BBC Monitoring International Reports articles from October 2006, page 194

BBC Monitoring International Reports archives from October 2006

Majlis condemns renewal of US sanctions against Iran.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA website Tehran, 1 October: Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission here Sunday in a statement condemned the bill ratified...

Majlis, Foreign Ministry to study US sanctions on Iran.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA website Tehran, 1 October: Majlis rapporteur of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Kazem Jalali here on Sunday [1 October]...

Jordanian king back home after Cairo visit.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Amman, 1 October: Jordanian King Abdallah II returned here Sunday evening [1 October] after a snap visit to Cairo. During his...

Iranian spokesman says Larijani-Solana talks "positive".
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA website Tehran, 1 October: Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hoseyni here Sunday [1 October] assessed four rounds of talks between...

Yemeni forces kill two suspected Al-Qa'idah operatives after fierce fighting.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from report by Yemeni TV on 1 October An official source in the Ministry of Interior has revealed that after sustained pursuit for several months, one of the leaders of Al-Qa'idah...

Fire reported in Russian Yak design bureau office in Moscow.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 1 October: A fire broke out in the office of the Yakovlev design bureau in the north of Moscow. An ITAR-TASS correspondent was told...

Ivorian investigators to travel to Estonia to probe waste ship.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Radio France Internationale on 1 October Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has announced that a team of seven investigators will be sent to Estonia. The team will arrive...

Iran: Police to use "helicopter patrol" to locate satellite dishes, says command.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from report by Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) website The commander of the Markazi Province's Law-Enforcement Force has said: We will use helicopter patrol to locate and remove...

Kenyan parliamentary Speaker leads anti-government protest over eviction order.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from report by Kenyan KTN TV on 1 October [Presenter] Retired army commander Lt-Gen James Lenges, narrowly escaped death last night after police in Rumuruti opened fire on a group...

Egypt's Mubarak, Jordanian king warn Palestinians against infighting.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Egyptian news agency MENA website Cairo, 1 Oct: President's spokesman, Ambassador Sulayman Awwad, said the Egyptian-Jordanian summit held in Cairo this evening opened with...

Palestinian president briefs Egyptian, US officials on unrest.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Palestinian news agency Wafa website Amman, 01 October: President Mahmud Abbas received this evening a telephone call from Egyptian Intelligence Director Minister Umar...

Turnout so far is 41 per cent in Bosnia Federation, 48 per cent in Serb entity.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from report by Bosnia-Hercegovina public radio on 1 October [Announcer] We are going live to the news conference held by the Central Election Commission. [Passage omitted] ...

Nigeria: Obasanjo commissions construction of new military academy site.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Nigerian newspaper This Day website on 1 October President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday commissioned the permanent site of the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA) Kaduna, with a...

Moscow Yak office fire put out.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti Moscow, 1 October: A fire which began at the Yakovlev design bureau office tonight has been put out, the Moscow branch of the Emergencies...

Army officers defected fearing reform programme - Ethiopia premier.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from interview by Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi broadcast by Ethiopian TV on 1 October [Unidentified journalist] Thank you Your Excellency, prime minister! [Passage omitted:...

Bosnian political leaders have high expectations of elections.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from report by Bosnian public broadcaster BHTV1 on 1 October [Presenter] Political leaders were, of course, optimistic today, when they came to vote. [Sulejman Tihic, chairman...

Afghan paper says Karzai's visit to USA not successful.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of editorial entitled: "A trip not that successful" by Afghan newspaper Rah-e Nejat on 30 September Despite the presence of the international community in Afghanistan and its...

Israeli Labour MP says final status deal with Palestinians top priority.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of interview with Dr Efrayim Sne, head of the Labour Party bloc at the Israeli Knesset and member of the Knesset's foreign and security affairs committee, conducted by Al-Sinnarah...

Egyptian intelligence minister phones Palestinian PM.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Palestinian news agency Wafa website Gaza, 01 October: Prime Minister Isma'il Haniyah received a telephone call this evening from Egyptian Intelligence Director Minister...

Moscow invites France to invest in Russian regions.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Nizhniy Novgorod, 1 October: Trade between Russia and France will exceed 10bn dollars in 2006, head of the Russian government staff...

Bosnian NGO observers say these elections "among best so far".
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation News Agency FENA Sarajevo, 1 October: General elections have taken place in peaceful atmosphere and are among the best-organized elections in...

President Abbas vows to punish gunmen involved in Gaza clashes.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of speech by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas from Amman, carried live by Palestinian TV on 1 October In the name of God, The Most Merciful, The Most Compassionate: O masses of...

Bosnian NGO observers praise conduct of elections.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation News Agency FENA Sarajevo, 1 October: The general elections have taken place in a peaceful atmosphere and have been among the best-organized...

Iran: Ahvaz bombing defendants' lawyer freed on bail.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report by Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) website Bench Seven of the Public and Revolution Prosecutor in Ahvaz reviewed the case of Javad Tariri, a defence lawyer representing the...

TV analyses possible Russian moves in spy row with Georgia.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Georgian Imedi TV has broadcast a report considering what retaliatory action Russia may take following the arrests of its military officers on spying charges in Georgia. The report suggests that...

Our candidates winning entity,central presidential races-Bosnian Serb PM's party.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA Banja Luka, 1 October: Candidates of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) for the post of the [Bosnian] Serb Republic (RS)...

SDP candidate for Croat member of Presidency "convincingly" in the lead - party.
October 1, 2006... (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Excerpt from report by Bosnian public broadcaster BHTV1 on 1 October [Excerpt from report aired on Bosnian TV One on 1 October] [Reporter Blazica Kristo] Good evening once again from...