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Russian columnist: Keep files closed
MOSCOW
(AIM The
US director
of Radio Lib
erty suggested Monday that the
KCD’s archives lie opened to re
searchers. touching off howls of
protests at a conference on the
role of the free press In a demo
cratic society.
"I think it would mean trage
dy for millions," said Sergei
I’arkhomenko, a columnist for
the newspaper Nezavisimaya
Ga/.eta.
He and others defended the
new KGH chief's decision to
keep the files closed, saying
millions of informers could he
exposed to retribution If the
"Approximately a dozen of
those present in this room
would probably ire Interested
in never seeing the archives
opened," Parkhomenko said as
a ripple of nervous laughter
erupted among the t>() Soviets
and foreigners attending the
conference
The lingering uneasiness
ulxnit the KCB is just one of the
difficulties far ing Soviet media
during the current transition
from Communism to deinot ra
i V
The topli was raised during
the opening session of a two
day conferem e sponsored by
the World Press freedom Com
mittee
"Current and future genera
tions must learn the whole
truth about the dark periods of
20lh-centurv history," said Eu
gene Pell, director of Radio
documents were made avail
able.
Free Europe and Radio Liberty,
which has broadcast unccm
sored news to the Soviet Union
for dcs ados
Pell ur^ed a 38-natlon human
rights conference meeting here
to ask the Europe's former
Communist nations to preserve
the archives of their state, par
ly, and secret police and open
them to all researchers.
Hut Parkhomenko and other
journalists defended the deci
sion of KCB chief Vadim
Rakatin to keep KCR files shut.
Swedish journalist Mika Lar
sen recalled that when the
same question was raised in Po
land. President Lech Walesa
said the country had no time or
energy to waste on revenge.
"We demand so much more
of Eastern Europe and Commu
nist countries than we would
ever demand in our own coun
tries," she said
Her response received the
only round of applause during
the session
Russian President Boris Yelt
sin has offered to give Munich
based Radio Liberty u Moscow
office (>ecause of its key role in
keeping Soviet citizens in
formed during the coup.
Pounded and initially funded
by the CIA, Radio Liberty and
Radio Free Europe ure now fi
ll,mi isi by tlie ll.S. Congress
After several other protests,
Pell returned to the micro
phone to explain that his pro
posal would not give journal
ists access to KCB fib s and his
key proposal was to have the
archives preserved
But us the session broke up,
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several Soviet journalists said
the problem was opening the
files at all, not who had actress
Anatoly Pankov, editor of the
radical newspaper Kurantv
published by the Moscow City
Council, said there were prob
lems for the media hectauso the
dictatorship of the Communist
Party "has now been replaced
by the dictatorship of certain
democratic forces."
The printing presses that
once belonged to tho party now
belong to the Ministry of Press
of the Russian Federation, he
said, referring to the Russian re
public’s increase in power
since the central government
lost power in the wake of the
failed August coup.
Anatoly Krasikov, deputy di
rector of the news agency 'Pass,
noted that for 70 years, the So
viet government opposed a free
press and the media was still
coming to grips with freedom
of information
The two-day conference is
being held in parallel with the
Conference on Security and Co
operation in Europe, which
monitors the 1975 Helsinki Fi
nal Act on human rights.
Iraqis pondering
startup of petrol
production, export
CIliNLiVA (A!5) — Iraq
could probably begin soil
ing oil abroad “at any
time," although it is still
studying whether it will
accept the strict IJ.N. rules
by which it could export
oil. the country's oil minis
ter said Monday.
Osama Abdul Ka/./.ek Al
Hili told reporters at a
meeting of the Organiza
tion of Petroleum Import
ing Countries that Iraq's
present output was about
500,000 barrels a day. Of
that, 45,000 barrels are ear
marked lor Jordan under a
noncommercial arrange
ment.
If the IJ.N. trade embargo
on Iraq were lifted, he said,
Iraq could immediately be
gin exporting 1 million to
1.5 million barrels of oil a
day, provided it bought
some spare parts to replace
equipment damaged in the
Persian Gulf war.
“Technically, I think
Iraq could start at any
time," ho said.
Before the invasion, Iraq
was one of the world's big
gest oil producers, pump
ing more than 5 million
barrels of crude daily.
But it has been prevent
ed from selling its oil un
der an international trade
embargo that was imposed
after its August 1990 inva
sion of Kuwait.
Under the IJ.N. rules.
Iraq could sell $1.6 billion
for humanitarian supplies
over six months, but would
have no control over the
sale or proceeds.
The United Nations
would use up to 30 percent
of the money to compen
sate victims of the Gulf
war, and would tightly
control the rest to keep it
from being user! by the Ira
qi regime for military or
political ends.
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