NEWS

Democracy or Energy Geopolitics? (by William Engdahl)
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ENG412A.html
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Holiday Greetings From NATO's General Secretary: It has been a good year for NATO
http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2004/s041216b.htm


Displaced Kosovars return home on go-and-see visit (by Shpend Halili)
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/print?tbl=NEWS&id=41c8430c4

Vecernje Novosti: Radical groups get ready for insergency in southern Serbia
http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2004/December_21/15.html?w=p

Political Leaders Negotiate Peaceful End to Macedonian Standoff (by Seremb Gjergji)
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2004/12/21/feature-03?print=yes

Brussels urges stability in Bosnia as ethnic divide widens (by Eric Jansson)
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/167955b0-52f6-11d9-8845-00000e2511c8.html


Once again, Cyprus stands in Turkey's way toward Europe (by Burak Bekdil)
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_world_29123_21/12/2004_50938

Forget the past on Cyprus (by Mehmet Ali Birand)
http://www.turkishdailynews.com/FrTDN/latest/birand.htm

Road to the West goes through the East (by Cuneyt Ulsever)
http://www.turkishdailynews.com/FrTDN/latest/ulsever.HTM


Poland to seek oil firm partner to help it develop supply, reduce dependence on Russian oil
http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Pol&pg=0&id=5779120&req=

Main OSCE task: Ukraine's integration with Euro-Atlantic structures (by Arseny Oganesyan)
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5234599&startrow=11&date=2004-12-21&do_alert=0

Al Jazeera: What happened in Kurdish Halabja? (by Mohammed al-Obaidi)
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/OBA412A.html

China's defensive realism (by Yiwei Wang)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FL22Ad03.html


A new cold war shaping up (by M B Naqvi)
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2004-daily/22-12-2004/oped/o5.htm