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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:29:00 PST
Reply-To:     Russ Linos <cvadsbfa@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
From:         Russ Linos <cvadsbfa@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject:      NEA 11/23/92
Comments: To: hellas <hellas@uga.bitnet>

PERIEXOMENA:

1.     BALKAN CONFERENCE TO SUPPORT LONDON, GENEVA PEACE ...
2.     EC ENVOY AWAITS MACEDONIA'S VERDICT ON NAME CHANGE
3.     MITSOTAKIS SAYS GREECE ALLOWING OIL INTO MACEDONIA
4.     U.N. BLAMES TURKISH CYPRIOTS FOR LACK OF PROGRESS
5.     DEMIREL OFFERS TURKEY AS GATEWAY TO FORMER SOVIET ...
6.     NISSAN'S MICRA WINS EUROPEAN CAR AWARD


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RTw  11/23 1230 BALKAN CONFERENCE TO SUPPORT LONDON, GENEVA PEACE ...
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BALKAN CONFERENCE TO SUPPORT LONDON, GENEVA PEACE EFFORTS
    TIRANA, Nov 23, Reuter - Albanian Foreign Minister Alfred Serreqi said on
Monday that a conference of Balkan foreign ministers in Istanbul was aimed at
preventing the spread of the Yugoslav conflict to the rest of the region.
    "This meeting is not an attempt to replace the London peace conference and
its continuation in Geneva, but to support it," Serreqi said in an interview to
the officical ATA news agency.
    The conference, to be held on Wednesday, was initiated by Turkey following
increased contacts among Balkan countries concerned by the situation in former
Yugoslavia.
    "The meeting will serve as an exchange of opinions," Serreqi said. "Albania
is especially concerned with the danger of a spread of the conflict to Kosovo."
    The Serbian province of Kosovo, with a predominantly Albanian population, is
the centre of a dispute between Yugoslavia and Tirana, which accuses Belgrade of
suppressing the rights of ethnic Albanians.
    Greek Foreign Minister Michalis Papaconstantinou said in Vienna on Monday
his country would not attend the conference.

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RTw  11/23 1229  EC ENVOY AWAITS MACEDONIA'S VERDICT ON NAME CHANGE
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 [B    ATHENS, Nov 23, Reuter - The former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia is
expected to announce this week whether it will change its name in order to
secure European Community recognition, special EC envoy Robin O'Neill said on
Monday.
    In one of the most obscure, but potentially explosive Balkan disputes,
neighbouring Greece has blocked EC recognition of the newly-independent republic
saying the name implies territorial ambitions against its own province of
Macedonia.
    An EC declaration made in Lisbon last June said the Community was ready to
recognise the republic but it must be under a name which does not include the
term Macedonia.
    O'Neill, who must file a report on the dispute before the EC's Edinburgh
summit in December, said he told the leaders of the republic's two million Slavs
and Albanians that he needed their answer by Wednesday.
    "They must choose their name, and it's on that point that I am awaiting
clarification," he told reporters. If the republic stands by its present name,
then he would report that to the EC leaders, he said.
trips to Skopje, capital of the former Yugoslav republic, as well as Athens in
his eff [Borts to resolve the issue. Britain is trying to solve the Macedonia
dispute before its EC presidency ends in December.
    The issue is a highly emotional one for Greeks, and especially for the two
million inhabitants of the province of Macedonia who consider themselves the
"real" Macedonians.
    Athens newspapers published a letter on Monday which they said Greek
President Constantine Karamanlis, himself a Greek Macedonian, sent over the
weekend to EC leaders.
    Greece has pressed an international campaign to force the former Yugoslav
state to change its name, and has convinced Washington to follow the EC's lead
in withholding recognition.
    "I believe we can't afford further mistakes in the Yugoslav crisis and the
biggest one would be to abandon the Lisbon decision," the letter said, referring
to the EC's June declaration.
    "This sooner or later could entangle other neighbouring nations in the
crisis and it could force Greece to close its borders to protect its security
and national dignity," it added.

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RTw  11/23 1141  MITSOTAKIS SAYS GREECE ALLOWING OIL INTO MACEDONIA
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    GENEVA, Nov 23, Reuter - Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis said on
Monday that Greece had started allowing oil shipments into neighbouring
Macedonia.
    Speaking to reporters after a meeting with international mediators Cyrus
Vance and Lord Owen, Mitsotakis said the shipments had started on Sunday "for
humanitarian reasons."
    "Because of problems that had been caused in Skopje, we have for
humanitarian reasons since yesterday allowed petrol to flow freely," Mitsotakis
said.
    The Prime Minister did not give any more details on the shipments, but a
foreign ministry spokesman said last week that Greece would be resuming oil
shipments to the former Yugoslav republic through the Red Cross.
    Greece stopped oil exports to Macedonia and other former Yugoslav republics
in August, saying it did not want to accused of violating a United Nations
embargo against Serbia and Montenegro.
    The move was seen abroad as an attempt to put pressure on Macedonia as part
of a continuing row over its name.
    Greece has blocked European and international recognition of Macedonia
because it says the name implies territorial ambitions against Greece's own
northern province of the same name.
    Mitsotakis said he had not discussed the issue of Macedonia's name with
Vance and Owen, adding that Greece's position remained unchanged -- it could not
accept any formula that included the word Macedonia.
    European Community officials are trying to defuse the row and find a
compromise solution before a European Community summit meeting in Edinburgh next
month.
    Mitsotakis said he did not expect the EC to change its position at the
Edinburgh meeting. The EC has already decided to delay recognition until all
sides agreed on the name.
    Mitsotakis was travelling on to Paris for a meeting on Tuesday with French
President Francois Mitterrand. He said he was due to receive British Prime
Minister John Major in Athens on Friday.

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RTw  11/23 1218  U.N. BLAMES TURKISH CYPRIOTS FOR LACK OF PROGRESS
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    By Anthony Goodman
    UNITED NATIONS, Nov 23, Reuter - Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
saddled the Turkish Cypriots on Monday with the lion's share of blame for lack
of progress in the latest round of negotiations aimed at ending the division of
Cyprus.
    In a written report to the Security Council, he proposed a series of
confidence-building measures to help smooth the way when Cypriot President
George Vassiliou and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash meet again in March
under his auspices.
    "The outcome of the joint meetings that were held in the period October 28
to November 11 has not met expectations," Boutros-Ghali said.
    Referring to a set of ideas and a map which he presented to both sides in
July as the basis for establishing a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation, he wrote:
    "I have found that the positions of the Turkish Cypriot side are
fundamentally at variance with the set of ideas under three broad headings: a.
the concept of the federation; b. displaced persons; and c. territorial
 [B [Badjustments."
    These are key issues which involve how much territory the Turkish Cypriots
would have to surrender under a final settlement, and arrangements for
repatriating or compensating some 160,000 Greek Cypriots and 45,000 Turkish
Cypriots uprooted when Turkish troops occupied the north of the island in 1974
after a short-lived coup in Nicosia.
    Boutros-Ghali noted the Greek Cypriot side "declared that it accepted
provisions of the set of ideas. However, such declarations were freqently
accompanied by provisos. These questions should be cleared up at the forthcoming
joint meetings in a manner that does not deviate from the set of ideas."
    Reserving his strongest criticism for the Turkish Cypriot side, he said:
"The objective of Mr Denktash's position is to have the two communities living
separately, as practically homogenous ethnic groups. The solution sought by Mr
Denktash is incompatible with the set of ideas, which seeks to take account of
practical difficulties, but not in a manner that would negate the right to
return and the right to property, as well as with accepted international
standards and practices."
    Boutros-Ghali suggested even closer involvement by the Security Council,
whose five permanent members -- the United States, Russia, Britain, France and
China -- sought to pressure Denktash during the last round of talks and at
previous sessions earlier in the year.
    "In this connection, I believe that the time may have come to give fuller
form to the decision of the Security Council, reflected in its resolution 750
(1992) of April 10 1992, to be seized of this matter 'on an ongoing and (more)
direct basis,"' the  secretary-general said.
    Saying the recent meetings indicated a "deep crisis of confidence between
the two sides," he said prospects for progress would be greatly enhanced if
confidence-building measures were adopted by each side.These included:
    - the reduction of the number of Turkish troops on the island to their level
of a decade ago, accompanied by the suspension of a weapons-acquisition
programme on the Greek Cypriot side;
    - extension to all areas of a U.N.-controlled buffer zone where the two
sides are in close proximity of a 1989 agreement under which both sides stopped
manning certain positions and patrolling certain areas in Nicosia;
    - the U.N.-controlled area should be extended to include Varosha, the modern
part of the town of Famagusta to which access is controlled by Turkish troops
but has remained unoccupied since 1974.
    - the promotion of people-to-people contact by reducing travel restrictions
across the buffer zone;
    - reducing restrictions on foreign visitors crossing the zone;
    - the proposal by both sides of bi-communal projects, to which lending and
    - both sides should commit themselves to a Cyprus-wide census, under U.N.
auspices;
    - both sides should cooperate to enable the United Nations to conduct
feasibility studies concerning the resettlement and rehabilitation of Turkish
Cypriots who would be affected by territorial adjustements as part of an overall
settlement.

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RTw  11/23 0949  DEMIREL OFFERS TURKEY AS GATEWAY TO FORMER SOVIET ...
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DEMIREL OFFERS TURKEY AS GATEWAY TO FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS
    LONDON, Nov 23, Reuter - Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel urged
European business leaders on Monday to step up investment in his country and use
Turkey as a gateway to the newly-emerging former Soviet Asian republics.
    Speaking to British businessmen during a visit to London, Demirel also
called on the European Community to reassess his country's economic and
political position and reaffirmed its commitment to be established "in the
western fold." B
    Demirel said that after Turkey achieves a customs union with the EC in 1995
it will "constitute a most attractive, cost-effective production and trading
centre" for the markets of the former Soviet Central Asian republics.
    Turkey recently staged a summit of leaders from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
Uzbekistan, Kirgizistan and Turkmenistan and has been active in promoting
contacts with those states. "Turkey helped put them on a world platform,"
Demirel said.
    He highlighted the possibility of exploiting natural gas fields in the area,
with plans already under discussion for a possible pipeline to the west.
region and we see every reason for us to come together in partnership in ths
part of the world," he told a meeting organised by the Confederation of British
Industry.
    Demirel had talks with Prime Minister John Major, current president of the
European Commission, at which he was expected to thank Major for pressing
Turkey's case for closer EC links.
    Turkey has an association agreement with the European Community but progress
to closer relations is hampered by its human rights record, Greek objections and
economic qualifications.
    Conceding his country still had big economic problems, Demirel said its
performance "does not at all lag far behind certain current members of the
Community and is already better than some."

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RTw  11/23 1102  NISSAN'S MICRA WINS EUROPEAN CAR AWARD
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    PARIS, Nov 23, Reuter - Nissan Motor Car Ltd on Monday became the first
Japanese firm to win Europe's coveted "Car of the Year Award," capturing the
1993 title with it[Bs British-made Micra minicar.
    French sports newspaper L'Equipe, one of seven European publications which
organised the vote, said Micra, with 338 points, outdistanced Fiat SpA's
Polish-made Cinquecento, also a minicar, which polled 304.
    Regie Nationale des Usines Renault's Safrane family-sized car was third with

244 points.
    The jury, comprising 59 motoring journalists from 18 European countries,
considers a car's safety, comfort, performance, technical innovation and price
competitiveness in reaching its decision.




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