NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Thursday. October 24, 1991
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Brussels, Belgium
Nations join for largest market
Western Europe's landmark decision to create a vast market for 380 million consumers will hasten the addition of new members to the Eurozone, already striving for a powerful political union.
In a historic accord, the dozen nations of the European Community teamed up Tuesday with the seven nations of the European Free Trade Association to send an olive branch from Iceland in the north to Greece in the south.
The European Economic Area will be the world's largest — and most lucrative — consumer market when it opens in January 1983. It is estimated that account for more than 40 percent of world trade.
Paris
"A dark page of history has been turned," said President Francois Mitterrand of France, opening the ceremony at an orate conference center in the French capital.
Cambodian peace treaty signed
Cambodia's warring factions and representatives of 18 nations signed a peace treaty yesterday with hopes that a U.N.-supervised trans-bordering agreement and a half-century of bloodshed in Southeast Asia.
But Secretary of State James Baker delivered a scathing condemnation of the Khmer Rouge guerrilla faction shortly before signing the U.N. sponsored peace treaty, which will have been rejected by Mr. Haidar. He said the world had not forgotten the bloodbath during its rule of Cambodia in 1975-78.
Johannesburg, S. Africa
Nine slaughtered at train station
Armed men ramaged through two train stations yesterday, hacking screaming computers to pieces in a massacre that left nine people dead and 36 in injured, police said.
The African National Congress and the rival Inkatha Freedom Party, the two main Black political groups, accused each other of being "anti-immigrant" in black township of Soweto outside Johannesburg.
Police Col. Tiene Halgryn said the killings at the train stations appeared to be revenge attacks for the death of a Zulu in the same area earlier yesterday.
Survivors said armed Zulus attacked hundreds of commuters waiting for trains. Dozens of men with spears, machetes and guns hacked screaming people to death, they said.
-From the Associated Press
Arab nations seek mutual stance before Madrid peace conference
The Associated Press
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria sought commitments from other Arab nations yesterday that they would not strike separate peace agreements with the United States and the international peace conference in Madrid, Spain.
Israel and Palestinian representatives yesterday formally announced that they would attend the talks, and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir would lead its delegation.
Yesterday's planning session by Arab states in Damascus was dominated by a U.S. proposal for most Arab states to participate in broad regional talks with Israel immediately after the ceremonial opening of the conference, the sources close to the meeting said.
Shamir's decision may have led to a split in the government. Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy announced he would not attend the conference, Israel's army radio reported.
Officials close to the meeting said Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the Palestine Liberation Organization agreed not to strike any separate peace deal with Israel, such as the Camp David accords signed by Egypt in 1979. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
The conference is expected to break up into three sets of bilateral talks between Israel and Syria, Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation.
Senior Arab officials attended a strategy planning session in Damascus to coordinate their stance during the peace conference.
such as arms control, water and energy. Many Arab states predict this as a move that would automatically give Israel the status of an equal in the region that has tried to ostracize it.
Syria has already told Secretary of State James Baker that it opposes convening such a regional conference until Israel's intentions are made clearer.
Then the other states in the region are supposed to join in discussions on broader issues
Syrian President Hafez Assad and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat agreed last week that Jewish settlement building, the status of Jerusalem and U.N. resolutions calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories should be discussed at an initial session.
The Palestinian will be represented by 14 negotiators in a joint delegation with Jordan, but they are also expected to coordinate closely with the PLO.
U.S. ready for meeting with Vietnam on improving Southeast Asia relations
Peace talks
The United States said yesterday that it would talk with Vietnam about normalizing relations, provided Vietnam helps determine the fate of 2,300 U.S. troops missing in action in the Vietnam War.
The Associated Press
PARIS — In a step toward reconciliation with Hanoi after decades of hostility, Secretary of State James Baker said yesterday that the United States was ready to begin talks immediately on normalizing relations with Vietnam.
Signaling U.S. willingness to put the Indochina conflict behind, Baker announced that the United States also intended to move toward such ties with Cambodia and Laos.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
"The prospect of a new era in Southeast Asia lies before us," Baker said in a speech to delegates from 19 countries in Paris. The delegates are in Paris to sign a historic treaty to end the two-decade Cambodian civil war.
The United States will gradually restore economic and diplomatic relations with the three countries depending partly on the pace at which the treaty arrangements are fulfilled, he said.
The promise means that the United States will lift the economic boycott imposed on Cambodia after Vietnamese troops invaded the country in 1978, driving out the murderous Khmer Rouge regime and installing their own nunget government.
The pace and outcome of the talks with Vietnam will depend on Hanoi's cooperation in resolving the issue of U.S. servicemen missing in action in the Vietnam War. Baker said earlier yesterday before a meeting with Vietnam's foreign minister, Nguyen Manh Cam.
peace treaty, Baker said. The several hundred civilians and U.N. peacekeeping troops should arrive within 10 days.
The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Cambodia once elections called for by the treaty are held, probably within 18 months, Baker said.
About 2,300 U.S. troops are listed as missing in action in Indochina from the Vietnam War, including 1,628 believed missed in Vietnam itself
The United States will normalize economic relations with Cambodia once an advance U.N. team arrives in the country and begins implementing the
Baker proposed that preliminary talks with the Vietnamese should begin at the United Nations in New York. Earlier he had said that the talks could begin as soon as next month.
Regarding Laos, the initiative could mean upgrading the U.S. diplomatic mission, which is at a charged affaires level, to a full embassy.
The United States had long demanded that Vietnam end its military intervention in Cambodia as a condition for normalizing relations. That was fulfilled by the treaty-signing ceremony.
Another condition was a full accounting of the fate of the missing U.S. troops. U.S. officials have praised their cooperation by Hanoi concerning the issue over the past year.
The United States and Vietnam, in a communique issued earlier this month after talks in Hanoi, indicated their intention to mend ties that have been broken since the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
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