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At a glance
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Buffer zone
BRUSSELS: Nato decided on Monday to return the most sensitive part of the sector B buffer zone to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, despite a flash-up of conflict in the nearby region.
Nato Secretary-General George Robertson said in a statement that Nato had decided to authorize Nato-led peacekeeping troops in Kosovo to allow a controlled return of sector B, a five-kilometre-wide buffer zone established after the 1999 Nato air strike against the Balkan nation.
Submarine
MOSCOW: Russia will begin to raise the sunken nuclear submarine "Kursk" from the seafloor of the Barents Sea in July this year and the salvage operation will be finished "by the end of September, or by October," Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said on Monday.
Anti-drug effort
BOGOTA: The governments of Colombia and South Africa agreed on Monday to create a joint committee to strengthen anti-drug co-operation, said the Colombian presidential palace.
In a letter of intention signed by Colombian Vice President Gustavo Bell and visiting South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma, the two governments expressed their interests to exchange information on drug-related crimes.
EU agreement
ZAGREB: The Croatian Government issued a statement on Monday expressing satisfaction with the signing of a stability agreement with the EU in Brussels. The government pointed out that joining the EU was a strategic aim of Croatia, and that the agreement opens prospects for a partnership that could speed up political, economic, legal and social reforms in Croatia to meet EU standards.
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