NEWS

Dialog and respect for rights of others are fundamental for progress in Kosovo
http://www.kosovo.com/news/archive/2005/February_16/2.html

Serbian PM calls on unity in passing new constitution
http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?pf=1&id=9017&url=%2Fvesti%2Fvest.php%3Fpf%3D1%26id%3D9017

Italian FM: Independent Kosovo "highly destabilising" for region
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-69N3J5?OpenDocument&rc=4&cc=scm
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Philadelphia Inquirer slanders embattled U. of Penn Prof. Gil-White - Here's the refutation (by Jared Israel)
http://emperors-clothes.com/phil.htm


Fraud Office looks into British energy firm's role in Balkans (by D. Leigh & R. Evans)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5127087-103690,00.html

Macedonian Government to Sell Majority Stake in State-Owned Utility (by Marija Lazarova)
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2005/02/15/feature-03?print=yes

Croatian PM confident EU entry talks will begin on March 17
http://www.hina.hr/nws-bin/genews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=ehot/politika/H2157166.4yc

Foreign banks prepare to conquer Russia (by Sergei Malinin)
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=14962


Europe? (by Frieder Otto Wolf)
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=7253§ionID=74


Noble Marlin 2005(by Sandra Jontz)
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=27186

NATO General Wants Cash for Rapid Reaction Force
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7631631


Georgia and Russia face off in Munich (by Warren Hedges)
http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/0802_february_15_2005/news_0802_2.htm

Russia to be involved in new war between Georgia and Abkhazia (by Vasily Bubnov)
http://english.pravda.ru/printed.html?news_id=14965


Cihan News Agency: Kurds are the Key
http://www.zaman.com/include/yazdir.php?bl=international&alt=&trh=20050216&hn=16595


Pyongyang's nuke talk tests Beijing's diplomacy (by Jing-dong Yuan)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GB16Dg03.html

Norh Korea without hysterics (by Dmitry Yevstafyev)
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5415281&startrow=1&date=2005-02-15&do_alert=0


"It's the Crude, Dude"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/021405Y.shtml