Today in Kashmir the Indian troops again bombed positions of the Muslim separatists among whom, according to Delhi, there are Pakistani officers. Islamabad admitted that the Pakistani ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs Nyaz Naik recently unofficially visited India to find a way to settle the conflict in Kashmir. India did not confirm this information. Delhi declares that negotiations with Pakistan are possible only after the Pakistani troops are withdrawn from the Indian part of Kashmir. The negotiations between the deputy of the assistant of the US State Secretary Gibson Lenfer and the heads of Pakistan and India held in the last weekend did not have any obvious results. Today the Prime Minister of Pakistan Navaz Sharif discusses the Kashmir problem with Chinese heads in Peking.
In this week the Algerian Parliament will consider the governmental bill on amnesty of the rebels-Islamists who in the last week declared the stoppage of the war. According to the information of the Algerian President Abdelaziz Butefliki, not less than 100 thousand people died for seven years of the rebels� war for creation of an Islamic state in Algeria.
The Iranian newspaper �Tehran Times� announced that the Iranian Parliament had forbade the heads of the editions to give interview to foreign radio stations, which are considered to be hostile to the regime ruling in Iran.
Seven people died and not less than 25 were wounded in Latvia where yesterday during the motor race two cars bumped into each other and flew from the road. Several wounded are in a critical condition. The tragedy happened in the town of Madona, situated 150-km eastward from Riga.
The popular Russian cinema actor Yevgeny Morgunov died in Moscow. He was 72. Morgunov worked in cinema for more than 50 years. In the very beginning of his career (during his study at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography) he played a role in �Molodaya Gvardya� film. Morgunov became very popular after his role of Byvalyi in Leonid Gaigai�s comedies where he played along with Yury Nikulin and Georgy Vitsin.
June 28 (Radio �Liberty�)
BEIRUT, June 27 (AFP)
An international panel monitoring a truce in Lebanon will meet on Tuesday to discuss Lebanese and Israeli protests over last week�s deadly cross-border attacks.
The meeting was delayed from Monday because the committee�s French delegate was holding talks in Israel about the situation, Lebanese officials told AFP.
Eight people were killed in devastating Israeli raids launched on civilian infrastructure targets in Lebanon on Thursday, while two Israelis were killed in Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel the same day.
Lebanon has filed 14 complaints with the truce panel, accusing Israel of violating terms of an April 1996 accord which brought an end to the Jewish state�s Grapes of Wrath offensive.
The panel will also discuss 21 complaints lodged by Israel.
Eighteen of them concern the firing of more than 70 Katyusha rockets towards Israeli territory on Thursday and Friday.
�The terrorist shooting towards Israel from villages is a grave violation of the understandings,� an Israeli army spokesman said.
The three other Israeli complaints concern Hezbollah attacks launched from inside a village in southern Lebanon, and its use of booby-trap mines in the region, he added.
The accord calls on Israel and Lebanese guerrillas to refrain from launching attacks on or from civilian areas.
The truce panel, made up of representatives from France, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and the United States, discusses complaints but has no power to act.
Israel�s outgoing Defence Minister Moshe Arens scoffed at the truce accords on Saturday, saying they were �not worth the paper they are written on.�
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