West asked to stop aid to USSR
LOMZA (Poland). June 5 : Lithuania's Vice-President has said the West should not aid the Soviet Union unless Moscow promised to respect the desire of the Baltic states to become Independent, reports Reuter.
The time has come for concrete decisions, one of , these decisions is to give or not to give the money and at the same time to help, or not to help the Baltic states." Vice-President Ceslovas Stankevlcius told reporters on Tuesday.
Stankevlcius was speaking during a trip to Poland to attend Pope John Paul's special meeting with Lithuanian religious and political leaders on Wednesday.
Sino- Burmese joint trade fair
BANGKOK, June 5 : The first joint Slno-Burmcse Joint trade fair has opened in a northern Burmese town bordering China, stale-run Radio Rangoon said Monday, reports AFP
The Radio, monitored here, said the trade exhibit and em porlum opened May 28 at the Mu-Se Hotei in Mu-Se town ship.
More than 500 items of Burmese products from 1 I state-owned and 10 private firms and goods from 63 Chinese firms were displayed, it said.
US Treasury to sen $ 20b Bills
WASHINGTON. June 5 : The US Treasury said it will sell 20.0 billion dollars of three and six-month Bills at its June 10 auction, reports Reuter.
The auction, to be evenly di vided between both issues, will raise about 1.3 billion dollars as 18.699 billion dollars in bills arc maturing.
The three-month Bills ma ture September 12. 1991 and the six-month Bills mature De ccmber 12.1991.
The Bills will be issued on June 13.
EC bans on sucking tobacco sale
LUXEMBOURG, June 5 . Eu ropean Community (EC) Health Ministers of Tuesday decided to ban the sale of sucking tobacco. a relatively new product on the market, a spokesman for the European Commission said, reports AFP
Portions of tobacco for sucking or which melt In the mouth are beginning to appear in Northern Europe in Swc den, Denmark, and Germany, but are largely unknown to consumers elsewhere In the Community
The EC health ministers decided to ban their sale tn the 12 EC countries with effect from December 31. 1994 at the latest, a Commission spokesman said.
Toshiba Europe fined
BRUSSELS, June 5 . The European Commission is set to fine electronics firm Toshiba Europe more than two million dollars on Wednesday on charges it illegally controlled sales to keep prices higher, Commission sources said on Tuesday, reports Reuter.
The sources said the Euro pean arm of Japan's Toshiba Corp had ordered distributors in many European Community countries not to sell goods for export to other EC
states where it was offering the same goods at higher prices.
Fuel prices rise in Bulgaria
SOFIA, June 5 : Steep price increases go into effect Wednesday for gasoline, elec tricity and other fuel , reports AP
The increases will also mean higher prices on goods for Bulgaria s already struggling consumers
A government decree Tuesday announced that energy prices would increase by 70 per cent and some grades of gasoline by nearly 90 per cent The board coalition govern ment of independent Premier Dmitar Popov is faced with the daunting task of overhauling the economy ravaged by decades of Communist mis management.
Trade delegations to visit South Africa
JOHANNESBURG. June 5 A record number of trade dele gallons arc due to visit South Africa in the near future sig nailing a "softening of attitudes to trading sanctions", the Jo hannesburg Chamber of Com merer and Industry (JCCI) said in a statement on Monday, re ports AFP.
Among the delegations due shortly are ones from Ar gentina. Brazil. Chile. Britain. Portugal. Belgium and Spain, the statement said