Newsgroups: bit.listserv.hellas
Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:02:20 -0500
Reply-To:     Anastassiades - Advanced Rotorcraft Technology / NASA Ames
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From:         Anastassiades - Advanced Rotorcraft Technology / NASA Ames
              <tassos@ART.DNET.NASA.GOV>
Subject:      Amyntikh symfwnia Albanias-Toyrkias
Comments: To: hellas@brownvm.bitnet@6913.DNET.NASA.GOV

Stelnw 3 diaforetikes eidhseis s'ayto to mail:

1: H protash ths Toyrkias gia syskepsh sta Balkania,
2: H ypografh amyntikhs symfwnias Albanias-Toyrkias
3: H pithanh ekdosh sthn Ellada enos apo toys Palaistinioys
   poy eixan katalabei to City-of-Poros prin apo liga xronia.

Ap'oti blepoyme, to paixnidi sta Balkania xontrainei...

Tassos Anastassiades
Mountain View, CA

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Subject: Turkey proposes conference to discuss Bosnia-Herzegovina
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, fighting,
        general ethnic, special interest
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:57:00 PST
Location: yugoslavia, turkey
ACategory: international
Slugword: yugoslav-turkey
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 445; Id: z4356; Sel: xxigf; Adate: 11-19-150pes
Codes: &igfrxx., &if.ryu., &ijertu., tncn....

        ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Turkey has invited several countries in the
Balkans to a regional conference to discuss the situation in Bosnia-
Herzegovina, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
        Ankara took the initiative after expressing dissatisfaction with the
resolution passed in the U.N. Security Council Monday authorizing an
international naval blockade to enforce economic sanctions on Serbia and
Montenegro, or ``little Yugoslavia.''
        Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Filiz Dincer said the resolution,
prepared by Belgium, the United States and Britain, ``was far from
satisfactory.''
        She said Turkey has invited the Balkan states, including Bulgaria,
Romania, Albania and Greece, to attend a conference in Istanbul Nov. 25
to discuss the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
        ``There are two dimensions to this problem,'' Dincer said. ``One is
to immediately stop the bloodshed in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the other
is the fear that the conflict might spread to other regions.''
        Earlier, the Foreign Ministry expressed fears the fighting in former
Yugoslavia may spread to Kosovo, where ethnic Albanian Muslims are
seeking to break away from Serbia.
        Dincer said Ankara would try ``to keep up the momentum'' of efforts
to end the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and would use all the means
at its disposal to get the Security Council ``to pass a more efficient
resolution.''
        Efforts would also be made to stop Serbia from making aggressive
moves against its neighbors, she said.
        Ankara has invited Hungary and Austria to attend the Balkans
conference. Though these two countries are not strictly Balkan states,
``they would be most affected in case the conflict spreads,'' Dincer
said.
        Other states invited included the former Yugoslav republics of
Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
        In Athens, government spokesman Vassilis Magginas said Greece would
not attend the Istanbul conference.
        ``Initiatives have already been taken by the United Nations and the
European Community to confront the problems which have arisen due to the
break-up of Yugoslavia,'' he said.
        ``The Geneva conference is continuing its sessions, and French
Foreign Minister Roland Dumas has additionally proposed to the European
Community a meeting of Community representatives on the same issue,''
Magginas said.
        For the past few months, Athens has blocked E.C. recognition of
Macedonia if it continued to use the name ``Macedonia'' internationally.
Political analysts said Greece could not attend a conference where the
breakaway state attended under that name.


Subject: Turkey signs military cooperation agreement with Albania
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, military
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 9:27:42 PST
Location: turkey, albania
ACategory: international
Slugword: turkey-albania
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 435; Id: z3852; Sel: xxigf; Adate: 11-20-1220pes
Codes: &igfrxx., &igfrtu., &igfrad., &im.rxx.

        ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) -- Turkey, worried that other ethnic wars may
break out if Serbian attacks on Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina spread to
other groups in the region, signed a military cooperation agreement with
Albania, diplomatic sources said Friday.
        The agreement was signed in Tirana, Albania, Thursday by Turkish
Defense Minister Nevzat Ayaz and his Albanian counterpart Seffet Jaluli.
        Diplomatic sources said the pact was the first to allow military
cooperation between Albania and a non-communist country since World War
II. Albania has also signed a similar agreement with NATO, of which
Turkey is a member.
        The agreement, originally drafted in July, was signed during Ayaz's
visit to Tirana Wednesday and Thursday. The trip was the first by a
Turkish defense minister to Albania.
        Turkey's semi-official Anatolian News Agency said in a dispatch from
Tirana the agreement allowed Albanian military officers to be trained in
Turkish military schools and for Albania to receive technical assistance
from Turkey.
        Under another agreement signed Thursday, the two countries are to
exchange information on defense matters.
        Wednesday, Julali told reporters in Tirana the Albanian army needed
external military assistance, particularly from Turkey.
        He said Albania wanted peace in the region, but there was a threat of
war in Kosovo, a province of Serbia where Albanian Muslims are seeking
independence from Belgrade.
        Julali also mentioned tension in neighboring Macedonia. The former
Yugoslav republic broke away earlier this year from the federation and
is also considered to be under threat of attack by Serbia.
        Anatolian quoted Ayaz as saying at a press conference in Tirana that
if the conflict in former Yugoslavia spreads to Kosovo or Macedonia, it
could spark a Balkans war. He said the problem should be resolved
through dialogue.
        Turkey has called for a conference in Istanbul next week to discuss
the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, after the Turkish Foreign Ministry
expressed fears the conflict may spread.
        Ankara has invited the Balkan states of Bulgaria, Romania, Albania
and Greece to attend the conference, along with the former Yugoslav
republics of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia.
        Two non-Balkan states, Hungary and Austria, were also invited to
attend because they may be affected if such a conflict broke out.
Greece, which has refused to recognize Macedonia and maintains friendly
ties with Serbia, has declined to attend.


Subject: Greece to seek extradition of Palestinian held in Germany
Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, terrorism
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:12:40 GMT
Location: greece, mideast
ACategory: international
Slugword: greece-terrorist
Priority: regular
Format: regular
ANPA: Wc: 219; Id: z3665; Sel: xxigf; Adate: 11-19-1205aed
Codes: &igfrxx., &iz.rgr., &iz.rxp., tncn....


        ATHENS, Greece (UPI) -- Greece will seek the extradition of a
Palestinian reportedly arrested in Germany on suspicion of participating
in a 1988 terrorist attack on the Greek cruise vessel City of Poros, a
government spokesman said Thursday.
        Mehri Mehieddin, suspected of being a member of the Abu Nidal
terrorist group, was reportedly arrested last week in Germany, after a
tip from Interpol, the international police agency.
        Greek government spokesman Vassilis Magginas told reporters the
Athens public prosecutor has asked Interpol to confirm that Mehieddin
has been arrested in Germany.
        ``If the arrest is confirmed, the (Greek) government will ask the
German authorities to extradite Mehieddin,'' he said.
        Nine people were killed and 30 injured in July 1988 when a group of
terrorists, believed to be Palestinians, attacked the City of Poros off
the Aegean island of Aegina, some 16 miles southwest of Athens.
        Greece is also seeking two other Palestinians, identified as Mohammed
Hedjad Jabala and Mohammed Adnan Sojod, for allegedly participating in
the attack.
        Mehieddin, who reportedly moved to East Germany shortly after the
City of Poros attack, is also wanted in France on other charges.
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