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RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 3, No. 184, 99-09-21

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From: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty <http://www.rferl.org>

RFE/RL NEWSLINE

Vol. 3, No. 184, 21 September 1999


CONTENTS

[A] TRANSCAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

  • [01] NEW LEFT-WING ALLIANCE FORMED IN ARMENIA
  • [02] BUDGET COMMITTEE LAMBASTES ARMENIAN CENTRAL BANK
  • [03] AZERBAIJAN MARKS FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF 'DEAL OF THE CENTURY'
  • [04] AZERBAIJANI POLICE PREVENT THIRD DEMONSTRATION
  • [05] GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SLAMS UN APPROACH TO ABKHAZ CONFLICT
  • [06] IS GEORGIAN AGRICULTURE MINISTRY TO BLAME FOR ANTHRAX
  • [07] KAZAKHSTAN AGAIN HOPING TO SELL ARMS ABROAD
  • [08] KAZAKHSTAN SUSPENDS EXPORTS OF FUEL OIL
  • [09] MILITANTS KILL MORE KYRGYZ TROOPS...
  • [10] ...AS RUSSIA PROMISES ARMS
  • [11] ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS ARRESTED IN TAJIKISTAN
  • [12] TURKMEN PRESIDENT CRITICIZES BANKING OFFICIALS

  • [B] SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

  • [13] KOSOVA LIBERATION ARMY ACCEPTS CIVILIAN ROLE
  • [14] SOLANA HAILS AGREEMENT, MOSCOW FEELS IGNORED
  • [15] SOME UN OFFICIALS SKEPTICAL OF NEW CORPS, AGREEMENT
  • [16] PROTEST RALLIES PLANNED IN SERBIA, AS ACTIVISTS DETAINED IN
  • [17] BOSNIAN SERB PREMIER MEETS WITH MILOSEVIC
  • [18] MONTENEGRO CHARGES YUGOSLAV PREMIER WITH PLANNING COUP
  • [19] SERBIAN BUSINESSES MOVING TO MONTENEGRO
  • [20] U.S. TEAM IN BOSNIA TO INVESTIGATE CORRUPTION
  • [21] TUDJMAN DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM BOSNIAN CROAT WAR VETERANS
  • [22] ISRAELI ARMS SMUGGLER INDICTED IN ROMANIA
  • [23] OFFICIAL LANGUAGE TO PREDOMINATE IN MOLDOVAN ELECTRONIC MEDIA

  • [C] END NOTE

  • [24] MORALITY AND LOCAL POLITICS: THE CASE OF BULGARIA

  • [A] TRANSCAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

    [01] NEW LEFT-WING ALLIANCE FORMED IN ARMENIA

    Nine political

    parties that failed to win representation in the parliament

    elected last May announced on 20 September their plans to form

    a bloc named Artarutyun (Justice), which is intended to fight

    for "social justice," RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. The

    parties in question include the Democratic Party of Armenia,

    the Scientific-Industrial and Civic Union, and the social-

    democrat Hnchakian Party, one of the three oldest Armenian

    political groups represented both in Armenia and within the

    diaspora. The bloc will hold its founding congress in October,

    but it is not known whether it will field candidates in local

    elections later this fall. LF

    [02] BUDGET COMMITTEE LAMBASTES ARMENIAN CENTRAL BANK

    In a 20

    September statement, the Armenian parliament's office on

    budgetary oversight claimed that the Central Bank's 1998

    report to the National Assembly is flawed and full of

    statistical discrepancies, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported.

    The Oversight Chamber also said that the Central Bank last

    year exceeded some quotas set by the legislature: in

    particular, it spent 454 million drams ($857 million) on its

    employees' salaries instead of the planned 394 million drams.

    Central Bank chairman Tigran Sarkisian rejected that

    criticism, explaining that the extra payments to the staff

    were made after the bank slashed other expenditures. LF

    [03] AZERBAIJAN MARKS FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF 'DEAL OF THE CENTURY'

    Representatives of 10 governments and 24 international oil

    companies congregated in Baku on 20 September to celebrate the

    fifth anniversary of the signing of a $10 billion contract,

    the first of 18 Azerbaijan has concluded with international

    consortia, to extract off-shore Caspian oil, AFP and Reuters

    reported. After numerous delays, that first consortium, the

    Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), began

    exporting crude via Russia in late 1997 and via Georgia in

    spring 1999 (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 10 November 1997 and 19

    April 1999). Addressing participants in the celebrations,

    Azerbaijan's President Heidar Aliev said that a cornerstone of

    future oil strategy is construction of the planned Baku-Ceyhan

    export pipeline. The AIOC is not convinced of the viability of

    that project. LF

    [04] AZERBAIJANI POLICE PREVENT THIRD DEMONSTRATION

    Police in Baku

    on 20 September prevented members of the opposition Azerbaijan

    Popular Front Party from picketing the Mayor's Office to

    demand a response to their request for permission to hold a

    demonstration on 25 September, Turan reported. It was the

    third time within five days that police have thwarted an

    opposition action (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 20 September 1999).

    LF

    [05] GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SLAMS UN APPROACH TO ABKHAZ CONFLICT

    Addressing the UN General Assembly on 20 September, Eduard

    Shevardnadze slammed what he termed the world community's

    "gross indifference" to the plight of displaced persons forced

    to flee Abkhazia during the 1992-1993 war, Caucasus Press

    reported. Last March, Abkhaz President Vladislav Ardzinba

    declared that those displaced persons may return to Abkhazia

    if they wish to do so. Shevardnadze expressed disappointment

    that UN resolutions on the Abkhaz conflict fail to condemn

    explicitly what he termed genocide and ethnic cleansing by the

    Abkhaz. Stressing his support for the NATO intervention in

    Kosova, Shevardnadze suggested that the UN should condone a

    similar peace enforcement operation in Abkhazia. A NATO

    official said in Tbilisi last week that NATO is unlikely to do

    so as Abkhazia does not constitute a threat to European

    security (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 15 September 1999). LF

    [06] IS GEORGIAN AGRICULTURE MINISTRY TO BLAME FOR ANTHRAX

    EPIDEMIC?

    Speaking at a press conference in Tbilisi on 16

    September, city council member Djondo Baghaturia accused the

    Agriculture Minister Bakur Gulua and the head of the

    veterinary department within the Ministry of Agriculture of

    embezzling funds allocated for vaccinating cattle against

    anthrax over the past two years, Caucasus Press reported two

    days later. Baghaturia said he will ask the prosecutor-general

    to open criminal proceedings against the two men. Dozens of

    people have been hospitalized with anthrax in Tbilisi after

    eating contaminated beef (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 9 and 16

    September 1999). LF

    [07] KAZAKHSTAN AGAIN HOPING TO SELL ARMS ABROAD

    Foreign Minister

    Qasymzhomart Toqaev, who accompanied President Nursultan

    Nazarbaev to Bulgaria and Ukraine last week, told Interfax in

    Kyiv on 17 September that Astana hopes to sell with Ukraine's

    help almost 1,500 pieces of heavy military equipment formerly

    deployed by the Soviet Army in East Germany. Those vehicles

    are primarily tanks, which would be sent to Ukraine for

    repairs. Ukraine would keep three or four and sell the rest to

    foreign buyers, Toqaev explained. He added that Ukraine could

    also help to find a market for the output of the Uralsk Small

    Arms Plant. At an arms fair in Almaty in April 1998,

    Kazakhstan exhibited former Soviet military hardware,

    including MiG-21 fighters, for which the asking price was

    $150,000-$180,000 each. Kazakh government officials have

    denied any knowledge of the sale of those aircraft to North

    Korea (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 23 August and 13 September

    1999). LF

    [08] KAZAKHSTAN SUSPENDS EXPORTS OF FUEL OIL

    Prime Minister Nurlan

    Balghymbaev signed a decree on 18 September halting exports of

    fuel oil for three months beginning 25 September, Interfax and

    AP reported. That measure is intended to ensure that the

    country has adequate supplies of fuel for domestic heating.

    The city authorities in Astana and Almaty will be required to

    report at 10-day intervals on the level of fuel oil reserves.

    LF

    [09] MILITANTS KILL MORE KYRGYZ TROOPS...

    Five government troops

    were killed and another five wounded on 20 September when

    guerrillas opened fire on their truck in Osh Oblast, dpa

    reported. The previous day, one officer was killed and two

    servicemen wounded when their armored personnel carrier hit a

    land mine laid by the militants, according to ITAR-TASS. In

    Bishkek, Security Council Secretary Bolot Djanuzakov told

    journalists on 20 September that the 13 hostages, including

    four Japanese geologists, who are currently being held by the

    guerrillas are alive and well. But he added that the guerillas

    are constantly moving the hostages from one location to

    another. Meanwhile, the number of fugitives from the fighting

    gathered in the raion center of Batken has reached 4,200,

    RFE/RL's Bishkek bureau reported on 20 September. LF

    [10] ...AS RUSSIA PROMISES ARMS

    The Russian Defense Ministry will

    send several war planes and two trainloads of ammunition and

    arms, including sub-machine guns and grenade launchers, to

    Kyrgyzstan within a week, an unidentified Kyrgyz military

    source told ITAR-TASS on 20 September. That decision was taken

    at a meeting of CIS defense ministers in Moscow last week.

    Armenia has already sent a plane-load of technical equipment

    to Bishkek. Kyrgyz parliamentary deputy Dos Bol Nur Uulu told

    RFE/RL's Bishkek bureau on 20 September that the government

    forces deployed in the south of the country are short of

    ammunition. LF

    [11] ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS ARRESTED IN TAJIKISTAN

    Several members of

    an underground radical Islamist party allegedly founded by

    Uzbek fundamentalists were apprehended in Tajikistan's

    Leninabad Oblast on 19 September, ITAR-TASS reported the

    following day, citing the Tajik Security Ministry. In the town

    of Khojend, the activists were reportedly handing out leaflets

    calling for the creation of an Islamic state in Central Asia.

    LF

    [12] TURKMEN PRESIDENT CRITICIZES BANKING OFFICIALS

    Meeting on 17

    September in Ashgabat with banking sector officials,

    Saparmurat Niyazov criticized the work of both the Central

    Bank and the Foreign Trade Bank and fired the latter's

    chairman, Deputy Prime Minister Yula Gurbanmuradov, Interfax

    reported three days later. Niyazov criticized the Foreign

    Trade Bank for failing to repay loans on schedule. He added

    that the information supplied by the Turkmen government to

    international financial institutions is frequently incorrect,

    and he called for a review of data on the country's foreign

    debt. Meanwhile, German Ambassador to Ashgabat Hans-Jurgen

    Keilholz told businessmen on 20 September that bilateral trade

    fell by 10 percent over the first eight months of this year,

    compared with 1998. LF


    [B] SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

    [13] KOSOVA LIBERATION ARMY ACCEPTS CIVILIAN ROLE

    Following tense

    negotiations with UN and NATO officials in Prishtina on 20

    September, leaders of the Kosova Liberation Army (UCK) agreed

    to transform their force into a Kosova Protection Corps,

    Reuters reported. NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark

    flew to Kosova to help forge the deal, which had been held up

    by disagreements over the role of the corps and the kind of

    weapons to be kept by its members. UCK political leader Hashim

    Thaci and UN Kosova chief Bernard Kouchner signed the

    agreement, along with UCK Chief of Staff General Agim Ceku and

    Kosova Force (KFOR) commander General Mike Jackson. Under the

    agreement, the KLA will become the 5,000-member Kosovo

    Protection Corps, and Ceku will be its commander. Only 200

    members of the corps will be allowed to carry weapons. A new

    insignia will also be worn on the uniforms of the corps,

    replacing the UCK emblem. The corps will operate under the

    supervision of the KFOR commander. PB

    [14] SOLANA HAILS AGREEMENT, MOSCOW FEELS IGNORED

    NATO Secretary-

    General Javier Solana said in Toronto on 21 September that the

    agreement marks "a milestone for the ongoing peace

    implementation efforts" in Kosova, AP reported. He warned,

    however, that anyone violating the weapons ban in the province

    "willl be dealt with severely." Kouchner said "we have to work

    all together to achieve not only the corps' transformation but

    offering services to the people of Kosovo." Belgrade strongly

    opposes the continued role of any aspect of the UCK in Kosova.

    The Russian Foreign Ministry said it has negative views on the

    "creation of paramilitary or semi-military formations under

    any name on the basis of the UCK," ITAR-TASS reported on 21

    September. It added that Moscow's position on the issue was

    "ignored." PB

    [15] SOME UN OFFICIALS SKEPTICAL OF NEW CORPS, AGREEMENT

    While

    many hailed the formal end of the UCK's existence as a

    structured paramilitary organization, others voiced

    skepticism. One unidentified UN official told AFP on 20

    September that "we are satisfied that the UCK has handed in

    10,000 arms even if we know they still have 100,000." There

    were several reports of broken or very old weapons being

    turned over to KFOR troops during the demilitarization.

    Another UN source said "we know that some radical commanders

    will not accept the new agreements." AFP also reported that

    there is some friction between UCK political leader Thaci and

    the head of the new corps, General Ceku. Thaci reportedly

    opposed the idea of Ceku leading the civilian force. PB

    [16] PROTEST RALLIES PLANNED IN SERBIA, AS ACTIVISTS DETAINED IN

    CENTRAL TOWN

    Police arrested 12 members of the student

    organization Otpor (Resistance) on 20 September in the town of

    Kragujevac, Belgrade's Radio B2-92 reported. The students were

    detained for organizing a protest against Yugoslav President

    Slobodan Milosevic and were later released. In Novi Sad,

    Gordana Comic, leader of the Together caucus in the Vojvodina

    parliamentary assembly, said a protest outside the assembly

    building will be held on 21 September. She said the people

    gathered there will "indict all those who have mutilated Novi

    Sad and Vojvodina," BETA reported. In Leskovac, the opposition

    coalition Alliance for Change said it will begin daily

    protests on 21 September in the town's main square. It added

    that the highlight of those protests will be a mock trial of

    Milosevic and his wife, Mira Markovic. Zoran Djindjic, a

    leader of the Alliance for Change, said protests in 17 cities

    will be staggered and will be aimed at reminding citizens of

    the damage Milosevic has inflicted on the economy, the health

    care system, and agriculture. PB

    [17] BOSNIAN SERB PREMIER MEETS WITH MILOSEVIC

    Milorad Dodik, the

    acting prime minister of the Republika Srpska, met with

    Yugoslav President Milosevic in Belgrade on 20 September, the

    Onasa news agency reported. No details of the meeting are

    known. The meeting came a few days after Milosevic met with

    ousted Srpska President Nikola Poplasen and the former Serbian

    member of the Bosnian presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik. PB

    [18] MONTENEGRO CHARGES YUGOSLAV PREMIER WITH PLANNING COUP

    Montenegrin Prosecutor-General Bozidar Vukcevic on 20

    September filed criminal charges against Momir Bulatovic for

    allegedly planning a military coup against Podgorica, RFE/RL's

    South Slavic Service reported. Vukcevic said in a statement

    that the Yugoslav premier had proposed at an April government

    meeting that the Yugoslav army "occupy" all media institutions

    in Montenegro. Vukcevic said the idea had been "tantamount to

    a putsch" and had jeopardized "state order" and the

    constitution. Serbian opposition leader Vuk Draskovic has also

    said that Milosevic and his allies had planned a coup in

    Montenegro. PB

    [19] SERBIAN BUSINESSES MOVING TO MONTENEGRO

    Predrag Drecun,

    Montenegro's labor minister, said on 20 September that more

    than 1,000 Serbian businesses have relocated to his republic

    in the last few months, Radio B2-92 reported, citing "Glas

    Javnosti." Drecun said the companies moved because of "more

    favorable trading conditions." He added that their total value

    was some $70 million. PB

    [20] U.S. TEAM IN BOSNIA TO INVESTIGATE CORRUPTION

    A delegation

    from the U.S. arrived in Bosnia-Herzegovina on 20 September to

    investigate allegations of widespread corruption, AP reported.

    Robert Frowick, one of the heads of the delegation, met with

    Bosnian co-Premier Haris Siljdzic upon arriving in Sarajevo.

    Frowick said the mission is a fact-finding trip on behalf of

    the U.S. congress. He said the group would also look into

    reports on the failure of the government to collect taxes and

    customs revenues. In other news, 15 bodies were exhumed from a

    mass grave near Sarajevo on 19 September. They are believed to

    be Muslims killed by Serbian soldiers in June 1992. More than

    24,000 people are still missing from the Bosnian wars. PB

    [21] TUDJMAN DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM BOSNIAN CROAT WAR VETERANS

    The

    office of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman said on 20

    September that the president was unaware that he was to be

    awarded a medal from a Bosnian Croat army branch, AP reported.

    The Association of Homeland War Volunteers and Veterans issued

    "medals of gratitude" to Tudjman and late Croatian Defense

    Minister Gojko Susak at a ceremony in Siroki Brijeg on 18

    September. Also given an award was Mladen "Tuta" Naletilic,

    currently wanted by the war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He

    is being held in Zagreb. Tudjman's office added that no one

    was sent on the president's behalf to accept the medal. PB

    [22] ISRAELI ARMS SMUGGLER INDICTED IN ROMANIA

    The Prosecutor-

    General's Office on 20 September said it is indicting Shimon

    Naor for smuggling arms to two unnamed African countries that

    are on the UN embargo list, RFE/RL's Bucharest bureau

    reported. Naor, who is of Romanian origin, had faked orders

    from the Sudanese embassy in Bucharest. Naor's accomplices,

    two Romanians and one Moldovan, will also be indicted. The

    Burundi honorary consul in Romania is being investigated under

    suspicion of involvement in the ring. MS

    [23] OFFICIAL LANGUAGE TO PREDOMINATE IN MOLDOVAN ELECTRONIC MEDIA

    As of 1 January 2000, 65 percent of all programs broadcast by

    all Moldovan radio and television companies must be in the

    official state language, Infotag reported on 20 September,

    quoting Alexei Chubashenko, chairman of the National Board for

    the Electronic Media. Violators of that regulation will

    receive punishments ranging from a warning to loss of their

    broadcasting license. The regulations will not apply to

    foreign broadcasters, cable and satellite television, or media

    outlets in areas that have large ethnic minorities. MS


    [C] END NOTE

    [24] MORALITY AND LOCAL POLITICS: THE CASE OF BULGARIA

    By Michael Shafir

    With no fewer 96 parties competing in next month's local

    elections, observers who are unfamiliar with politics in

    Bulgaria might be misled into concluding that the ballot's

    stakes are high. Those more familiar with Bulgarian reality

    see it otherwise.

    Take Prime Minister Ivan Kostov. Addressing journalists

    in Pernik on 12 September, he described the upcoming elections

    as "a political flea market." What Kostov "forgot" to mention

    was that his Union of Democratic Forces (SDS), as the

    strongest parliamentary group represented in the legislature,

    is responsible for the abundance of parties. Having postponed

    until this fall the passage of a new law on political parties

    that might have cut the number of formations eligible to

    compete to around 10, Kostov's party unwittingly brought about

    the current state of affairs.

    Many see the current contest as one between the ruling

    United Democratic Forces (ODS) and the opposition, among which

    the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is the most prominent

    formation. Apart from the SDS, the ODS includes the Bulgarian

    Agrarian Union, the People's Union, and the Bulgarian Social

    Democratic Party. This alliance won the 1997 parliamentary

    elections but has since been weakened by the late 1998 split

    in the Social Democratic Party, a wing of which--led by Petar

    Dertliev--left the ODS and joined the opposition.

    That rift, however, is unlikely to play a major role in

    the local elections, since Dertliev has almost no followers.

    More significant was the departure from the ODS of the ethnic

    Turkish Initiative Committee for Renewal, which was recently

    renamed National Movements for Rights and Freedom (NDPS). But

    the NDPS will mainly be competing against the rival Movement

    for Rights of Freedom (DPS), headed by Ahmed Dogan, for the

    Turkish vote. Furthermore, NDPS leader Gyuner Tahir has

    already said that in those constituencies where his party is

    not fielding candidates, it will support the ODS.

    The ODS's goal is clear: to repeat its success at the

    1997 parliamentary ballot. Local elections were last held in

    Bulgaria in 1995: at that time, the BSP won 194 mayoralties,

    the DPS 26, independents 17, the ODS 15, and the Business Bloc

    two. Viewed from this perspective, the slogan chosen by the

    BSP for the local elections "It Is Our Turn [to Win]" is

    undoubtedly misleading. In fact, the slogan makes sense only

    if seen against the background of the BSP's defeat in the 1997

    parliamentary elections.

    But local elections are never a mirror of general

    elections; rather, they are often decided by strictly local

    issues and by local politicians who opt to ignore the

    interests of the "center" and to form alliances that may not

    conform with what the "center" would like to see. Moreover,

    local government is still weak in Bulgaria. Whatever the

    outcome of the October contest, it will have virtually no

    impact on the central government.

    According to a survey conducted by the MBDM polling

    institute and published in the daily "24 Chasa" on 9

    September, the ODS will gain 27 percent backing and the BSP

    just 16 percent. Three days later, "Demokratsiya" published a

    poll by the Alpha Research Institute suggesting that the ODS

    will receive 32 percent of the vote and the BSP 17 percent.

    This is good news for the ruling alliance, although not

    as good as it might have wished. The Alpha poll had the ODS

    winning six out of the Bulgaria's 10 largest towns. SDS Chief

    Secretary Hristo Bisserov, speaking to journalists on 7

    September, said the BSP "stands no chance in any of the large

    towns" and that the party will be "marginalized."

    Should that prove the case, the question would arise as

    to what extent it reflects pre-electoral maneuvering. In June,

    the ODS amended the law on local elections to stipulate that

    in localities with a population of less than 500, mayors will

    no longer be elected but appointed by the local district

    council. Depriving some voters of the right to exercise their

    democratic privilege is quite unacceptable, even if it is

    justified by budgetary constraints, as the ODS claims. Even

    Vice President Todor Kavaldjiev criticized the amendment. For

    all its drawbacks, however, the measure cannot be viewed as

    disadvantageous for the opposition.

    The BSP contested the amendment at the Constitutional

    Court and lost. It also challenged the provision obliging

    candidates to state whether they were informers for, or on the

    payroll of, the communist secret police. That requirement, the

    BSP claimed, infringes on constitutional rights. But the court

    did not support that view, arguing that the provision does not

    disqualify former informers or members of the secret police

    from running and stating that its "essence" was to be found

    its "moral character."

    Indeed, when it comes to morality, the BSP does have a

    problem. Whether many Bulgarians care about morality nowadays,

    having long suffered the economic hardships of a legacy with

    which the BSP itself is identified, is another question--one

    that for the time being remains unanswered.

    21-09-99


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