16 mar News
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* ARMENIAN OPPOSITION DEMANDS THAT RUSSIA DENOUNCE 1921 TREATY
* DISCOVER TURKEY - THE UNDISCOVERED EUROPE
> From: VIC MCDONALD
GASPROM SAYS GAS DELIVERIES TO UKRAINE WILL BE CUT IN APRIL
16/3 TASS 71
MOSCOW MARCH 16 BUSINESS-TASS -- RUSSIA'S GIANT NATURAL GAS
SUPPLIER GASPROM THINKS THAT A NEW REDUCTION OF GAS
DELIVERIES TO UKRAINE ARE "QUITE LIKELY" IN EARLY APRIL.
THE THING IS THAT GASPROM'S EUROPEAN PARTNERS GET LESS THAN
THEIR DUE BECAUSE UKRAINE "DRAWS AWAY" SOME OF THE GAS
DURING ITS TRANSIT VIA UKRAINIAN TERRITORY, SOURCES IN
GASPROM TOLD ITAR- TASS TODAY.
THE PRESSURE OF GAS IN THE PIPELINES LEADING TO WESTERN
EUROPE AND PARTICULARLY TO ROMANIA, BULGARIA AND TURKEY IS
LOWER THAN DESIGNED ALTHOUGH GASPROM HAS RESUMED FEEDING AS
MUCH GAS AS AGREED AND MORE INTO THE PIPELINE - 470 MILLION
CUBIC METERS A DAY. THE EXTRA DELIVERIES ARE DESIGNED TO
COMPENSATE UKRAINE FOR THE TERMINATION OF NATURAL GAS
DELIVERIES FROM TURKMENISTAN (80 MILLION CUBIC METERS A
DAY).
UKRAINE HAS FAILED TO CONFORM TO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
ARTICLES OF THE AGREEMENT REACHED BETWEEN THE UKRAINIAN
GOVERNMENTAL DELEGATION AND THE GASPROM LEADERSHIP.
UNDER THE AGREEMENT, GASPROM RESUMED THE DELIVERIES OF THE
STIPULATED AMOUNT OF GAS UNTIL APRIL 10 PENDING TERMINATION
OF UKRAINE'S UNLICENSED USE OF NATURAL GAS FROM THE EXPORT
PIPELINE PASSING THROUGH UKRAINE. UKRAINE ALSO PROMISED TO
WORK OUT A SPECIFIC MECHANISM OF REPAYING ITS DEBT FOR THE
SUPPLIES OF GAS TO UKRAINE IN 1993-1994 AND TO BEGIN TO PAY
OFF THE DEBTS.
OTHER ARTICLES OF THE AGREEMENT ALSO HAVE YET TO BE
FULFILLED. UKRAINE HAS REMITTED LESS THAN A FRACTION OF ONE
PERCENT OF ITS 1.5 TRILLION ARREARS TO THE GASPROM ACCOUNT,
AND ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN EXPERTS, ITS FINANCIAL POTENTIAL
IS WELL- NIGH EXHAUSTED.
THERE IS ONE WAY OFFSETTING UKRAINE'S INDEBTEDNESS TO RUSSIA
- THROUGH THE SWITCH TO JOINT OWNERSHIP OF THE UNDERGROUND
GAS STORAGE FACILITIES AND MAIN GAS PIPELINES ON THE
UKRAINIAN TERRITORY, ACCORDING TO GASPROM. REGRETTABLY, THE
AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE ON THIS REACHED DURING THE
NEGOTIATIONS IN MOSCOW HAS MET WITH NO SUPPORT ON THE PART
OF THE UKRAINIAN LEADERSHIP.
ITEM ENDS
ARMENIAN OPPOSITION DEMANDS THAT RUSSIA DENOUNCE 1921 TREATY
16/3 TASS 65
YEREVAN MARCH 16 ITAR - BY ITAR-TASS CORRESPONDENT TIGRAN
LILOYAN:
ARMENIA'S OPPOSITION MOVEMENT "NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION"
STAGED ON WEDNESDAY A RALLY IN THE CAPITAL YEREVAN TO DEMAND
THAT RUSSIA DENOUNCE THE 1921 MOSCOW TREATY CONCLUDED 73
YEARS AGO BETWEEN SOVIET RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
"DEMOCRATIC RUSSIA SHOULD NOT BE GUIDED BY THE HERITAGE OF
ANTI-POPULAR BOLSHEVIK RULE" -- THIS IDEA RAN ALL THROUGH
THE RALLY WHICH IS TO BE CONTINUED OUTSIDE THE RUSSIAN
EMBASSY IN YEREVAN. THE RALLY ORGANIZERS INTEND TO PRESENT
RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR VLADIMIR STUPISHIN WITH A STATEMENT TO
BE DELIVERED TO RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES. THE STATEMENT CALLS FOR
CANCELLATION OF WHAT THEY CONSIDER TO BE "AN ANTI-ARMENIAN
TREATY".
ACCORDING TO THE NEWSPAPER ANKAKHUTYUN (INDEPENDENCE)
PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION MOVEMENT, SINCE
THE COLLAPSE OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION IN 1991, RUSSIA
"HAS BEEN ABANDONING, REVISING AND DUMPING TO THE DUNG-HEAP
OF HISTORY INTERNATIONAL TREATIES IMMORTALIZING THE CRIMES
OF BOLSHEVIK DIPLOMACY". AMONG THESE CRIMES THE NEWSPAPER
CITED THE 1921 MOSCOW TREATY, WHICH "RE-ADJUSTED" ARMENIA'S
BODERS AND HANDED OVER PART OF ITS TERRITORY TO TURKEY. BY
DENOUNCING THIS TREATY, RUSSIA WOULD DEMONSTRATE ITS "NEW
AND JUST ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE SHAMEFUL PAST, AS WELL AS
CONFIRM ITS CURRENT POLITICAL COURSE IN THE TRANSCAUCASIAN
REGION", THE NEWSPAPER BELIEVES.
SPILL CLOSES BOSPORUS FOR 3RD DAY
Reuters
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- The oil-fouled Bosporus waterway
remained closed for a third day today even after a burning
tanker was tugged out of harm's way into the Black Sea.
The death toll from Sunday's collision between the Nassia
tanker and the freighter Shipbroker, both Cypriot-flagged,
rose to 19, with 10 missing crew members presumed dead.
The tanker was still belching black smoke from its forward
tanks after two Turkish tugs towed it out of the Bosporus
and about 25 miles west along the Black Sea coast.
Istanbul's deputy governor Ruhi Paker said two ships had
begun a clean-up effort to scoop patches of crude from the
narrow 19-mile strait and remove oil washed onto the shore.
> FROM: SAY...@minna.acc.iit.edu
This article is taken from TRAVEL Section of the magazine
PHOTOgraphic
(volume APRIL 1994)
DISCOVER TURKEY - THE UNDISCOVERED EUROPE
BY MARY ALTEER
As exotic and exciting as a trip to TURKEY sounds, I was
delighted to learn firsthand how easy and comfortable it
also was. The Turkish people are some of the friendliest
people I have encountered in my 20 years of traveling and
photographing in the world's more remote regions. On my
first day in Istanbul I was having trouble figuring out how
to buy a ticket and take the bus to Topkapi Saray palace. A
distinguished gentleman came up to me and asked, in perfect
English, if he could help me. When I told him my dilemma, he
took me to the kiosk wherethey sold tickets, helped me
purchase a ticket, waited for the appropriate bus, and even
made sure the driver would tell me when I had arrived at my
destination.
Unlike many countries I have visited, while photographing
in Turkey, I had the unlikely problem of more models than I
wanted. Just seeing a western woman with two visible cameras
seemed to bring out the need to pose, especially in the
Turkish men. Unlike many Muslim countries, it is also
possible (and culturally acceptable) to photograph the
women. One day a woman friend and I had rented bicycles to
visit an anchient archaelogical site. A woman who lived
nearby invited us into her home for tea. Although we had no
language in common, we managed to spend a lovely afternoon
in the simple but comfortable dwelling.
Although the ease with which you can photograph people is
one of the best reasons to visit Turkey, there are many
others, including the landscape, cul_ ture and rich
archeological history.
The surreal landscape of Cappadocia made it one of the
most unusual and distinctive spots I have ever visited. This
region, between Ankara and Malatya and the Black sea and the
Taurus Mountains, is known formations made from an eroded
volcanic stone called tufa. Some of these formations are
called fairy chimneys; they stand upright within the
moonlike landscape making for an other-worldly panaroma.
Today, the region is one big open-air museum. For the
photographer, there is a never-ending supply of material,
all of which is outdoors in the brilliant Turkish sun. The
startling shapes of the fairy chimneys, the hand painting of
the inside of the cave churches, and the repeated vertical
motifs of the valley, which turn pink at sunset, make the
area a joy for the photographer who welcomes the unusual
landscape.
Other types of Turkish terrain include some of the most
beautiful beaches and lakes I have ever found within one
country. My tour of Mediterranean Turkey began to the south
at Kas, a small picturesque fishing village on a cozy little
harbor. From this harbor local boatmen will take the tourist
on excursions ehere the photographic possibilities include
ruin sites, caves castles and islands.
While there are many villages and towns on the
Mediterranean coast, I found the town of the Datca
particularly photogenic. It is on a finger of land which
goes westward from Marmaris 100 kilometers to the edge of
the Aegean Sea. The drive takes you through pine-forested
mountains until you finally arrive at this pleasant village
nestled at the end of a small bay.
Modern Turkey is intruguing to photographers. Istanbul,
which has a history that goes back 7000 years is also a
modern city with its own special energy. Everywhere you turn
while wandering about the streets offers photographers
colorful markets and vistas of everyday Muslim life. The
setting of Istanbul is as spectatular as any city I have
visited. The famous mosques of Sancta Sofia, the Blue Mosque
and the others provide dramatic focal points, and the water
which surrounds the city provides a colorful foreground.
One of the most interesting tourist sites in Istanbul is
Topkapi Saray Palace. This large complex should take close
to a full day to visit and photograph. Don't neglect to tour
the Harem, most of which constructed in the early 1500s and
was a self contained village housing 400 to 500 people.
I would encourage anyone interested in combining a
vacation with a rewarding photographic experience to give
Turkey a try. The country isn't difficult to get around., it
is relatively inexpensive, the people are most friendly and
helpful, and there is a never ending supply of diverse
photographic subjects.
Selahattin SAYIL
say...@harpo.acc.iit.edu