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" Results of the registration for September elections herald a dismal future for multi-ethnicity in Bosia-Hercegovina, " warned Soren Jessen-Petersen, Special Envoy for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Former Yugoslavia. | [
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" In the run-up to elections, nationalistic political leaders are playing the ethnic / sectarian card, drumming up support within their constituencies by playing on bitter memories or fear . " | [] |
After truce, Lebed faces tougher Chechen problem. | [
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Alastair Macdonald | [
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MOSCOW 1996-08-26 | [
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Alexander Lebed may finally get to discuss his Chechen peace proposals with Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday after a lost weekend in the region when he was forced to abandon plans to sign a new political treaty with the separatist rebels. | [
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It could be a sobering experience for the Kremlin security chief who, just two months after being appointed by the president and two heady weeks after taking charge of the Chechen crisis, had promised to wrap up the 20-month war by the weekend. | [
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Despite a mood of compromise in the region after some of the worst fighting of the war, Lebed may be just finding out that concluding a long-term settlement, somewhere between rebel demands for independence and Moscow's insistence that Chechnya remain part of Russia, will be no easy matter. | [
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A chain-smoking former paratroop general with a sharp line in deadpan putdowns and a soldier's knack for making life sound simple, Lebed managed to arrange an ambitious ceasefire in the region last week, days after the Russian army threatened to bomb its way back into the rebel-held Chechen capital Grozny. | [
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He returned at the weekend, pledging to conclude a political settlement that would make this truce work where all others have failed. | [] |
But then he apparently thought better of it. | [] |
Saying he needed to tidy up legal loose ends on the deal--and also cover his back against unnamed pro-war schemers in Moscow--he flew back to the capital empty-handed on Sunday. | [
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He met Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on Monday and, according to the press service of Lebed's Security Council, could meet Yeltsin on Tuesday. | [
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It was not clear if the start of Yeltsin's holiday, announced later, would affect plans to talk. | [
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Moscow's as yet undisclosed proposals on Chechnya's political future have, meanwhile, been sent back to do the rounds of various government departments. | [
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It is not known what caused the delay in the peace plan. | [] |
Speculation mounted last week that Lebed was operating out on a limb in Chechnya as Yeltsin, hardly seen since his reelection last month, kept out of sight and then gave an interview criticising his envoy just as he clinched a truce. | [
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But Chernomyrdin took pains at the weekend to insist Lebed was playing for a united team and that the proposals he took to rebel chief-of-staff Aslan Maskhadov had been agreed by Yeltsin. | [
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If that were the case, it was unclear why Lebed suddenly found it necessary to have the deal verified in Moscow. | [
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Lebed himself said he was concerned that powerful interests in Moscow, who have profited from the war and want it to go on, would seize on any inadequacy in the deal to remove him. | [
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Maskhadov warned that Lebed risked the same fate as a former Russian army commander in the region who sought a compromise and was blown up last year by--so the Chechens say--Russian forces. | [
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Maskhadov may also have made new demands on Lebed, forcing him to check back with the Kremlin on what he could offer. | [
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A rebel spokesman said the two military men had come close to agreement on a face-saving formula acceptable to both sides and involving a referendum on independence at some future date. | [] |
Chernomyrdin said voters should decide Chechnya's future but stressed there was no question of the government letting the region quit the Russian Federation--something Moscow fears could encourage separatist tendencies in other ethnic regions, particularly in the strategic North Caucasus. | [
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Lebed may be be finding that closing that political gap between the two sides is more difficult than just ending a war. | [
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Yeltsin on holiday from Monday - Interfax. | [
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MOSCOW 1996-08-26 | [
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin began a new summer holiday on Monday but would remain in control of affairs of state, Interfax news agency said. | [
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" The head of state's holiday has only just begun, " the agency quoted Sergei Yastrzhembsky as saying, adding that the president was currently in a Kremlin residence near Moscow. | [
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Interfax said Yastrezhembsky did not exclude that Yeltsin could spend some time in other places. | [
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He would continue working on various documents and might meet " one state offical or another ". | [] |
" One must give B. Yeltsin a chance to rest and recover his health after the elections, " Interfax quoted Yastrezhembsky as saying. | [
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" (Yeltsin) controls internal and international policies, daily receives a big packet of documents from Moscow, which demand his intervention ... | [
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Many of those documents return to the president's administration the same day, " he said. | [] |
Yeltsin went on a two-day trip outside Moscow last week to check out a holiday home. | [
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Yugo Zastava workers' protest enters 2nd week. | [
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BELGRADE 1996-08-26 | [
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Thousands of workers of Serbia's Zastava arms factory entered the second week of protests on Monday over unpaid wages and the lack of a programme to revive the plant's production. | [
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" We are stubborn, have strength and time to persist until our demands are met, " said the factory's trade union secretary Dragutin Stanojlovic. | [
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" We are united and we are waiting for the government to decide what to do with us . " | [] |
Trade unions demanded payment of June and July wages and last year's holiday pay, and called on government to develop a revival programme for the plant. | [] |
The former Yugoslav national army consumed 90 percent of Zastava's pre-war output, but like the rest of Yugoslavia's economy, the new army of Serbia and Montenegro is crippled by lack of funds. | [
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In Kragujevac where the plant is based, 9,000 to 10,000 people gathered in the central square to express their bitterness at what Stanojlovic called government indifference. | [
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The ruling Socialist Party last week accused Serbia's opposition of stirring up social unrest and using workers' already difficult social position for their own interests. | [
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" Late wages, no work and (the lack of a) production programme are the main reasons for their protests, " a senior member of the local Socialist Party branch told Reuters. | [
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" But there is a significant influence of opposition parties that are collecting points ahead of coming elections . " | [] |
Federal Yugoslav elections are due on November 3. | [
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The party official said the union's figure on the number of protesters was exaggerated . " | [] |
There were about 1,400 to 1,600 people at the protest today--much less then last week. | [] |
" But there were more observers and passers by, " he said. | [] |
-- Gordana Kukic, Belgrade Newsroom +381 11 222 4254 | [
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Croatian lending rate falls to 8.0 vs 9.1 pct. | [
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ZAGREB 1996-08-26 | [
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The Croatian lending rate fell to 8.0 percent on Monday from last Friday's 9.1 percent after thin demand for kuna forced bank lenders to trim their rates further. | [
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Interbank call money was down to 8.0 from 10.0 percent. | [
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Insurers' five-10 and 10-15 day loans were made at a steady 8.0 percent after last week's drop from an earlier 15 percent. | [] |
Total Zagreb Money Market settlements shrank to 17.4 million kuna, of which dealers put new borrowing at a meagre 5.5 million. | [
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Supply stood at a high 180 million kuna. | [] |
Overnight trade at the weekend left a surplus of 1.2 billion kuna on the supply side after 40 million were settled. | [] |
Croatia's central bank again stayed out of the foreign exchange market. | [
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It calculated the kuna midrates for Tuesday's trade stronger at 5.2420 against the dollar and slightly weaker at 3.5486 against the German mark. | [
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-- Kolumbina Bencevic, Zagreb Newsroom, 385-1-4557075 | [
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SVCD Bulgaria air traffic controllers to strike September 3. | [
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SOFIA 1996-08-26 | [
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Bulgarian air traffic controllers will go on strike on September 3 demanding higher pay, the chief of the Bulgarian association of air traffic controllers (Bulatka) said on Monday. | [
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Stefan Raichev told a news conference the strike by more than half of the 1,380 traffic controllers and technicians would paralyse traffic which has increased by 10 percent since last year. | [
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More than 1,500 planes per day fly over Bulgaria, in a strategic location between Europe and the Middle and the Far East, Raichev said. | [
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The director general of the air traffic service Valentin Valkov said last Friday that a controllers' strike would be illegal. | [
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Valkov said he could not curb the summer charter flights of national carrier Balkan Airlines, which carries thousands of foreign tourists to the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts. | [
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But Raichev said it would be " discrimination " against the other airlines if only Balkan planes were guided in. | [
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" Under the law before launching the strike we have to sign an agreement with our employer for a minimal transport servicing of emergency flights, " Raichev said. | [
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Raichev said a lock-out with military air controllers was impossible as they did not speak English. | [
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The controllers are demanding the monthly wage be increased to $1,000 per month from the current $230, as well as the resignation of the air traffic service's management. | [] |
They also demand the financial separation of the 350 air controllers from the technical staff. | [] |
-- Liliana Semerdjieva, Sofia Newsroom, 359-2-84561 | [
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Yeltsin's wife has kidney operation. | [
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MOSCOW 1996-08-26 | [
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Naina Yeltsin, wife of the Russian president, has undergone " a planned operation " on her left kidney and is in a satisfactory condition, Itar-Tass news agency said on Monday. | [
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Tass quoted the Kremlin press service as saying the operation took place on Saturday in the Central Clinical Hospital which treats top officials. | [
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Mrs Yeltsin would be released from hospital in a few days. | [
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Doctor Sergei Mironov told Tass Naina was " in permanent contact " with her husband and two daughters, Yelena and Tatyana. | [
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The state of health of Boris Yeltsin, who had two heart attacks last year, has been the centre of media and market speculation after he won a second term in office in the July 3 election run-off and all but disappeared from the public eye. | [
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A presidential spokesman said on Monday Yeltsin was in Moscow but could give no details about his agenda or whether meetings were planned. | [
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Yeltsin is expected to go on holiday in the near future, but officials have not yet said where he will go or when. | [
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Mostostal Z shareholders approve bonds. | [
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WARSAW 1996-08-26 | [
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Shareholders of the Polish construction firm Mostostal Zabrze Holding SA approved a 25- million-zloty, five-year convertible issue with a par value of 100 zlotys each, the company's spokesman said on Monday. | [
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Piotr Grabowski told Reuters that a Mostostal extraordinary shareholders meeting on Saturday had decided that the price of the 250,000 bonds would be set as a 10-session average price of Mostostal shares plus a premium. | [
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" The premium will be no lower than 15 percent and will be set by management before the issue ... | [] |
which we expect at the beginning of next year, " Grabowksi said. | [
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Mostostal, based in southern Poland, wants to offer the bonds to large investors in a public offering, paying an annual coupon of no more than 80 percent of the yield of the benchmark 52-week T-bill. | [
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The firm has signed an agreement with the Polish Development Bank (PBR) to manage the issue and plans them to be listed on the Warsaw bourse's bond market. | [
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Grabowski also said shareholders approved the issue of 1.6 million shares for which the bonds could be exchanged, a ratio of 6.4 shares per bond. | [
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He also said shareholders approved the issue of 2.6 million new shares, two million of which are earmarked for large investors and 600,000 for retail domestic investors. | [] |
The price will be determined through book-building. | [] |
Mostostal plans to use the proceeds from the issues to add companies to its holding and modernise its plant. | [
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-- Warsaw Newsroom +48 22 653 9700 | [
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Unknown group kidnaps Dutch couple in Costa Rica. | [
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica 1996-08-26 | [
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Kidnappers have seized a Dutch couple who manage a farm in northern Costa Rica and have demanded a $1.5 million ransom, authorities said on Monday. | [
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