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From: bip@sf.cit.bg (Bulgarian Information Pool)

BALKAN INFORMATION POOL - SOFIA
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NEWSLETTER

Time for release: 9.30 a.m. 
Monday, August 28, 1995

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			    THE LAST THREE DAYS
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VISITS
* The Bulgarian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Pirinsky returned from the
two-day tripartite meeting between the Romanian, Bulgarian and Greek Foreign
ministers held in Greece.  The Bulgarian delegation included representatives of
the Foreign Ministry, Sports, Labor and Social Welfare Ministries, 4 economic
chambers and a number of banks and companies.  The participants in the meeting
assessed as useful the talks.  Issues concerning the infrastructure,
telecommunications, raods, etc. in the Balkan region were discussed together
with the Yugo-conflict.  The three ministers shared the opinion that peaceful
means shall be applied in the solution of the conflict.  The three sides
excluded the military intervention.  The three sides hope that gradually the
Yugo-embargo sanctions could be lifted gradually.


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			    PRESS ROUND UP
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All central dailies focus the attention on the visits of Foreign Minister 
Pirinsky to Greece and the visit of UDF's leader Ivan Kostov to Russia.

DOUMA
Comments:
"Greece Supported Bulgaria's Proposal for a New Bridge over Danube"
Greek President Stefanopoulos will visit Romania and Bulgaria before the end of 
the year. At the meeting the three Foreign Ministers agreed to cooperate for 
the elimination of the technical and bureaucratic barriers stumbling the 
development of the transport and business connections between the countries.
The need for construction of a new bridge over Danube is one of the highlights 
in the concluding communique presented at the end of the meeting. The bridge is 
a prerequisite for the connection of the three Balkan states with Western and 
Eastern Europe.

A few Balkan meetings scheduled for the coming months were fixed by ministers
and experts in Greece.  The Bulgarian chairman of the Posts and
Long-Communications Committee will discuss in Sofia with his Greek and Romanian
counterparts projects that will be implemented before 2000.  Chiefs of the
Transport Ministries will discuss in Sofia their approaches during the summit of
Transport Ministers from the EU member-states scheduled for the end of September
[Brussels].


STANDART
Comments:
Greece got everything it wanted from the meeting of the three Foreign Ministers 
in Yanina.
The Bulgarian government was unaware how it shifted its position and moved to 
the other side of the barricade that considers the Yugo-sanctions negative and 
Miloshevich - positive phenomenon. Secondly, it was repeated that Athens holds 
the keys for Bulgaria's integration in Europe.
Thirdly, Greece managed to assume the role of a wise arbiter and settle the 
dispute between under-aged who can't really decide where the bridge shall be 
raised.

PARI
Comments:
"The Balkan Cooperation behind the Chengen's Curtain"
Contrary to the efforts of insiders to persuade us that Greece backed the
Bulgarian position, nothing similar to that happened.  Greek Foreign Minister
Papoulyas failed to achieve reconciliation between his two Balkan colleagues.
Bulgaria won't receive money if it quarrels with Romania, while Greece won't use
the transport corridor to Europe if its spoils its relations with Romania.  The
bridge will foster the progress of Norther Greek regions Macedonia and Thrace.

CONTINENT
Comments:
"The Positions on the Construction of a Second Bridge over the Danube River get 
closer," said Foreign Minister of Romania Theodore Melescanu.


* Today's Exchange Rates of the National Bank of Bulgaria are:
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GRD					100				28.638
CHF					1				55.587
USD					1				68.038
JPY					100				70.142
XEU					1				86.170
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