Word: kozyrev
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andrei Kozyrev, a deputy chief in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, recently admitted, capitalism has evolved a "mutually accepted legal framework," such that "class conflicts largely take place through the achievement of compromise." By adapting, capitalism disarmed the dialectic. The Soviets are now obsessed with adaptation. They recognize that the West's capacity for adaptation is the key to its success -- and the Soviets' incapacity for it is the cause of their decline...
...keep Gorbachev's May 15 timing intact, were far from bleak. For one thing, neither the Pakistanis nor the Soviet-backed Afghan regime was even hinting that the slipped deadline would provoke a walkout from the talks. For another, the Soviet representative at the negotiations, Ambassador-at-Large Nikolai Kozyrev, revealed that his government and the U.S. are conducting intensive and highly secret discussions on Afghanistan in Moscow and Washington. The ever persistent Cordovez has privately predicted that the bargaining could drag on. Summed up Noorani: "The important date is not the 15th of March; it's the 15th...
...major sticking point was a demand by Washington, voiced only two weeks ago, that any cutoff of U.S. military aid to the mujahedin must be matched by a "symmetrical cessation" of arms deliveries to the Afghan government by Moscow. Kozyrev contended that the Soviets have been providing military supplies to Afghanistan for decades and that any attempt to end such assistance amounts to interference in Soviet affairs. Said the Soviet negotiator: "It would be like Moscow asking the U.S. to end its military aid for Pakistan...