Bulgaria Resort

Cuba is a source country for children trafficked internally for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced child labor. Trafficking victims from all over Cuba are exploited in major cities and tourist resorts. There are no reliable estimates available on the extent of trafficking in the country; however, children in prostitution is widely apparent, even to casual observers. These children are sometimes trafficked into prostitution by their families and exploited by foreign tourists. Anecdotal evidence suggests that workers at state-run hotels, travel company employees, taxicab drivers, bar and restaurant workers, and law enforcement personnel are complicit in the commercial sexual exploitation of minors. Cuban forced labor victims include children coerced into working in conditions of involunt ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

Frequent bus and railway service link Sofia with the Black Sea resorts of Varna and Burgas, as well as with other major Bulgarian cities. Regional TransportationLast Updated:  12/2/2003 11:14 AM  ...

Winters may often be gray but are quite beautiful in the nearby mountains. Mount Vitosha (altitude 2,290 m.), with its ski resorts and runs and walking paths, overlook the city. Trees and flowers make Sofia a more colorful city the rest of the year. Rainfall is moderate, averaging 25 inches a year. PopulationLast Updated:  12/2/2003 11:05 AM  ... [Read More]

IV. Country Narratives: Europe and Eurasia

Croatia is primarily a transit country for women trafficked into sexual exploitation, mostly from Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Slovakia, to Western Europe. There are increasing reports that Croatia is becoming more of a destination country, particularly for women from BiH trafficked seasonally for the purpose of sexual exploitation in seaside resort towns. ... [Read More]

Geneva Protocol

This country has not used them, and I hope that we never will be compelled to use them. I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies. ... [Read More]

USIA-Affiliated Educational Advising Centers in East/Central Europe and NIS

and Resort Building Institute Simferopol, ... [Read More]

Remarks

1111--06/12/04   Humanitarian Mine Action; Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs and Special Representative for Mine Action; Rotary International District 6960 District Conference; South Seas Resort, Captiva Island, Florida ... [Read More]

U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua - Economic and Commercial Section

Foreign donors pledge 1.8 billion (March)1111Nicaragua's bilateral and multilateral donors in an 1111April 1-2 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, pledged 1.8 billion dollars in 1111new assistance over the period 1998-2000. That is well above the 1.2 1111billion dollars that the Nicaraguan Government had previously indicated it 1111expected to receive. The U.S. pledged 35.7 million dollars for 1998 and a 1111total of 145 million dollars over the next five years. Given the tight 1111spending targets under Nicaragua's ESAF and its weak external accounts, 1111this donor assistance will allow the government to bridge its financing 1111gaps and maintain social sector spending as it waits to qualify for 1111substantial foreign debt relief starting in the year 2000 (debt service 1111payments in 1997 were equivalent to 15 percent of GDP). 1111 BUILDING MORE LINES: ENITEL PREPARES FOR PRIVATIZATION 1111(MARCH)1111 [Read More]

Europe and Central Asia

Corruption. Corruption has been the most significant problem within Georgia's law enforcement agencies. Georgia's anti- corruption efforts continue to be hampered by the widespread tolerance of corruption within Georgian society. During 2001 the Government of Georgia formed a commission to reform the law enforcement agencies (so-called "power ministries"). The commission developed a strategy for reorganization that was forwarded to the Georgian National Security Council; however, no significant changes were made. In any case, none of these proposed measures can truly ameliorate the situation given the low wages of officials and poor standard of behavior from those in charge that nourish wide-scale, low level corruption. The new hope of eradicating corruption within the system emerged with the appointment of a new Minister of Internal Affairs, who has publicly and repeatedly announced his commitment to combating corruption and the trafficking ... [Read More]

J) Europe and Central Asia

Domestic Programs (Demand Reduction). The Federal Ministry of Health continues to be the lead agency in developing, coordinating, and implementing Germany’s domestic drug abuse policy. Since the 1998 shift in responsibility for drug policy from the Ministry of Interior to the Ministry of Health, Germany’s drug policy has treated drug use and its attendant problems primarily as social and health issues rather than criminal issues. Germany’s domestic programs and demand reduction efforts focus on providing assistance in the form of counseling and therapy to addicts. The cornerstones of the treatment program are the consumption rooms where addicts can inject themselves, methadone treatment programs, and the heroin model program. The heroin model program is an attempt to reach out to Germany’s 120,000 to 150,000 heroin addicts. Current programs such as methadone substitution reach only half of Germany’s heroin addicts. The targets of the heroin model program are addicts for whom the pr ... [Read More]

US Department Of State Post Report

Mavrovo is only 1 hour away from Skopje. In the winter, ski lifts transport visitors to the most interesting areas of the mountain, either for slalom skiing or pleasure. One- and-a-half hours from Skopje is another popular mountain resort, Popova Shapka, both for summer and winter recreation. Other areas are: Pelister, located in the southern area of Macedonia, which is well known for exclusively indigenous species of the “Molika” pine tree, and two mountain lakes; and Krusevo, a settlement located in the highest position in the Balkan peninsula and offering a beautiful natural winter recreation area with pleasant ski-terrains and a natural health spa. ... [Read More]