News stories by IPS Correspondents, page 59

MOSCOW, Nov 23 (IPS) - The Russian government is concerned about the proposed sale by CIS republic Belarus of a mobile anti- aircraft missile complex -- the S-300 PMU -- to a Canadian company for a reported 500-million dollar sum.

AMSTERDAM, Nov 23 (IPS) - The United States and Kazakhstan have completed a secret operation to ship half a tonne of weapons-grade uranium from a Kazakh warehouse to what Washington calls "safe storage" in Tennessee.

PORT OF SPAIN, Nov 23 (IPS) - The large numbers of women being tested positive for HIVthe virus which causes AIDS -- is beginning to worry health officials in this southern Caribbean territory.

WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (IPS) - The environmental group Greenpeace called Tuesday for the United States to end its opposition to global efforts to control the transnational flow of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs).

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 23 (IPS) - Cambodia must ensure that new decrees to limit immigration do not violate the human rights of the nation's Vietnamese minority, a U.N. envoy said here Wednesday.

SANTIAGO, Nov 23 (IPS) - Chilean seafood exports are projected to reach the unprecedented figure of 1.3 billion dollars for 1994, according to sources with the government and the private fishing sector.

WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (IPS) - U.S. President Bill Clinton announced Wednesday he has struck a deal with a key Republican leader to gain Congressional passage of the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) next week.

ROME, Nov 23 (IPS) - Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, continued to protest his innocence regarding charges of corruption, in an effort to save political face after he was issued a summons from the public prosecutor's office in Milan on Tuesday.

HAVANA, Nov 23 (IPS) - The Cuban Parliament will study a new citizenship law in its upcoming second ordinary period, as well as a mining bill to replace the outdated century-old law currently in effect.

GEORGETOWN, Nov 23 (IPS) - Doctors at the state-run public hospital in this South American republic have reportedly created history by successfully correcting a rare birth defect in a premature baby.