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...also ready to take "additional measures to preserve the balance of power in the country." Whether he goes to the people with a referendum or a nonbinding plebiscite, he will again face the problem of enforcing the result if he wins. In a telephone call, Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev assured U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher that Yeltsin was determined to carry out the poll, possibly by April 25, and would then try to find a way to hold new elections. If he is able to fulfill that plan, especially new elections, it could be the best possible outcome...
...Friday, Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, as co- sponsors, announced that they would soon invite the parties to a ninth round of talks in April. Israel and the Arab countries had been eager to resume anyway, but were further attracted by Christopher's promise to thrust the U.S. more deeply into the negotiations. The Palestinian negotiators felt similarly but have been losing popularity to Hamas; they held out for a face- saving Israeli concession. Christopher pressed Jerusalem to return the deportees faster and improve conditions in the occupied territories. Now if the Palestinians don't show...
...free- market maven Yegor Gaidar, made the announcement a relief for those who feared that the Russian President was forsaking the country's radical reform path altogether. Among the key players from the Gaidar team retaining their posts are Deputy Prime Ministers Alexander Shokhin and Anatoli Chubais. Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev was also kept on. No changes were announced in the key Interior, Defense and Security ministries...
...usually decorous Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe meeting in Stockholm, diplomats rocketed from their seats when Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev tossed out the diplomatic equivalent of a fragmentation grenade: a blistering anti-Western philippic right out of the cold war. After giving delegates 30 minutes to digest demands that the West immediately end U.N. sanctions in Serbia and get out of the Baltics, Kozyrev returned to explain that the speech was a ruse. His intended message: Don't take Russian democracy for granted...
...been nominated for the Andrei Sakharov Award of $100,000, with which, if she had received it, she planned to open a human rights office in Germany. Both she and Gert Bastian had many projects for the future and were growing equally distressed at the tide of right-wing activism and violence in Germany, about which Gert had just published a very angry article...