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" Results of the registration for September elections herald a dismal future for multi-ethnicity in Bosia-Hercegovina , " warned Soren Jessen-Petersen , Special Envoy for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Former Yugoslavia .
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" In the run-up to elections , nationalistic political leaders are playing the ethnic / sectarian card , drumming up support within their constituencies by playing on bitter memories or fear . "
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After truce , Lebed faces tougher Chechen problem .
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Alastair Macdonald
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MOSCOW 1996-08-26
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Alexander Lebed may finally get to discuss his Chechen peace proposals with Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday after a lost weekend in the region when he was forced to abandon plans to sign a new political treaty with the separatist rebels .
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It could be a sobering experience for the Kremlin security chief who , just two months after being appointed by the president and two heady weeks after taking charge of the Chechen crisis , had promised to wrap up the 20-month war by the weekend .
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Despite a mood of compromise in the region after some of the worst fighting of the war , Lebed may be just finding out that concluding a long-term settlement , somewhere between rebel demands for independence and Moscow 's insistence that Chechnya remain part of Russia , will be no easy matter .
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A chain-smoking former paratroop general with a sharp line in deadpan putdowns and a soldier 's knack for making life sound simple , Lebed managed to arrange an ambitious ceasefire in the region last week , days after the Russian army threatened to bomb its way back into the rebel-held Chechen capital Grozny .
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He returned at the weekend , pledging to conclude a political settlement that would make this truce work where all others have failed .
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But then he apparently thought better of it .
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Saying he needed to tidy up legal loose ends on the deal -- and also cover his back against unnamed pro-war schemers in Moscow -- he flew back to the capital empty-handed on Sunday .
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He met Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on Monday and , according to the press service of Lebed 's Security Council , could meet Yeltsin on Tuesday .
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It was not clear if the start of Yeltsin 's holiday , announced later , would affect plans to talk .
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Moscow 's as yet undisclosed proposals on Chechnya 's political future have , meanwhile , been sent back to do the rounds of various government departments .
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It is not known what caused the delay in the peace plan .
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Speculation mounted last week that Lebed was operating out on a limb in Chechnya as Yeltsin , hardly seen since his reelection last month , kept out of sight and then gave an interview criticising his envoy just as he clinched a truce .
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But Chernomyrdin took pains at the weekend to insist Lebed was playing for a united team and that the proposals he took to rebel chief-of-staff Aslan Maskhadov had been agreed by Yeltsin .
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If that were the case , it was unclear why Lebed suddenly found it necessary to have the deal verified in Moscow .
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Lebed himself said he was concerned that powerful interests in Moscow , who have profited from the war and want it to go on , would seize on any inadequacy in the deal to remove him .
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Maskhadov warned that Lebed risked the same fate as a former Russian army commander in the region who sought a compromise and was blown up last year by -- so the Chechens say -- Russian forces .
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Maskhadov may also have made new demands on Lebed , forcing him to check back with the Kremlin on what he could offer .
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A rebel spokesman said the two military men had come close to agreement on a face-saving formula acceptable to both sides and involving a referendum on independence at some future date .
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Chernomyrdin said voters should decide Chechnya 's future but stressed there was no question of the government letting the region quit the Russian Federation -- something Moscow fears could encourage separatist tendencies in other ethnic regions , particularly in the strategic North Caucasus .
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Lebed may be be finding that closing that political gap between the two sides is more difficult than just ending a war .
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Yeltsin on holiday from Monday - Interfax .
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MOSCOW 1996-08-26
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin began a new summer holiday on Monday but would remain in control of affairs of state , Interfax news agency said .
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" The head of state 's holiday has only just begun , " the agency quoted Sergei Yastrzhembsky as saying , adding that the president was currently in a Kremlin residence near Moscow .
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Interfax said Yastrezhembsky did not exclude that Yeltsin could spend some time in other places .
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He would continue working on various documents and might meet " one state offical or another " .
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" One must give B. Yeltsin a chance to rest and recover his health after the elections , " Interfax quoted Yastrezhembsky as saying .
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" ( Yeltsin ) controls internal and international policies , daily receives a big packet of documents from Moscow , which demand his intervention ...
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Many of those documents return to the president 's administration the same day , " he said .
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Yeltsin went on a two-day trip outside Moscow last week to check out a holiday home .
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Yugo Zastava workers ' protest enters 2nd week .
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BELGRADE 1996-08-26
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Thousands of workers of Serbia 's Zastava arms factory entered the second week of protests on Monday over unpaid wages and the lack of a programme to revive the plant 's production .
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" We are stubborn , have strength and time to persist until our demands are met , " said the factory 's trade union secretary Dragutin Stanojlovic .
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" We are united and we are waiting for the government to decide what to do with us . "
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Trade unions demanded payment of June and July wages and last year 's holiday pay , and called on government to develop a revival programme for the plant .
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The former Yugoslav national army consumed 90 percent of Zastava 's pre-war output , but like the rest of Yugoslavia 's economy , the new army of Serbia and Montenegro is crippled by lack of funds .
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In Kragujevac where the plant is based , 9,000 to 10,000 people gathered in the central square to express their bitterness at what Stanojlovic called government indifference .
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The ruling Socialist Party last week accused Serbia 's opposition of stirring up social unrest and using workers ' already difficult social position for their own interests .
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" Late wages , no work and ( the lack of a ) production programme are the main reasons for their protests , " a senior member of the local Socialist Party branch told Reuters .
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" But there is a significant influence of opposition parties that are collecting points ahead of coming elections . "
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Federal Yugoslav elections are due on November 3 .
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The party official said the union 's figure on the number of protesters was exaggerated . "
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There were about 1,400 to 1,600 people at the protest today -- much less then last week .
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" But there were more observers and passers by , " he said .
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-- Gordana Kukic , Belgrade Newsroom +381 11 222 4254
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Croatian lending rate falls to 8.0 vs 9.1 pct .
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ZAGREB 1996-08-26
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The Croatian lending rate fell to 8.0 percent on Monday from last Friday 's 9.1 percent after thin demand for kuna forced bank lenders to trim their rates further .
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Interbank call money was down to 8.0 from 10.0 percent .
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Insurers ' five-10 and 10-15 day loans were made at a steady 8.0 percent after last week 's drop from an earlier 15 percent .
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Total Zagreb Money Market settlements shrank to 17.4 million kuna , of which dealers put new borrowing at a meagre 5.5 million .
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Supply stood at a high 180 million kuna .
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Overnight trade at the weekend left a surplus of 1.2 billion kuna on the supply side after 40 million were settled .
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Croatia 's central bank again stayed out of the foreign exchange market .
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It calculated the kuna midrates for Tuesday 's trade stronger at 5.2420 against the dollar and slightly weaker at 3.5486 against the German mark .
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-- Kolumbina Bencevic , Zagreb Newsroom , 385-1-4557075
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SVCD Bulgaria air traffic controllers to strike September 3 .
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SOFIA 1996-08-26
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Bulgarian air traffic controllers will go on strike on September 3 demanding higher pay , the chief of the Bulgarian association of air traffic controllers ( Bulatka ) said on Monday .
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Stefan Raichev told a news conference the strike by more than half of the 1,380 traffic controllers and technicians would paralyse traffic which has increased by 10 percent since last year .
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More than 1,500 planes per day fly over Bulgaria , in a strategic location between Europe and the Middle and the Far East , Raichev said .
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The director general of the air traffic service Valentin Valkov said last Friday that a controllers ' strike would be illegal .
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Valkov said he could not curb the summer charter flights of national carrier Balkan Airlines , which carries thousands of foreign tourists to the Bulgarian Black Sea resorts .
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But Raichev said it would be " discrimination " against the other airlines if only Balkan planes were guided in .
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" Under the law before launching the strike we have to sign an agreement with our employer for a minimal transport servicing of emergency flights , " Raichev said .
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Raichev said a lock-out with military air controllers was impossible as they did not speak English .
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The controllers are demanding the monthly wage be increased to $ 1,000 per month from the current $ 230 , as well as the resignation of the air traffic service 's management .
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They also demand the financial separation of the 350 air controllers from the technical staff .
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-- Liliana Semerdjieva , Sofia Newsroom , 359-2-84561
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Yeltsin 's wife has kidney operation .
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MOSCOW 1996-08-26
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Naina Yeltsin , wife of the Russian president , has undergone " a planned operation " on her left kidney and is in a satisfactory condition , Itar-Tass news agency said on Monday .
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Tass quoted the Kremlin press service as saying the operation took place on Saturday in the Central Clinical Hospital which treats top officials .
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Mrs Yeltsin would be released from hospital in a few days .
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Doctor Sergei Mironov told Tass Naina was " in permanent contact " with her husband and two daughters , Yelena and Tatyana .
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The state of health of Boris Yeltsin , who had two heart attacks last year , has been the centre of media and market speculation after he won a second term in office in the July 3 election run-off and all but disappeared from the public eye .
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A presidential spokesman said on Monday Yeltsin was in Moscow but could give no details about his agenda or whether meetings were planned .
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Yeltsin is expected to go on holiday in the near future , but officials have not yet said where he will go or when .
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Mostostal Z shareholders approve bonds .
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WARSAW 1996-08-26
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Shareholders of the Polish construction firm Mostostal Zabrze Holding SA approved a 25- million-zloty , five-year convertible issue with a par value of 100 zlotys each , the company 's spokesman said on Monday .
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Piotr Grabowski told Reuters that a Mostostal extraordinary shareholders meeting on Saturday had decided that the price of the 250,000 bonds would be set as a 10-session average price of Mostostal shares plus a premium .
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" The premium will be no lower than 15 percent and will be set by management before the issue ...
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which we expect at the beginning of next year , " Grabowksi said .
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Mostostal , based in southern Poland , wants to offer the bonds to large investors in a public offering , paying an annual coupon of no more than 80 percent of the yield of the benchmark 52-week T-bill .
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The firm has signed an agreement with the Polish Development Bank ( PBR ) to manage the issue and plans them to be listed on the Warsaw bourse 's bond market .
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Grabowski also said shareholders approved the issue of 1.6 million shares for which the bonds could be exchanged , a ratio of 6.4 shares per bond .
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He also said shareholders approved the issue of 2.6 million new shares , two million of which are earmarked for large investors and 600,000 for retail domestic investors .
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The price will be determined through book-building .
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Mostostal plans to use the proceeds from the issues to add companies to its holding and modernise its plant .
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-- Warsaw Newsroom +48 22 653 9700
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Unknown group kidnaps Dutch couple in Costa Rica .
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SAN JOSE , Costa Rica 1996-08-26
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Kidnappers have seized a Dutch couple who manage a farm in northern Costa Rica and have demanded a $ 1.5 million ransom , authorities said on Monday .
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