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FBIS4-36940_0 | Barzani, Talabani Meet To Boost `Reconciliation' | BFN [Report by 'Adnan Husayn: "Barzani and Talabani Meet in Silopi, Turkey"] [Excerpt] London -- In a surprise step, the two Iraqi Kurdish leaders Mas'ud Barzani and Jalal Talabani moved to Turkey yesterday and held a bilateral meeting in the city of Silopi near the border with Iraq. Kurdish sources have told AL-SHARQ ... |
FBIS4-36941_0 | Talabani, Barzani Discuss Kurdistan Situation | BFN [Text] A delegation from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK], led by PUK Secretary General brother Jalal Talabani, met with a delegation from the Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP], led by KDP Leader Mas'ud Barzani, in the city of Silopi in Turkey at 1030 yesterday. A Turkish Government delegation attended the mee... |
FBIS4-36942_0 | Barzani Radio: 51 Killed in PUK `Massacre' | BFN [Text] Dear citizens: We will broadcast the report on the al- Sulaymaniyah massacres, adding the latest information on the shooting of defenseless civilians by the forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK] on Monday, 13 June, during a peaceful procession to lay to rest the body of martyr 'Uthman Qadir Munaww... |
FBIS4-36945_1 | Prosecutor Denies Reports of Lockerbie Confession | (AFP) -- Lebanon on Tuesday dismissed a claim attributed to a Palestinian activist that he had placed the bomb which exploded on a US airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988. Yusuf Sha'ban "never said that he had placed the bomb in the Pan Am plane" that killed 270 people, state prosecutor Munif 'Uwaydat to... |
FBIS4-36962_0 | Arab League Official on Lockerbie Confession | BFN [Text] Cairo, 14 Jun (MENA)--Counselor Tal'at Hamid, press adviser to the Arab League secretary general, said the confession by Yusuf Sha'ban, member of the Fatah-the Revolutionary Council, that he was responsible for the bombing of the American plane over Lockerbie in 1988, is not the first of its kind that acquit... |
FBIS4-37020_0 | U.S. Ban on Export of Supercomputers Bypassed | BFN [Report by Dudi Goldman] [Text] Several Israeli institutions recently purchased sophisticated American computers with a capacity equivalent to that of a supercomputer, which the U.S. Defense Department has banned from being exported to Israel. The United States restricts exports of fast supercomputers to many count... |
FBIS4-37026_0 | Turkish Charge Says Trade To Resume in June | BFN [Text] Baghdad, 8 Jun (INA)--Sa'di Jalshar [name as received], Turkey's charge d'affaires in Baghdad, has said that mid-June will see the implementation of the Turkish Government's decision to resume trade activities with Iraq through al-Khabur border post. AL-JUMHURIYAH today reports that Jalshar's assertions were... |
FBIS4-37040_1 | Besharati's Visit to Ankara Viewed | political and security matters between Iran and Turkey. In a statement after his meeting with Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, 'Ali Besharati-Jahromi recalled the favorable relations between the two countries and stressed that neither a security nor a political problem exists between Iran and Turkey. He also described the ... |
FBIS4-37041_0 | Commentary Views Security Ties With Turkey | BFN [Unattributed commentary] [Text] 'Ali Mohammad Besharati, the interior minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Ankara yesterday for a two-day official visit. Mr. Besharati announced the agenda of the talks as being the expansion of security, military, political, and p... |
FBIS4-37047_2 | Minister's Comments Spur Doubts About GATT | horses have been stolen. Equally inexplicably, Mr. Mukherjee throws the onus on the public to debate and advise what legislative changes are needed for incorporating the GATT requirements and provisions within the Indian legislative framework. Specifically, he wants to know whether a law on plant breeders' rights shoul... |
FBIS4-37082_2 | Seminar Views Islamic Groups' Differences, Accord | the weakness or strength of some group or the availability or absence of funding for it. Others believe that a distinction should be made between two things: The political approach and the actual behavior of the Islamic groups, with all their differences. Regarding the Brotherhood's political approach, we find that muc... |
FBIS4-37100_0 | Officers Reportedly Killed in Baghdad Rebel Attack | BFN [Text] [Words indistinct] early this month used hand grenades in attacking the car of [words indistinct]. The tyrant party's official in the area who was sitting next to the district commissioner suffered serious wounds. The attack follows an escalated campaign of random arrests in the district in which scores of i... |
FBIS4-37101_0 | Kurd Factions Blame Each Other for `Massacre' | BFN [Text] Ankara, June 14 (AFP) -- The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) blamed rival Kurd leaders for the "massacre" of mourners at a slain rival's funeral in northern Iraq, in a statement received by AFP here on Thursday. The rival Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) had said PUK gunmen shot dead 51 people and wounded... |
FBIS4-37103_0 | Minister Discusses Ties With PRC Official | BFN [Text] Baghdad, 16 Jun (INA)--Staff General Husayn Kamil Hasan, minister of industry and minerals, today discussed with Wang Changyi, China's assistant foreign minister, and his delegation means to bolster the ties of cooperation between the two friendly countries in the industrial fields. The minister urged Chines... |
FBIS4-37107_0 | Article Discusses Growth of Wahhabism | BFN [Unsigned article in the "Above the Red Line" column: "Wahhabism--Call of the Devil"] [Text] Mr. 'Udayy Saddam Husayn has received a letter from the citizen T.S.D. [as published] explaining the threat posed by the appearance in the country of the Wahhabist movement, which receives direct support from the Saudi regi... |
FBIS4-37162_0 | Foreign Minister's Visit to Iraq Previewed | BFN [Editorial: "Iran-Iraq Ties"] [Text] An Iranian delegation left yesterday for Baghdad to prepare a visit next month by Foreign Minister 'Ali Akbar Velayati, the first high-ranking official to visit Iraq since the 1991 Iraq-Kuwait conflict. Nearly six years after the bloody Iraq-Iran war which ended in a humiliating... |
FBIS4-37162_1 | Foreign Minister's Visit to Iraq Previewed | its invasion of Kuwait, and its economy left in a shambles following the U.N. trade embargo, has rebuilt its infrastructure at a stupendous pace. It is said that 90 percent of its transport and communication links have been restored. Iraq's starving children are only useful media images to buttress its campaign against... |
FBIS4-37225_9 | Visit by Presidents of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso Al-Qadhdhafi Addresses Banquet | this, we can still hear insolent statements full of disdain to the international community. This is the stubborn mentality that we are facing. We recently heard that a Palestinian person admitted responsibility for causing the explosion of the Pan Am aircraft. He made this confession before a court. The day after, the ... |
FBIS4-37286_1 | Positive Reaction to New U.S. Line | Dr. al-Turabi told a U.S. envoy that by pursuing a course hostile to Sudan and its Islamic government and by criticizing the application of the Shari'ah [Islamic law], the United States is moving into quicksands dangerous to it and its interests. Dr. al-Turabi made that remark after the U.S. envoys expressed concern ab... |
FBIS4-37307_1 | Iraq Said To Offer Alliance Against `Common Enemies' | Tehran is now convinced that a change in Iraq's leadership in current conditions would not serve Iran's long-term interests. This is why Tehran is expressing its willingness to help Iraqi President Saddam Husayn to improve his position at least for the time being. The two sides are working on a number of issues of "com... |
FBIS4-37349_8 | RESALAT Reports on Majles Sessions 8 May | in circulation, deregulate trade, unify the foreign exchange rate and strengthen the private sector. In view of the social and economic consequences of this policy for society, especially the oppressed and vulnerable classes, attention must be given to the following issues: 1 - The government and the executive official... |
FBIS4-37349_10 | RESALAT Reports on Majles Sessions 8 May | the nation's production is in their powerful hands. Beytollah Ja'fari, deputy from Urmia, was the final preagenda speaker. He said: The workers are the most valuable and profitable group in our society, and the nation's productive life is in their powerful hands. I hope that one day we will be able to cap the oil wells... |
FBIS4-37349_15 | RESALAT Reports on Majles Sessions 8 May | the Agricultural Commission concerning the Motion To Form the Supreme Agriculture and Rural Development Council, continued consideration of which was deferred to the next session. Measures Taken by Majles Commissions Ministry of Intelligence Employment Bill According to Article 21 of the aforementioned bill, to procure... |
FBIS4-37350_2 | RESALAT Reports on Majles Sessions 10 May | embargo against Iran; are among the factors and roots of inflation and high prices. In this same regard Daneshyar said: It is a very difficult task to determine the percentages of the above factors, inflation and high prices. Continuing, the deputy from Mahshahr said: In view of the destructive and corrupting effects o... |
FBIS4-37351_12 | RESALAT Reports on Majles Sessions 11 May | was approved years ago, and to construct a building on the donated land. He also mentioned the shortage of athletic facilities in his electoral district. Legislation Motion on Procedures for Rendering Obligatory Service for Graduates in the Judicial Sciences The first item on the agenda at yesterday's open Majles sessi... |
FBIS4-37352_8 | RESALAT Reports on Majles Sessions 15 May | people. The reasons are: (1) The lack of executive guarantees in the policies of the plan and the lack of financial regulations in the government, the government's failure to intervene in the market for goods needed by the people, and the failure to control prices. (2) The banking facilities given to the government and... |
FBIS4-37352_15 | RESALAT Reports on Majles Sessions 15 May | to the registry office at the place where the property is located. If they do not file during this period and if there is no excuse justified under religious law, the appeal will be considered rejected. Iran-Russia-Finland International Shipping Agreement The second item on the agenda was the report from the Housing an... |
FBIS4-37423_0 | Bomb Explodes in Crowded Shrine in Mashhad `Terrorist Act' Denounced | BFN [Text] Tehran, June 20, IRNA -- The terrorist Mojahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) has once again committed a heinous crime, this time at the mausoleum of Imam Reza (A.S.) [peace be upon him]. Since June 20, 1981, the people of Iran have been victimized by this terrorist outfit that has always underestimated the res... |
FBIS4-37424_1 | Bomb Explodes in Crowded Shrine in Mashhad Radio Condemns Mojahedin-e Khalq | and human sensitivities of the Iranian people and the Muslims of the world. It has generated a wave of abhorrence among the people and the officials and is being condemned at home and abroad. The question that arises here is: What was the objective behind this unprecedented crime? Why did the cold-hearted Monafeqin cho... |
FBIS4-37425_1 | Bomb Explodes in Crowded Shrine in Mashhad MKO Denies Involvement | and the Air France office in Tehran, ascribing these acts to the MKO. We now draw your attention to the interview by the leader of the Iranian Resistance, brother mojahed Mas'ud Rajavi, on the atrocity perpetrated on Monday by the misanthropic clerics in the hallowed precincts of the shrine of Imam Reza, peace be upon ... |
FBIS4-37481_0 | Changes To Oil Pipeline Accord With Turkey Rejected | BFN [Text] Vienna, June 18 (INA) -- Iraq's Oil Minister, Dr. Safa' Hadi Jawad, has reiterated Iraq's rejection of new conditions or changes on the Iraqi-Turkish accord to reoperate the Iraqi oil pipeline crossing the Turkish territories for cleaning and repairing it. In a press statement here on Friday [17 June], Dr. J... |
FBIS4-37483_0 | Political Islam Review: AL-SHA'B 14 Jun | BFN [Editorial report] The following is a comprehensive review of all items in the 14 June issue of the Arabic-language newspaper Cairo AL-SHA'B that pertain to political Islamic issues. CONTENTS: 1. Chief Editor on Islamic Awakening In Turkey 2. Chief Editor Notes Destruction of Liberties 3. Lawyers Moderation, Nation... |
FBIS4-37532_4 | U.S. Initiative for S. Asian Security Viewed | becoming unbearable for India. Pakistan is providing moral (and supposedly also material) support to the Kashmiri freedom-fighters. Since India is not likely to accede to the demands of the right of self-determination of the Kashmiris, there is bound to be a flare-up between the two rivals at some point. And since both... |
FBIS4-37535_1 | Opposition Official Criticizes U.S. Stand | and its Arab and non-Arab allies are only interested in the implementation of the UN resolutions that deal with the destruction of Iraq's military, economic, and political resources, but have no interest in human rights and freedoms nor any serious interest in implementing Resolution 688 or in putting an end to the Ira... |
FBIS4-37536_0 | Exodus to Iranian Border Noted | BFN [Excerpt] Tehran, 18 Jun -- The human rights documentary center in Iraq today sent an urgent appeal to Max van der Stoel, special rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Iraq, to halt a new collective exodus from various parts of Iraq. In an urgent cable to Der Stoel, the Tehran based center said that th... |
FBIS4-37545_0 | PUK Attack Against IMP, KDP Forces Repelled | BFN [Text] Sanandaj, Kurdistan Prov., June 18, IRNA -- The Islamic Movement Party (IMP) and Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Iraq repelled an attack by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) forces on their joint base in Asous region Friday, an IMP spokesman said here Saturday. According to the spokesman after being rep... |
FBIS4-37549_0 | Continued Reaction to Mashhad Bombing Reported SAIRI Chairman Implicates Iraq | BFN [Excerpt] Tehran, 21 Jun (KUNA) -- Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, chairman of the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq [SAIRI] expressed his conviction in Tehran today that the Iraqi regime was involved in the Mashhad explosion which led to the killing and injuring of many Iranian and foreign visi... |
FBIS4-37550_0 | Continued Reaction to Mashhad Bombing Reported Daily Says West Indirectly Responsible | BFN [Text] Tehran, June 22, IRNA -- A morning English daily here Wednesday [22 June] criticized the support of some of the Western governments for the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) and argued that the said countries were as much responsible for the last Monday's tragedy in Mashhad as the MKO themselves... |
FBIS4-37552_0 | President Interviewed on Foreign Relations | BFN [Interview with President Hashemi-Rafsanjani by former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas and other members of selected panel in Crans Montana on 16 June -- live; in French, with passage by passage translation into Persian by unidentified moderator; italics indicate portions audible in French that differ from Per... |
FBIS4-37553_2 | Velayati Views Role of Hizballah | side. Our principle is: First, the unity of the country should be preserved, and, second, the conflict should be settled peacefully. [DER SPIEGEL] Yet South Yemen has reported Iranian fighter aircraft in the north. [Velayati] This is simply not true. [DER SPIEGEL] However, the Islamic-conservative north is closer to Ir... |
FBIS4-37611_5 | Peres on Rabin War Remarks, Talks With Syria | as I am concerned, I have no doubt that there is no alternative to peace, neither for the Syrians nor for us. [Zissowitz] The government today marks two years in power. Could you estimate whether the signing of a peace treaty with Jordan or with Syria can be expected next year? [Peres] Look, I cannot make any prophecie... |
FBIS4-37626_0 | `Warming' in Ties With Southeast Asia States Seen | BFN [Report by political correspondent 'Imanu'el Rosen] [Excerpts] There has been a warming in relations between Israel and the Muslim countries of southeast Asia. Foreign Ministry officials from Bangladesh and Pakistan secretly visited Israel several weeks ago. Sources at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, however, do not ... |
FBIS4-37645_0 | Envoy to UN Accuses Iraq of Border Violations | BFN [Text] United Nations, New York, June 21, IRNA -- Iran held Baghdad responsible for the aggressions of Iraqi-based counter-revolutionaries on Iranian territory and said that the government of Iraq would be responsible for its consequences. Iran's permanent representative to the U.N. Kamal Kharrazi in a letter to th... |
FBIS4-37654_0 | Regime, KDP Reportedly Resume Negotiations | BFN [Report by Zuhayr Qusaybati: "Barzani Has Resumed Negotiations With Baghdad"] [Excerpts] London -- AL-HAYAH has learned from informed Iraqi Kurdish sources that Mas'ud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP], has resumed negotiations with Baghdad. The sources said that the party sent one of Barzani'... |
FBIS4-37655_0 | Paper Refutes Reports of Calm in Kurdistan | BFN [Text] Baghdad, June 23, INA -- AL-THAWRAH newspaper of Baghdad said the natural state that realizes peace and security to Iraqi Kurds is the state that rejects concepts of the traitors and agents and commits to Iraq's integrity. A paper article here today said that events taking place in north Iraq scoff at the re... |
FBIS4-37656_0 | Turkoman Party Rejects Involvement in Conflicts | BFN [Unattributed report: "Iraqi Turkoman Party Refuses To Be Dragged Into Conflicts in Northern Iraq"] [Text] London, AL-HAYAH -- The Iraqi Turkoman National Party has called for the withdrawal of the armed militias from residential areas in northern Iraq and emphasized the need for "a return to the language of dialog... |
FBIS4-37660_0 | Paper Reports Drug Scarcity Fuels Disease | BFN [Text] The number of patients who called at popular medical clinics in 1993 complaining of different diseases was more than 8 million, while the number of patients who called at these clinics in 1992 was not more than 6 million. Dr. 'Imad Jassam [not further identified] has said the increase in the number of patien... |
FBIS4-37661_0 | Lack of Heart Medicines Due to `Unfair Embargo' | BFN [Text] The National Medicines Selection Board at the Ministry of Health has approved the dispensing of Izoline 50 mg [name as transliterated] to patients suffering from angina pectoris [a heart attack] instead of Angipist [name as transliterated]. A Health Ministry source said that this measure was taken due to the... |
FBIS4-37673_1 | Prime Minister Interviewed on Islamist Threat | professors. Why these targets and not just government representatives? [Sifi] You have to try and read these terrorist acts. They are seeking to upset the country's social and economic life, and they no doubt believed that through these acts they could act upon the population, bring them to the brink, and cause them to... |
FBIS4-37679_0 | Lawyer Begins Hunger Strike Over Madani Case | BFN [Report by Majdi Hilmi] [Text] 'Abd-al-'Aziz Muhammad, representative of the Cairo Lawyers Association and deputy chairman of the Egyptian Human Rights Organization [EHRO], has begun a hunger strike at the association's headquarters in Cairo. He said he would continue the hunger strike until Prosecutor General Raja... |
FBIS4-37693_0 | King Husayn, Delegation Continue Talks in Washington Debt, Aid Discussed | BFN [Report by 'Ali Hamati from Washington] [Text] The joint Jordanian-U.S. committee held its first meeting at the U.S. State Department earlier today. Information Minister Dr. Jawad al-'Anani, who chaired the Jordanian side, said discussion revolved around the framework for the committee's action. The Jordanian forei... |
FBIS4-37730_3 | Political Islam Review: AL-SHA'B 17 Jun | and Expression Award" to 'Abd-al-Sattar Husayn, AL-SHA'B's military correspondent, who is serving a prison sentence in Masra'at Turah prison for publishing "military news." The award was given to show "solidarity with his cause. He has been subjected to the worst possible human rights violations as a price for speaking... |
FBIS4-37750_0 | Violent Incidents Continue Throughout Country FIS: 200 Killed in Jun | BFN [Text] In a communique issued in Bonn, the Islamic Salvation Front [FIS] has just said that more than 200 people have been killed by the security forces in Algeria since the beginning of the month. |
FBIS4-37751_0 | Violent Incidents Continue Throughout Country FIS: 37 Bodies Found in Mass Grave | BFN [Text] In Algeria, according to the representatives abroad of the Islamic Salvation Front [FIS], about 200 people have been killed by the security forces since the beginning of the month. According to the FIS, they include 37 young people, civilians, executed at Hama, a district in Algiers, by the security forces. ... |
FBIS4-37752_3 | Political Islam Review: AL-SHA'B 17 Jun | and Expression Award" to 'Abd-al-Sattar Husayn, AL-SHA'B's military correspondent, who is serving a prison sentence in Masra'at Turah prison for publishing "military news." The award was given to show "solidarity with his cause. He has been subjected to the worst possible human rights violations as a price for speaking... |
FBIS4-37758_0 | Pro-Government Iraqi Kurdish Party Ends Meeting | BFN [Text] The Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP] has reaffirmed that the Iraqi Kurds are standing in one line against the forces of evil and aggression in defense of the unity, dignity, and independence of great Iraq under President leader Saddam Husayn. This came in a statement issued by the party at the end of an ordi... |
FBIS4-37764_0 | International Church Symposium Meets in Baghdad Urges End of Injustice to Country | BFN [Text] The Church Symposium in the Service of Peace and Humanity has concluded its work. The symposium, which was attended by Dr. 'Abd-al-Mun'im Ahmad Salih, minister of awqaf and religious affairs and several ulema and Muslim and Sabian men of religion, recommended the formation of a standing committee with the ta... |
FBIS4-37779_1 | Peres Interviewed on Labor Party `Crisis' | Peres rejected the reports about various "deals" between him and Rabin to buy quiet in the party with disgust. His reaction: "What are we, horse traders?" The foreign minister made these angry remarks on the day newspapers were carrying reports of Yosi Beilin's imminent appointment as a cabinet minister, describing him... |
FBIS4-37792_0 | Reaction to Mashhad Bombing Continues Velayati Urges Action Against MKO | BFN [Text] Shrine Abu Dhabi (UAE), June 23, IRNA -- The Islamic Republic of Iran on Thursday [23 June] urged the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) [ICO] to condemn Monday's [20 June] bomb blast at the holy shrine of Imam Reza (as) [expansion unknown] in Mashhad and take serious measures against the terrorist... |
FBIS4-37793_1 | Reaction to Mashhad Bombing Continues Rebel Radio Implicates Regime | search for the person or direction whence such acts emanate -- and these are people who are very skillful in perpetrating such acts -- we should, first and foremost, point an accusatory finger at the clerical regime. This is because this regime is basically a terrorist and terrorist- nurturing regime and has perpetrate... |
FBIS4-37799_3 | Kurdish Party Head Says West Supports Regime | economic situation of the country is bad, there have been riots. [Hidshri] All indications of stability are due to economic support from the West. [Dreger] What are your relations with the Iranian opposition? [Hidshri] We have good relations with all, except for the Mojahedin-e-Khalq and the monarchists. [Dreger] What ... |
FBIS4-37799_5 | Kurdish Party Head Says West Supports Regime | war allies are circling above the area. Their mandate is prolonged every six months, but it does not offer more long-term prospects. What would have to happen to secure the future of the Kurds? [Hidshri] The allies should regard the Kurdish issue as a political, not a humanitarian question. In Iraqi Kurdistan, only hum... |
FBIS4-37831_3 | Rabin Comments on Peace Process, Labor `Crisis' | infrastructure, it will be impossible to bring the Negev and the Galilee closer to the center of the country. The problem is not bringing Ari'el closer to the center of Israel, because it is already close geographically. The issue is expanding and developing the Galilee and the Negev. We fought unemployment. When we as... |
FBIS4-37834_2 | Reaction to Mashhad Bombing Continues Majles Official Decries `Tragedy' | Iran? Regarding the first question, let us start the discussion from this point: Who has not benefitted from Islam, Shiism, genuine Islam, the Ashura of Aba Abdullah, the shrine of the eighth imam, and the school of the family of the prophet? The faces of which powers have been slapped? If today, Iran's Islamic revolut... |
FBIS4-37885_1 | Weak Dollar Expected To Cut Oil Revenues | [23 June] the U.S. dollar sold at less than 100 Japanese yen, which is the lowest exchange rate since World War II. The value of the dollar against the German mark also dropped to less than 1.60 German marks to the dollar. International economic experts believe that until 1985, when the (Plaza) Accord was implemented t... |
FBIS4-37918_1 | Columnist Asks Authorities To Act on Exchange Rate | The monetary authorities will be unable to readjust the declared rates of exchange with the actual rate the money dealers adopt. To be able to carry out such a readjustment, the monetary authorities are called upon to either float or rectify the rate of exchange. Such a step will enable the rate of exchange to be contr... |
FBIS4-37942_1 | Foreign Minister Dembri Visits U.S.; Sifi in France | being the determination of identity, the number of voters, organization of the election campaign, and the required guarantees after the referendum. These matters have not been tackled yet. They should be tackled in accordance with the Security Council resolutions through direct negotiations between Morocco and the Poli... |
FBIS4-37973_5 | Al-Iryani on Crisis, U.S. Attitude | on the two cities is the same but we do not know why the international community's interest is concentrated on Aden. For us, Aden and al-Mukalla are the same and we hope that we will enter them without fighting. [Al-Jawhari] Don't you believe that the interest in Aden is the result of intentions to recognize it as the ... |
FBIS4-38002_0 | ICO Holds Talks With Afghan Leaders in Islamabad | BFN [Text] Jeddah, June 27, SPA -- The delegation of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) [ICO] started intensive talks with the representatives of the Afghan leaders in Islamabad on the on-going crisis in the country and the escalated situation and the difficult position being faced by the government which... |
FBIS4-38004_7 | Qaddumi Comments on Future of Gaza-Jericho | one of those who believe that this popular movement can and has the right to struggle. We are all facing a common enemy. The only differences are in the tactics and mode of tackling them. The fact is that our people, our cultural and historic legacy is Islamic. Our roots and foundations are Islamic. However, due to the... |
FBIS4-38046_2 | Article Criticizes U.S. Handling of NPT | take the initiative by resuming to supply fuel for the Tarapur Power Plant. It may be recalled that after India's peaceful nuclear testing in Pokharan in 1974, the U.S stopped supplying fuel for the plant in 1980-81 under its policy of coercion and regulation of nuclear nonproliferation. But, due to the (?determined) p... |
FBIS4-38046_5 | Article Criticizes U.S. Handling of NPT | could help compensate the U.S. favorably for this loss. Like India and Pakistan, another victim of the economic-interest-spurred by U.S. NPT policy is North Korea. By blowing out of proportion North Korea's nuclear capability, the U.S., on one hand, has been able to make its active role in nuclear nonproliferation felt... |
FBIS4-38096_0 | Investigation of Mashhad Bombing Continues President Assails Support for MKO | BFN [Text] Tehran, June 26, IRNA -- President Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani here Sunday [26 June] lashed out at certain countries pretending to advocate human rights and condemned their support for the terrorist Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO). "These countries through extensive financial, propaganda and political back... |
FBIS4-38098_0 | Investigation of Mashhad Bombing Continues Khamene'i Criticizes Rights Groups | BFN [Excerpts] During a speech at a meeting this morning with judiciary officials and judges from all over the country, His Eminence Ayatollah Khamene'i, the great leader of the Islamic revolution, stressed the importance of discipline and stability in the judiciary. [passage omitted] Criticizing those organizations th... |
FBIS4-38099_0 | Emami-Kashani Sermons Condemn Terrorism | BFN [Text] In his sermons today, Ayatollah Emami-Kashani, the acting Friday prayer leader of Tehran, set out to analyze the characteristics of the hypocritical elements responsible for the bomb blast in the shrine of Imam Reza, peace be upon him. He said: This savage act was in fact a declaration of war against Islam, ... |
FBIS4-38101_2 | Paper Hits Hashemi-Rafsanjani Remarks on U.S. Products | meant, first and foremost, to maintain the dividing line that separates us from America and to state to the world of Islam that the enmity that the great satan has toward Islam, the Muslims, and the deprived people will never be forgotten in history. We can go on and on in discussing this topic. But in this commentary ... |
FBIS4-38110_6 | Brotherhood, SLP Officials Discuss Alliance | People's Assembly. We have no thought of including Brotherhood members in the SLP's organizations. Both parties have their own political views and the desire to maintain independence. No party should be responsible for the other party's behavior. [Raghib] The society "Young Egypt," which operated before the [1952] revo... |
FBIS4-38111_2 | Muslim Brotherhood Leader Interviewed | say that with the preparation for the [national] dialogue and the exclusion of the Muslim Brothers, the situation required a justification for this exclusion and for preparing the way to rally the participants in the dialogue against the Islamic trend. Other explanations cite fears and expectations by officials based o... |
FBIS4-38119_0 | UK Seen as `First Loser' If Sanctions Escalate | BFN [Unattributed report: "Libya: Britain Would Be the First Loser If Sanctions Are Escalated"] [Text] Cairo, AL-HAYAH -- A highly placed Libyan diplomatic source in Cairo has warned British officials against continuing to reject the Arab and Libyan proposals for the settlement of the Lockerbie crisis. He said: "Britai... |
FBIS4-38124_0 | Oil Minister Rejects Pipeline Agreement Amendments | BFN ["Exclusive" report] [Text] Baghdad--Iraq has emphasized its rejection of any terms or amendments to the Iraqi-Turkish agreement on operating the Iraqi oil pipeline crossing Turkish territory under any pretext. Iraqi Oil Minister Dr. Safa' Hadi Jawad said that maintaining this pipeline should be done directly by th... |
FBIS4-38125_0 | Interviewed on Export Capacity | BFN [Text] Nicosia, June 27 (AFP)--Iraq now has the capacity to export more than two million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, its oil minister Dr. Safa' Hadi Jawad said in an interview published here on Monday. Iraq will also demand an output quota "at parity with Iran," currently 3.6 million bpd, from the Organisat... |
FBIS4-38133_1 | Impact of Sanctions on Health Conditions | of water-born diseases including cholera, typhoid and hepatitis and of other, previously uncommon and completely preventable children diseases such as poliomyelitis, measles and tetanus. Major surgical interventions have been reduced to 30 percent of their pre-sanctions levels and are limited to emergencies only. The r... |
FBIS4-38133_2 | Impact of Sanctions on Health Conditions | the operations has been suspended indefinitely due to the lack of anaesthetic agents and dispensable equipment. According to the minister of health, Dr Umid Midhat Mubarak, the acute shortage of anaesthetic drugs for curing dental diseases have compelled the dentists to look for local alternatives which, at best, produ... |
FBIS4-38136_6 | Jihad Leader on Future Plans, Ties With Fatah | are merely one form of alteration. [Al-Shiqaqi] The movement is still debating the question of military action against occupation troops in the autonomy areas. Our decision at this moment remains to confront the occupation forces. [Salman] Some opponents of the Islamic Jihad Movement say that the movement's only chance... |
FBIS4-38139_1 | Fadlallah Sees `Open War' Between Islamists, U.S. | not Lebanese or because it has non- Lebanese connections. The United States has not demanded the disarmament of the South Lebanese Army [SLA]. Does the SLA have Lebanese or Israeli connections? Why doesn't the United States demand its disarmament? Why does it agree that it should stay so that it will strike its people ... |
FBIS4-38151_0 | U.S. Said To Export `Poisonous Foodstuff' | BFN [Editorial: "Dealing in Death"] [Text] In their blind passion to make money, the Americans seem to have forgotten all norms of decency. They can go to any extent. The recent export of contaminated fertilisers to Bangladesh was not just an isolated incident or a mistake. The shipment which was returned by the Bangla... |
FBIS4-38165_4 | IAF, PAAF Criticize Government Practices | The statement adds: "As for the Jordanian arena, after a suspension [of the peace negotiations] caused by the siege on the Gulf of Aqaba, the past two weeks witnessed unnatural acceleration that looks like a race with the Palestinian negotiator. Sub-agendas on borders, security, and water have been signed tackling deta... |
FBIS4-38187_0 | Turkish Foreign Ministry Official Pays Visit Al-Sahhaf, Sanberk Meet | BFN [Text] Baghdad, 24 Jun (INA) -- Foreign Minister Muhammad Sa'id al-Sahhaf last night met Ozdem Sanberk, Turkish Foreign Ministry under secretary, and his delegation. They discussed matters related to emptying the Iraqi-Turkish oil pipeline and the role Turkey can play to lift the unjust blockade imposed on Iraq. Th... |
FBIS4-38188_0 | Turkish Foreign Ministry Official Pays Visit 'Aziz, Sanberk Discuss Oil Pipeline | BFN [Text] Baghdad, 24 Jun (INA) -- Deputy Prime Minister Tariq 'Aziz received here today Ozdem Sanberk, under secretary at the Turkish Foreign Ministry, and his delegation. They reviewed the progress made in draining the Iraqi oil pipeline. They also discussed ways to develop bilateral ties in the best interests of th... |
FBIS4-38189_0 | Turkish Foreign Ministry Official Pays Visit Sanberk Notes `Tangible Progress' | BFN [Text] Baghdad, 25 Jun (INA) -- Ozdem Sanberk, Turkish Foreign Ministry under secretary, and his accompanying delegation, left Baghdad today after concluding a three-day visit to Iraq. In a pre-departure statement to INA, Sanberk said he held talks with several Iraqi officials on draining the Iraqi-Turkish oil pipe... |
FBIS4-38190_0 | Turkish Foreign Ministry Official Pays Visit Further on Sanberk's Remarks | BFN [Text] Baghdad, June 26, INA -- Turkish Foreign Under Secretary Ozdem Sanberk voiced hope over an imminent opening of the Iraqi-Turkish pipeline within a short period of time. Interviewed by AL-JUMHURIYAH daily for today, the Turkish diplomat said that Turkey could profess no exact timing for the process but it loo... |
FBIS4-38191_0 | Vice President Receives Turkish Party Delegation | BFN [Text] Baghdad, 28 Jun (INA) -- Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan has asserted that the Iraqi people, who are being subjected to an unfair blockade imposed by the evil coalition forces led by the United States, have managed, through their heroic steadfastness under the leadership of President Saddam Husayn, to brea... |
FBIS4-38193_0 | Assembly Speaker, Turkish Official Confer | BFN [Text] National Assembly Speaker Sa'di Mahdi Salih today met with Muhammad Gulcegun, member of the Turkish parliament and deputy chairman of the Turkish Social Democratic Populist Party [title as heard], and his accompanying delegation. The National Assembly speaker reviewed the impact of the unjust blockade agains... |
FBIS4-38194_1 | Paper Raps Turkey's `Hammer Force' Decision | "security zone" for Kurds in northern Iraq guarded by an Anglo-American force which they termed the "Hammer Force" to use as a tool which, they believe, would help them shake up the leadership of Saddam Husayn. They and their agents in Saudi Arabia wagered that the situation in Iraq would not last for more than six mon... |
FBIS4-38194_2 | Paper Raps Turkey's `Hammer Force' Decision | stayed away deliberately -- indicates that the decision did not gain the "political" majority. This means that the opposition to U.S. presence, which has become a real threat to Turkey's national security and territorial integrity, U.S. tampering with the question of the pipeline which carries Iraqi oil across Turkey, ... |
FBIS4-38196_0 | Lockerbie Suspects To Be Transferred to Egypt | BFN [Text] Cairo, June 28 (AFP) -- Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi is prepared to hand over to Egypt two men suspected in the Lockerbie bombing provided they are not tried in either the United States or Britain, Egyptian papers reported Tuesday [28 June]. Al-Qadhdhafi told journalists late Monday that he had agreed... |
FBIS4-38204_0 | Haddadin: Israel Exceeding al-Yarmuk Water Share | BFN [Text] Member of Jordan's delegation to the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations Mundhir Haddadin says since 1967 Israel has been using all the water in the River Jordan, to which the kingdom has natural rights. He said because Jordan was unable to organize the flow of the al-Yarmuk River by constructing dams, Israel in... |
FBIS4-38223_0 | Correction to Velayati Comments on MKO | BFN The following correction pertains to the item headlined "Velayati Urges Action Against MKO," published in the 24 June Near East & South Asia DAILY REPORT, page 52: Column two, first paragraph, first sentence make read: ...against the terrorist Munafiqeen Khalq [pejorative reference to Mojahedin-e Khalq] outfit (MKO... |
FBIS4-38273_0 | Issue of al-Yarmuk Waters To Be Broached With Syria | BFN [Text] A responsible source has revealed that the government will broach the issue of the joint waters of the al-Yarmuk River with Syria after reaching an agreement with Israel in the talks slated to be held in the region next month. The source, which requested anonymity, added that Jordan feels that it is being do... |
FBIS4-38274_0 | President Marks Anniversary of 1981 Bombing | BFN [Text] Tehran, June 28, (IRNA) -- President Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani here Tuesday [28 June] praised Tir Seventh (June 28th) martyrs as "unique personalities and valuable assets of Islamic system" [punctuation as received] Hojatoleslam Rafsanjani made the remark in a meeting with families of the martyrs killed in a ... |
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