>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.europeanfoun >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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