Subject: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING (April 17, 1995)
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From: hristu@arcadia.harvard.edu (Dimitrios Hristu)
 
Subject: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING (April 17, 1995)


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                       U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
                        DAILY PRESS BRIEFING

                              I N D E X

                       Monday, April 17, 1995

                                       Briefer:  Christine Shelly

[...]

FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
Departure of Ambassador Jackovich impeded by Serbs ....1
Contact Group meeting with Bosnian Government .........12

[...]

TURKEY
Timeframe for withdrawal from Iraq ....................3,4-5
Possible talks between Turkish Prime Minister and
  Department officials ................................10




                      U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
                        DAILY PRESS BRIEFING

                                               DPC #52

                    MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1995, 1:05 P.M.
                  (ON THE RECORD UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)

     Q     Christine, what do you know about Vic Jackovich being  
prevented from flying out of his current post by Serbs and being forced  
to take a more dangerous overland road?

     MS. SHELLY:  I have not even seen press reports on that.

     Q     Apparently, that story is about to move.

     MS. SHELLY:  Is it?  Okay.

     Q     Could you just --

     MS. SHELLY:  Yes.  I will check on that.  I'll try to work that up  
as a --

     Q     You have not heard anything about that?

     MS. SHELLY:  I have not.

[...]

     Q     Has the United States gotten any further word from the  
Government of Chile -- not from Chile, but from Turkey -- and Prime  
Minister Ciller -- on a date for their withdrawal from Iraq?  There have  
been some reports that during her flight to the United States she's  
indicated that the troops would be withdrawn by May.

     MS. SHELLY:  I know that the May timeframe is one that's been  
bandied about a bit, I think, publicly.  But to my knowledge, there has  
not been a timeframe which has been definitively signaled to us through  
any of our official contacts with the Turks.

[...]

     Q     Back to the Turkish operation in northern Iraq.  You said no  
timeframe was given to U.S. officials through official channels.  The  
announcement was made by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.   
Isn't that official enough for the U.S. State Department?

     MS. SHELLY:  The Turkish authorities have not given us a date by  
which time they intend to have this operation completed and the troops  
withdrawn.  That is the specific point to which I was responding.

     There have been some general indications of a timeframe, but we  
have not been told that there is a date by which they will withdraw.

[...]

     Q     Let me go on to what I was going to ask on Bosnia, if I  
might.  Has the Contact Group been able to get to the Bosnian Government  
or get with the leaders of the Bosnian Government with regard to  
extending the cease-fire and the other business we were talking about  
last week, Christine?  Have they gotten together?

     MS. SHELLY:  They have in -- all of their efforts with the parties  
in the region, they have been trying to work to get the cease-fire  
extended, but I don't think that there's been anything announced on that  
score yet.

     Q     Thank you.

     (The briefing concluded at 1:30 p.m.)

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