Jon Corlett a écrit : > ---- Original Message ----- > From: "heikki sipilä " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:38 AM > Subject: Macedonia being destabilised > > >Subject: [pttp] Fw: [sn-vesti 8202] Macedonia being destabilised > > > > >Forward from mart. > >Please distribute widely > >-----Original Message----- > >From: doslos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Ivan Stoiljkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: July 5, 2000 9:26 AM > >Subject: Fw: [sn-vesti 8202] Macedonia being destabilised > > > > > >>Please read all the way down. During NATO bombing I came across mention > of > >>this Oil pipeline and said that I thought that was one of the main reasons > >>for this "war". > >> > >> Came across this . > >> > >>Leah > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>Date: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 4:19 AM > >>Subject: [sn-vesti 8202] Macedonia being destabilised > >> > >> > >>EXTRACT > >> > >>NOTE: The Digest is available on-line at > >><http://www.europeanfoundation.org/intelligencedigest.html>www.europeanfou > n > >d > >>ation.org/intelligencedigest.html > >> > >>Issue No. 97 16th - 29th June 2000 > >> > >>Greek politician says KLA trying to destabilise Macedonia > >> > >>As killings, bombings and the abduction of children for prostitution > >>continue daily under the nose of Nato "peacekeepers" in Kosovo (for > >>daily reports, see <http://www.kforonline.com>www.kforonline.com), a > >>Greek member of the European Parliament, Yiannis Souladakis, has told > >>reporters that groups linked to the Kosovo Liberation Army are > >>involved in attempts to infiltrate and destabilize the Former > >>Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Souladakis said the > >>infiltrators were "involved in drug-trafficking, illegal arms and > >>women trade, while lately...attempting to acquire a political > >>character." > >> > >>Moreover, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported last week that the > >>40-mile border between the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and > >>Kosovo is riddled by smugglers who are tied to armed gangs fomenting > >>rebellion among Macedonia's ethnic Albanians. The newspaper said > >>ethnic Albanians from both sides crisscross the border with large > >>quantities of cigarettes, alcohol, guns and women whom they force > >>into prostitution. > >> > >>Macedonian newspapers have also highlighted an alleged connection > >>between organized smuggling rings and the political leadership of the > >>ethnic Albanians of western Macedonia, centred in the city of Tetovo. > >>The repeated attacks on police targets in ethnic Albanian regions, > >>culminating in the shooting of two border guards at Blace earlier > >>this month, are attributed to the activities of Albanians who, beyond > >>smuggling, are forming the nucleus of an armed movement in Macedonia. > >>The reports say armed groups are forming under the leadership of > >>extremists from the KLA. No proof has been provided, according to the > >>press reports, but the rumours are fuelled by reports by the > >>Macedonian secret service and statements by government officials who > >>say such groups exist and are tied to the military-political > >>leadership of Kosovo. > >> > >>Meanwhile, the Greek government has joined the US in denying a New > >>York Times report that said Greece was involved in efforts to > >>negotiate the resignation of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milos¯evic > >>coupled to guarantees for his personal safety and that of his family. > >>A Greek government spokesman said a recent trip by former foreign > >>minister Karolos Papoulias to Belgrade was not related to the alleged > >>scenario outlined in the Times report. [CNS News, 21st June 2000] > >> > >> > >> > >>Greek border guard killed by Albanians > >> > >>A Greek border guard has been shot dead in an encounter with Albanian > >>drug dealers on the Greek-Albanian border. According to reports, > >>Ioannis Pamboukidis, 30, was killed when the Albanians used their > >>Kalashnikovs to open fire on the customs officers who were patrolling > >>a remote rural area. [La Repubblica, 28th June 2000] > >> > >> > >> > >>Balkan pipeline project to start raising funds next month > >> > >>The Albanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian Oil Corporation LLC (AMBO) of > >>Pound Ridge, New York, has announced that it will start raising funds > >>in early July for a $1.13bn pipeline to ship crude oil from the Black > >>and Caspian seas to the West. The underground pipeline, 913 > >>kilometres long, is designed to carry 750,000 barrels a day, or 35m > >>metric tons per year, which will represent 40 percent of the crude > >>oil from newly-developed oilfields to enter the Black Sea in the next > >>five years, or 30 percent of the new oil over the next 10 years. It > >>will pass from Burgas, on the Black Sea coast, to Vlora on the > >>Adriatic coast of Albania, and will ship Russian, Azerbaijani, Kazakh > >>and Turkmenian oil from around the Black Sea to the markets of > >>Western Europe and North America. It will also bypass Turkey's > >>heavily travelled Bosphorus Straits. Big tankers with 300,000 tonnes > >>of crude can anchor at the port of Vlora, which makes the transit > >>journey to the United States economic, while the biggest tankers > >>passing the Bosphorus could carry 150,000 tonnes, AMBO officials > >>said. A holding structure with three separate companies in Bulgaria, > >>Macedonia and Albania will build the pipeline. The company's > >>executive vice-president has added that companies including Texaco, > >>Chevron, Exxon Mobil, BP Amoco, Agip, Total, Elf, Fina, were > >>interested in the pipeline that will become operational in 2005. The > >>trans-Balkan pipeline is also part of the Transport Corridor 8 plan. > >>Corridor 8 will include a highway, railway, oil pipeline and > >>fibre-optic telecommunications line as well as AMBO's oil pipeline. > >>[Albanian Daily News, June 16, 2000] > >> > >> > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Was the salesman clueless? Productopia has the answers. > >http://click.egroups.com/1/4633/3/_/22961/_/962812929/ > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Knowledge is Power! > >Elimination of the exploitation of man by man > >http://www.egroups.com/group/pttp/ > >POWER TO THE PEOPLE! > > > >Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Change Delivery Options: > >http://www.egroups.com/mygroups > > > > > > __________________________________ > > KOMINFORM > P.O. 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