INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 28, 1992
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INTERNATIONAL BRIEFSE
Moscow
Fighting renews in mountains
Shelling by Armenian and Azerbaijani fighters shattered a cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh only a few hours after it took effect yesterday, and both sides suffered casualties, officials and news reports said.
The brief cease-fire was among the few formal truces achieved in the bloody, 4-year-old confrontation concerning the mountainous Nagorno-Karabian region of Armenia in an eastern region within Muslim Azerbaijan.
Armenian President Leon Ter-Petrosian sent a special message to the leaders of 14 countries, including the United States, urging them to disband their own army and help work out a peace plan.
The conflict concerning Nagorno-Karabakh goes back centuries but flared in 1880 after ethnic Armenians in the enclave demanding unification with their brethren in Armenia.
More than 1,000 people have died in the fighting.
Pogradec, Albania
Looting continues for third day
Thousands of looters, some armed and drunk, rampaged for a third day yesterday in a western Albanian town, and police seemed helpless or unwilling to stop them.
Mobs also raided a drug store and two goods depots and set them on fire in the central town of Lushnje, said Fadil Dana). deputy minister of health said there was an attack on a plastics factory there. Canaji said.
Unrest has been reported throughout Albania. Europe's poorest country, as citizens struggle to survive a tough winter and the legacy of 46 years of Communist rule.
State radio said Wednesday that two people were crushed to death in rioting in Prague, a city where the Islamic State made an attack.
Yesterday in Pogradec, 10 state warehouses were emptied of everything from Western food aid to wicker baskets and industrial chemicals, said one police officer. Pirro Kacorri.
Paris
Night iob ban on women lifted
The French government has agreed to lift a
nearly closed ban on women working
in early labour laws.
The government announcement Wednesday was in response to a request from the International Labor Organization, which asked in 1990 that the ban be relaxed. The labor organization, as well as the national labor standards, had adopted the ban in a convention that was ratified by France in 1954.
In July, the European Court of Justice said it was conflicted with the principle of equal rights for both.
According to labor union statistics, out of roughly 1 million nighttime workers classified as industrial laborers — mainly factory workers — 95% were required. They obtained exemptions from the ban.
France's overall nighttime work force of 2.4 million includes nearly half a million women,
From The Associated Press
End to war declared by Serbian president
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, who led his republic into a ruinous conflict with Croatia in a failed attempt to hold Yugoslavia together, declared the war over yesterday.
In another sign of eased hostilities, Croatian President Franjo Tudjiman ordered the demobilization of 20,000 reservists in his republic, according to a brief report on the Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug. There was no immediate confirmation.
Milosevic's declaration appeared to be a response to mounting opposition inside Serbia to the war's human and economic toll. Many Serbians have turned against the once-popular leader and are demanding his resignation.
"Today we can say that most of the agony in our country is over and that conditions now exist for the peaceful and democratic solution of the Yugoslav crisis," Milosevic told Serbia's parliament as a U.N.-mediated truce stretched to nearly two months.
In a rare speech, Milosevic also seemed to move away from previous insistence that Serbian-dominated regions in other republics be united with Serbia. He said Serbia's union with tiny Montenegro in a smaller Yugoslavia was the best option.
June 25, 1991: Slovenia, Croatia declare independence.
The Yugoslavian civil war
June 27: Fighting begins between Yugoslav army. Slovenian defenders
July 22: Croatia fighting escalates into civil war
Nearly 10,000 people have died
Aug. 3: Federal presidency orders cease-fire, the first at least 14 that fail quickly.
Jan. 3, 1992: U N- sponsored cease-fire takes effect, lasts more than seven weeks.
Jan. 15: European Community recognizes independence of Slovenia and Croatia
■ Feb. 21: U.N. Security Council votes to send peacekeeping troops to Curaçao.
■Yesterday: Under pressure from abroad and from war-weary Serbs, Serbian president declares that civil war is over.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Source: The Associated Press
in six months of fighting before the truce took effect in Croatia on Jan. 3.
Croatia and Slovenia have received international recognition as independent states, and Bosnia-Hercegovina and Macedonia are following that path.
As Milosevic spoke, defense officials in Croatia's capital, Zagreb, reported that about 700 shells had fallen on the eastern Croatian city of Osijek and around nearby Vinkovci.
Drug summit ends in Texas
Bush warns that U.S. finances for fight are running low
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — President Bush and six Latin-American leaders concluded a drug summit yesterday with renewed pledges to combat narcotics. But Bush cautioned that at a time of rather sparse resources, the United States could not give its neighbors all the help they requested.
production and money laundering, increase training of law enforcement agents and improve the sharing of intelligence
Bush and the Latin leaders called on European and Asian nations, singing out Japan in particular, to share in both the financial burden of the war on drugs and to inoin cooperative interdiction efforts.
The summit nations will send a delegation, with one member from each nation, to visit Europe and Japan and seek bilateral and multilateral agreements on aid and cooperation.
They also agree to hold annual high-level follow-up meetings to assess progress in the war on drugs.
In the Declaration of San Antonio, the participants agreed to a series of steps that for the most part would expand upon existing efforts to combat coca
"These are not easy times for the United States," Bush said at a news conference.
Bush called drug trafficking "a new kind of transnational energy."
But when a reporter from Latin America asked Bush whether he was prepared to increase assistance, Bush replied, "The responsibility of the president of the United States is first to the people of the United States."
"Make no mistake," Bush said. "Defeat the traffickers, we will."
Bush outlined 10goals, mostly underscoring previously known U.S. objectives.
The goals included reducing U.S. demand, speeding up the legal process against drug criminals, protecting human rights, and continuing financial aid to帮 Andean peasants switch to non-coca crops.
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