Vietnam News Sep 3
An extract. Grand meeting and parade celebrate National Day A meeting, military parade and march of the masses were held in Hanoi on the morning of September 2 to celebrate the 55th anniversaries of the August Revolution and the National Day. A delegation of athletes carried a revolutionary torchlight from the Ho Chi Minh Museum to light up the flame from a make-shift tower in front of Ba Dinh Square. When the Party and State leaders had come to the rostrum, the national anthem was started. Minister of Culture and Information Nguyen Khoa Diem, head of the organising board, read an opening speech and President Tran Duc Luong made a speech highlighting the revolutionary process of 55 years of national construction and defence. Representatives of 54 nationalities of Vietnam and young pioneers took the lead of the parade. Following them were the peoples armed forces including ground troops, anti-aircraft and air forces, border guards, navy, commandos and peoples police forces and the Mekong River Delta woman guerillas. Then representatives of governmental agencies, unions and branches marched past the rostrum. ___ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IRSP: Solidarity With The Libyan Revolution
(Forwarded) 01 September 2000 Solidarity with the Libyan Revolution The International Department of the Irish Republican Socialist Party issued a statement sending "greetings and solidarity" with the Libyan people on the 31st anniversary of the revolution that overthrew the Libyan monarchy, which functioned as a surrogate for the imperialist interests operating in North America. The statement, issued by IRSP International Secretariat member Peadar Baile said: "The Irish Republican Socialist Party pause to extend warm wishes and continuing solidarity to the people of the Libyan Jamahirya on the 31st anniversary of their revolution against imperialism "The Libyan Jamahirya has set a shining example through its willingness to demonstrate its independence from the imperialist powers, who have bent so many other nations to their will, making a mockery of national sovereignty. The Libyan Jamahirya has also lent its support to many, many people in struggle around the globe, providing a model of revolutionary internationalism. "Having endured more than a decade of international sanctions designed to destroy the independent, revolutionary, posture of Libya in the world, the Libyan people have shown their determination and their preparedness to sacrifice for the sake of national sovereignty and for the principles on which they have constructed one of the most radical realisations of popular rule in the world today. "Through having long supported efforts promoting Pan-Arabism and Pan-Africanism, the Libyan people have set the standard for internationalism that other nations would do well to follow, if they would seek to arise from under the thumb of imperialist domination. "The IRSP is proud to be able to claim a consistent history of solidarity with the Libyan Jamahirya, which we reiterate today. In a continuation of that tradition, we send greetings of solidarity to the Libyan people, and salute them for their heroic stance in opposition to imperialism and in support of national liberation and justice for the working people throughout the world." ENDS
USA/Colombia. The President of Hypocrites.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Rozoff) Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:14:02 -0500 (CDT) STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM The Independent (UK) The President of hypocrites Clinton's intervention in Colombia's drugs war is high risk. It won't help the chaotic country and it could backfire on the US By Joan Smith 3 September 2000 I suppose there are bigger hypocrites than Bill Clinton, but their names escape me for the moment. The US President made a flying visit to Colombia last week, after assuring the population in a video broadcast that the US has no military objective in their country. I'm sorry? Wasn't he about to hand over $1.3bn some £900m in mostly military aid to Colombia's President Andres Pastrana? Well, yes, but you would barely know it from Mr Clinton's trademark blend of personal anecdote and stomach-churning sentimentality. He insisted he was merely providing assist- ance in a campaign against drugs led by the Colombian government, before going on to salute ordinary people who are marching for peace, for justice, for the quiet miracle of a normal life. The compliment was not whole-heartedly returned. Bomb-making equipment was found in Cartagena, the Caribbean port where Mr Clinton spent precisely eight hours, well away from the capital, Bogota, and the southern provinces which the government has ceded to drug traffickers and left-wing guerrillas. Even so, Mr Clinton's brief presence required protection from no fewer than 5,000 soldiers and police, 350 US Secret Service agents, helicopter gunships and several navy patrol boats. Six people, including three children, died in guerrilla attacks apparently prompted by the visit, and eight soldiers were injured. Protesters marched in Bogota, signalling that Mr Clinton's assurance that he wanted to make life better for people had not been universally believed. With very good reason. The Colombian military, whose involvement with paramilitary death squads is admitted even by its own government, is about to receive 60 helicopters and training for two special army battalions. At present, they do not have enough helicopter pilots or hangars, but their job will be to protect police as they attempt to destroy coca plantations. This is not a task for which Colombians have shown much aptitude; in the decade since fumigation of coca crops began, according to one recent calculation, annual production has risen by more than 750 per cent. Since there is no meaningful distinction between members of drugs cartels and the two main guerrilla groups [sic], the US military is taking sides in a long-running civil war which is set to become, Mr Clinton's harshest critics say, another Vietnam. The comparison is fuelled by the fact that the chief architect of Plan Colombia, as it is called, is the US's drugs tsar Barry McCaffrey, a decorated Vietnam veteran whose own record in the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War has come under hostile scrutiny. (In March 1991, General McCaffrey ordered an attack on retreating Iraqi soldiers which turned, in his words, into "one of the most astounding scenes of destruction I have ever participated in". Eye-witnesses have questioned whether the Iraqis began shooting first, as McCaffrey claimed.) * Another close parallel is the Reagan administration's military aid to the government of El Salvador and the opposition Contras in Nicaragua. Mr Clinton may be a Democrat but, like Mr Reagan, he has invoked national security in waiving human-rights conditions attached to military aid by Congress an admission that the war on drugs is more important than anything else, including murder. According to Human Rights Watch, there is "detailed, compelling and abundant evidence" of the Colombian army's connections with paramilitary death squads; half of its 18 brigades have been linked to these groups, including those operating in areas which are about to get US assistance. Mr Clinton visited a law centre in Cartagena last week and posed in a silly hat for photographers before scuttling back to Washington. The US intervention leaves ordinary Colombians, who face a human-rights crisis of "alarming proportions" according to Amnesty International, acutely vulnerable in a civil war which is almost certainly about to intensify. The Colombian military is as incompetent as it is brutal; two weeks ago, an army patrol mistook a party of schoolchildren for rebels, opened fire and killed six. Mr Clinton has not said what the US government will do if its military advisers are attacked in rebel-controlled areas. But the spectre of US involvement in a protracted jungle war in South America is belatedly setting off alarm bells in Washington. Why should Mr Clinton take any notice? This most shameless of US presidents will be out of office in four months, leaving someone else to sort out the mess. Opinion polls have suggested that the electorate is worried about drugs, and that the Democrats are seen as soft on the issue. Mr Clinton is doing Al
Organic Farming Will Feed the World
Subject: Organic Farming Will Feed the World Message sent via ENVLIST This message originated From: "George Monbiot" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organic Farming Will Feed the World Astonishingly, it's more productive than high-tech agriculture By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 24th August 2000 The advice could scarcely have come from a more surprising source. "If anyone tells you that GM is going to feed the world," Steve Smith, a director of the world's biggest biotechnology company, Novartis, insisted, "tell them that it is not. ... To feed the world takes political and financial will - it's not about production and distribution." Mr Smith was voicing a truth which most of his colleagues in the biotechnology companies have gone to great lengths to deny. On a planet wallowing in surfeit, people starve because they have neither the land on which to grow food for themselves nor the money with which to buy it. There is no question that, as population increases, the world will have to grow more, but if this task is left to the rich and powerful - big farmers and big business - then, irrespective of how much is grown, people will become progressively hungrier. Only a redistribution of both land and wealth can save the world from mass starvation. But in one respect Mr Smith is wrong. It is - in part - about production. A series of remarkable experimental results has shown that the growing techniques which his company and many others have sought to impose upon the world are, in contradiction to everything we have been brought up to believe, actually less productive than some of the methods developed by traditional farmers over the past 10,000 years. Last week, Nature magazine reported the results of one of the biggest agricultural experiments ever conducted. A team of Chinese scientists had tested the key principle of modern rice-growing - planting a single, high-tech variety across hundreds of hectares - against a much older technique: planting several breeds in one field. They found, to the astonishment of the farmers who had been drilled for years in the benefits of "monoculture", that reverting to the old method resulted in spectacular increases in yield. Rice blast - a devastating fungus which normally requires repeated applications of poison to control - decreased by 94 per cent. The farmers planting a mixture of strains were able to stop applying their poisons altogether, while producing 18 per cent more rice per acre than they were growing before. Two years ago, another paper published in Nature showed that yields of organic maize are identical to yields of maize grown with fertilisers and pesticides, while soil quality in the organic fields dramatically improves. In trials in Hertfordshire, wheat grown with manure has produced consistently higher yields for the past 150 years than wheat grown with artificial nutrients. Professor Jules Pretty of Essex University has shown how farmers in India, Kenya, Brazil, Guatemala and Honduras have doubled or tripled their yields by switching to organic or semi-organic techniques. A study in the United States reveals that small farmers growing a wide range of plants can produce ten times as much money per acre as big farmers growing single crops. Cuba, forced into organic farming by the economic blockade, has now adopted it as policy, having discovered that it improves both the productivity and the quality of the crops its farmers grow. High-tech farming, by contrast, is sowing ever graver problems. This year, food production in Punjab and Haryana, the Indian states long celebrated as the great success stories of modern, intensive cultivation has all but collapsed. The new crops the farmers there have been encouraged to grow demand far more water and nutrients than the old ones, with the result that, in many places, both the ground water and the soil have been exhausted. We have, in other words, been deceived. Traditional farming has been stamped out all over the world not because it is less productive than monoculture, but because it is, in some respects, more productive. Organic cultivation has been characterised as an enemy of progress for the simple reason that it cannot be monopolised: it can be adopted by any farmer anywhere on earth, without the help of multinational companies. Though it is more productive to grow several species or several varieties of crops in one field, the biotech companies must reduce diversity in order to make money, leaving farmers with no choice but to purchase their most profitable seeds. This is why they have spent the last ten years buying up seed breeding institutes and lobbying governments to do what ours has done: banning the sale of any seed which has not been officially - and expensively - registered and approved. All this requires an unrelenting propaganda war against the tried and tested techniques of traditional farming, as the big companies
Fw: [Cuba SI] Cuba: Felipe P.Roque-EU Lacks. Ocean Press. Canada
- Original Message - From: John Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2000 5:16 PM Subject: [Cuba SI] Cuba: Felipe P.Roque-EU Lacks. Ocean Press. Canada -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ Get LOW Rates. Click here for details. http://click.egroups.com/1/6866/0/_/30563/_/967933068/ -_- from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cuba: Felipe Perez Roque -EU lacks. Ocean Press. Canada Granma International ... May 3, 2000 LETTER FROM MINISTER OF FOREIGN RELATIONS TO THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE GROUP OF 71 COUNTRIES OF AFRICA, THE CARIBBEAN AND PACIFIC (ACP) "European Union lacks political independence with regard to Cuba" The island withdraws its application for entrance into the new treaty of association between Europe and the ACP countries Havana, April 26, 2000 Your Excellency: I am writing to tell you that Cuba has decided to withdraw its request for entry into the new treaty of association between the countries of the ACP and the EU. As you know, Cuba has been participating in the negotiations for this new accord in the capacity of observer for almost two years. From the outset, we saw the potential entrance of Cuba into the Lomé Convention as a route to strengthening our relations and integration with the 71 member countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group and we have always clearly stated that our entry into the new convention would not affect, even minimally, the preferences and interests of the ACP countries. From the beginning, the group of ACP countries has firmly and enthusiastically supported Cuba's application. During that time we have received the solidarity and support of our sister countries in the Third World, demonstrating their wish that Cuba become a new member of the ACP family. Irrefutable proof of this was the unanimous support for our position as observer, the Declaration of the Heads of State and Government of the ACP countries in Santo Domingo and the Resolution of the Council of Ministers which took place in Brussels last February 1st. Cuba and the ACP countries worked together actively with a view to the completing a text that takes into account the interests and claims of our countries and finally, on March 10, we confirmed our interest in subscribing to the new convention together with the other 71 ACP countries. Since that time, we have seen arrogance, smugness and the tendency on the part of various European countries to impose conditions on Cuba. Such spirits are evident in the unanimous way in which the European Union countries supported the United States' conspiracy against Cuba at the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. The United States once again used the puppet government of the Czech Republic, seconded by the governments, no less puppets themselves, of Poland, Romania and Latvia. These countries were formerly part of the socialist bloc, but today are either members or aspirants to membership in NATO, an aggressive and interventionist bloc that, with its "new strategic concept," threatens the sovereignty of all Third World countries. According to the rules of the European Union, any one of the 15 member countries can veto Cuba's application. Some have already shown themselves to be particularly hostile to our country joining the new ACP-EU Convention, due to their growing dislike of Cuba for its vital struggle in defense of Third World people's interests. To persist with the request for entry would only serve to allow ourselves to become victims of the unacceptable demands of the European Union. The European Union recently asked its triumvirate to visit Cuba, in order to restart the dialogue that has been halted in 1996 due to a unilateral decision on their part. During the preparations for this visit, we were able to verify that the European Union would effectively try to attach conditions on the incorporation of Cuba within the convention of association between the ACP and the EU. These conditions concerned the implementation of political, economic and social changes within Cuba, which our country rejects in a sovereign manner, since they constitute outright meddling in our internal affairs and an unacceptable attempt to pressure Cuba, something it has resisted for more than 40 years as a result of the ferocious blockade imposed by the most powerful nation in history. From the outset, Cuba has expressed in a plain and transparent manner that it would not accept selective and discriminatory conditions imposed by any nation of the European Union as a requirement for our entry into the new convention. We have always explained that our position is exclusively limited to the duties and rights that are established by the new text created by all of the future signatories. Consequently, the European position remains unacceptable to Cuba because of its interventionist and discriminatory nature. It is proof
Fw: [STOPNATO] Yugoslavia: U.S. Tightening Intelligence And Propaganda Ring
- Original Message - From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 12:58 PM Subject: [STOPNATO] Yugoslavia: U.S. Tightening Intelligence And Propaganda Ring STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM http://www.centraleurope.com/yugoslaviatoday/news.php3?id=195239 Yugoslavia Says U.S. Tightening Ring Around It BELGRADE, Sep 2, 2000 -- (Reuters) Yugoslavia's state news agency Tanjug accused the United States on Friday of "tightening the intelligence and propaganda ring" around the country by setting up offices in neighboring states. "The minutely planned and synchronized activities of the newly opened special U.S. government offices for undermining the legally elected authorities in Yugoslavia will start early this month," Tanjug said in a commentary. It was the latest verbal attack on the United States ahead of elections scheduled for September 24. The government regularly accuses Western powers and the Serb opposition, which it describes as NATO "lackeys", of plotting to destroy Serbia. In contrast, the Yugoslav authorities portray themselves as champions of independence against NATO countries which bombed Yugoslavia in the 1999 air campaign over Belgrade's repression of Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians. Tanjug said the United States began opening offices in mid-August in Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest and Tirana, engaging almost 120 experts for psychological propaganda and espionage. The Sofia office, it said, had recruited at least 15 Bulgarian army intelligence officers who would try to enter Yugoslavia to gather information ahead of the parliamentary, presidential and local elections, especially about the combat readiness of the army. The four centers will conduct the bulk of their work through non-governmental organizations and multi-national companies, Tanjug said. It named one major U.S. company specializing in military infrastructure. It also accused the United States of aiming to gain control of rich oil deposits believed to lie under Kosovo and off the coast of Montenegro, Serbia's pro-Western sister republic in the Yugoslav federation. The United States set up an office in Budapest to deal with Serbian affairs just weeks before the elections. But American diplomats this week said this was a coincidence [?!] and they had planned to open the office much earlier. [SureHave they ever lied to us before?] They said the office was set up to better coordinate existing programs [don't ask] dealing with Serbia following the closing of the U.S. embassy in Belgrade last year due to the NATO-led bombing of Yugoslavia. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BEST PRICES ON THE NET AT IMANDI.COM Cheapest prices on new cars, insurance, airfare, maids, custom pc's, mortgages, moving and more! Tell us what you want. We locate it for free -- across town across the country. http://on.linkexchange.com/?ATID=27AID=1453
Cuba -Message to US State Dept
from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cuba -Message to US State Dept. Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its complements to the Honorable Embassy of Switzerland, the Interest Section of the United States of America, and takes this opportunity to inform the following. Last Monday, 28 August, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received Note 241/19 from the State Department in texts delivered in Washington and Havana - which, although very similar are curiously, not identical -. One of the versions of the Note was simultaneously given by its authors to the press in Washington D.C. We are replying to it with this Note. Later the same day State Department spokesman, Philip Reeker, made some statements which deserve comment in our reply. Peter Romero, the Undersecretary of State and even the Secretary of State herself have added their voices to these kinds of comments in a slanderous publicity stunt. This suspiciously coincides with the visit to Miami of the presidential candidates who are competing for contributions from and the support of the Cuban-American terrorist mafia. The State Department's version is an attempt devoid of any seriousness which tries to falsify facts and cover up the irresponsible behavior of its government which openly and systematically violates the migration accords signed with Cuba. The only truth about the US note is that everything it states - even the most ludicrous aspects --has been said before by the US representatives at the bilateral migration talks. On every occasion the Cuban delegation has given an appropriate reply and has demonstrated the superficiality or lack of foundation of the US allegations. The State Department's Note doesn't refer to that. Neither is there any mention of the basic problems which seriously affect the implementation of the migration accords and which have been what have in fact taken up the greater part of the time in our talks, as can be seen from the minutes of the meetings. Common sense tells us that we should first refer to these important matters, not forgetting to reply, one by one, to the list of falsehoods, on other issues, all of them secondary, with which the State Department's document is packed to the brim. We have done this patiently in the bilateral meetings. We are left with no other recourse than to do this publicly, since that is what Washington has done. In one of his most picturesque statements, Mr. Reeker made reference to the denunciations made by Cuba against the Cuban Adjustment Act and presented them as an alleged excuse and as something which our government has only recently raised. Nothing could be farther from the truth. That Act, the policy behind it, its nefarious consequences and the need to put an end to it have always been the main issue raised by the Cuban delegation. Therefore, these issues have always been at the core of the discussions during the bilateral talks, including those that led to the accords of 1984, 1994 and 1995. After intensive negotiations at the most recent talks in the summer of 1994, an agreement was reached on 9 September. In its first paragraph it states specifically that: "Those migrants who are rescued at sea and who are trying to enter the United States will not be permitted to enter the United States" . Further on it adds that: "In addition, the United States has discontinued its practice of giving provisional entry to all Cuban migrants who reach US territory by irregular means". It is easy to understand that this paragraph contains a clear recognition by the United States, which up to that point had taken anyone interdicted at sea to its territory. It also admitted anyone who arrived under his or her own steam and it offered resident status to everyone under the Cuban Adjustment Act. The clear, explicit commitment in this paragraph to cease this practice is the foundation on which the accords of 1994 and 1995 were based. The United States' compliance with this obligation began to weaken as time went by. The return to Cuba of people rescued at sea has become more and more selective and the number of people taken to United States territory by Coast Guard units has grown. Cuba has repeatedly denounced this situation, as we have done about Washington's systematic and arrogant refusal to release any information about those who somehow manage to reach its shores. And that's in spite of the fact that both the authorities and relatives in Cuba have the duty and the right to request this information, especially when there have been accidents. Moreover, on April 19 last year, the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Doris Meissner, circulated a memo to her subordinates making clear the fact that the provisions of the 1996 Migration Law to be applied to persons of any other nationality were not to be applied to Cuban migrants "no matter how they reached the United States". Cubans were to continue to be admitted and then granted residence as
Korean Central News Agency Sep 2
September.02.2000 Juche 89 [CONTENTS] * Kim Jong Il visits Jagang Province * Anniversary of end of World War II observed * UNICEF grants aid equipment to DPRK * Delegation of south side leaves * Anniversaries of DPRK and WPK to be celebrated in Sri Lanka * Vietnamese ambassador gives reception to mark National Day * Papers welcome return to fatherland of unconverted long-term prisoners * Kim Yong Nam leaves to participate in new millennium U.N. summit * Repeal of "SL" urged in S. Korea * Unconverted long-term prisoners reunite with their families and relatives * Unconverted long-term prisoners pay homage to Kim Il Sung * Unconverted long-term prisoners back to fatherland * Greetings to President of Slovakia Kim Jong Il visits Jagang Province Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) - General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited Jagang Province from August 28 to 31 to direct the work in different domains of its national economy. The units given his on-site guidance include the Kanggye Precision Machine Complex, the Kanggye Silk-Spinning Mill, a power station, a forestry station, cooperative farms and a school. He went first to the Kanggye Precision Machine Complex to see how its workers work and expressed satisfaction with their production of high-quality machines before highly appreciating their successes. Then, he called at shops of the Kanggye Silk-Spinning Mill to acquaint himself with its production and set forth tasks to increase the output of silk thread. The next leg of his visit was the Hungju Youth Power Atation newly built on river Jangja and a village of modern dwelling houses equipped with electric appliances. He acquainted himself with the construction of the power station and its management and operation before highly appreciating the builders' feat. He went round the village of model dwelling houses built in Hungju-dong where electrification has been realized. Visiting a discharged soldier's house to learn about his living conditions, he said that each household in this village should be provided with uptodate tv sets. and he posed for a picture with his family members. Then he moved to a village of the Songgan Forestry Station and said the village looks like a picture. He also inspected Jangphyong and Mudok co-op farms in Janggang county and the Songha Sericultural Cooperative Farm in Songgan county. After learning about the farming, stock-breeding and sericulture there, he praised the farmers for their devoted efforts. He also provided on-site guidance to the Songgan Senior Middle School in Songgan county. He looked round a classroom, laboratory and other facilities of the school and learned about how students are educated. He had a picture taken with teachers and students of the school. He also posed for a photograph with a merited road maintenance worker of the Songgan county road management corps and her family on a pass, highly appreciating their patriotic devotion. He appreciated an art performance given by school children in Jagang Province. He, on the basis of having acquainted himself in detail with the overall work in the province, put forth highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines in putting the national economy in the province on a higher plane. He highly appreciated the fighting spirit and traits of the workers and other people in Jagang Province, the creators of the great spirit of Kanggye, noting that they are performing miracles and feats every hour, taking the lead also in the all-out charge for building a powerful nation. He also proposed tasks to keep production going at a high rate, boost the electricity and grain production, develop stock-breeding and sericulture, improve land management and the standard of people's living. He was accompanied by Yon Hyong Muk, chief secretary of the Jagang Provincial Committee of the WPK, Jon Pyong Ho and Kim Kuk Thae, secretaries of the c.c., the WPK, and its first vice-department directors. Anniversary of end of World War II observed Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- The members of the Russian Embassy here laid wreaths before the Liberation Tower and the cemetery of fallen Soviet soldiers in Sadong district, Pyongyang, on Friday on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Standing at the tower and the cemetery were guards of honor of the Korean People's Army. Present at the wreath-laying ceremonies were charge d'affaires Alexander Timonin and staff members of the Russian Embassy. Amid the playing of music wreaths were placed at the tower and the cemetery in the name of the embassy. The participants paid a silent tribute to the Soviet soldiers who fell in the battles for the liberation of Korea. UNICEF grants aid equipment to DPRK Pyongyang, September 2 (KCNA) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) sent the DPRK aid equipment needed for
Re: [BLACK-LEFT] Devrimci Sol-Revolutionary Left magazine - NewEdition
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