Extracts. Castro Announces Conspiracy Cuban President Fidel Castro said here Friday that terrorists were planning to assassinate him at the Ibero-American summit in Panama City. At a press conference in the Caesar Park Hotel, where he was staying, Castro said the conspiracy against him has been financed, plotted and directed by a US-based opposition group, the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF). Castro said the group is led by a Cuban named Luis Posada Carriles, and that the group is already in Panama, bringing in weapons and explosives. Posada, who arrived in Panama on November 5 with a forged passport, is also being blamed for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airplane, killing 76 people. Panamanian authorities have been investigating the alleged assassination plot against Castro, Panama's intelligence agency chief, Carlos Quintero Luna, said, and the authorities have distributed Posada's pictures around the country. According to Cuban authorities, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Florida-based anti-Castro group have planned more than 600 assassinations of the Cuban leader since he came into power 40 years ago. Castro arrived in Panama City on Friday for the 10th Ibero-American summit. The summit, hosted by Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso, will focus on "Childhood and Adolescence in Latin America." Twenty-three heads of state and governments from Latin America are participating in the summit on Friday and Saturday in Panama City. **** China to Develop Cooperative Ties with Brunei President Jiang Meets with Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah -------------------------------------------------------------------- Visiting Chinese President Jiang Zemin said in Bandar Seri Begawan Friday it is China's set policy to develop long-term and stable relationship of friendly cooperation and good-neighborliness under the principles of peaceful coexistence with Brunei. China has all along maintained that all countries, no matter big or small, are equal in the world community, Jiang said during his talks with Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. He said China and Brunei enjoyed a long history of good neighborhood and the two countries expanded cooperation in the political, economic and cultural areas and in the world and regional affairs. Jiang said China is willing to maintain high-level exchanges between the two countries, expand all-round mutually-beneficial economic cooperation, encourage different kinds of exchanges between the two peoples, and strengthen cooperation in the world and regional affairs. The Chinese president, who is on a two-day official visit to Brunei, thanked Brunei for maintaining its "One China policy" and supporting China's course of reunification. Jiang invited Bolkiah to attend the next APEC leaders meeting to be held in Shanghai, China in 2001. The Sultan accepted the invitation. Bolkiah said during the talks that since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the friendly bilateral relations between the two countries have been strengthened and expanded. The two countries will sign three accords later Friday, he said the accords will further promote the development of bilateral cooperation. Bolkiah stressed Brunei firmly supports the "One China policy." The two leaders also touched on the issue of world oil prices and agreed that the oil prices should be kept at a reasonable level. Before starting his first visit to the country on Friday, the Chinese president attended the 8th APEC informal leaders meeting on Thursday. **** Thousands of Greek students marched to the US embassy in Athens late Friday to protest against US support for the military junta which ruled Greece from 1967 to 1973. With a heavy police presence, the students held a US flag daubed with swastikas instead of stars and shouted anti-American and anti-imperialist slogans. In a statement made in front of the US embassy, a female medical student said that the heightening of anti-Americanism showed that the Greek people would always struggle against the war of American, European and Greek imperialism. All streets from where the march passed were heavily guarded by police, and streets close to the demonstrators' route to the US embassy were closed to traffic. The march ended with the clash between members of the ruling Panhellenic Socialist Movement's youth organization and other youths. The ruling party denounced in an announcement the attack with stones and sticks against members of the party's youth organization. On November 17, 1973, the then military junta ordered troops to crush a student uprising in the Athens Polytechnic and killed a number of protesters. Greek students also made a similar march to the US Consulate in the northern city of Thessaloniki late Friday. _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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