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FBIS4-42619_1 | Newspaper Views Dispute Over Delors Successor | calls for further reforms, despite the widespread Europe-weariness of the citizens. Ruud Lubbers, the outgoing Dutch prime minister, and Jean-Luc Dehaene, his Belgian counterpart, both of them Christian Democrats, are two serious candidates for Delors' post. Irishman Peter Sutherland, former EU secretary for economic c... |
FBIS4-42652_1 | Clinton Visit Achieves `Complete Success' | the pope's pressing request to him the previous day. Clinton, however, cannot do this. Their stances remained far apart on the main issue of their conversation -- the document on population and development being drafted for the Cairo conference. John Paul II reaffirmed the Vatican's criticisms of the plan, considering ... |
FBIS4-42691_2 | EC Commissioner Seeks Rapid EMU Implementation | about it. Others secretly reckon that Europe will go to its institutional chaos." What most grieves the European commissioner is the fact that the original motivation for European unification has been abandoned. Somberly, he said: "A Community that goes further than an interstate cooperation is needed now more than eve... |
FBIS4-42692_2 | Belgian MP: Social Policy `Achilles Heel' of Europe | the way that environmental factors are considered. But campaigners' fears that their efforts will fall on deaf ears have been compounded by signs that the financial help the EU gives to the poor may be under threat. Although relief of poverty is a responsibility of individual states, the EU supports experimental projec... |
FBIS4-42694_3 | Commission Presents Biotechnology Legislation Project | through the revision of Annex II; - Revising the guidelines for classification as established under Article 4.2 of the Directive as a result of the discussion undertaken for amending the criteria of Annex II; - Further exploiting the need to adapt safety assessment parameters, containment measures and required informat... |
FBIS4-42709_0 | Potsdam Police Break Up Extreme-Right Group | BFN [Text] Potsdam/Bonn (DPA) -- The extreme-right "Dragon Military Sports Group," which operated out of the Prenzlau area, has been broken up in Brandenburg Land. The Potsdam Public Prosecutor's Office in response to a question confirmed a report in BERLINER MORGENPOST on Saturday [4 June]. Senior Public Prosecutor Ru... |
FBIS4-42718_0 | Baudis Reviews Election Campaign, EU Issues | BFN [Interview with Dominique Baudis, head of the majority's "Union" list, by Thierry Portes; place and date not given: "Inventing a Model for the European Union"] [Excerpt] [Portes] What do you think is the reason behind voter indifference to the campaign, as indicated by opinion polls? [Baudis] Europe is too remote a... |
FBIS4-42719_0 | Latest Polls Show `Fragmented' Electorate | BFN [Report by Eric Dupin: "Opinion Polls: Fragmented and as Yet Undecided Voters"] [Text] While publicizing new polls is now forbidden, the latest surveys highlight two trends: There could be a record number of abstentions and the electorate is fragmented due to the high number of lists -- a situation that does nothin... |
FBIS4-42723_1 | Labor Ministry Reports Growth in Employment | -- but the final statistics have proven to be better than the provisional figures released in mid-May. Some 5,000 extra jobs have been listed since then. Moreover, UNEDIC [National Union for Employment in Industry and Commerce] is soon expected to downwardly revise the number of extra job-seekers expected in 1994. The ... |
FBIS4-42725_1 | Editorial Views German Participation in 14 Jul Parade | part in the celebrations commemorating the 50th anniversary of the allied landings in Normandy (6 June) and Provence (14 August). However, German soldiers belonging to the Eurocorps, along with French, Luxembourg, Belgian, and soon Spanish troops, will parade down the Champs Elysees on 14 July. Meant to end all misunde... |
FBIS4-42746_4 | Carlsson on EU Membership, Referendum | little politics as possible in the EU. This is a neoliberal position. I want to join Europe because I want to be involved in shaping European policy. Whether on unemployment, environmental policy, or the social dimension. If you want to achieve anything, political decisiveness is needed in Europe. [SVENSKA DAGBLADET] S... |
FBIS4-42750_0 | Agree on European Integration | BFN ["Lt."-signed report: "Kohl and Gonzalez To Push European Integration"] [Text] Schwerin, 7 Jun -- Germany, France, and Spain are seeking to achieve "the highest possible degree of agreement" regarding European policy and leadership in the European Council. Beginning on 1 July, the three countries will each have the... |
FBIS4-42757_0 | `Extremist' Turks Reportedly Involved in Drug Trade | BFN [Peter Scherer report: "Turks Control Heroin Trade"] [Text] Wiesbaden -- Members of extremist organizations banned in Germany are suspected of not only being involved in the political underground in Germany, but also in international heroin deals, Klaus Juergen Timm, chief of the Criminal Office of the land of Hess... |
FBIS4-42764_0 | Export List Increases Control in Sensitive Areas | BFN [Text] Bonn (DDP/ADN) -- Export controls in sensitive areas are to be intensified. This, according to the Federal Economics Ministry, is the aim of the revised version of the export list, which the federal cabinet approved today. The revised version also brought with it both an easing of export regulations and a si... |
FBIS4-42768_0 | Russian Desire for Influence in Europe Viewed | BFN [Editorial by Helmut Schmidt: "Untying the Knot"] [Text] On 25 May Russian Defense Minister Grachev presented the following demands to NATO: The North Atlantic Cooperation Council should separate from NATO and in the future guide and coordinate, together with the CSCE, both NATO and the European Union [EU], as well... |
FBIS4-42771_3 | Government Policy, Activity in Rwanda Examined | the pressure it could? In particular, it is surprising that despite the pressure that was applied, a holder's ethnic origin remained on Rwandan identity cards -- a useful tool for the exterminators! Similarly, we may wonder how it was that in January 1993 an international commission of inquiry uncovered atrocities comm... |
FBIS4-42774_1 | Daily Views PRC Presidential Visit, Relations | in April. This is what French business circles and some Chinese sources are reporting. The Chinese leaders are, it seems, in a hurry to see this visit materialize because it represents for them a source of pride since it was Paris that most energetically condemned the 4 June 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre. Beijing dipl... |
FBIS4-42784_2 | Iraq Bridge Opening, Straits Regulations Noted | two countries as a violation of the embargo on Iraq. There was congested traffic on the Habur Bridge in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War. Trucks carried to Iraq commodities that were not covered by the embargo, such as foodstuffs, pharmaceutical drugs, and cigarettes. They brought back fuel oil in large containe... |
FBIS4-42785_0 | Kurds, Clashes in Northern Iraq Viewed | BFN [Column by Mehmet Ali Birand: "Talabani: Turkey Must Mediate in the Dispute"] [Text] An explosive situation still exists in northern Iraq. The Democratic Party of Kurdistan [DPK], which is headed by Mas'ud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK], which is headed by Jalal Talabani, are involved in a seri... |
FBIS4-42785_4 | Kurds, Clashes in Northern Iraq Viewed | for them to respond." The officials maintained their contacts in Ankara the night before last and yesterday. Messages were conveyed to the two leaders. However, a final result was not yet achieved by the time this column was written. The meeting will take place in Turkey. Talabani does not wish to meet Barzani in north... |
FBIS4-42801_0 | Turkish Claims Called `Ridiculous, Unfounded' | BFN [Text] Government spokesman Evangelos Venizelos today said that Greece condemns every act of violence and terrorism but it does not accept becoming the victim of an orchestrated effort to export Turkey's domestic problems to Greece. Venizelos repeated that no office of the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] operates ... |
FBIS4-42805_0 | `Antiauthority Struggle' Responsibile for Attack | BFN [Text] Shortly after midnight two cars from the Forest Department were the target of a bomb attack outside the Ministry of Agriculture on Akharnon Street. An unidentified caller to a private radio station said the terrorist group Antiauthority Struggle was claiming responsibility for the attack. |
FBIS4-42809_4 | Major Defends Government Policies, Actions | need unemployment going down not up. Those politicians who just play to the gallery by asking for extra costs on employers will just put unemployment up. ``I believe the responsible thing to do is to try to take action to get those people back to work. That is what we are doing here. and what the rest of Europe is not ... |
FBIS4-42814_1 | Demirel Comments on Foreign Policy Issues | as if Turkey invaded the island. Turkey had the responsibility to protect the peace and did it. If it had not done so, would it be better? The United Nations work has had no result. Both soil and flag are wanted. You cannot offer such a solution to anybody. It is possible to find a reasonable solution which will be acc... |
FBIS4-42820_2 | OECD Ministerial Concludes; More on Communique | first day of the ministerial conference. The unusual advance release of part of the communique reflects the growing sense of crisis within the OECD about the world jobless issue. As prescriptions for the unemployment problem, in which 35 million people are out of work within the OECD group, OECD Secretary General Jean-... |
FBIS4-42839_0 | Survey Predicts 69-Percent Voter Turnout | BFN [Report by E. Grosskinsky, B. Baeumlisberger, B. Schindler: "The Test"] [Text] For their grandfathers it was a vision, for their grandchildren a bit of reality: united Europe. On 12 June, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer will decide on the makeup of the next European Parliament. Whom the grandsons will vote fo... |
FBIS4-42844_3 | Arms Exports From Former GDR Stocks Detailed | Ministry to turn "scrap" into money and political assets through generous donations. The Federal Government donated NVA equipment worth DM740 million to the United States for its Gulf war forces. Air-to-air missiles, launcher vehicles, guided missiles, motor vehicles, and ammunition went to Israel. Turkey received Germ... |
FBIS4-42855_4 | Former Budget Minister Urges Halt in Government Debts | we therefore resign ourselves, and place our confidence solely in the development of external rates on the international markets, which is not favorable today? Not necessarily, because Italian yields still have some way to go on their own. The yield differential between long-term Italian securities and similar German o... |
FBIS4-42868_4 | * Intelligence Service Activities Discussed | having the dispute escalate to the point that it would end up making public "documents" that would hurt not only EIP but also the government. Already, certain "papers" are circulating, which one side considers to be "hot," while the other side thinks they are "counterfeit and created for base purposes." What is their c... |
FBIS4-42874_0 | Alleged PKK `Plan' To Divide Turkey Reported | BFN [Report by Sedat Sertoglu: "An Appalling Trap for Turkey"] [Text] Several groups in Europe, which are supported by pro-Greek-Cypriot and pro-Armenian elements in the U.S. Congress and Mrs. Danielle Mitterrand, have put into effect a very dangerous plan, which can fragment Turkey. These groups, which have not been e... |
FBIS4-42875_0 | Article on PKK-Armenian Link Called `Lie' | BFN [Text] The photograph that the newspaper SABAH published last Tuesday [24 May] under the headline "Dirty Alliance!" exposed this paper's ties with the "intelligence units" and how it is being used by these circles. It has been ascertained that the photograph of PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] leader Abdullah Ocala... |
FBIS4-42875_1 | Article on PKK-Armenian Link Called `Lie' | Armenian Gregorian Church met with Ocalan in al-Biqa', and that the extremist nationalistic Armenian Tashnak [Armenian Revolutionary Federation] Party has been providing arms and financial assistance to the PKK through the church. It also claimed that Ocalan wants to find shelter in Armenia and that Armenians play an i... |
FBIS4-42879_0 | Poll Cites Attitudes on Euroelections, Integration | BFN [Report by Josef Joffe: "England and Germany United Against Europe?"] [Text] Who is interested in Europe? The Germans have become skeptical since reunification and the British have always been so. The Danes said "no" to Maastricht on one occasion; in France, Europe just made it in the referendum. However, with just... |
FBIS4-42880_8 | Clinton, Mitterrand Discuss Foreign Policy | of the world community according to the rules that all civilized people should follow. [Poivre d'Arvor] Let us continue with Africa. The Americans were involved in great numbers in Somalia. Today, the Somalis are no longer dying of hunger, they are well fed. Further south, in Rwanda today, hundreds of thousands of peop... |
FBIS4-42902_0 | Parties Present Euroelection Platforms | BFN [Unattributed article: "What the Parties Want To Achieve After 12 June; Five Election Platforms Under Eight Headings"] [Text] This coming Sunday [12 June] when, depending on electoral district, voters will be presented with up to 12 different lists of candidates for the new composition of the Chamber of Representat... |
FBIS4-42912_5 | Juppe on EU, WEU, GATT, Defense Issues | Belgium, Spain, and Luxembourg also contribute, is a priority. If, as I hope, Germany succeeds in resolving the constitutional problem associated with troop deployment abroad, the Eurocorps will grant Europe the military wing that it now lacks. There are other major projects under way, such as the establishment of an a... |
FBIS4-42916_0 | Tremaglia on Balkans, Proposes Somalia Initiative | BFN [Interview with National Alliance deputy Mirko Tremaglia, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Chamber of Deputies, by Federico Bianchessi in Rome; date not given: "Tremaglia: `We Shall Return to Africa'" -- first two paragraphs are LA VOCE introduction] [Text] Mirko, and the world...trembles [pun on in... |
FBIS4-42937_0 | Cetin Discusses Iraqi Pipeline With UK's Hurd | BFN [Text] Istanbul (AA) -- Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin has said that Turkey is justified regarding its requests concerning the Karkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline. Cetin was speaking after his 50-minute meeting with British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd held during the North Atlantic Council meetings in Istanbul today. He s... |
FBIS4-42950_2 | State Linked to Kurdish Businessmen's Murders | from Lice, contractor Fevzi Arslan, and his brother Sahin were kidnapped at gun point in their Aksaray office in Istanbul and their bodies were later found on the Istanbul-Ankara highway. Buldan was previously taken into custody in 1992 when police raided his house in Istanbul and discovered he was hosting DEP Diyarbak... |
FBIS4-42951_0 | Kurdish Parties Condemn Murders | BFN [Text] Ankara--The Democracy Party (DEP) and People's Democracy Party (HADEP) have condemned the killings of three pro-Kurdish businessmen Savas Buldan, Haci Koray and Adnan Yildirim. The three men were found near Melen river in the Yigilca township of Bolu province. They had been shot in the back of the head. Poli... |
FBIS4-42952_0 | Foreign Powers Responsible for `Kurdish Problem' | BFN [Text] Ankara--In the opening speech of the Emergency State Coordination Council meeting held in Ankara at the Gendarmerie's social complex on Monday [6 June], Interior Minister Nahit Mentese said, "Turkey is being manipulated by foreign centers of power." Mentese stressed that all ethnic groups living in Turkey ha... |
FBIS4-42955_1 | * `Heavy Blow' to Hezbollah Reported | reportedly be completed this week. Mumcu, Ucok, Aksu Speaking to CUMHURIYET, Diyarbakir DGM authorities said that the militants' activities were concentrated in the southeast. "They have no connection with the well-known murders of Ugur Mumcu, Bahriye Ucok, Muammer Aksoy, Mehmet Sincar, and Musa Anter. The organization... |
FBIS4-42957_0 | EC To Combat East European Drug Trafficking | BFN [Article signed MBO: "East European Drug Trafficking Prospers"] [Text] The Russian drug empire is preparing to conquer West Europe. Western amphetamine laboratories (ecstasy and others) are moving one after another, mainly to Poland. From the Netherlands, hashish plants are being taken by truck, mainly to Russia. A... |
FBIS4-42982_0 | Bonn, Paris Coordinate Work Program for EU Presidency | BFN [Text] Mulhouse (DPA) -- Germany and France will take over the presidency in the European Union (EU), which both countries will hold one after the other for almost a year as of 1 July, with a well coordinated work program. This was stressed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French President Francois Mitterrand at the c... |
FBIS4-42985_1 | French-German Influence on EU `Central' | Germany, reunited by history but sobered by the experience, that European impetus has to come. An enlarged Europe swings north and east. Europe in recovery goes Germany's way. Kohl believes he can win the October election for Chancellor. Mitterrand knows he is going next spring and will almost be certainly replaced by ... |
FBIS4-42990_0 | Hurd Describes Conservatives' Vision of Europe | BFN [Article by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd: "Towards a Europe Fit for a Free Britain"] [Text] Europe affects us directly and crucially. That must be the starting point. Our security and prosperity depend on what happens on our own continent. Withdrawal from its leading institution -- the European Union [EU] -- is t... |
FBIS4-42990_2 | Hurd Describes Conservatives' Vision of Europe | certain effect would be to destroy British jobs, along with a raft of extra spending on proposals which would punish Europe's taxpayers. The arguments here are familiar from our own domestic politics -- a choice between jobs and enterprise on the one hand and socialism on the other. That is what we mean by Europe -- Ri... |
FBIS4-43000_0 | Bonn `Concerned' About Nuclear Proliferation | BFN [Text] Bonn (DPA) -- The Federal Government is concerned about the proliferation of carrier missiles and mass destruction weapons. An increasing number of Third World countries are trying to acquire such weapons, a report of the Federal Intelligence Office says, which was presented by State Minister in the Chancell... |
FBIS4-43004_0 | CDU Duesseldorf Office Bombed; No Injuries | BFN [Text] Duesseldorf (DPA) -- Early Sunday morning [5 June], a bomb attack, which caused approximately 30,000 German marks in damages, was carried out on the Christian Democratic Union [CDU] district office in Duesseldorf. According to the police, a letter in which a leftist autonomous group claimed responsibility fo... |
FBIS4-43014_3 | Bossi: `We Will Not Jeopardize Governability' | assets. For instance, privatization, antitrust legislation, federalism, and institutional reforms. I repeat: We are not accustomed to betraying people. We conducted our election campaign on those points, and we will play our part on those points. This, without jeopardizing the country's governability, but saying what w... |
FBIS4-43019_0 | Planes From Zaragoza To Support UN Mission | BFN ["M.G." report: "Eight F-18's From Zaragoza Seek Accommodation at Italy's Aviano Base"] [Text] Madrid -- The Air Force has chosen 31 Wing, based at Zaragoza, to take part in the mission to provide air support for the UN forces in Bosnia, under NATO control. This wing comprises two squadrons of fighter bombers and t... |
FBIS4-43027_1 | GATT Director on Effectiveness of Uruguay Round | of preoccupations, justified or not, with respect to bilateral trade balances alleged "unfairness" in trading practices and so on. It is important that we recognise that the WTO is a response to continuing global changes, economic and otherwise, and that, as a consequence, its activities have to be seen against a backg... |
FBIS4-43036_0 | Implications of U.S. Balkan Policy Examined | BFN [Article by Edouard van Velthem: "Clinton Spurs Europe"] [Text] Has Washington decided to change its Balkan strategy for the fourth time in four years? Officially, nothing has changed: Support for the European plan, without forcing the Muslims to accept a "shameful peace." However, there are a number of signals in ... |
FBIS4-43037_2 | Prime Minister Views Elections, EU Issues | used taxation to finance retirements and in that we were able to maintain our social security contributions at a low cost. In this respect, we are complying with the recommendations set out in the white paper by Jacques Delors regarding taxation on the indirect cost of labor. The Luxembourg model as we conceive it, wit... |
FBIS4-43047_3 | Kinkel Outlines European Security Policies | concerned, he declined to mention an exact date. However, the process will probably last longer than the countries affected and the Germans hope, Kinkel pointed out. As far as the content is concerned, the Federal Government plans to involve the Visegrad states and the Baltic republics to a much greater extent politica... |
FBIS4-43052_2 | Editorial Notes Emerging Balance of Power in Europe | decisive voice in European security by means of a link between the CSCE and the United Nations. The wheel of bilateral relations, with NATO as a hub, will only turn if it is connected by a fan belt to Washington and Moscow. Otherwise the wheel will be out of gear, without touching the ground of concrete reality. This n... |
FBIS4-43072_3 | * Security Impact of EU Expansion Discussed | referendum outcome, has accepted all rights and duties, including the Maastricht Treaty's commitments pertaining to foreign policy and joint security. But the opposite is also true. The EU makes a commitment to Finland by accepting its candidacy; the former offers the latter the same protection that is offered all its ... |
FBIS4-43089_0 | Kurdish Official Denies Guerrilla Training in Greece | BFN [Report by Dina Vayena] [Excerpts] "What would we do with military training camps in Greece or any other European country? The existence of such camps would only create problems for the host country as well as for our relations with that specific country. We have many military camps in Kurdistan to train our people... |
FBIS4-43098_0 | Government Puts Provincial Security Forces on Alert | BFN [Report by Sezai Sengun: "Joint Action by PKK and ASALA" -- place names as published] [Text] Ankara--Acting on information that the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] terrorists in Armenia are preparing to infiltrate into Turkey, officials have placed the security forces in Kars, Ardahan, and Igdir Provinces on a sta... |
FBIS4-43099_0 | Border Reportedly Closed To Prevent Kurdish `Exodus' | BFN [Text] Salah al-Din, Iraq, June 12 (AFP) -- Turkey has started closing its border to Iraq to Turkish Kurds to prevent them from fleeing to Iraqi Kurdistan, a UNHCR official said here Saturday [10 June]. "People from Turkey have told us that the Turkish army has begun cordoning off the border region to stop a new ex... |
FBIS4-43100_0 | Military Plans To Restrict Agri, Tendurek Areas | BFN [Report by Hakki Erdem and Evren Deger: "Agri and Tendurek Mountains Will Be Declared Restricted Areas"] [Text] Ankara--In accordance with the measures that are being taken against the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK], Agri and Tendurek Mountains will be declared "restricted military areas" and people will be prohi... |
FBIS4-43102_0 | Ciller Implicated in Kurdish Murders | BFN [Text] The attacks on Kurdish businessmen began when they were targeted in a statement by Prime Minister Tansu Ciller at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Istanbul on 4 November 1993. During her news conference at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Ciller said: "Turkey is facing an expanding terrorist movement that has assumed the natu... |
FBIS4-43103_0 | Former Official Comments | BFN [Report by Necat Sunar] [Text] Istanbul -- Professor Mahir Kaynak, a former National Intelligence Organization (MIT) official and a faculty member at Gazi University, said that the murders of Kurdish businessmen and intellectuals may be the work of those who provided the names of these persons to Prime Minister Tan... |
FBIS4-43105_0 | PKK Vows Retaliation | BFN [Text] Cologne -- ERNK's [National Liberation Front of Kurdistan] European Mission issued a statement in which it indicated that despite the PKK's [Workers Party of Kurdistan] capabilities it has so far not resorted to assassinations but from now on it will not be a mere spectator to developments, and said: "The bu... |
FBIS4-43109_0 | Anti-Iran Activists Caught; Asylum Denied | BFN [Text] Ankara, June 11 (AA) -- Sixteen members from an outlawed organization fighting against the regime in Iran were captured in Ankara, it was reported on Saturday [11 June]. AA reporter learned that the members of `People's Mujaheddins' [Mojahedin-e Khalq] were captured after operations carried out in three diff... |
FBIS4-43115_0 | Euroelections: Voters Desert Conservative Cause | BFN [By Chris Moncrieff and Sian Clare, PRESS ASSOCIATION political staff] [Text] Labour swept into the Tory heartlands with dramatic victories right across the country in the European election results declared overnight. But the Tory vote -- pitiful though it was -- held up just sufficiently to earn John Major a repri... |
FBIS4-43122_0 | Christopher, Cetin Agree `in Principle' on Pipeline | BFN [Excerpts] Istanbul (AA) -- Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher held a meeting at Ciragan Palace today. In a statement after the meeting, Christopher said that an "agreement in principle" was reached on flushing the Karkuk-Yumurtalik pipeline. In a statement to ANATO... |
FBIS4-43129_0 | EU, Russia Reach Agreement on Cooperation | BFN [Text] Luxembourg, June 13 (AFP) -- The European Union [EU] has reached "essential political agreement" to sign a partnership and cooperation agreement with Russia, diplomats said during a meeting of EU foreign ministers here Monday [13 June]. The agreement is scheduled to be signed by EU leaders with Russian Presi... |
FBIS4-43138_0 | EU Elections Compared to National Elections | BFN [Editorial by Jos Huypens: "European Elections Were Not a National Test"] [Text] The European elections in Belgium clearly have their own dynamic and cannot be viewed as a test of the national political situation. The majority parties in Flanders did not suffer big losses compared with the November 1991 national el... |
FBIS4-43145_0 | Palestinian's Lockerbie Bomb Claim Suspicious | BFN [By Joe Quinn, PRESS ASSOCIATION News] [Text] A Palestinian's claim that he was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing was today greeted with scepticism by British relatives of the 270 victims. Yusuf Sha'ban, 29, made the outburst in a Beirut courtroom where he is standing trial accused of assassinating a Jordanian ... |
FBIS4-43146_0 | Foreign Office Discounts `Confession' | BFN [Report by Patrick Bishop: "Government Rejects New Lockerbie `Confession'"] [Text] A claim by a member of a Palestinian terror group that he was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing was discounted by the Foreign Office yesterday. Yusuf Sha'ban, 29, who is accused of involvement in the murder of a Jordanian diploma... |
FBIS4-43147_0 | Paper Urges Increased World Pressure on Iran | BFN [Editorial report: "How To Deal With Iran"] [Text] "The revolution is not about the price of a watermelon," declared Ayatollah Khomeyni of the creation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Any hopes that such ardour might cool with time have again been dashed in recent weeks. Like a poor man's Communist International, ... |
FBIS4-43155_2 | Editorial Views Upcoming Visit by Berlusconi | founding of the European Community." We have indeed every reason to be vigilant if a neofascist European candidate in Italy talks about "concentration camps" to be set up for homosexuals; if the chairman of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee says that border treaties with neighbors should be revised; if Gianfr... |
FBIS4-43160_7 | French Influence in Europe Seen Waning | points in order to carry the undecided. As a consequence, it will be harder to achieved a victory like the one Paris obtained last 20 September when it rallied its 11 partners to its position on the Uruguay Round. French influence could be further diluted by the growing congestion of the European institutional and lega... |
FBIS4-43173_0 | Budget Cuts Leave Navy Plans `Halfway There' | BFN [M. Abizanda report: "Navy, Halfway There"] [Text] Halfway there. That is how the Navy has been left following the budget cuts that have sunk many of its plans for renewal and new shipbuilding laid down in the so-called High Seas Plan at the end of the last decade. What should have been an ambitious plan to create ... |
FBIS4-43173_3 | Budget Cuts Leave Navy Plans `Halfway There' | commissioning of five amphibious vessels, whereas the situation right now is that both the Aragon and the Castilla -- the two attack transport ships -- have reached the end of their useful lives without clear replacements. The first solution has been to hire from the U.S. Navy two amphibious vessels with 20 years on th... |
FBIS4-43196_0 | Column Views `Messages' of EU Elections | BFN [From the "Views" column: "The Messages"] [Text] Whatever the interpretations given by PASOK [Panhellenic Socialist Movement] and New Democracy to explain the significant decrease of their electoral support over the last eight months, one thing is certain: The electorate sent, via the election, a clear message to t... |
FBIS4-43199_0 | `Good Relations' To Be | `Strengthened' TA1406060394 Ankara TRT Television Network in Turkish 2100 GMT 13 Jun 94 TA1406060394 Ankara TRT Television Network Turkish BFN [Announcer-read report over video] [Text] Prime Minister Tansu Ciller has received Iranian Interior Minister 'Ali Mohammad Besharati-Jahromi, who is in Turkey on an official vis... |
FBIS4-43205_0 | Extradition of PKK Leader Arrested in Azerbaijan | BFN [Text] Nizamettin Ozturk, alias "Cellat" [Butcher], has been arrested in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic [NAR] and handed over to Turkey. He is the person in charge of the Workers Party of Kurdistan [PKK] militants in Igdir. Ozturk fled to the NAR after carrying out many operations in Igdir. He was arrested whi... |
FBIS4-43206_0 | PKK Members Captured in Izmir | BFN [Text] Seventeen members of the PKK [Workers Party of Kurdistan] terror organization who were involved in a murder case and various terrorist incidents have been captured in operations carried out in Izmir. According to information given by the Izmir Security Directorate's Antiterror Department, the suspects were i... |
FBIS4-43208_0 | Paper Views Cut in U.S. Aid to Turkey | BFN [Article by Mehmet Ali Birand: "Turkey Must Reject the U.S. Military Aid Package"] [Text] It is impossible for anyone not to realize what lies in the future for Ankara if they contact the members of the U.S. Congressional committees concerned with matters related to Turkey and their aides, who determine the way the... |
FBIS4-43208_2 | Paper Views Cut in U.S. Aid to Turkey | linked to the Kurdish problem and the developments in southeastern Turkey. Apparently a mechanism has been established that cannot be stopped but which can be intensified and broadened very easily. It is common knowledge that 25 percent of the aid program has been suspended. Another half of that program may be suspende... |
FBIS4-43217_0 | Daily: `Disappointing' Euroelection Result | BFN [Editorial: "Disappointing Election"] [Text] A turnout of over 50 percent is certainly an improvement on what has been up to now the low point of 46.1 percent in 1989, but it can still be argued that there is a disappointingly low level of interest in the European Parliament. What is especially disappointing is tha... |
FBIS4-43233_7 | MI5 Director Lectures on Security Services | concentrated on terrorism--terrorism originating both from within the United Kingdom and from abroad. For the past 20 years or so, the security service has been responsible for coordinating intelligence work against terrorism carried out from overseas and with the potential to affect this country's interests anywhere i... |
FBIS4-43233_11 | MI5 Director Lectures on Security Services | countering Irish terrorism. These new arrangements have achieved a sharper focus, as well as a greater concentration of resources. All the agencies involved in countering terrorism in the UK cooperate closely and effectively, but counterterrorism is not an exact science. In an open and democratic society, the initial a... |
FBIS4-43242_0 | Industrialists Discuss Trade With East Europe | BFN [Report signed by "old.": "Medium-Sized Industry Waiting for Debt Agreement With Russia"] [Text] Berlin -- The Committee for Trade With the East of German business and industry intends to bring about, as soon as possible, a financial arrangement for German companies whose deliveries to Russia are not covered by Her... |
FBIS4-43248_1 | Commentaries View EU Election Results Majority, Opposition React | former demonstrate that his electorate is hardly concerned with integrity: It is as though this was not an issue at all. As for the "populist" tag they have often been saddled with, it does not appear to have been taken seriously: Indeed, it hardly explains anything. Are they populists, those people who wanted to vote ... |
FBIS4-43249_2 | Commentaries View EU Election Results Lesson for Presidential Election | risk: first of all, the risk of indifference, demonstrated by a high abstention rate; second, the risk of fierce opposition, reflected in the results of the de Villiers and Le Pen lists on the Right, and the Chevenement, Wurtz, and Laguiller lists on the Left. Given the 45-percent abstention rate, which remains high ev... |
FBIS4-43261_3 | Minister on Economy, Shift Toward Europe | has made every effort to bring inflation down to the level of our neighbors. This has naturally required close consultation between the government and the two sides of industry. And now we are beginning to see the light. The economy has largely been stabilized. Inflation is down to below the OECD average, which at pres... |
FBIS4-43281_0 | Ankara Ready To Pay for Oil Pipeline Repairs | BFN [Text] Ankara--As a Turkish delegation headed by Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Ozdem Sanberk lobbied in New York to convince Turkey's allies regarding the flushing of oil from a Turco-Iraqi pipeline, a high-level technocrat said Ankara was ready to foot the bill for repairing the damage to the pipeline on the Ir... |
FBIS4-43282_6 | Demirel on Security in `New World Order' | partner. The pace and intensity of the cooperation with each partner within the framework of the PFP will largely depend on the capability and willingness of the partner concerned. Thus the relations between each partner and the alliance will undoubtedly have specific features. In this era of interlocking institutions ... |
FBIS4-43283_0 | Iranian Interior Minister Denies PKK in Iran | BFN [Text] Ankara, June 14 (A.A.) -- Interior Minister Nahit Mentese on Tuesday [14 June] said that Turkey will not allow any activities against Iran within its territories. Iranian Interior Minister 'Ali Mohammad Besharati-Jahromi, who is currently in Ankara on an official visit, said that Iran's borders are closed to... |
FBIS4-43285_0 | Human Rights Association Publishes Monthly Report | BFN [Text] Ankara--According to the latest monthly Human Rights report prepared by the human rights association IHD, Turkey again had nothing to boast about in terms of its human rights' record. A total of 643 people were reported to have lost their lives as a result of clashes between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' P... |
FBIS4-43285_1 | Human Rights Association Publishes Monthly Report | crimes of conscience and the ban on a free press and publications presents a very thought-provoking picture that gets a lot of attention in Western countries." He went on to say that political parties now look favorably on constitutional change but added that all changes must comply with international law. Birdal said ... |
FBIS4-43306_0 | Libya Proposes Lockerbie Trial in The Hague | BFN [Unattributed article: "Libya/Italy: Libyan Proposal for Lockerbie Trial"] [Text] (ANSA) Rome, June 8 -- Libya wants a trial at the International Court of Justice in The Hague for two of its citizens accused of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, Libya's ambassador to Rome 'Abd-al-Rahman Shalqam told Lower House Foreign Af... |
FBIS4-43326_0 | EU Leaders Express Concern Over Split in Parliament | BFN [Report by David Marsh in London and Lionel Barber in Luxembourg: "Fears Raised Over Splits in EU Parliament"] [Text] Governments across Europe yesterday expressed concern about the fragmentation of the European Parliament after elections that saw a strong shift to the right on the Continent offset by Labour's swee... |
FBIS4-43328_0 | Commentary Criticizes EU Voters' Nationalism | BFN [Commentary by Arturo Guatelli: "Rethink Brussels"] [Text] Right-wing Europe has defeated left-wing Europe, with the sole exception of the Labour Party's success in Britain. The winners are [German Chancellor] Kohl and [Italian Prime Minister] Berlusconi, as well as "outsiders" Tapie [French Radical Energy list lea... |
FBIS4-43331_0 | European Elections `Humiliating' for Major | BFN [Report by Philip Stephens and John Willman: "Tories Dealt Fresh Blow in Euro-Poll"] [Text] Mr John Major's government suffered another humiliating electoral blow early this morning as the first results of the European elections suggested the Conservatives' representation in the Strasbourg parliament would be at le... |
FBIS4-43350_1 | Italy's Martino Outlines Economic Plan at OECD Meeting | and accelerate the liberalization of its economy and boost the number of jobs with a policy which coincides with global trends, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Martino, a trained economist, said here Wednesday [8 June] during the ministerial session of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). ... |
FBIS4-43361_0 | Budget Debate Puts Coalition Under Pressure | BFN [Unattributed article: "People's Party for Freedom and Democracy's Demand for Cutbacks Puts Talks Under Pressure"] [Text] The VVD [People's Party for Freedom and Democracy] is putting the "purple" coalition [comprising the VVD, the Labor Party (PvdA), and Democrats 66 (D66)] negotiations under pressure by demanding... |
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