Thursday, April 20, 2000,
Chandigarh, India
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Russian House
ratifies START-2
MOSCOW,
April 19 (Reuters) — Russia’s upper house of
Parliament today ratified the START-2 arms reduction
treaty with the USA following a similar vote in favour by
the state Duma (lower house) last week. The Federation
Council, which comprises 178 regional bosses, passed the
ratification Bill by 122 votes to 15 votes with seven
abstentions, finalising the process of Russia joining the
1993 treaty.
Bills from
Kandahar
NEW DELHI,
April 19 (PTI) — The Taliban has forwarded bills to
India amounting to $ 1,11,324 US dollars (nearly Rs 49
lakh) towards food, fuel and other services provided to
the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar, the Lok
Sabha was informed today. The government has intimated
the matter to the UN Sanctions Committee in view of the
UN sanctions against the Taliban, Minister of State for
External Affairs Ajit Panja said in a written reply.
Daily apologises
PARIS,
April 19 (PTI) — The leading French daily Le Figaro
has apologised to President K.R. Narayanan for describing
him as an “untouchable” and causing a
controversy India took exception to. “I apologise
personally to you for this blunder and assure you that it
was certainly not our intention to hurt you or be
disrespectful to you; in fact, quite to the contrary in
as much as the relations between your country and the
Figaro are old and friendly,” the Editor-in-Chief of
Le Figaro, Mr Michael Shifres, said in a letter to Mr
Narayanan.
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