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Subject: News, 23 Jan 93 (Demirel faces..., from Haluk)
Date: 25 Jan 1993 03:50:44 -0600
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 -Greek trucks to transit Macedonia under provisional deal
 -Demirel faces censure after allies use Incirlik to hit Iraq

 Subject: Greek trucks to transit Macedonia under provisional deal

        ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Greek trucks are being allowed to transit the
 former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia under a provisional agreement
 reached recently when officials of the two sides met at the border, the
 Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.
        The dispute arose when Greek trucks were stopped at the border Jan. 4
 and refused entry because their transit permits did not bear the name
 ``Macedonia.''
        Foreign Ministry spokesman Dimitris Avramopoulos said officials from
 Athens and Skopje met at the border recently and found a temporary
 solution -- Greek trucks would be allowed to pass through the republic
 using their previous permits.
        The arrangement would apply until Jan. 31, Avrampoulos said. ``As to
 what will apply after that date, nothing has been discussed and nothing
 has been decided,'' he said.
        Earlier, Greece diverted its north-bound trucks through Bulgaria to
 avoid having to stamp the word ``Macedonia'' on transit permits the
 truck drivers carried.
        Athens has refused to recognize the former Yugoslav republic unless
 it stops using the name ``Macedonia,'' which is also the name of a
 northern Greek province.
        Greece says continued use of the name after the republic declared
 itelf independent of Belgrade implied expansionist ambitions on Greek
 territory.
        Avramopoulos said the agreement reached at the border was
 ``unofficial,'' and would not affect Greece's stance regarding U.N.
 recognition of the republic.
        He said Greek Foreign Minister Michalis Papaconstantinou was
 continuing talks at the United Nations with repesentatives of non-
 aligned countries and Britain, and was scheduled to meet Friday with U.
 N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
        In a related development, the Consumers Association of Greece called
 on Greeks to boycott Danish products to express resentment at remarks
 two days ago by Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen.
        Speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Jensen
 said that by blocking E.C. recognition of Macedonia, Greece ``acted
 unreasonably,'' and that he was ``ashamed of Greece.'' Denmark currently
 holds the rotating presidency of the Community.
        The Consumers Association asked Greeks to boycott Danish canned meat,
 cheese, beer, and chocolates, to register their protest.
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 Subject: Demirel faces censure after allies use Incirlik to hit Iraq

  ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel faced a
 censure motion in Parliament Friday after allied warplanes used an air
 base in southern Turkey to blast targets in northern Iraq.
        Opposition Motherland Party chief Mesut Yilmaz, who introduced the
 censure motion in the Grand National Assembly, or Turkish Parliament,
 said Demirel illegally permitted the planes to use the Incirlik air base
 near Adana for attacks on Iraq.
        Earlier, a government spokesman said Ankara had not permitted allied
 planes to use the Incirlik base to hit targets in northern Iraq. The
 allies had simply acted in self-defense after observing hostile intent
 on the part of the Iraqis, he said.
        The censure motion came after a heated controversy in the Turkish
 media about whether the U.S.-led coalition had the right to use the
 bases in Turkey to attack Iraq.
        The opposition parties said the allied planes were allowed to stay in
 Turkey only to strike at troops loyal to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
 if they attacked Kurds within a safe haven in northern Iraq.
        U.S. planes twice used the Incirlik base this week to attack Iraqi
 warplanes and missile sites north of the 36th parallel.
        Opposition parties in the Turkish Parliament, including Motherland,
 the Islamic fundamentalist Welfare Party and the left-of-center
 Republican People's Party also accused Demirelof withholding facts from
 tbe media and breaching the constitution.
        The opposition said only Parliament had the right to permit the
 coalition aircraft to use Incirlik for purposes other than those allowed
 when the legislature in December 1992 renewed a mandate for their stay
 in Turkey for six months.
        Under the constitution, only Parliament can permit the country to go
 to war. The opposition implied that by permitting the coalition forces
 to use Incirlik to attack Iraqi warplanes and a missile site, the
 government had illegally dragged Turkey into war.
        Thursday, Yilmaz told reporters the U.N. Security Council passed no
 resolutions calling for no-fly zones in Iraq, north of the 36th parallel
 or south of the 32nd. The United States, Britain and France acted on
 their own accord to set up the zones, he said.
        Officials said the government had about two weeks within which the
 censure motion may be put on the parliamentary agenda, and even if it is
 debated, Demirel has a comfortable majority of 244 votes to 163 with
 which to avoid a censure.
        In a related development, a Foreign Ministry spokeswomen said Ankara
 was pleased with Iraq's decision to observe a cease-fire in its latest
 confrontation with allied forces.
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