Federal Chancellor Kohl has shown himself worried about the slow process of peace making in the Near East. At the same time he demanded that the Oslo accord on Near East peace be fully implemented. Kohl said hate, violence, suffering and persecution must come to an end. At the same time, the Chancellor stressed the special aspects of German-Israeli relations. In spite of the Nazi holocaust, real friendship has grown between the two nations, he said during a reception in honour of the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel.
Ministers stop bickering over gene files Bonn.
Minister for interior Kanther and minister for justice Schmidt-Jorzig have put an end to their fight about setting up gene files. There is not to be a special law, but just an amendment to criminal process procedures. The gene file, to be administrated by the Wiesbaden Federal Criminal Office, is meant to increase the speed of discovering and arresting repeaters. They said the whole tax system must be reformed taking ecological criteria into account. Westfalia's minister for ecology, Ms. Hoehn, said a whole new tax system with ecological aspects was called for.