Newsgroups: bit.listserv.hellas
Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:49:00 PST
Reply-To:     Russ Linos <cvadsbfa@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
From:         Russ Linos <cvadsbfa@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject:      NEA 11/09/92
Comments: To: hellas <hellas@uga.bitnet>

11/09 1602  MONDAY'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

NEW YORK (NOV. 9) UPI - Foreign Exchange interbank buyer rates and foreign
currency equivalents, provided by Bloomberg Financial Markets and other sources.

Retail transactions provide fewer units of foreign currency per dollar.
                          U.S.Dollar       currency
                       Equivalent    per U.S.Dollar
                      Mon     Fri     Mon     Fri
  Britain pound      1.5140  1.5300   .6605   .6536
  Canada dollar       .7961   .7975  1.2562  1.2539
  France franc        .1852   .1853  5.4010  5.3955
  Greece drach      .004853 .004844  206.05  206.45
  Hollnd guildr       .5559   .5568  1.7988  1.7960
  Ireland punt       1.6736  1.6630  0.5975  0.5963
  Italy lira        .000731 .000732 1367.50 1367.00
  Spain peseta      .008773 .008711  113.98  114.80
  Turkey lira       .000126 .000126 7931.03 7931.03
  Germany mark        .6254   .6266  1.5990  1.5960

11/09 1212  GREECE, NETHERLANDS SIGN MILITARY AGREEMENT

ATHENS (NOV. 9) XINHUA - GREECE AND THE NETHERLANDS TODAY SIGNED AN AGREEMENT
FOR THE DELIVERY OF THREE 'STANDARD' CLASS FRIGATES AND OTHER MILITARY
EQUIPMENTS TO GREECE.
   THE AGREEMENT WAS SIGNED BY VISITING NETHERLANDS STATE SECRETARY FOR DEFENCE
B. J. BARON VAN VOORST TOT VOORST AND GREEK NATIONAL UNDERSECRETARY IOANNIS
STATHOPOULOS.
   THE THREE MODERN FRIGATES ARE OF THE SAME TYPE AS GREEK NAVY'S 'LIMNOS' AND
'ELLI,' WHICH PATROLLED THE RED SEA DURING THE GULF WAR.
   THE FRIGATES WILL BE DELIVERED TO GREECE AT A COST OF 380 MILLION DUTCH
GUILDERS (ABOUT 215 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS), WITH PAYMENT TO BE COMPLETED BY THE
YEAR 2000.
   THE FIRST FRIGATE, THE HNLMS BANCKERT F 810 WILL BE HANDED OVER TO GREECE IN
MAY 1993, WHILE THE HNLMS CALLENBURG OF 808 AND THE HNLMS VAN KINSBERGEN F 809
WILL BE DELIVERED IN APRIL 1994 AND FEBRUARY 1995 RESPECTIVELY.
   THE FRIGATES ARE EQUIPPED WITH 'SEA SPARROW' SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES,
'HARPOON' SURFACE-TO-SURFACE MISSILES, ANTI-SUBMARINE SYSTEMS, THREE-INCH GUNS,
A HELICOPTER PAD AND OTHER HIGH TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS.
   THE NETHERLANDS WILL ALSO SUPPLY GREECE WITH TWO ULTRA-MODERN 'LEOPARD' AS
BATTLE TANKS AND A HIGH TECH SIMULATOR FOR TRAINING THE CREWS OF THE LEOPART
TANKS IN SERVICE WITH THE HELENNIC ARMY.
   AT THE SAME TIME, THE NETHERLANDS WILL SUPPLY GREECE WITH 178 LEOPARD TANKS,
A NUMBER OF 4.2 INCH MORTARS AND 56 M-113 PERSONNEL CARRIERS ADAPTED FOR THE
TRANSPORT OF MORTAR SHELLS.

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  11/09 2004  CYPRUS TALKS TO END ON TUESDAY; MAY RESUME IN MARCH

    By Anthony Goodman
    UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9, Reuter - Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on
Monday gave the leaders of the two Cypriot communities a written summary of
their views on how to reunite the divided island, prior to ending two weeks of
largely fruitless talks with them on Tuesday.
    Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash told reporters the talks would be
adjourned "until about March."
    Cypriot President George Vassiliou, who heads the Greek Cypriot community,
said negotiations were the only way to solve the Cyprus problem, but declined to
say when they might be resumed.
    He is expected to be a candidate in elections set for next February.
    Cyprus has been virtually partitioned since Turkish troops occupied the
north of the island in 1974 after a coup in Nicosia engineered by the military
junta then ruling Greece.
    The U.N.-sponsored talks, which have dragged on for years, aim to reunite
Cyprus in a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation.
    Vassiliou said he would defer any statement until Tuesday "because, as you
know, our last meeting is tomorrow."
    But pressed to confirm when the next round might be held, he replied: "The
point is not to adjourn 'till March. The point is that we want to have a
solution of the Cyprus problem, and obviously we believe that there is no other
way to have a solution than negotiations.

    "But for negotiations to succeed, there are certain conditions that have to
be fulfilled and I am sure these are conditions the secretary-general will
address in his report" (to the Security Council).
    Vassiliou reiterated a statement he made last Friday that "there has been no
progress."
    Denktash said the secretary-general had given both sides "the paper of
evaluation" -- a document setting out the views of the two sides, compared with
a so-called set of ideas and map which Boutros-Ghali presented to them in July
as a basis for negotiations.
    The two Cypriot leaders are expected to inform the secretary-general at
their final session on Tuesday whether their views have been accurately
summarised.

    The document is virtually certain to depict Vassiliou's views as being
closer to the U.N. proposals than those of Denktash.
    Boutros-Ghali will next have to submit a report to the Security Council
which, in an August resolution, had urged the two sides to pursue "uninterrupted
negotiations" until an overall agreement was reached.
    The resolution said that if an agreement did not emerge from the latest
round of talks, which began on October 28, the secretary-general should
"identify the reasons for the failure and...recommend to the council alternative
courses of action to resolve the Cyprus problem."
    The council's five permanent members -- the United States, Russia, Britain,
China and France -- have been following the talks closely and several sent
special envoys to New York for that purpose.

    Most of their efforts have been directed at persuading Denktash to align his
positions more closely with the secretary-general's proposals.
    The joint daily meetings with Boutros-Ghali have been a continuation of
sessions held here from June 18 to 23 and from July 15 to August 14. Most of
that time, however, was devoted to separate meetings by each of the Cypriot
leaders with the secretary-general, with only three days of face-to-face talks.
 REUTER AG JWO CM


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RTw  11/09 1741  EC PLANS CLOSER TIES WITH TURKEY

    BRUSSELS, Nov 9, Reuter - European Community foreign ministers on Monday
announced plans for closer political ties with Turkey, while urging Ankara to
help resolve problems over the future of Cyprus.
    The EC ministers, who met their Turkish counterpart Hikmet Cetin at a
session of the EC-Turkey Association Council, said they proposed holding
political dialogue with Turkey through meetings at the highest level between the
two sides.
    But Greece insisted that the EC should say this in a statement by the
Community alone rather than in a joint statement with Turkey.
    Greek diplomats said they were also instrumental in getting the EC statement
to include references to the Community's deep concern at the situation in
Cyprus.
    British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, representing the EC's rotating
presidency, quoted from the statement at a news conference when he said the
status quo in Cyprus was not acceptable.
    He said the 12 had asked Turkey to use its influence to resolve problems
related to intercommunal talks on the future of Cyprus which have been going on
inconclusively in New York.
    Cyprus has been virtually partitioned since Turkish troops occupied the
north of the island in 1974 after a short-lived coup in Nicosia engineered by
the military junta then ruling Greece.
    The Turkish Cypriots proclaimed their own state in 1983, but it is
recognised only by Ankara.


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T. Linos
California Polytechnic University
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