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Subject: TRH News--Part 2
Date: 12 Dec 1992 01:16:04 -0600
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12/10 ISTANBUL FAVORED AS HEADQUARTERS FOR BLACK SEA ...

ANTALYA, TURKEY (DEC. 10) DPA - The permanent secretariat of
a new Black Sea economic grouping should be located in
Istanbul, it was agreed in principle at the organisation's
first foreign ministers' meeting since its foundation in
June.
   It was also decided that Turkey would hold the presidency
of the Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) for another
six months as the Ukraine, Albania, Armenia and Azerbaijan
(alphabetically the next in line) had declined to assume the
presidency for "technical and financial reasons".
   At the meeting Thursday in Antalya in southern Turkey,
Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin appealed to the 11
member states of the BSEC to look to the European Community
as an example of how prosperity can promote regional peace.
   The E.C. had shown that economic co-operation "can bring
together even countries which have fought against each other
for centuries", Cetin said.
   The other members of the group are Bulgaria, Georgia,
Greece, Moldova, Romania and Russia.
   Cetin said, "We must never forget that the BSEC
symbolises the hopes of more than 300 million people in our
region for a brighter and better future."
   Cetin said the BSEC had made progress on establishing a
Black Sea development and investment bank as well as a Black
Sea centre for statistics.
   Only five foreign ministers attended the conference,
however. The other six countries were represented by "high-
ranking" government officials.

12/10 TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER CETIN SAYS BLACK SEA ...

ANTALYA, TURKEY (DEC. 10) DPA - Turkish Foreign Minister
Hikmet Cetin  appealed Thursday to the 11 member states of a
new Black Sea economic grouping to look to the European
Community as an example of how prosperity can promote
regional peace.
   The E.C. had shown that economic co-operation "can bring
together even countries which have fought against each other
for centuries", Cetin said.
   He was speaking in Antalya, southern Turkey, at the first
foreign ministers' meeting of the Black Sea Economic Co-
operation (BSEC) since its founding in Istanbul in June.
   The group consists of Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey
and the Ukraine.
   Cetin said, "We must never forget that the BSEC
symbolises the hopes of more than 300 million people in our
region for a brighter and better future."
   Cetin said the BSEC had made progress on establishing a
Black Sea development and investment bank as well as a Black
Sea centre for statistics.
   Only five foreign ministers attended the conference,
however. The other six countries were represented by "high-
ranking" government officials.
   Member states disagree on the location of the
organisation's permanent secretariat. Turkey is trying to
drum up support for the secretariat to be based in Istanbul,
but other countries want it to rotate with the
organisation's presidency, which would change every six
months.

12/10 0900  TURKEY CUTS PRICE OF UNLEADED GASOLINE BY 10
PERCENT

ISTANBUL (DEC. 10) XINHUA - THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT HAS
LOWERED THE PRICE OF UNLEADED GASOLINE BY 10 PERCENT AS OF
TODAY AS A MEASURE TO PROTECT PEOPLE'S HEALTH AND PREVENT
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION.
   TURKISH PETROLEUM REFINERIES CORPORATION GENERAL DIRECTOR
KEMAL ISIK SAID THAT THE NEW PRICE OF UNLEADED GASOLINE IS
6,088 TURKISH LIRA (ABOUT 0.82 U.S. DOLLARS) PER LITRE IN
ISTANBUL, 6,121 LIRA (0.82 DOLLARS) IN ANKARA, 6,057 LIRA
(0.81 DOLLARS) IN IZMIR.
   ISIK ALSO SAID THAT ANOTHER REASON FOR THE REDUCTION OF
THE PRICE WAS TO BE IN HARMONY WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
(EC).
   ISIK REMINDED THAT ALL EC COUNTRIES WILL BE REQUIRED TO
PRODUCE VEHICLES THAT OPERATE ON UNLEADED GASOLINE, STARTING
NEXT YEAR.
   HE SAID THAT "TURKEY MUST TAKE SIMILAR MEASURES PARALLEL
TO THIS DEVELOPMENT."
   ISIK POINTED OUT THAT TURKEY IS PLANNING TO PRODUCE ALL
5.5 MILLION TONS OF TURKEY'S DEMAND IN OIL IN UNLEADED
GASOLINE IN THE YEAR 2001.

12/11 Canadian Pullout Ails Cyprus

   NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- Canada's decision Friday to
withdraw its remaining 514 troops from divided Cyprus will
leave less than 1,000 U.N. peacekeepers separating Greek and
Turkish Cypriots.
   But the impact of the pullout led to a wide range of
speculation: whether it could turn Cyprus back into a
flashpoint or help push the feuding sides to talk seriously
about a settlement.
   Peacekeepers have been here since 1964, when violence
broke out between the two communities. Turkish troops then
invaded in 1974 in the wake of an abortive coup by Greek
Cypriots supporting union with Greece.
   U.N. troops have patrolled the 112-mile Green Line
dividing the Mediterranean island since 1974. They stand
between 35,000 Turkish troops in the north and about 10,000
Greek Cypriot National Guard troops to the south.
   U.N. mediation has failed to break the impasse.
   Canada said it would withdraw its contingent by September
1993. The U.N. Force in Cyprus is already down to 1,488
soldiers, a cut of more than 600 over the past year.
   Other countries are also scaling back, some angered by
the lack of progress toward a settlement. Denmark is
withdrawing all its 323 troops.
   Britain, Canada, Finland, Ireland and Austria also have
provided troops, and Sweden and Australia contributed
military and civilian police.
   "After 28 years, if the problem hasn't been solved, they
should negotiate," said gunner Dale Foster, 23, of Shilo,
Manitoba. "Or they should just forget it and build a Berlin
Wall" to separate the two communities.
   His watchpost in central Nicosia overlooks a grim vista
of ruined buildings, barbed wire and booby-trapped shops. In
places, the Green Line that snakes through the city is only
a few yards wide.
   Frequently, Greek and Turkish Cypriot troops hurl insults
at each other. Sometimes they aim weapons, but shooting
incidents are rare, largely because the U.N. troops are
there.
   The commander of Canadian forces in Cyprus, Lt. Col.
Murray Swan, 47, of Belleville, Ontario, said it was
difficult to justify having peacekeepers in Cyprus as U.N.
soldiers are needed in new hotspots like Somalia and Bosnia.
   Asked how the cutback would affect the peacekeepers'
ability to prevent conflict, he acknowledged that "our
capabilities ... are slipping away."


12/11 Police Unit Battles Neo Nazis

   DRESDEN, Germany (AP) -- Armed with laptop computers and
martial arts expertise, an elite police force is making
inroads against violent neo-Nazis in a corner of Germany
once considered a playground for right-wing radicals.
   Saxony state's 18-month-old Special Commission Against
Right-Wing Extremism has proved so successful that other
states are looking to create similar teams.
   The 50-member force had rounded up more than 1,000 right-
wing radicals and carried out at least 600 raids by October
this year. Attacks on immigrant shelters dropped from 16 in
August to five in October.
   All this has occurred in an eastern state where right-
wing radicals have been active. Dresden, the seat of
Saxony's state government, was once dubbed the capital of
Germany's fanatical far right.
   "Saxony state is demonstrating that officials don't have
to capitulate to the rightists," Der Spiegel news magazine
said.
   The strategy of Wolfgang Pfisterer, head of the force
known as SOKO REX, is to make the neo-Nazis sweat.
   He has placed informers within their ranks, compiled one
of the most thorough computer archives on far-right
suspects, and hounded the radicals with constant raids.
   His force travels to raids with laptop computers in order
to immediately record information about evidence and
suspects' statements.
   "My people are psyched up. They actually look forward to
getting up at 3 a.m. to bust fanatics," says Pfisterer. "If
they (neo-Nazis) fight back, they feel how tough we can be."
   "Sometimes a big skinhead will sit there (during
questioning) and blubber like a baby," says Sigrid Delling,
a member of the team. "They're strong when part of a group.
But get them alone and they sing the blues."
   Elsewhere, there has been little such progress. More than
2,000 radical-right attacks have left 16 people dead and
hundreds wounded across Germany this year.
   Critics blame police incompetence, or even secret
sympathy for the xenophobic neo-Nazis.
   During an August siege of an asylum shelter in Rostock,
in eastern Germany's Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state,
police units stood by as radicals hurled firebombs at the
building. German newspapers say the state Interior Ministry
knew days before of a pending attack, but did nothing.
   Courts also have sometimes seemed incapable of dealing
with the far-right.
   Six days before a Nov. 23 arson attack that killed three
Turks in the northern city of Moelln, a judge rejected an
arrest warrant for one of two youths who have since been
accused of carrying out the fatal firebombing.
   Firm action has been especially lacking in eastern
Germany, where cops are still learning the fine points of
western law and sometimes lack such crucial riot gear as
helmets and shields.


TURKEY PLANS TO SEND 500 TROOPS TO SOMALIA
    ANKARA, TURKEY (DEC. 7) - Turkey is planning to send a
contingent of 500 troops to Somalia to participate in a
U.N.-sponsored military operation aimed at protecting food
deliveries to an estimated 2 million starving people,
officials said Monday.
    Ankara's decision came in response to a message from
U.S. Acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger asking
Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin how his government
reacted to U.S. plans to send 25,000 troops to Somalia on a
humanitarian mission.
    President Bush announced in Washington Friday he had
ordered more than 25,000 U.S. troops to Somalia to protect
food deliveries from warring factions.
    Turkish officials said Ankara's plan to send a
contingent of 500 troops to participate in the U.N. effort
was subject to approval by the Grand National Assembly, or
Parliament, which was expected to vote on the decision
Tuesday.
    If approved, Turkey will become the second Muslim
country after Pakistan to participate in a U.N. military
initiative in Somalia, a mainly Muslim country.
    A contingent of 500 Pakistani soldiers landed in Somalia
earlier, but were not considered sufficient to protect the
food supplies from warring factions which threaten the
supply routes from Mogadishu.
    Before Ankara's decision was announced, Cetin told
reporters he hoped the U.N. initiative in Somalia would be
followed by a similar one in Bosnia-Herzegovina, aimed at
stopping the massacre of Muslims in the former Yugoslav
republic.
    Military sources said the Turkish contingent was ready
to fly to Mogadishu at short notice, and the operation could
start within hours of a vote in Parliament.
    U.S. planes already in Turkey would probably be used to
fly the troops to Mogadishu, more than 3,000 miles from
Turkey's southern military airfields, the sources said.
    In Cairo, President Turgut Ozal, on an official visit to
Egypt, said he had asked Bush to take steps toward a similar
U.N. initiative in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
    ''If no measure is taken, we will call a meeting of the
Islamic Conference Organization to take an initiative on the
issue,'' Ozal said.
    Ankara's decision to send a contingent of troops to
Somalia came as Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel was on an
official trip to the Far East.
    The Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet said Cetin got
Eagleburger's message when he was in Tokyo and discussed it
with Demirel. The premier's response was: ''Okay, but the
same reaction should be shown regarding Bosnia,'' Cumhuriyet
said.
    In Athens, several crews of a U.S. civilian chartered
airline were on standby to fly U.S. troops to Somalia,
aviation sources said. At least some of the U.S. troops will
pass through Greece on their way to the Horn of Africa, the
sources said.

    AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT ELCHIBEI VISITS UKRAINE
    KIEV (DEC. 9) - AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT ABDULFAZ ELCHIBEI
ARRIVED IN THE UKRAINIAN CAPITAL ON AN OFFICIAL VISIT ON
WEDNESDAY.
    LATER IN THE DAY HE HAD ONE-TO-ONE TALKS WITH UKRAINIAN
PRESIDENT LEONID KRAVCHUK WHICH WERE FOLLOWED BY TALKS IN
THE PRESENCE OF OTHER OFFICIALS.
    DURING THE  TWO-DAY VISIT ELCHIBEI IS EXPECTED TO SIGN A
TREATY ON FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION BETWEEN UKRAINE AND
AZERBAIJAN, MEET PRESIDENT OF THE UKRAINIAN ACADEMY OF
SCIENCES, BORIS PATON, HAVE A SIGHTSEEING TOUR AND TAKE PART
IN A NEWS CONFERENCE.
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