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FBIS4-41716_4 | Text of Government Anticrisis Program | the social sphere. When we were in the ruble zone, we could for a certain time compensate for all our production budget cuts with the help of a softer crediting policy. But after Russia had introduced corresponding accounts, and later when the ruble zone collapsed, we had to be much tougher in our crediting policy. Any... |
FBIS4-41766_0 | Killing of 15 Kurd-Yezidis in Armenia Reported | BFN [Text] Baku (June 27) TURAN -- Over 15 Kurds-Yezidis were violently killed during the clashes on the ethnic base between the Kurd-yezids population of Garalar village of Araratskiy region in Armenia and group of armed Armenians, who came from Yerevan. TURAN was told by informed source that the clash took place in t... |
FBIS4-41849_4 | Gaydar Outlines New Party's Aims | for peace time -- over 20 percent of the budget expenditure goes on the army -- continue to be spent to the accompaniment of this demagoguery. We are in favor of a relatively small, mobile, combat-capable, professional army. Of course such an army will not give us the opportunity to maintain superpower ambitions but Ru... |
FBIS4-41855_0 | Deputy Minister Reviews Economic Achievements | BFN [By ITAR-TASS correspondent Tamara Zamyatina] [Text] Moscow, 28 Jun -- One of the main achievements of the first six months of 1994 was "demilitarization" of the Russian economy, First Deputy Economics Minister Yakov Urinson said today in his speech at the sitting of the conciliation commission in charge of impleme... |
FBIS4-41873_0 | PRC's Qian Seen as Man of `Exceptional Qualities' | BFN [Unattributed report: "PRC's Top Diplomat in Moscow"] [Text] Qian Qichen, deputy premier of the State Council and PRC foreign minister, arrived on an official visit to Moscow Monday evening. The main aim of the trip is to prepare for the Russo-Chinese summit. It is planned that PRC Chairman Jiang Zemin will be comi... |
FBIS4-41889_3 | Positive Aspects of EU Deal Highlighted | It is envisaged that the EU and Russia will coordinate their positions on the main international questions and, if necessary, will put forward joint political initiatives. Then there is the economy. First and foremost, the EU is ceasing to consign us to the category of countries with a "state trade system" (that provis... |
FBIS4-41908_0 | Further Cooperation Agreed With Cuban Delegation | BFN [Text] We are ready for cooperation with Cuba -- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Anatoliy Zlenko stated this during a meeting with Lionel Soto, deputy chairman of the Republic of Cuba's Council of Ministers, who is on an official visit to Ukraine. Ukraine has always attached great significance to friendly relations with... |
FBIS4-41913_0 | Report Views Significance of Elections | BFN [Report by Volodymyr Skachko: "They Voted for the State"] [Text] At the 26 June elections, not only did the entire adult population of Ukraine vote for a new president, but also for 11,440 chairmen of local councils and 165,000 people's deputies at all levels. Tentative data indicate that 68.4 percent of the electo... |
FBIS4-41918_1 | Analyst Discerns Signs of Karbovanets Strengthening | between K46,400 and K48,000 for $1. This is on average 2 percent lower than what the dollar cost last week. The rate of the Russian ruble ranged between K21,000 and K22,600 (at purchase) and between K22,500 and K25,000 (at sale) and decreased by comparison with the last week's rate by between 2.8 and 4.7 percent. The G... |
FBIS4-41929_1 | Congress of Intelligentsia Changes Name, Elects Leadership | today in Chisinau. Some 400 delegates representing most Moldovan localities and numerous guests including Ion Solcanu, deputy chairman of the Romanian Senate and U.S. and Romanian Embassy representatives. Alexandra Mosanu, Congress of Intelligentsia (CI) chairman, stated in the report that "the socio-political movement... |
FBIS4-41954_1 | Reportage on Visit by PRC's Qian Qichen Comments on Joining NATO Partnership | Foreign Ministry press center at the Zubovskaya square. He especially mentioned the initialling of the agreement on the western section of the Chinese-Russian border. According to the Chinese foreign minister, in the past few years bilateral relations and especially business links have developed considerably, "they far... |
FBIS4-41980_0 | Reportage on Visit by IAEA's Blix Meets Atomic Energy Minister | BFN [From the "Vesti" newscast] [Text] Hans Blix, general director of the International Atomic Energy Authority [IAEA], continues his visit to Moscow. Today he met Viktor Mikhaylov, Russian minister for atomic energy. Problems of ensuring the safety of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium released during the dismantling... |
FBIS4-42017_0 | Further Reportage on Cuban Official's Visit Comments on Economic Needs | BFN [Text] The leader of a Cuban governmental delegation, Vice President of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba Lionel Soto, referred to his delegation's visit to Ukraine as very important. At a news conference in Kiev, Lionel Soto pointed out that the main objective of the visit was to restore all the eco... |
FBIS4-42031_0 | Saburov Presses for Subsidy Limitation | CSO [Interview with Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Yevgeniy Saburov by Yelena Gornaya; place and date not given: "Yevgeniy Saburov: `Support for the Population Must Be Targeted'"] [Text] A few days ago the Government of Crimea submitted to the Supreme Council a proposal to consider the question of increasing targeted su... |
FBIS4-42046_9 | Opposition Figure Interviewed | failed to adopt any final decision and have not signed any document. INTERFAX: Do you hope that this agreement will be reached? TURAJONZODA: If we did not hope we did not spend time for negotiations and deceived our people. We have hope but we have no conviction. The delegation from Dushanbe asserts that it strives for... |
FBIS4-42052_0 | U.S. Embassy Search for English-Speaking Workers Derided | BFN ["US Looks for Armenian Plumbers with BA's in English" -- ITAR-TASS headline; by ITAR-TASS correspondent Tigran Liloyan] [Text] Yerevan June 30 TASS -- The United States Embassy in Armenia has placed ads in local newspapers with job offers for a plumber and an electrician who have an excellent knowledge of the Engl... |
FBIS4-42060_0 | Government Expels `High-Ranking' Iranian Diplomat | BFN [By Padraic Flanagan, PRESS ASSOCIATION News] [Text] A high-ranking Iranian diplomat has been ordered out of Britain after a top-level meeting with the Foreign Office, it was disclosed today. The expulsion order is the latest in a series of rows between the two countries. Iran's charge d'affaires Gholamreza Ansari ... |
FBIS4-42062_1 | Weekly Investigates Illegal Export of Toxic Waste | 127 signatories to the 1989 Basel Convention outlawed the dumping of any toxic waste by the industrialised nations on their most regular victims -- non-members of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the developing world like Brazil and Indonesia. But in view of the time it takes to build... |
FBIS4-42062_2 | Weekly Investigates Illegal Export of Toxic Waste | most of the legal loopholes, but the illegal waste trade will become immensely profitable. The cost of disposing of waste in Europe by legal methods has sky-rocketed, and it will be easy for a firm to pay criminals a few dollars a barrel to get around it." It is already profitable enough for organisations like the Mafi... |
FBIS4-42062_4 | Weekly Investigates Illegal Export of Toxic Waste | are dumped in such countries. Germany, the world's largest exporter of toxic waste, sent 1,370,892 tonnes of toxic waste and other hazardous rubbish to non-OECD countries between 1989 and 1993. Some of this was legally exported, under the old rules, for "recycling" to Indonesia and East Europe, but much was shipped in ... |
FBIS4-42063_0 | Detained Kurds Released | BFN ["DW"-signed report: "Raid on Leading PKK Terrorists"] [Text] Saarbruecken -- In a search for PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] leaders, a special police unit stormed a secret meeting of Kurds and temporarily arrested 62 Kurds in Saarbruecken during the weekend. According to the federal public prosecutor, all 62 Kur... |
FBIS4-42065_2 | Kinkel Outlines Future WEU Tasks | decision that the Europeans could use the Atlantic alliance's common structures and capacities for military missions within the WEU framework is a way of setting the course for our future cooperation. The implementation of the NATO concept for the creation of an allied command is of great significance for the further w... |
FBIS4-42068_5 | Poll Shows Eastern Attitude Toward EU | with an expressly anti-European program -- such as the Republikaner. So far, the SPD seems to be the most convincing party. A total of 28 percent of those polled think that it is best suited to represent German interests in Strasbourg, followed by the CDU with 25 percent, Alliance 90/Greens (5 percent), and PDS (4 perc... |
FBIS4-42070_2 | Comments on Domestic, Foreign Policy | away from saying that he can be convinced by better reasons or results. However, my approach was different: Not too long ago, millions of people had to leave Germany to save their lives and ask for asylum in other countries. I was and am proud of our liberal aliens' law. I was and am proud of our Article 16. However, w... |
FBIS4-42072_20 | President-Elect Discusses Office, Past | extermination of the Jews and of other minorities. The idea that the postwar period is over is something that I find completely unacceptable. [DIE WOCHE] There is a debate in progress in Germany about a new right-wing. One can already see that an intellectual new right wing is developing to the right of traditional con... |
FBIS4-42083_2 | Franco-German Summit on European Policy Previewed | business community's point of view the decisive step toward improving the job situation in Europe is to take some burden off the enterprises. The starting point for a Franco-German initiative are probably proposals EU Commission President Jacques Delors made in his White Book on Securing Europe as an Economic Center. K... |
FBIS4-42109_0 | Current Status of JAS Gripen Program Outlined | CSO [Article by Heidi Avellan: "JAS Still Flying Despite Crashes"] [Text] Linkoping, Sweden -- Finland chose the Hornet. The Plowshare Movement slipped into the factory [and damaged planes with hammers]. The only customer's only plane crashed last summer with a roar -- only inches from a crowd of people in the middle o... |
FBIS4-42127_0 | Reactions to Patriarchate Bombing Attempt | BFN [Text] There was a new provocation yesterday by fanatic Islamists against the Ecumenical Patriarchate at Fanari, Istanbul, on the eve of the conquest of Constantinople. An Islamic organization placed three powerful time-bomb devices, which fortunately were discovered and dismantled. The Greek Government reacted str... |
FBIS4-42128_0 | Suspension of U.S. Aid Percentage Criticized | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Turkey has announced that the decision of the U.S. House of Representatives to suspend 25 percent of the security aid to Turkey does not serve the common interests of the two countries. Replying to a question on the issue during his weekly news conference, Foreign Ministry ... |
FBIS4-42129_0 | Possible Rejection of Aid | BFN [Text] [Announcer] The dispute arising from the decision of the U.S. House of Representatives to attach conditions to and cut the aid to Turkey is continuing. Ankara considers the decision unacceptable, and the view that we should reject all the aid is gaining ground. The lack of lobbying activity by Turkey also ha... |
FBIS4-42133_0 | Cetin Departs for European Stability Conference | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin left for Paris today to attend the opening conference of the European Stability Pact. In a predeparture statement at Ankara's Esenboga Airport, Cetin said that the proposal concerning the European Stability Pact was submitted by the new French ... |
FBIS4-42139_0 | Greece Warned Against Backing PKK | BFN [Text] Ankara (AA) -- Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ferhat Ataman has said that it is long overdue for Greece to remember its international responsibilities regarding terrorism, for it to fulfill them without further delay, and to end the unfriendly policies it has been pursuing against Turkey. Replying to a question ... |
FBIS4-42152_0 | Balladur Assesses Paris Security Conference | BFN [Excerpts] About 40 European foreign ministers are meeting in Paris today and tomorrow for a conference which, in one year's time, is supposed to lead to a pact of stability in Europe. [passage omitted] If diplomats call it the Balladur Pact it is because the idea of the conference was launched by the French prime ... |
FBIS4-42155_0 | Police Arrest Kurds in Raid on PKK Suspect | BFN [Text] Saarbruecken (DDP/ADN) -- Several Kurds were detained today in a large-scale police operation against the Kurdish cultural center at the old fire station in Saarbruecken. A Saarbruecken police spokeswoman said in response to an inquiry that the operation had been conducted on the basis of an arrest warrant i... |
FBIS4-42159_0 | Papandreou Comments on Albania, FYROM | BFN [Interview with Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou by Notis Papadhopoulos; place and date not given] [Excerpt] [Passage omitted] [Papadhopoulos] Let us now get into the international issues. Do you believe that even if our economy gets back on track, Greece will be able to play a decisive role in the Balkans at a ti... |
FBIS4-42160_0 | Security Council To Meet on Kurdish Refugees | BFN [Text] The National Security Council [NSC] is scheduled to meet tomorrow under President Suleyman Demirel. On the agenda of the meeting is the [Kurdish] migration from Turkey to northern Iraq, and the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] camps in Nakhichevan. According to available information, the NSC will discuss the... |
FBIS4-42165_1 | Conference on Stability in Europe Convenes in Paris Czechs Not To Link Agreements to Pact | resolution would call on Central and East European states to do so tomorrow. Zieleniec explained that the Czech Republic had similar agreements will all its neighboring countries and their inclusion in the pact was voluntary. He protested against the Western countries' apparent tendency to present the crisis in the for... |
FBIS4-42170_6 | Major Describes Vision for Future | exports running at record levels, production back to the peak of the late 80s. All that has happened, but history tells us that after a recession it takes some time before the good news filters through. We have the best chance of sustainable growth with low inflation for as long as I can remember. [Buckland] But people... |
FBIS4-42190_0 | Government Freezes Libyan Embassy Accounts | BFN [Report by Paul Vanden Baviere: "Belgium Blocks Libyan Embassy Accounts -- In Application of UN Resolution 883"] [Excerpt] Belgium appears to have taken the lead in the international campaign against Libya, or to have been too energetic. For the last month or so, it has been blocking the bank accounts of the Libyan... |
FBIS4-42192_0 | Kurdish Office Opens in Brussels | BFN [Report signed PVB: "Kurdish Office in Brussels"] [Excerpt] An International Bureau of Solidarity with the (Kurdish) Democratic Party (DEP) was opened in Brussels on Thursday [26 May]. The Turkish Government threatens to ban the DEP. Five DEP parliamentarians have been accused of treason and separatism and might be... |
FBIS4-42218_0 | FDP Bundestag Group Opposes Kinkel on Turkey | BFN [Report by Ferdos Ferudastan: "FDP Does Not Want To Irritate Turkey"] [Text] Bonn, 27 May -- The Free Democratic Party of Germany [FDP] Bundestag Group has not agreed to Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel's (FDP) proposal to send CSCE observers to Turkey to study the Kurdish conflict. In an interview with FRANKFURTER RU... |
FBIS4-42219_0 | Brandenburg Halts Deportations | BFN [Excerpt] Potsdam (DDP/ADN) -- As expected, this evening the Brandenburg Land government decided to halt the deportation of Kurds for six months. This only applies to Kurds who originate from the troubled regions in southeastern Turkey and who make their asylum applications in Brandenburg, government spokesman Erha... |
FBIS4-42224_6 | Scharping on Elections, Foreign Policy Issues | Friday [27 May], you censured him for only talking about the European Commission's white paper, but not implementing it. [Scharping] The white paper contains very good suggestions, which will remain attached to Jacques Delors' name, and I think it is a shame that they are not reflected in the German Government's polici... |
FBIS4-42228_0 | Neo-Nazi Party's Recruitment Action Reported | BFN ["pid" report: "Neo-Nazi Tourism to the East"] [Text] Northeim -- Neo-Nazis from Lower Saxony are recruiting members in Saxony-Anhalt. According to information from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Magdeburg, Thorsten Heise, Lower Saxony chairman of the right-wing extremist Liberal Workers Party... |
FBIS4-42266_0 | Contacts With Leaders `Intensified' | BFN [Report by 'Adnan Husayn: "Ankara Ignores Iranian Proposal for Joint Operation. Turkish Officials Make Arrangements for Meeting With Iraqi Kurdish Leaders"] [Text] London -- Iran appears to have failed to convince Turkey of the possibility of a joint operation inside the Iraqi Kurdish areas which have, over the pas... |
FBIS4-42268_0 | PKK Plan for Emigration to Northern Iraq Viewed | BFN [Report by Ugur Sefkat: "PKK's Plan on Northern Iraq"] [Text] Ankara--The Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] has drawn up a new plan for northern Iraq. It has been ascertained that PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who has suffered significantly from the consecutive blows by the Turkish security forces to his organization,... |
FBIS4-42268_2 | PKK Plan for Emigration to Northern Iraq Viewed | in northern Iraq. The two sides will then take joint action against Democratic Party of Kurdistan [DPK] leader Mas'ud Barzani. 5. The number of settlements will be increased in time. Later, all of them will be joined together. That will create an opportunity for the PKK to place a large area under its control. Naturall... |
FBIS4-42277_0 | Dev-Sol Members, Islamic Militants Caught in Ankara | BFN [Text] Thirteen members of an illegal leftist organization and four members of a radical religious organization were caught in Ankara. In a news conference, Ankara Security Director Orhan Tasanlar said that the suspects belonging to Dev-Sol [Revolutionary Left] posted placards, distributed pamphlets, and threw Molo... |
FBIS4-42278_0 | PKK Members Captured, Reportedly `Trained in Greece' | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Seven terrorists were killed in clashes with security forces in Batman's Beseri and Siirt's Kurtalan and Baykan Districts and on Gabar Mountain near Sirnak. Four terrorists, one of them a foreigner, surrendered to the security forces in a bid to benefit from the repentance ... |
FBIS4-42279_0 | `Terrorists' Killed in Erzincan Clash | BFN [Announcer-read report] [Text] In a clash that broke out between security forces and terrorists in the rural sector of Erzincan's Uzumlu District, 19 terrorists were killed. Four members of the security forces were martyred in the clash. The clash with the terrorists is said to be continuing in the region. Meanwhil... |
FBIS4-42282_2 | Paper Comments on Kurds, Turkish-U.S. Relations | Iraq, I wish to criticize those who defend the view that the "Hammer Force must immediately withdraw from Turkey." I do not know what else I should say. Question of Iran Let us consider the developments that took place during the Iranian delegation's visit to Ankara a few days ago: 1. The Iranian officials explained th... |
FBIS4-42284_9 | Vranitzky Views Upcoming EU Referendum | these peoples -- this would be fundamentally wrong. [DER SPIEGEL] Peace researcher Johan Galtung sees what is happening in East Europe now as economic colonialism by the West, which is creating a second Third World there. [Vranitzky] This threat is very real if we in the West do not pay more attention to it. I still he... |
FBIS4-42290_1 | Talabani Prepared To Meet Barzani in Turkey | and Mr. Barzani. Did you agree to meet Mr. Barzani, in Turkey or in some other place? [Talabani] We welcome Turkish mediation and I am ready to meet Mr. Barzani. [Birand] What do you ask in order to establish a cease-fire? What do you expect from Mr. Barzani? What do you want Turkey to tell him? [Talabani] There are pr... |
FBIS4-42300_2 | Kohl, Mitterrand Agree on EU Initiatives at Mulhouse | addition of Central and East Europen states, the opinions of Bonn and Paris have been further reconciled. Nevertheless, the different speeds are obvious. At the final news conference, Mitterrand warned against harmful "competition" in the fixing of deadlines for further entries. The Community must not "gradually lose i... |
FBIS4-42301_8 | Delors on European Integration Process | up an information society, and the necessary growth in investment and development research). We also said that at the national level there is much to be done for everything impacting on employment (education, training, work organization in companies, the operation of the labor market, unemployment benefit, etc.). In th... |
FBIS4-42303_0 | Forged Hurd Letter | BFN [By Sarah Womack, PRESS ASSOCIATION News] [Text] The text of the forged letter from Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd to Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, dated April 18, 1994, is as follows: ``Dear Malcolm, ``Following our conversation in the committee, I believe what has been done in recent days in Gorazde shows th... |
FBIS4-42321_0 | PKK Reportedly Intimidating Dropouts | BFN [Report by Wilhelm Dietl and Frank Siering: "Right in the Face"] [Text] Adil Arslan, 33, from Krefeld refused to come. Then his visitor took out a 7.65-mm pistol and fired six times, several times right in his face. Arslan collapsed with severe injuries. Arslan is a Kurd. The perpetrator is also a Kurd. The attack ... |
FBIS4-42324_0 | Social Security Austerity Measures Under Study | BFN [Report by Gennaro Schettino: "Under 61? Lower Pension"] [Text] Rome -- You are under 61 and nonetheless want to quit work because you have contributed for the necessary number of years. OK, go ahead, but know that you will have a reduced pension. And the earlier you retire before pensionable age, the greater the c... |
FBIS4-42342_0 | Government Favors `Lasting Cease-Fire' | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Turkey has announced that it attaches great importance to eliminating the atmosphere of instability in northern Iraq and that the current atmosphere will only serve the interests of the terror organization. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ferhat Ataman, speaking at his weekly ne... |
FBIS4-42343_0 | Iran Assisting Government in Operations Against PKK | BFN [Report by Tolga Sardan: "Iran Supports Turkey's Military Operations"] [Text] Ankara--It has been ascertained that four Iranian battalions have for some time been supporting Turkish military operations against the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] militants on the Agri and Tendurek Mountains. A MILLIYET corresponden... |
FBIS4-42344_0 | Greek Ambassador Denies PKK Connection | BFN [Text] Ankara, June 1 (A.A.) -- Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ferhat Ataman told a press conference today that the Greek ambassador to Turkey has denied claims that Greece has relations with the separatist terrorist organization, PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan], in line with a recent Athens statement. Ataman said tha... |
FBIS4-42347_0 | Ciller Calls Western Reporting on State `Biased' | BFN [Interview with Prime Minister Tansu Ciller by Lucian O. Meysels; place and date not given: "Turkey Is Pushing Into the European Union"] [Text] [Meysels] The Kurdish problem and terrorism are currently dominating the reports about Turkey. Do you feel under pressure? [Ciller] Unfortunately, most reports in the Weste... |
FBIS4-42354_1 | State Secretary Wallage on Unemployment | the VVD. "In the years to come, both workers and employers from small- and medium-sized companies [SME's] must look to merge their interests. Together, they will have to agree on a package of difficult measures. If we expect a social pact to be possible in the economy, why should a political pact between the PvdA and t... |
FBIS4-42361_0 | Poll Reveals Disinterest in EU Election | BFN [Report by Michele Cotta on poll commissioned by LE NOUVEL ECONOMISTE: "Is There a Cure for Euroskepticism?"] [Excerpts] We should call a spade a spade. France today does not have, or no longer has, any enthusiasm for Europe. French citizens' disinterest is growing from one poll to the next, as is the fear that Eur... |
FBIS4-42362_0 | Freed Chinese Dissident Arrives in Paris | BFN [Text] Paris, June 1 (AFP) -- Chinese dissident Wang Juntao, recently released from prison in Beijing, arrived here Wednesday [1 June] on a visit to attend a commemoration of the failed pro-democracy uprising in the Chinese capital five years ago. Wang, one of the leaders of the brutally-repressed Tiananmen Square ... |
FBIS4-42367_0 | Long-Term Unemployment: Threat to Social Cohesion | BFN [Report by Delphine Girard: "Unemployment Is Still Increasing, But More Slowly"] [Text] "I would not be surprized if unemployment reaches a threshold in the coming months and I do not exclude the possibility that it starts to decline before the end of the year." April's unemployment figures, published yesterday, se... |
FBIS4-42377_1 | Forged Documents Seen Ploy To Boost Iran's Image | began broadcasting propaganda in Serbo-Croat on short-wave transmissions to Bosnia. Iranian government officials and diplomats in Tehran believe President Rafsanjani would like to see better ties with the West, but is being forced to retreat by pressure from hardliners. Iran's foreign policy has hardened markedly in re... |
FBIS4-42393_0 | Acts of Violence by Right-Wing Extremists Down | BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- Right-wing extremist acts of violence have decreased. The Cologne-based Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution said on 31 May that from 1 January to 19 May this year, 563 acts of violence with proved or assumed extreme right-wing motivation were noted. Compared with the last 20 w... |
FBIS4-42401_2 | Clinton Meets With Pope | he discussed with John Paul II was the upcoming Cairo conference on birth control; the international situation, with special reference to Bosnia and the Middle East; the role of Islam; and problems of religious liberty in the world, especially in Asia. Clinton said he was honored to have been received by the pope and h... |
FBIS4-42401_4 | Clinton Meets With Pope | stressed that neither compulsory abortion nor abortion upon request were part of the Clinton Administration policy. Abortion must be safe, legal and rare, she said. Nevertheless, family planning and access to contraception are important means by which to control population growth so as to prevent massive migrations of ... |
FBIS4-42414_1 | Bulgarian Minister Stresses Cooperation With Greece | Greek views on development in the Balkans. According to him, all countries in the regions, including Greece, have their share of problems. Greece is a member of the European Union whereas other Balkan states, including Bulgaria, would like to join in, and integrate into European structures. Greece would like to help th... |
FBIS4-42432_0 | `No Reasons' Suspected Behind Helicopter Crash | BFN [Article by Deric Henderson, Joe Quinn, Moira Whittle, Jackie Burdon, Peter Woodman, and Chris Moncrieff, PRESS ASSOCIATION News] [Excerpt] Twenty-nine people, including elite members of the RUC's [Royal Ulster Constabulary] Special Branch, Army officers and Northern Ireland Office officials died tonight when an Ar... |
FBIS4-42433_1 | Daily Views Police Role in Fighting Extremism | vehicles are said to be reluctant to go to the scenes of crimes, but they would rather go as far away from it as quickly as possible -- after all, you do not want to risk your life because of some criminal. Such reports are certainly exaggerated, and one should be careful not to make sweeping judgments. But there is no... |
FBIS4-42458_2 | `Discontent' Over Proposed Rejection of U.S. Aid | it that even President Suleyman Demirel has found Ciller's remarks "quixotic" and "excessive." Demirel is said to be concerned that the prime minister's remarks risk stoking up the latent "anti-Americanism" which is never far from the surface in the Turkish political psyche. It is likely that for all their anger with t... |
FBIS4-42461_0 | Kurds Deny Government Claims on Migration | BFN [Text] Ankara/Diyarbakir -- Pro-Kurdish sources in Turkey are denying government assertions that the mass migration of villagers from parts of southeast Anatolia to northern Iraq is a ploy by the outlawed Workers Party Kurdistan (PKK) aimed at embarrassing Turkey in the West. Referring to the migration of Kurdish v... |
FBIS4-42463_0 | Italy, Germany Proposed for UN Security Council | BFN [Unattributed article: "Italy, Germany To Serve Two Years on Security Council"] [Text] (ANSA) New York, June 1 -- Italy and Germany have been put forward by the Western nations to take over, January 1, from New Zealand and Spain for a two-year stint among the UN Security Council's 10 nonpermanent members, an Italia... |
FBIS4-42467_4 | Allensbach Poll on Aging Published | that tensions between the young and the old generation will arise--although there is nothing to indicate that this fear is justified at present. As of now, relations between the older and younger generations are good, better in fact than they have been for decades; and as long as family ties are as highly valued as the... |
FBIS4-42471_3 | Serbian Muslim Commandos Reportedly Trained in Turkey | party, which is active in Sandzak. It was the United States that put forward the plan to establish a Muslim state in Europe. Saudi Arabia is openly supporting it. Besides, Turkey's secret diplomacy on Balkans is being financed by Saudi Arabia. Deputy Hacic, whose confessions have already been published, is Sandzak Pres... |
FBIS4-42480_0 | EPP Chairman on Maastricht, Foreign Policy | BFN [Interview with Leo Tindemans, chairman of the European People's Party, by Dirk Vanoverbeke; place and date not given: "Seven Questions for Leo Tindemans"] [Text] [Vanoverbeke] Employment and the economic situation are subjects of concern for Europe. What do you think of the Commission's white paper on competition ... |
FBIS4-42486_0 | Haider Cancels Appearances in Germany | BFN [APA report: "Haider Cancels Appearances in FRG"] [Text] Munich -- The German "League of Free Citizens" has canceled election campaign rallies with its Chairman Manfred Brunner and Freedom Party of Austria Chairman Joerg Haider in several German cities. On Thursday [2 June] League Spokesman Michael Schwilk justifie... |
FBIS4-42490_0 | German BKA Warns of Potential PKK Attack | BFN [Report by Franz Resperger: "Warning: `PKK Attack on Vienna Regional Court'"] [Text] Are Kurdish separatists planning a violent liberation of one of their fellow fighters who is in prison in Vienna? The Federal Office of Criminal Investigations [BKA] in Wiesbaden has warned the Austrian authorities of such an attac... |
FBIS4-42507_0 | 3,000 Demonstrate in Northeim Against FAP | BFN [Excerpts] Northeim (DDP/ADN) -- Approximately 3,000 people attended a demonstration against the right-wing Free German Workers' Party (FAP) in Northeim/Lower Saxony today. Clashes between demonstrators and police, in which several people were injured, occurred late this afternoon at the police cordon outside the h... |
FBIS4-42516_3 | Study Ranks Industrialized Nations by Job Policy | Italy, by way of example, with its unemployment rate of 12 percent, was worse off in the last year of the 1980's than in any previous year. There must be reasons for such differences. In less successful countries, special influences are quickly cited as an explanation for the better performance of other countries. In t... |
FBIS4-42516_8 | Study Ranks Industrialized Nations by Job Policy | management respect the distributive margins created by growth in productivity and utilize them in a cooperative manner or whether they attempt--in the form of unproductive distribution conflicts--to distribute more than growth provides--an attempt that, after all, is ultimately doomed to failure. Nonetheless, this is a... |
FBIS4-42516_17 | Study Ranks Industrialized Nations by Job Policy | training programs as well as--and not least of all--the expansion of employment in the public sector. Whoever advocates imitating this course of a second or third labor market should certainly pay attention to its niceties as well: In both Sweden and Norway great emphasis is placed upon ensuring that when a job or oppo... |
FBIS4-42518_2 | U.S. Trade Decision for PRC Called `Reasonable' | Lumpur with an offer for reconciliation. So much for plain pragmatism, but Clinton's step was correct even under more principled criteria. Trade not only increases prosperity, it also exerts a pressure for liberalization -- particularly in view of the rising internationalization of the economy. Although this thesis is ... |
FBIS4-42521_0 | Budget Minister Optimistic About Deficit Control | BFN [Article signed BS: "Government Finances Are Smaller Handicap Than Before"] [Text] "The situation of public finances in Belgium is less of a handicap than before," Budget Minister Herman Van Rompuy said yesterday at a dinner of institutional investors organized by the Petercam stockbrokers. If the forecasts turn ou... |
FBIS4-42524_0 | Police Ban Turkish Rally, Fear Clashes | BFN [Text] Hamburg (DDP/ADN) -- The Hamburg police have banned a demonstration planned for Saturday [4 June] by left-wing Turkish groups outside the Turkish Consulate General because clashes are feared. Police stated today that several Turkish and Kurdish organizations have announced their participation in the demonstr... |
FBIS4-42578_0 | _O_ `Skopje' Problem Discussed | CSO [Editorial Report] U.S. Position Viewed Writing in the 15 May Athens weekly KIRIAKATIKI ELEVTHEROTIPIA, New York correspondent D.P. Dhimas noted that the New York talks on the "Skopje" [The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia--FYROM] issue are at a "decisive turning point" because of Washington's "new ideas," pro... |
FBIS4-42581_0 | Government Begins Talks on Karkuk-Yumurtalik Pipeline Prime Minister Comments | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Prime Minister Tansu Ciller has said that it will be possible very soon to pump out the oil in the Karkuk-Yumurtalik for restoration purposes. Answering reporters' questions at the prime minister's residence, Ciller said they have been trying to explain to the world why it ... |
FBIS4-42582_0 | Government Begins Talks on Karkuk-Yumurtalik Pipeline U.S. Attitude `Constructive' | BFN [Text] Progress has been achieved in the talks being held in Washington between Turkey and the United States in connection with the Karkuk-Yumurtalik oil pipeline. Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Ozdem Sanberk, who is holding contacts in Washington in connection with the pipeline, has said that the U.S. Administra... |
FBIS4-42583_0 | Government Begins Talks on Karkuk-Yumurtalik Pipeline Cetin: Talks To Continue | BFN [Text] Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin has said that there is no difference of opinion between Turkey and the UN Security Council members about eliminating the losses incurred from the oil sitting in the Karkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline for the past four years. He stressed, however, that it appears that the operation to re... |
FBIS4-42585_0 | Rejects `Rumor' of Kurdish Problem | BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Interior Minister Nahit Mentese has said that all ethnic groups in Turkey enjoy equal rights, adding that the terms Kurdish identity and Kurdish political rights are part of a plot hatched by foreign circles. He explained that the state and security forces are very successf... |
FBIS4-42586_0 | Iran Reportedly Intervenes in Kurdish Fighting | BFN [Text] The armed units of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK]--headed by Jalal Talabani, a former guerrilla leader--have been caught in a cross fire as a result of Iran's intervention in the fighting in northern Iraq. The Iranian Revolution Guards launched an attack and pounded Halabjah. As a consequence, Talaba... |
FBIS4-42587_1 | Daily Urges Government To Warn Greece on PKK Support | continuation of terrorist activities has not only harmed the people's unity but also wasted many resources, which could have been used for development. Meanwhile, several foreign countries, in an effort to impose their policies on Ankara, have used the separatist and terrorist activities against Turkey. The photograph ... |
FBIS4-42590_0 | Gives Interview on Bilateral Ties | BFN [Interview with Israeli Economics and Planning Minister Shim'on Shetrit by Metin Gokce in Ankara on 3 June -- recorded, in English with superimposed translation into Turkish] [Text] [Gokce] How do you view the future of economic relations between Turkey and Israel, two important countries in the Middle East? [Shetr... |
FBIS4-42591_1 | Editorial Examines Debate on `Provide Comfort' | the end of this month for the extension of the mandate of the "Provide Comfort" force, which was set up by the United States, Britain and France to protect the Kurds of northern Iraq against Saddam Husayn and his troops. Turkey has been the host country to the force with "certain misgivings." Many hawks in the military... |
FBIS4-42592_2 | Editorial: Ciller Cannot Afford To Reject U.S. Aid | aid should be used as a leverage on Turkey because above all this makes us suspect the motives of those who suspended the aid. As we mentioned in our earlier commentaries, the fact that the Greek lobby once again introduced the Cyprus card into the aid package shows the lack of sincerity and goodwill in the aid-cutting... |
FBIS4-42609_0 | 2 Arrested for Bypassing UN Arms Embargo on Rwanda | BFN [Report by Christian du Brulle: "Weapons Trafficking Discovered in Brussels] [Text] Travelers' checks stolen from the Commercial Bank of Rwanda in Kigali totaling $10 million (340 million Belgian francs [BFr]) might have been used by "honest" Western businessmen to purchase weapons illegally for the Rwandan Army. T... |
FBIS4-42613_0 | CSV Platform on Retirement Pensions Detailed | BFN [Unattributed article: "Internal Solidarity"] [Text] "An adequate retirement pension is one of the basics of a modern welfare state," states the election program of the Christian Social People's Party [CSV]. One remembers that, in the last election campaign, i.e. in 1989, old-age pension was one of the main issues.... |
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