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Perez to .eek aid
for war victims
NEW YORK (United Na tk>n»| Apr 5 UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cueftar will call on the International romrrainlty next week to come Io the tod of Gulf war Wum. a UN official Mid Thursday report* AFP
UN spokesman Francois Giuliani said the UN chief has asked the heads of the organ! sations reher agencies to begin setting up programmes to lend emergency humanitarian aid to those tri need The countries targeted for the assistance In elude Iraq and Kuwait and the neighbouring countries of Jor dan Turkey and Iran Britain has already responded to the unofficial appeal, announcing its contribution of about 35 million Dollars
Albania takes privatisation steps TIRANA. Apr 5 : The Com munist government has taken the first step toward prtvatis Ing parts of the economy Al banian radio reports The move came on the day of a general strike to protest post-election violence a* Albania distances Itself from Stalinism, reports AP
A government decree Issued Thursday instruct* ministries and other central institution* to decide by the end of April which enterprises will be transferred from state to private ownership, the radio, monitored in London, said.
Ihe initial move from public to private could include handicraft, communal service*. and retail sectors, the production of staple consumer goods, both industrial and nonInd us trial food production, in workshops, factories, and small enterprise*
Unemployment on rise in E. Germany
BONN (Germany). Apr 5: Eastern Germans got more bad economic news Thursday with the release of a government report showing that unemployment tn the new states continues to cltmb while It has declined In the prosperous West, reports AP.
Chancellor Helmet Kohl announced he would cut short his caster vacation to visit the cast, which has been hit by unrest prompted by the region's rising unemployment and declining economy since its unification with the west last year.
The visit, scheduled for Sunday, will be Kohl’s first to the new German states since being elected leader of unified Germany tn December.
Malaysia to cut timber output
KUALA LUMPUR. Apr. 5: Malaysia, a major timber exporter. will reduce timber production to preserve its forests but plans to boost output of rubberwood, rat lari and bamboo. Deputy Prime Minister Ghafar Baba said on Thursday. report* Reuter.
"We are going into large-scale rattan and bamboo farming to help preserve our forest*.' he told reporters after meeting officials of the National Forestry Council
Ghafar said Malaysia, the world’s top rubber producer, might raise rubberwood output to meet demand by furniture makers.
Drilling in China's Turpan basin begins
BEIJING. Apr 5 : Drilling tn western China's oil-rich Turpan basin has begun with thousands of workers arriving on the site, the official New China News Agency said on Thur* day. reports Reuter.
China's onshore oil output has dwindled and the government is desperate to tap new sources. Survey work tn the area tn Xinjiang province where the Turpan basin is located started tn 1987 and oil discovered tn January 1989. it said.
Thousands of oil workers are arriving In the Turpan depression at the start of a campaign to exploit va*t oil resources." the agency said
West slated for not providing aid to Iraq
ISTANBUL. Apr 5 : Turkish President Turgut Oxal Wednesday criticised the West for not providing "real humanitarian aid" to Iraqi refugees massed on the Turkish border with Iraq, reports Xinhua
The President said • that Turkey would do It* best to help Iraqis fleeing the current fighting between rebel* and government troops. "But other countries. too. should help.” he told Britain's independent television news
The President said that al ready 100.000 refugee* have poured into Turkey and the country could not admit more because II lacks the means to receive them.