Albania Flight
Europe and Eurasia - US Department of State
29 June 2005 - Return to Flight, Space Station Are Priorities, Says NASA Chief ... 07 July 2005 - United States To Host Russia, Belarus Open Skies Flight ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing, June 28
QUESTION: (Inaudible) sooner than today, as in time of a flight. ... [Read More]
Europe and Central Asia
Intensified controls on cannabis cultivation.The 2003 National Drug Monitor, published in March 2004, showed the number of recent (last-month) cannabis users in the Dutch population over the period 1997-2001 rose from some 326,000 to 408,000, or 3 percent of the Dutch population of 12 years and older (of a total population of 16 million). Life-time prevalence (ever-use) of cannabis among the population of 12 years and older rose from 15.6 percent in 1997 to 17 percent in 2001. The average age of recent cannabis users is 28 years. According to the Trimbos Addiction Institute, cannabis use among young people ages 12-18 dropped in 2003: recent (last-month) use for boys dropped to 10 percent, which was almost one-third less than in 1966. Last-month cannabis use by girls stabilized at 7 percent. [Read More]
USIS Washington File: TRANSCRIPT: NATO BRIEFING ON "OPERATION ALLIED FORCE" MAY 14
Another benefit of this experience is in coordination of assets, like yesterday we once again were successful in locating a newly established Serb military assembly and resupply area. Within 30 minutes we directed strike aircraft already in the area to attack. The first flight of fighters destroyed several vehicles, the second flight struck the warehouse. Large secondary explosions were noted by the crew as the warehouse was completely destroyed. ... Q: General Jertz, following up on the question about Chioggia and the question of whether bombs had been dropped in the ocean there, you told us a couple of days ago that in the initial period of the war sometimes only 13 per cent of the bombers were able to actually deliver their payloads so they were flying back to base or back to their aircraft carriers fully loaded with bombs. I am not a pilot, you are. Can you tell us what are the circumstances in which planes might decide to jettison their bombs over the sea and particularly with Navy planes returning to aircraft carriers would it be normal practice to drop a full load of munitions before they had to land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier? ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: TEXT: RED CROSS OFFICIAL ALARMED BY KOSOVO CRISIS
Sommaruga said the flight of the Kosovars could become the most sudden and largest single refugee crisis in Europe during the second half of the century; and he describes it as a "political and social catastrophe which indeed has immense humanitarian implications." He said humanitarian agencies are trying to cope with the crisis, but "its sheer magnitude will require mobilization of a special kind." ... [Read More]
Friday Current Events Quiz July 8 - US Department of State
9. The United States will host a combined observation flight during the week of July 11 under the Treaty on Open Skies from what two countries? ... [Read More]
H - Europe Overview
The countries of southeast Europe have actively supported the international Coalition against terrorism. Albania and Bulgaria have extended blanket landing and overflight clearances. Along with Croatia, they have also contributed troops to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and weapons and ammunition to the Afghan National Army. Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina have shut down nongovernmental organizations with links to terrorist networks and frozen terrorist assets, and the Bosnian Government arrested and transferred to US control several terrorist suspects accused of planning an attack against the US Embassy in Sarajevo. ... [Read More]
Washington HyperFile - East Asia/Pacific Edition
111 TEXT: CLINTON ON PAN AM FLIGHT 103 BOMBING SUSPECTS APRIL 5 ... [Read More]
USIS Washington File: FACT SHEET: USAID ON KOSOVO REFUGEE EFFORTS MAY 10
-- The "Provide Refuge" flight is scheduled to arrive at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, late today with 402 refugees. ... [Read More]
Albanian Air Traffic Control Upgrade Supported by Ex-Im Bank - US Department of State
The Lockheed system, to be used by Albania's National Air Traffic Agency (NATA), will quickly triple the capacity for air flights over Albania and provide for continuing capacity increases as needed. It also will help decrease flight times and fuel costs for airlines flying between northwestern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, and provide Albania with self-sustaining over-flight revenues. ... The guaranteed lender on the transaction is BNP-Paribas, New York, N.Y. The borrower is NATA. The guarantee is denominated in Euros (36.6 million). The primary source of repayment will be the Euro-denominated revenues from flights over Albanian airspace. ... [Read More]
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