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RFE/RL Newsline, Vol. 4, No. 152, 00-08-09

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

RFE/RL NEWSLINE

Vol. 4, No. 152, 9 August 2000


CONTENTS

[A] TRANSCAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

  • [01] GEORGIAN OFFICIALS SAY TALKS UNDER WAY WITH ABDUCTORS OF RED
  • [02] TENSIONS RISE IN GEORGIAN PROVINCES
  • [03] KAZAKHSTAN'S PRESIDENT AGAIN WARNS TAX EVADERS
  • [04] NEW GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS IN KAZAKHSTAN
  • [05] ANOTHER POLITICAL PARTY REGISTERED IN KAZAKHSTAN
  • [06] SECOND SUSPECT ARRESTED IN ISRAELI DIPLOMAT'S MURDER IN
  • [07] UZBEK SECURITY OFFICIAL SAYS INVADERS FROM TAJIKISTAN
  • [08] ...AS TAJIKISTAN DENIES THEY CROSSED ITS TERRITORY
  • [09] KAZAKHSTAN UNFAZED, KYRGYZSTAN BRACES FOR POSSIBLE INCURSION

  • [B] SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

  • [10] WESTERN CAPTIVES PLEAD 'NOT GUILTY' BEFORE YUGOSLAV MILITARY
  • [11] KOSOVA COURT ACQUITS SERBIAN FAMILY IN SLAYING
  • [12] UN WARNS OF 'POISONING' FROM SERBIAN-RUN SMELTER IN KOSOVA
  • [13] EXPLOSION DESTROYS SERB-OWNED RESTAURANT IN PRESEVO AREA
  • [14] SERBIAN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE PLEDGES TO WORK WITH WEST
  • [15] CROATIAN CIGARETTE COMPANY DENIES MILOSEVIC LINK
  • [16] REFUGEE RETURNS UP IN BOSNIA
  • [17] HISTORICAL BOSNIAN MOSQUE TO BE REBUILT?
  • [18] ROMANIAN PREMIER TURNING DOWN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY OFFER?
  • [19] FORMER ROMANIAN OFFICIAL CHARGED IN MONEY-LAUNDERING AFFAIR
  • [20] PRIVATE HUNGARIAN-LANGUAGE UNIVERSITY APPLIES FOR ROMANIAN
  • [21] ANTHRAX EPIDEMIC SPREADS IN ROMANIA
  • [22] MOLDOVA, TURKEY TO FOSTER MILITARY TIES
  • [23] U.S. ENVOY MEETS MOLDOVAN PREMIER

  • [C] END NOTE

  • [24] WILL RUSSIA SUCCEED IN THE BATTLE AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM?

  • [A] TRANSCAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA

    [01] GEORGIAN OFFICIALS SAY TALKS UNDER WAY WITH ABDUCTORS OF RED

    CROSS WORKERS

    An unnamed Georgian Interior Ministry official

    told Caucasus Press in Tbilisi late on 8 August that the

    Georgian authorities are conducting talks with the persons

    who abducted three Red Cross workers in the Pankisi gorge on

    4 August (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 7 and 8 August 2000).

    Prosecutor-General Djamlet Babilashvili had told journalists

    earlier that day that the three had been kidnapped, but are

    still alive. Vakha Ibrahimov, who heads the Chechen

    Information center in Tbilisi, told Caucasus Press on 7

    August that he knows the identity of the kidnappers, but did

    not disclose it. On 9 August, Caucasus Press reported that

    the kidnapping has precipitated a confrontation between the

    Chechen minority in the Pankisi gorge and the Chechen

    refugees. One group reportedly holds the three officials and

    is demanding a ransom for their release while the other

    faction wants them to be freed unconditionally. LF

    [02] TENSIONS RISE IN GEORGIAN PROVINCES

    Some 2,500 irate

    recently dismissed former employees of the Chiatura Manganese

    Combine on 7 August attacked a Georgian parliament deputy who

    tried to dissuade them from protesting their dismissal,

    "Dilis gazeti" reported the following day. After two

    unsuccessful attempts to privatize the enterprise, a Czech

    company, Saga Print, acquired a 75 percent stake in the plant

    last August and restarted production but failed to pay off an

    estimated $5 million in salaries arrears to the plant's

    staff. Meanwhile, popular discontent is increasing among the

    residents of the Black Sea port of Poti at the Georgian

    government's decision that all proceeds from plans to

    privatize the port will be channeled to the central budget,

    according to "Rezonansi" on 9 August. LF

    [03] KAZAKHSTAN'S PRESIDENT AGAIN WARNS TAX EVADERS

    In remarks

    broadcast on state-run Khabar TV on 8 August, Kazakhstan's

    President Nursultan Nazarbaev again warned major foreign

    investors to strive for the maximum honesty and openness in

    tax matters, Reuters and Interfax reported (see "RFE/RL

    Newsline," 4 August 2000. Nazarbaev mentioned Chevron, the

    oil-producer Mangistaumunaigaz (which is largely Indonesian-

    owned), the western companies developing the Karachaganak gas

    condensate deposit, and the Eurasian Bank group. Reuters

    notes that some western companies export Kazakh-made goods to

    their own off-shore subsidiaries at reduced prices to avoid

    paying taxes. LF

    [04] NEW GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS IN KAZAKHSTAN

    President

    Nazarbaev on 7 August named as minister of labor and social

    security a former head of his administration, Alikhan

    Baimenov, who has headed the state-run agency for government

    and administrative appointments since its creation one year

    ago, Interfax reported. The agency has succeeded in creating

    a laudable degree of openness and fairness in filling vacant

    positions, according to "Nezavisimaya gazeta" on 8 August.

    Baimenov replaces Nikolai Radostovtsev, and Karim Masimov,

    chairman of the board of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, was

    named transport and communications minister, succeeding Serik

    Burkitbaev. Burkitbaev has been appointed presidential

    advisor with responsibility for the Internet and

    communications technology, RFE/RL's Astana bureau reported on

    9 August. Nazarbaev's decree did not cite any reasons for

    what Premier Qasymzhomart Toqaev subsequently described as "a

    normal rotation" of personnel. LF

    [05] ANOTHER POLITICAL PARTY REGISTERED IN KAZAKHSTAN

    Kazakhstan's Ministry of Justice on 7 August registered the

    Patriots' Party, headed by former Customs Committee chairman

    and failed presidential challenger Ghani Qasymov, RFE/RL's

    Kazakh Service reported (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 11 January

    1999). Qasymov claims membership of his party is growing

    daily, but declined to cite a specific figure. LF

    [06] SECOND SUSPECT ARRESTED IN ISRAELI DIPLOMAT'S MURDER IN

    KYRGYZSTAN

    Kyrgyz police have detained a 19-year-old Russian

    student in connection with the murder last week of Israeli

    diplomat Brosh Elzar and his Kyrgyz landlady, Interfax

    reported on 8 August. A suspect who was arrested last week

    testified that he and an accomplice had planned to rob the

    apartment in question and did not expect to find it occupied,

    according to AP. LF

    [07] UZBEK SECURITY OFFICIAL SAYS INVADERS FROM TAJIKISTAN

    SURROUNDED...

    Uzbek Security Council Secretary Mirakbar

    Rakhmankulov told journalists in Tashkent on 8 August that

    "steps have been taken to blockade" the estimated 100

    fighters of the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan that

    Uzbek authorities say entered the country from neighboring

    Tajikistan in recent days, Reuters reported (see "RFE/RL

    Newsline," 8 August 2000). "The operation to wipe them out

    has been carefully planned...using all possible means at our

    army's disposal," he added. He denied that the Islamists have

    seized control of the strategic mountain pass of Kamchik that

    links Tashkent with the Ferghana Valley. Uzbek Foreign

    Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov claimed that the Islamists are

    receiving support and assistance from unnamed members of the

    United Tajik Opposition (UTO). He said that Uzbek and Tajik

    forces are cooperating to neutralize the invaders. Other

    Uzbek officials have admitted military losses during clashes

    with the Islamists. In Washington, U.S. State Department

    spokesman Richard Boucher urged the Uzbek authorities to

    observe "the maximum restraint" in their actions against the

    Islamists in order to keep casualties to a minimum, Reuters

    reported. LF

    [08] ...AS TAJIKISTAN DENIES THEY CROSSED ITS TERRITORY

    Meanwhile, Tajik officials continue to deny that the

    Islamists entered Uzbekistan from Tajik territory, Russian

    agencies reported. The first deputy chairman of Tajikistan's

    Committee for Border Protection, Major-General Safarali

    Saifullaev, told Interfax on 8 August that no groups of

    fighters could have crossed the Tajik-Uzbek border

    unobserved. He further denied that any such groups had been

    seen crossing the Afghan-Tajik border. One of the leaders of

    the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Tahir Yuldash, told

    RFE/RL's Tajik Service on 8 August that his men have been on

    Uzbek territory for a long time. He denied that they receive

    help from the UTO. Tajik Foreign Ministry spokesman Igor

    Sattarov told a press briefing in Dushanbe on 9 August that

    Tajikistan has no interest in destabilizing the situation

    either on its own territory or in neighboring districts of

    Uzbekistan, Asia Plus-Blitz reported. LF

    [09] KAZAKHSTAN UNFAZED, KYRGYZSTAN BRACES FOR POSSIBLE INCURSION

    Interfax on 8 August quoted unnamed sources within

    Kyrgyzstan's power ministries as saying that all police and

    army troops in southern Kyrgyz frontier posts along the

    Kyrgyz-Tajik and Kyrgyz-Uzbek borders have been placed on

    alert. Special battalions are being brought from northern

    Kyrgyzstan to the south. In Almaty, a spokesman for

    Kazakhstan's National Security Committee declined to comment

    on the reported incursion into Uzbekistan, while a border-

    guard service official told Interfax that the Kazakh-Uzbek

    border "is quite closed" and that further measures to

    strengthen it are not needed. The Kazakh Foreign Ministry on

    8 August similarly said on 8 August that the incursion "is of

    a local nature," adding that reports on how the invaders

    entered Uzbekistan are "very contradictory." LF


    [B] SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE

    [10] WESTERN CAPTIVES PLEAD 'NOT GUILTY' BEFORE YUGOSLAV MILITARY

    COURT

    Two British experts serving with an OSCE police

    training mission in Kosova and two Canadian contractors

    pleaded not guilty at a military court session in Belgrade on

    9 August (see "RFE/RL Newsline" and "RFE/RL Balkan Report," 8

    August 2000). They face possible terrorism charges, which

    could bring each man up to 15 years in prison. British and

    Canadian diplomats attended the session but refused to

    comment, AP reported. The diplomats were accompanied by two

    Yugoslav lawyers, whom they hired in addition to the state-

    appointed attorney Vojislav Zecevic. Zecevic said he welcomes

    the assistance. The diplomats hope to meet with the four

    captives, who have not yet had direct contact with their

    respective embassies, Reuters reported. Meanwhile in The

    Hague, Dutch acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Eveline

    Herfkens said that the Belgrade authorities have yet to allow

    Dutch diplomats access to four Dutch citizens, whom the

    Yugoslavs took prisoner shortly before capturing the Britons

    and Canadians. PM

    [11] KOSOVA COURT ACQUITS SERBIAN FAMILY IN SLAYING

    A mainly

    Albanian court in Gjilan ruled on 8 August that there is not

    sufficient evidence to convict three men from the Momcilovic

    family of killing an ethnic Albanian outside their home in

    July 1999. Boban Momcilovic thanked NATO peacekeepers for

    bringing to light evidence suggesting that a U.S. soldier

    might have been responsible for the fatal shot, which was

    fired when an angry Albanian crowd appeared outside the

    Momcilovic's home, AP reported. PM

    [12] UN WARNS OF 'POISONING' FROM SERBIAN-RUN SMELTER IN KOSOVA

    A

    UN spokesman in Mitrovica said on 8 August that a Serbian-run

    lead smelter is sending five times what the WHO considers a

    "very dangerous amount" of lead into the air from the Trepca

    mining complex. The spokesman noted that "the smelter plant

    is operating without proper environmental and health

    controls. The fumes are not going up the chimney, which has a

    converter, and instead they are pumping raw residues over

    Zvecan and Mitrovica," Reuters reported. PM

    [13] EXPLOSION DESTROYS SERB-OWNED RESTAURANT IN PRESEVO AREA

    A

    strong explosion ripped through a Serbian-owned restaurant in

    Bujanovac in the early hours of 8 August, AP reported. The

    blast occurred when unknown persons threw an unspecified

    explosive device down the "Dva Lava" restaurant's chimney.

    The Serbian authorities have blamed a recent rash of violent

    incidents in the area on militant ethnic Albanian

    infiltrators from Kosova. PM

    [14] SERBIAN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE PLEDGES TO WORK WITH WEST

    Vojislav Kostunica, who is the Yugoslav presidential

    candidate of the united opposition, told Reuters on 8 August

    that he will work together with Western countries if he is

    elected in September (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 8 August 2000).

    He also said that "it is necessary" for the opposition to

    take part in the ballot even if it will not be free or fair,

    RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported. Elsewhere in

    Belgrade, the Serbian Renewal Movement's Vuk Draskovic blamed

    the united opposition for splitting the vote against Yugoslav

    President Slobodan Milosevic by not supporting his candidate

    for the presidency. The following day, a Democratic Party

    spokesman appealed to Draskovic to back Kostunica, Reuters

    reported. PM

    [15] CROATIAN CIGARETTE COMPANY DENIES MILOSEVIC LINK

    The

    cigarette company in Rovinj has denied charges made by the

    daily "Jutarnji list" on 3 August that it produces cigarettes

    for a smuggling enterprise run by Marko Milosevic, the son of

    the Yugoslav president, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service

    reported on 7 August (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 4 August 2000).

    PM

    [16] REFUGEE RETURNS UP IN BOSNIA

    During the first six months of

    2000, some 19,751 persons returned to their homes in Bosnia-

    Herzegovina in areas under the control of an ethnic group

    that is not their own. The UNHCR added in a statement in

    Sarajevo that this figure is up 150 percent over the

    corresponding period in 1999, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service

    reported on 8 August. The following day, "Dnevni avaz"

    reported that Malaysia has pledged $425,000 to enable some

    113 Muslim and Serbian families to return to their homes in

    the Neum and Sekovici areas. The daily also quoted Minister

    Omer Vatric of the Sarajevo canton as saying that the

    government evicts squatters from some 250 flats each month so

    that the original owners can return. Observers note that such

    squatters are usually Muslims from rural areas in eastern

    Bosnia or western Herzegovina. PM

    [17] HISTORICAL BOSNIAN MOSQUE TO BE REBUILT?

    The Islamic

    Community, which is the principal Muslim religious

    organization in Bosnia, said in a statement in Sarajevo on 8

    August that it is determined to rebuild the 16th-century

    Ferhadija Mosque in Banja Luka even without the permission of

    the Bosnian Serb authorities, Reuters reported. Serbian

    paramilitaries dynamited the UNESCO-listed structure in 1993.

    The area surrounding the mosque was bulldozed in 1996. PM

    [18] ROMANIAN PREMIER TURNING DOWN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY OFFER?

    Prime Minister Mugur Isarescu will officially announce on 9

    August his decision on running for president, and, according

    to media reports, Isarescu has decided to turn down the

    offer. On 8 August the premier and National Peasant Party

    Christian Democratic (PNTCD) chairman Ion Diaconescu had a

    five-hour talk in Neptun, the Black Sea resort where Isarescu

    is vacationing, and the encounter is most likely to have

    focused on the candidacy, Romanian Radio reported. Union of

    Rightist Forces co-chairman Adrian Iorgulescu said that if

    Isarescu turns down the offer to be the newly-established

    Democratic Convention of Romania 2000's (CDR) presidential

    candidate, the CDR has "another possible candidate from

    within its on ranks, as well as two prospective candidates

    from outside the CDR." MS

    [19] FORMER ROMANIAN OFFICIAL CHARGED IN MONEY-LAUNDERING AFFAIR

    Mihai Unghianu, deputy governmental secretary general in the

    cabinet headed by Nicolae Vacaroiu in 1992-1996, has been

    officially charged with complicity in the Adrian Costea

    money-laundering affair, Mediafax reported. The agency said

    that at Unghianu's orders, the Bancorex state bank had

    guaranteed $5 million to cover the costs of producing and

    distributing an album intended to promote Romania's image

    abroad and transferred $1,524, 600 to a French publishing

    house headed by Costea. The publishing house delivered only

    4,200 albums whose costs were $235,200. Bancorex was closed

    down by the government in July 1999, being merged into the

    Romanian Commercial Bank, after having issued over the years

    $1.2 billion in non-performing loans. The Prosecutor-

    General's Office is investigating the circumstances of that

    bank's performance. MS

    [20] PRIVATE HUNGARIAN-LANGUAGE UNIVERSITY APPLIES FOR ROMANIAN

    PERMISSION

    Levente Suket, who represents the Harghita County

    Cultural Center, on 8 August told Mediafax that the Education

    Ministry has now received an application for permission to

    open a private university with tuition in Hungarian. The

    university is funded by the Hungarian government and Suket

    said he expects the ministry to issue a "provisional permit"

    for the functioning of the new institution. The ministerial

    Academic Accreditation Council is to later examine whether

    the private university fulfills conditions for being issued a

    permanent permission, Suket said. He also said that the

    private Partium University headed by Reformed Bishop Laszlo

    Toekes is to be integrated within the new institution. MS

    [21] ANTHRAX EPIDEMIC SPREADS IN ROMANIA

    The Agriculture Ministry

    on 8 August said new outbreaks of anthrax were reported in

    several counties, after the epidemic killed two men and

    dozens of animals in the Danube delta region last month. The

    ministry said infected cattle were discovered in western,

    northern, and eastern Romania, Reuters reported. It said the

    epidemic had been caused by this year's severe drought and

    the failure of farmers to vaccinate cattle. MS

    [22] MOLDOVA, TURKEY TO FOSTER MILITARY TIES

    Visiting Turkish

    Defense Minster Sabahattin Cakmakoglu and Moldovan Minister

    of Industry and Trade Ion Lesan on 8 August signed an

    agreement on collaboration in the munitions industry,

    RFE/RL's Chisinau bureau reported. The agreement also

    stipulates that the sides will set up a joint committee that

    will establish priorities for military collaboration between

    them. Infotag reports that Ankara is showing an interest in

    cooperation with the Moldovan military industry, most of

    which is now idle. Moldovan Defense Minister Boris Gamurari,

    who attended the signing ceremony, said that during his two-

    day talks with Cakmakoglu it was agreed to hold joint

    military exercises with the possible participation of Ukraine

    and Romania. Cakmakoglu was also received by Premier Dumitru

    Braghis. MS

    [23] U.S. ENVOY MEETS MOLDOVAN PREMIER

    William Taylor, U.S.

    special ambassador in charge of coordination of aid to CIS

    states, met on 8 August with Braghis and Deputy Premier Lidia

    Gutu, RFE/RL's Chisinau bureau reported. Braghis thanked the

    U.S. administration for the technical and financial aid

    extended to Moldova, emphasizing that the U.S. is providing

    some 55 percent of the total aid Moldova receives from

    abroad. Braghis said Chisinau would welcome an increase of

    financial aid in 2001, to be used to promote economic growth.

    Guta urged Taylor to speed up deliveries of agricultural

    produce aid, taking into consideration the effects of this

    year's drought. Taylor emphasized the necessity of

    governmental "transparency" and "responsibility" in order to

    improve the efficiency of the extended aid. MS


    [C] END NOTE

    [24] WILL RUSSIA SUCCEED IN THE BATTLE AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM?

    By Paul Goble

    Russian President Vladimir Putin's pledge to fight anti-

    Semitism and improve economic conditions have contributed to

    "a noticeable decrease" in the number of anti-Semitic

    incidents in Russia over the last year, according to a report

    issued this week by the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.

    But, this U.S.-based watchdog organization warns, the

    difficulties Putin faces in rooting out entrenched anti-

    Semitic groups in the regions, his own reliance on the

    security services and the possibility that the Russian

    economic growth may slow could trigger a new upsurge in anti-

    Semitism.

    The danger of a new wave of anti-Semitism could grow,

    the UCSJ said, if post-Soviet threats like the alliance

    between neo-Nazi and Cossack paramilitary groups combine with

    Soviet-type challenges like increased dominance by the

    security organs and the suppression of freedom of the press.

    According to this group, which has been monitoring anti-

    Semitism in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet states for more

    than a generation and which currently is conducting research

    on anti-Semitic incidents in all of Russia's regions, this

    link-up has already taken place in some places and appears to

    be gaining ground in others, including in Moscow itself.

    Perhaps the worst example is Krasnodar Governor Nikolai

    Kondratenko, who, the report notes, has publicly accused Jews

    of conspiring to destroy Russia and even of "inventing"

    homosexuality to promote that end. In May, he said that

    Zionists were working together with the United States to

    "zombify" the Russian population and to incite ethnic

    conflicts on Russian territory.

    But if this threat exists, the UCSJ argues, so too are

    some reasons for optimism. First of all, Putin's own

    commitment to oppose anti-Semitism and his efforts to rebuild

    the law enforcement agencies have significantly reduced the

    number of anti-Semitic incidents registered in the last years

    of Boris Yeltsin's presidency. Putin has even ordered the

    arrest of some extremists, something the report said would

    have been "unthinkable" under Yeltsin.

    Moreover, Putin's own political agenda of recentralizing

    power and authority in Moscow appears to be directed against

    the leaders of the country's regions, some of which are

    headed by openly extremist and anti-Semitic governors. Thus

    Putin has his own political reasons for moving against such

    groups.

    And finally, the dramatic increase in the number of

    anti-Semitic incidents in Russia in 1998-99 compared to the

    early and mid-1990s has attracted growing attention from

    governments and human rights organizations in the West, some

    of whom had viewed the collapse of communism by itself as the

    solution to the historical problem of anti-Semitism in Russia

    and her neighbors.

    One example of this was the attention these governments

    and groups gave to the recent arrest of Vladimir Gusinsky, an

    oligarch who happens to be Jewish. If some were willing to

    accept Moscow's argument that his arrest arose from his

    business activities, many speculated that he had been singled

    out because of his religious background.

    The impact on Russia of this renewed Western concern is

    uncertain. On the one hand, Putin and his government are

    unlikely to want to offend countries from which Moscow still

    hopes to extract assistance and cooperation. But on the other

    hand, Western statements on this issue could trigger the very

    thing they are designed to oppose: an upsurge of

    nationalistic rhetoric and action which could further

    threaten Jews in the Russian Federation.

    Indeed, the mixed Russian reaction to U.S. Vice

    President Al Gore's selection of Senator Joseph Lieberman as

    his vice presidential running mate highlights some of the

    problems ahead, with many Moscow papers focusing on

    Lieberman's Jewish background and one, the "Vedomosti"

    business daily, going so far as to suggest on 8 August that

    "if Gore wins the election, Russia will have a very

    uncomfortable opponent."

    For all these reasons, the UCSJ says, the West will have

    to keep channels of communication open with Moscow to ensure

    that its voice is heard on the importance of combatting anti-

    Semitism but do so in a way that does not further inflame the

    situation.

    That challenge, the report concludes, makes the next 12

    months "a crucial time" for determining the future of Russian

    Jewry--and indeed, of Russian democracy as a whole.

    09-08-00


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