Assembly of the People's Government, said today that the certainty that Cuba is capable of surmounting the adverse economic situation resulting from the loss of its commercial allies is becoming more accepted throughout the world all the time.... |
FBIS4-34971_5 | Castro, Colombian Businessmen Review Trade | products and explains that he is the local distributor of Cuban zeolite, which is used in the agriculture sector, "to manufacture fodder, soft drink filters, and beer filters." Speaking of trade with Cuba, he says his company has "imported 3,000 tons of zeolite this year" and has plans to import 5,000 tons by year end.... |
FBIS4-34971_8 | Castro, Colombian Businessmen Review Trade | in the research sector. We are now completing the construction of a center that has already begun to produce monoclonal antibodies. These are tremendously important, not only for the diagnosis of diseases, but also for the struggle against cancer, where new theories and possibilities have appeared. ``I think there is a... |
FBIS4-34973_0 | UN Population Fund Signs 2 Research Agreements | BFN [Report by Susana del Calvo from the "Evening Information Review"] [Text] Cuba and the UN Population Fund signed two agreements aimed at carrying out research on the territorial distribution of the population and the dissemination of information regarding the various forms of contraception available to the Cuban po... |
FBIS4-34981_1 | TRABAJADORES Views Labor-Management Cooperation | or inadequate systemic structures within the administration of the enterprises. Although this does not justify administrative errors, it is true that the improper use of human potential in our work centers is in part due to what many call the spider web, a thick bundle of structures, mechanisms, formulas, and outdated ... |
FBIS4-34982_0 | Commentary on `Great Strides' in Basic Industries | BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon from the "Evening Information Review"] [Text] The seminar on business opportunities in Cuba, sponsored in Havana this week by the British magazine THE ECONOMIST, revealed the great strides that have been made by the foreign investment process in Cuba's basic industry. The basic indust... |
FBIS4-34986_0 | Argentina Provides Aid in Counternarcotic Efforts | BFN [Text] Deputy Planning Minister Maria Teresa Orellana de Rendon announced yesterday that the Argentine Government will provide economic and technical assistance to El Salvador to prevent drug abuse and fight drug trafficking in the country. Orellana de Rendon, who was accompanied by Argentine Ambassador Roberto Hor... |
FBIS4-34997_0 | Implications of Soaring Commodities Prices Viewed | BFN ["Special report" by former Central Bank President Rodolfo Rossi] [Text] Buenos Aires, 24 Jun -- The rise in the prices of nearly all raw materials on international markets (as well as those of commodities [preceding word in English] of basic manufactured goods) poses the question of whether we are witnessing a gen... |
FBIS4-35014_0 | Bank of Mexico To Maintain Monetary Policy | BFN [Report by Jesus Rangel M.] [Text] The Bank of Mexico [Banxico] does not intend to devalue the peso in relation to the dollar or alter its monetary and exchange policy. In addition, the bank will handle interest rates, exchange rates, international monetary reserves, and other variables to counter exchange market s... |
FBIS4-35033_2 | SNA President Views Trade Negotiations | which have been made have caused greater concern in the SNA. It is still not clear whether Chile will adhere to NAFTA or will sign a bilateral agreement. Subsidies In addition to the previously mentioned concern, Chilean farmers feel uncertainty about the possibility that an initiative like NAFTA could have an impact o... |
FBIS4-35039_0 | Government Forms National Council Against Poverty | CSO [Article by Matilde Oliva] [Text] President Frei has said that the government wishes to include all sectors of national life in the struggle against poverty. He made a statement to this effect when he presided over the ceremony at which the National Council Against Poverty was established. The organization, which h... |
FBIS4-35049_0 | Implications of Soaring Commodities Prices Viewed | BFN ["Special report" by former Central Bank President Rodolfo Rossi] [Text] Buenos Aires, 24 Jun -- The rise in the prices of nearly all raw materials on international markets (as well as those of commodities [preceding word in English] of basic manufactured goods) poses the question of whether we are witnessing a gen... |
FBIS4-35052_2 | Explains Measures Taken | have used all regular means to confront the crisis. We have reached a point now when we feel we must take the extraordinary measures afforded us by the Constitution and laws without delay. The Development Ministry will be in charge of placing price controls on basic articles by applying a consumer protection law. It is... |
FBIS4-35052_3 | Explains Measures Taken | income of the sectors that have been most negatively affected by the current crisis. Furthermore, in addition to implementing foreign exchange and price controls, we will adopt measures to control the financial institutions. We are willing to stringently apply all necessary norms to see that banking institutions act co... |
FBIS4-35084_0 | Government Suspends Oil, Equipment Exports | BFN [Text] Mexico City, 27 Jun (NOTIMEX) -- It was officially announced today that Mexico has suspended its oil and oil derivatives exports to Angola and oil refining and transportation equipment to Libya thus abiding by two resolutions issued by the United Nations. The agreements, published in the Federation's officia... |
FBIS4-35104_7 | Army Commander Pinochet Views Czech Trip | discussing the details... [Oyarzun] What materiel do they produce in Switzerland? [Pinochet] Contrary to what most people imagine, Switzerland has very important war materiel factories. They manufacture anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft cannons, radar, and small weapons of very good quality. [passage omitted] [... |
FBIS4-35114_1 | Congressman Views U.S. Radar Station Closings | "The quantity of cocaine base and cocaine hydrochloride leaving the country has not changed." He announced the arrival of U.S. State Department officials who will meet with local officials and explain the suspension of the U.S. cooperation provided by the radar installations. He recalled that this support ended on 1 Ma... |
FBIS4-35115_1 | Air Force Resources Lacking Against Traffickers | the Yurimaguas radar, but it was not so. The Peruvian Air Force [FAP] and the U.S. Embassy were also not unaware of the serious defects affecting the radar. The Yurimaguas radar merely served for dissuasive purposes. To avoid the radar's range, drug traffickers were forced to use longer but safer flight routes. At any ... |
FBIS4-35123_1 | Editorial Examines U.S. Trade Ties, Challenges | on a piece of paper and delivered to whomever might be interested. If there had been a time for that kind of U.S. Latin American policy, it has now become obsolete. U.S. internal problems, particularly the creation of jobs -- as was stressed by Brown during his interview in Rio de Janeiro yesterday -- have become part ... |
FBIS4-35123_3 | Editorial Examines U.S. Trade Ties, Challenges | classification of "large emerging market," and acting in accord with the norms the United States want to apply to countries with less power than itself. It will mean sealing an economic alliance with deep internal social and economic consequences and speeding up the great transformation of our industries and services, ... |
FBIS4-35146_0 | `Significant Increase' in Asylum Seekers Noted | BFN [Report by reporter Rothschild Francois] [Excerpt] The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 785 Haitian boat people on the high seas in three days, according to State Department spokesman, Michael McCurry, who adds that these numbers represent a significant increase in the number of people requesting asylum, compared to previo... |
FBIS4-35149_1 | Reina Cited on `Misunderstanding' With Perry | begun on the possible transfer of "gringo" troops in Panama to Honduras, as was hinted by U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry. "To open a discussion on the operation of that base in Honduras, a forum [foro] is needed because Palmerola is under Honduran jurisdiction. It is based on an agreement that never went to (the ... |
FBIS4-35173_0 | Study Blames U.S., PRC for Most Dumping Cases | BFN [Article by Patricia Munoz Rios] [Text] The United States and the PRC are the two countries that conduct the most unfair trade practices in the Mexican market. Together, they are responsible for 56 percent of all cases of dumping reported in the current six-year period, according to a study conducted by the Dumping... |
FBIS4-35230_1 | Kurdish Leaders Agree To Meet; Arrange Cease-Fire | Kurdistan Leader Jalal Talabani will meet in Turkey to end the clashes between their supporters in northern Iraq. It has been ascertained that Talabani is already on his way. It has also been ascertained that Turkey has been trying to convince the two sides to end the clashes in northern Iraq and that these efforts hav... |
FBIS4-35232_0 | Paper Says Talabani `Gang' Committed Massacre | BFN [Text] Al-Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan, 30 May (INA)--The renegade Jalal Talabani's gang has carried out killings and acts of destruction in Kou Senjaq, claiming the lives of 250 people, including 150 civilian women and children. In a report published today, citing arrivals from that area, the newspaper AL-JUMHURI... |
FBIS4-35233_0 | Press: King Fahd `Lost His Mind' | BFN [Text] Baghdad, 28 May (INA)--AL-JUMHURIYAH has said that recent changes in the UN Security Council, which has recently witnessed support by all UN Security Council member states -- with the exception of the United States and Britain -- for the lifting the blockade, have made Saudi King Fahd lose his balance and ab... |
FBIS4-35317_0 | Khamene'i, Hashemi-Rafsanjani Mark 'Id al-Ghadir Khumm | BFN [Excerpts] [passage omitted] [Announcer] In Tehran this morning, officials and authorities of the Islamic system gathered in Imam Khomeyni's mosque, may he be admitted to God's paradise, in order to offer congratulations on the occasion of the auspicious 'Id al-Ghadir Khumm, the 'id of guardianship [velayat] and im... |
FBIS4-35345_1 | `Rejection' of Proposed UN Resolution Praised | neither theories nor slogans intended for boasting. Rather, they a realistic and firm fact that possesses all requirements of progress, self-protection, and survival throughout Yemen. This has been proved by the recent confrontation of the secession drama. The entire international community has come to realize that the... |
FBIS4-35380_8 | Foreign Ministers of Non-Aligned Movement Meet Mubarak Delivers Address | gentlemen, let us agree at this meeting on a new, clear method for the movement to guide our actions and intentions and to consolidate the benefits we have gained through our long strife, so that we will not waste our past but will take advantage of our present and look forward to our future. We must carefully and soun... |
FBIS4-35384_1 | Foreign Ministers of Non-Aligned Movement Meet Velayati Addresses Meeting | integrity and those denouncing ethnic cleansing. He believed that under these circumstances, it is necessary to ensure that the ongoing efforts to find a settlement would at least be based on the principles already adopted by the General Assembly, the Security Council and the London conference. "Based on past experienc... |
FBIS4-35430_2 | Muslim Brotherhood Condemns Recent Violence | This has been manifested by the fact that the Brotherhood has taken part in all aspects of life within the framework of the constitution and laws in force. Brotherhood members have participated in local and parliamentary councils, professional associations, and other such institutions along with other political parties... |
FBIS4-35447_0 | U.S. Policy on Radical Islamic Regimes Criticized | BFN [Commentary by Tzvi Bar'el: "What Counts Is That They Were Legally Elected"] [Text] President Mubarak, King Husayn, King Fahd, the presidents of the five Muslim republics in the former USSR, and Yasir 'Arafat have a problem. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake recently issued a new dictum, whereby the U.S. admin... |
FBIS4-35447_1 | U.S. Policy on Radical Islamic Regimes Criticized | Resistance Movement] in Israel to undermine the PLO's authority and to count on the support of the United States when it is elected?" A White House official explained that the United States was getting ready for a possible scenario in Algeria, whereby the Islamic Salvation Front topples the regime (or, at least becomes... |
FBIS4-35447_3 | U.S. Policy on Radical Islamic Regimes Criticized | Islam. How long can undemocratic regimes curb religious opposition movements which are seeking to install a worldwide Muslim regime but are in the meantime prepared to make do with wrecking the current regimes? Is the United States prepared to come to the aid of every regime seeking to eliminate its religious oppositio... |
FBIS4-35449_0 | Coastal Aquifer Water Quality Said Deteriorating | BFN [Report by 'Amiram Kohen] [Text] "If the salinization and pollution of the coastal aquifer continues at the present rate, the level of water salinity and pollution will by the year 2018 be such as to render 25 percent of the aquifer water impotable, while the salinity rate of over 50 percent of the water will be ab... |
FBIS4-35450_0 | Commissioner Addresses Knesset on Water Quality | BFN [Text] Water Commissioner Gid'on Tzur says that autonomy agreements could critically endanger Israel's water supply. In a briefing to the Knesset State Audit Committee, the commissioner said the country's water supply could be damaged by seeping sewage and industrial waste from the autonomous regions. He said he be... |
FBIS4-35451_0 | Motion on Transfer of Water Sources Rejected | BFN [Text] The Knesset plenum rejected a proposed bill by Likud Knesset Member [MK] Eliyahu Ben-Elisar that any political agreement that transfers responsibility for water resources from Israel would require the approval of at least 80 MK's. MK Ben-Elisar said that if the water resources are under Palestinian control t... |
FBIS4-35461_0 | Reportage on PUK-KDP Clashes, Negotiations Clashes in Irbil Reported | BFN [Excerpt] Irbil -- Regrettably, sporadic armed clashes took place in some quarters in Irbil on the evening of Sunday, 29 May 1994. As a result of these clashes, a number of people from both parties [the Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK] were killed or wounded, some houses w... |
FBIS4-35462_0 | Reportage on PUK-KDP Clashes, Negotiations Parties Fail To Achieve Cease-Fire | BFN [Text] Ankara, May 30 (AFP) -- Rival Iraqi Kurdish factions met in Silopi, southeast Turkey, on Monday [30 May] but failed to agree on an end to their month-long clashes in northern Iraq, Kurdish sources said. Officials from the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) emerged from th... |
FBIS4-35465_0 | Iran's Support for Islamic Movement Criticized | BFN [Unattributed commentary] [Text] The terrorist group, the so-called Islamic Movement, thought that through the use of weapons it could generally obstruct the liberation march of our Kurdish people, and in particular, harm the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and isolate it from its masses. In order to implement its agg... |
FBIS4-35465_1 | Iran's Support for Islamic Movement Criticized | group did not value the lives of the people of Kurdistan. It directed its guns against the innocent people in al-Sulaymaniyah, Irbil, Raniyah, Halabjah, Klar, and other Kurdistani cities. In view of this foolish action, the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, in cooperation with the angry people, chased the mem... |
FBIS4-35471_0 | Ambassador Meets With Russian Duma Chairman | BFN [Text] Ivan Rybkin, the chairman of the Russian Duma -- the Russian parliament -- received at the parliament in Moscow yesterday the Iraqi ambassador to the Russian Federation. At the outset, the ambassador expressed Iraq's gratitude for Russia's recent position at the Security Council and its demand that the block... |
FBIS4-35485_1 | Hashemi-Rafsanjani on Saudi Ties, Foreign Debt | the president answered questions raised by the students and lecturers. We draw your attention to a report by our correspondent: Speaking about relations with Saudi Arabia, the president said: We are in favor of cooperation with all Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia, but we will not retreat from our rights. The ... |
FBIS4-35490_0 | Daily Suggests Reconsidering Ties | BFN [Text] Tehran, June 1, IRNA -- A morning daily here Wednesday [1 June] recommended the Iranian authorities to reconsider Tehran's relations with London and take a more calculated and deliberate stance vis-a-vis Britain. Criticizing the recent British charges against Iran including the alleged Tehran's support for t... |
FBIS4-35590_0 | Buwayz Comments on UN Complaint to UN | BFN [News conference by Foreign Minister Faris Buwayz with unidentified correspondents at Beirut Airport on 1 June--recorded] [Excerpt] [Buwayz] For us, the return of the permanent headquarters of ESCWA [UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia] to Beirut is an important issue. Lebanon was the seat of this or... |
FBIS4-35592_1 | Shiite Leader Interviewed on Mideast Problems | we have lost all our means of defense. I stress that the ummah has not used all its offensive resources but has merely suspended the use of its means for defense. [passage omitted] Our condition at present is such that the Arab plan has failed and the Islamic plan has failed. The only place where the Islamic program co... |
FBIS4-35593_4 | Discusses Iran's Role in Middle East | Islamic Republic of Iran and the Arab world. [ETTELA'AT] In view of the political, economic, and security developments in the Middle East, what difficulties do you foresee for Islamism and what avenues do you perceive for its future growth? [Shams-al-Din] The most important issue for the Arab and non- Arab Muslims, aft... |
FBIS4-35684_0 | `Reconciliation' Between Kurdish Factions Viewed | BFN [Column by Nasrallah al-Dawudi: "Ill-fate"] [Text] The current fighting between the agents in our beloved Iraqi Kurdistan has revealed several facts. First, it has revealed the enemies' real intentions behind the creation of the so-called "security zone." The pages of their scenario are being blown away one after t... |
FBIS4-35689_0 | Drilling Company To Dig Water Wells in al-Najaf | BFN [Text] The Iraqi Drilling Compnay, which belongs to the Oil Ministry, has scored higher percentages in drilling water wells for the General Irrigation and Land Reclamation Establishment in different Iraqi governorates. A spokesman for the company said a contract was signed with the Establishment to drill 200 wells ... |
FBIS4-35690_0 | Major Grain Harvest Campaign in Ninawa Reported | BFN [Text] Nineveh -- A wheat and barley harvest campaign to defeat the unfair food embargo on Iraq and to ensure food for the people has begun in Ninawa Governorate with the participation of 1,900 harvesters and hundreds of trucks to transport grain from harvest areas to more than 44 marketing centers scattered all ov... |
FBIS4-35713_1 | FIS Sources Note Strained Ties With AIG | quarters promoting "an extremist ideology combining al-salafiyah [Islamic reform movement], political jihad, and repudiation of society," according to an Algeria leading figure. The leading figure pointed out that most of the AIG's cadres "came from Afghanistan and did not participate with the FIS in its political acti... |
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