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Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov refused to confirm or deny that a release of political prisoners was in the offing...
...Gerasimov said the number of political prisoners in the country was about two dozen. However, political rights groups say there are about 200 political prisoners in the Soviet Union...
...still the president for today," Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov told reporters at the United Nations in New York. "But tomorrow the Supreme Soviet will be convened to decide" on the presidency, Gerasimov added...
...quash earlier suggestions that the 50,000 troops still in Afghanistan might be home by the end of the year, well ahead of the Feb. 15, 1989, deadline established under the Geneva accords signed by Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, Pakistan and the U.S. Said Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov: "The situation in Afghanistan does not give grounds to accelerate the withdrawal of Soviet troops...
...diplomats turned Washington's position on its head in a compromise proposal made to the Soviets: Would Moscow go along with continued U.S. arms supplies to the mujahedin at levels "symmetrical" to Moscow's support for Najibullah? "Unacceptable" was the response by Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze threatened a unilateral Soviet pullout without an agreement at Geneva. In the end, Gorbachev apparently decided that a formal accord was too important to lose. "What they needed was a fig leaf," observed a Western diplomat in Moscow. "This allows ((the Soviets)) to preserve their position of principle...