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Subject: RFE/RL Daily Report 28 JAN, 1993

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          RFE/RL Daily Report

                              No. 18, 28 January 1993


SERBIAN TUGS DEFY ORDERS TO STOP. In a statement released on 27
January and carried by Rompres, the Romanian government said it
has ordered authorities to take all measures provided for by the
resolutions of the UN Security Council, including measures of
constraint in order to stop the Serbian barges carrying fuel up
the Danube.  The statement said the government will seek CSCE and
Security Council assistance in acquiring the technical means to
enforce the embargo. According to Reuters, however, government
spokeswoman Doina Jalea said Romania does not support the use of
force against the Serbian barges.  Meanwhile, Romanian TV said on
27 January that four Serbian tugboats pulling barges continue to
defy Romanian orders to stop and are heading towards Serbia. One
convoy has already reached the Serbian section of the Danube.
Meanwhile, in a Foreign Ministry statement on 27 January, Bulgaria
declared that it can not halt sanction-breakers without Romanian
assistance.  BTA reports that Bulgarian and Romanian customs
officials had conferred two days earlier in Vidin, only to
establish that both sides lack the means to halt the barges by
force.  Michael Shafir and Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL, Inc.


KOZLODUY INCIDENT WAS "SERIOUS." Bulgarian energy experts on 27
January said the fire at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant in late
September was the most serious incident in the history of the
plant, BTA reports.  Georgi Stoilov, Deputy Chairman of the Union
of Power Engineers, told a press conference in Sofia that Kozloduy
officials and the National Electric Company had intentionally
played down the consequences of a fire in the backup electric
equipment in the sixth reactor. Stoilov dismissed the official
investigations as "biased" and said the UPE will now initiate its
own probe into the circumstances and effects of the incident.
Kjell Engelbrekt, RFE/RL, Inc.


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