Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Friday, 20 Nov 1992 11:23:48 EST
From: <IO20905@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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Subject: RFE/RL report for 20 Nov (copyright)

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                     RFE/RL Daily Report

                                        No. 224, November 20, 1992

TURKEY CALLS FOR BALKAN CONFERENCE. Reuters on 19 November
reported that Turkey has invited 10 countries to Istanbul at an
unspecified time for talks on Bosnia and regional security. Asked
to participate are Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary,
and Romania, plus the former Yugoslav republics of
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia. The 20
November Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said that Serbia was
invited as well, while the Reuters account says that the rump
Yugoslavia was excluded, without specifically mentioning Serbia.
Turkey has strong cultural and historical ties to the Bosnian
Muslims, the Albanians, and other peoples in the Balkans, and is
anxious to end the fighting in Bosnia and prevent it from
spreading to Kosovo, the Sandzak, or Macedonia. Ankara favors
concerted international action, and takes care not to play into
the hands of Serbian propaganda, which tries to depict the
conflict as a religious war rather than one for land and power.
(Patrick Moore, RFE/RL Inc.)

BULGARIA, TURKEY SIGN MILITARY AGREEMENTS. At a press conference
on 18 November, Bulgarian Chief of General Staff Colonel General
Lyuben Petrov presented a new set of measure to promote
confidence-building with Turkey, BTA said. According to the Edirne
Document, signed by Petrov and his counterpart General Dogan Dures
on 12 November, Bulgaria and Turkey will cooperate in the area of
their common border as well as step up exchange of military
information and observers. The agreement stipulates that each
sides will notify the other in advance of military activities
involving at least 7,000 troops, 150 battle tanks, or 150 heavy
artillery pieces. The agreement, which goes further than the 1991
Sofia Document, will come into force on 1 January 1993. (Kjell
Engelbrekt, RFE/RL Inc.)

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