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REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ- RWISTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETÎ<br />

10<br />

By Elaine Sci6lino<br />

New York Times Service<br />

.. BRUSSELS - The United States is locked in a<br />

bitter dispute with Germany over Bonn's <strong>de</strong>termination<br />

to boost its economic and political ties with Iran<br />

and thwart Washington's campaign to isolate the<br />

Tehran regime, senior State Department officials said<br />

Wednesday.<br />

Both countries insist that ties b<strong>et</strong>ween the two.<br />

countries are exceptionally strong, and that Presi<strong>de</strong>nt',<br />

Bill Clinton and Presi<strong>de</strong>nt Helmut Kohl have a close i<br />

telationship. But the Iran issue is a major irritant, and.<br />

~ecr<strong>et</strong>ary of State Warren M. Christopher voiced his<br />

displeasure to Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel during a •<br />

me<strong>et</strong>ing in Rome on Tuesday, the officials said. .<br />

With much fanfare at his first me<strong>et</strong>ing with Europe-<br />

~n Community foreign ministers in Luxembourg in<br />

June, Mr. Christopher announced an American-led<br />

,pitiative to squeeze Iran's economy and hait the sale<br />

of sophisticated technology that could be used for<br />

military purposes. Thè ministers agreed to study the<br />

matter, but most expressed little enthusiasm.<br />

At a press conference during a me<strong>et</strong>ing at the<br />

European Community headquarters in Brussels on<br />

Wednesday, Mr. Christopher said he "had a good<br />

discussion of the situation." Without naming any'<br />

country,. he essentially acknowledged that the initiative<br />

has thus far failed.<br />

Mf. Christopherad<strong>de</strong>d, "The United States continues<br />

to believe Iran is an outlaw nation resisting the<br />

Middle East peace process as well as being involved in<br />

terrorist actions in many countries around the world."<br />

Of other European communities, only Britain has'<br />

wholeheartedly embraced the American initiative,<br />

while Germany, France, Italy and Japan have traditionally<br />

voiced the strongest objections to any curb on<br />

their tra<strong>de</strong> with Iran.<br />

In recent months, Germany has begun to negotiate<br />

the restructuring of Iran's $5 billion in short-term ~ebt .<br />

to G~rman fiJiancial organs, a step that would substantially<br />

help Irari's troubled economy.<br />

Germany has obstructed attempts to limit Western<br />

tra<strong>de</strong> and investment with Tehran until it curbs ïts<br />

weapons buildup and ends its support for terrorism"<br />

and has pushed 'in international me<strong>et</strong>ings for less,<br />

pressure on Iran.<br />

What has most infuriated Washington is that senior<br />

Iranian officials have recently ma<strong>de</strong> official visits to<br />

Germany. When the head of Iran's intelligence and<br />

security services, Ali Fallahian Khuzestani, visited<br />

Bonn in September, he m<strong>et</strong> not only with German<br />

officials, but also with officials at Siemens AG, which<br />

had been building a nuclear reactor in Busheir during<br />

. the regimèQf Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.<br />

The visft-'prompted Mr. Christopher to make a<br />

sharp protest in a me<strong>et</strong>ing shortly afterward with Mr.<br />

Kinkel.<br />

The Germans, however, see it differently. "The<br />

American position is not fair," said one senior German<br />

official involved in shaping the Iran policy. "The<br />

Americans are saying, 'These are the bad guys and be<br />

finished with them.' We are saying, 'These are the<br />

outcasts and isn't it b<strong>et</strong>ter to have a dialogue with<br />

. them.' We have a certain difference of approach based<br />

on practicality."<br />

The official ad<strong>de</strong>d thllt it was because of a "special<br />

relationship" with Iran that Germany wasable to act<br />

as a mediator to win the release of American hostages<br />

from Iran in 1980. And he insisted that Germany has<br />

. "the toughest legislation in all the world" to prevent'<br />

. the spread of militarily useful equipment.<br />

Part of the problem With Mr.Christopher's initia".<br />

tive is that the United States itself does not ban aU<br />

sales to Iran's military establishment. According to<br />

U.S. intelligence reports, Iran.has circumvented loqp-'<br />

holes in American laws by buying, through Europ~n'<br />

middlemen, American-ma<strong>de</strong> equipment that havel'o:<br />

, tential military ~~es, P~nta~on officials said.<br />

Le Figaro-I er décembre 1993<br />

Un message ferme<br />

aux activistes<br />

kur<strong>de</strong>s<br />

Les organisations J'isées« sont <strong>de</strong>s faça<strong>de</strong>s<br />

du PKK », a déclaré Charles Pasqua.<br />

Charles Pasqua a <strong>de</strong>maridésocial ". Le regroupement fa<strong>et</strong><br />

obtenu hier du conseil <strong>de</strong>s milial sera mifUlx contrôlé <strong>et</strong><br />

ministres la dissolution <strong>de</strong> exc.lura toute forme <strong>de</strong> polyga<strong>de</strong>ux<br />

associations kur<strong>de</strong>s en mie <strong>et</strong> les reconduites à la<br />

'France. Il s'agit du Comité du frontière seront plus effi-<br />

Kurdistan <strong>et</strong> <strong>de</strong> la Fédération caces ", a souligné le ministrE:;<br />

<strong>de</strong>s associations culturelles. «La France luttera contre le<br />

<strong>de</strong>s travailleurs patriotes du travail clan<strong>de</strong>stin en démante-<br />

Kurdistan en France (" Yek- lant à .Ia base les réseaux .<strong>et</strong><br />

kom Kurdistan n). les filières qui amènent leslr8-'<br />

Ces associations dissoutes vailleurs, clan<strong>de</strong>stins en France<br />

« sont les faça<strong>de</strong>s légales du <strong>et</strong> en frappant très lour<strong>de</strong>ment,<br />

Parti <strong>de</strong>s travailleurs. du Kur-. les employeurs responsab/~5:<br />

distan (PKK) qui se livre.à <strong>de</strong>s (... ). Tout cela serait inutile 'si<br />

actions <strong>de</strong> caractère terroriste la France ne cherchait pJ~'<br />

ou délictuel qu'il n'est pas pos- également à coopérer au dév~~<br />

sible <strong>de</strong>jolérer sur notre sol ", loppement <strong>de</strong>s pays en dit/i',<br />

a ~xpliqué un peu plus tard cuité ( ..) <strong>de</strong> l'autre côté <strong>de</strong> la',<br />

Gharle~ Pasqu.il; sQulignal}t Méditerranée ", a-t-il poursuivi.<br />

que ces décisions" ne sont en'-II a cependant admis pr~aucune<br />

façon dirigées contre cisé qu'il" faut lutter contre un<br />

le peuple kur<strong>de</strong> n dont "cha- amalgame déplorable qui peut<br />

cun sait les souf/raneés <strong>et</strong> les sé former (..•) ,dans l'esprit <strong>de</strong><br />

difficultés ".~' La réalité du certains <strong>de</strong> nos concftoyens, je.<br />

PKK, c'est aussi une pressiorr veux parler <strong>de</strong> l'amalgamé:<br />

constante pour extorquer <strong>de</strong>s entre les personnes d'origine<br />

fonds à la communauté maghrébine <strong>et</strong> la délin.<br />

kur<strong>de</strong>. " quance:n. Répondant à une<br />

question sur les intégristes en<br />

cc Paradis<br />

.'social Il<br />

France, M. Pasqua a indiqué<br />

qu'" un dispositif visant à<br />

contrôler les organisations in-,<br />

tégristes <strong>et</strong>. extrémistes n avait<br />

De son côté, le responsable été mis en place <strong>et</strong> qu'il avait<br />

du Comité du Kurdistan à Pa- "clairement mis en gar<strong>de</strong> les<br />

ris, Ezzat Dere,' a affirmé que intégristes .musulmans contre<br />

la décision <strong>de</strong> la France répon'- toute forme d'actions qui s'apdalt<br />

à un " ordre du gouverne- parenteraient au terrorisme ou<br />

ment turo. aux gouvernements qui viseraient à déstabiliser<br />

européens ". M. Dere estime <strong>de</strong>s pays avec lesql,Jels nous<br />

.que le$ <strong>de</strong>ux associations vi- entr<strong>et</strong>enons <strong>de</strong>s relations sui-<br />

_sées n'avaient «jamais exercé. vies d'Etatà Etar". " La stabi<strong>de</strong>s<br />

activités qui violent la Iité <strong>de</strong> ces pays à laquelle la<br />

constitûtion <strong>et</strong> la loi. France peut concourir (...) est<br />

françaises" <strong>et</strong> qu'elles exami. 'un facteur délerf'{linant, plus'<br />

naient la possibilité <strong>de</strong> «pré- particulièrement en Algérie'<br />

senter un recours n. (. . .). Notre intérêt est <strong>de</strong>'<br />

C'har'les. Pasqu" a par construire' un partenariat <strong>et</strong>'<br />

ailleurs péclaré hier dans. un d'éviter ainsi le scénario catasentr<strong>et</strong>ien<br />

publié par l'hebdoma- trophe ". .<br />

daire gou)/srnemental algérien .Evoquant enfin les pro-<br />

Algérie.actualité, que" le gou- blèmes <strong>de</strong> l'Islam en. France,<br />

vernement'français tout entier Charles Pasqua a ipdiqué q'ue<br />

.souhaite faire passer auprès "le principe <strong>de</strong> là laïcité <strong>et</strong> <strong>de</strong> la<br />

:<strong>de</strong>s peuples du Maghreb le séparation <strong>de</strong> l'Eglise <strong>et</strong> <strong>de</strong><br />

message suivant: la France . l'Etat ne lui perm<strong>et</strong> pas, même<br />

:n'a plus,les moyens d'être une en sa qualité dé ministre <strong>de</strong>s.<br />

terre d'immigration n. Il a .. Cultes, <strong>de</strong> " s'immiscer dans,<br />

ajouté que là France allait l'organisa,lion <strong>de</strong> l'Islam en'<br />

;. renforcer ses moyens <strong>de</strong> France ". « En revanche (.)<br />

maîtrise <strong>de</strong> l'immigration" <strong>et</strong> j'appelle <strong>de</strong> mes vœux la forque<br />

ceUe action allait prendre-. malion d'imams qui soient au<br />

"<strong>de</strong>s formes diverses ". fait,<strong>de</strong> la vie nationale <strong>et</strong> qui,<br />

" Les 'immigrés en situation au-<strong>de</strong>là <strong>de</strong> l'enseignement <strong>de</strong><br />

irrégulière ne bénéficieront la religion, comprenrrent la saplus<br />

<strong>de</strong>s formes d'action sO'-ciété française, les princip.es<br />

ciale qui faisaient parfois <strong>de</strong> la laïcs <strong>et</strong> républicains, là France<br />

France une. sorte <strong>de</strong> ".paradis en définitive n. (AFP.)<br />

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