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Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev also agreed on accelerated high-level talks toward an accord to sharply reduce their long-range nuclear arsenals, Kozyrev said...
Strauss notified Washington about what Yeltsin might say, and Bush fired back instructions for him to register official American concern with Rutskoi and Yeltsin's foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev -- in effect, an appeal to make the speech less provocative. In the version Yeltsin finally delivered, he announced a new round of radical economic reforms, virtually dissolved most of the Soviet ministries and nominated himself to the vacant post of Russian prime minister. But he stopped just short of proclaiming Russia the successor state to the U.S.S.R., effective immediately...
...Saddam Hussein withdraw his army of occupation from Kuwait. For reformers like Shevardnadze, Saddam was a grotesque example of the kind of Third World thug whom the Kremlin had too often supported over the decades. One of Yeltsin's closest deputies, the foreign minister of the Russian Federation, Andrei Kozyrev, called Saddam "the child of our totalitarianism, who was nurtured under the care of our ideology and with the help of huge arms shipments...
...emerging Soviet policy cuts back expensive military commitments in favor of cheaper political solutions, with Moscow exhorting Third World allies to adopt glasnost- and perestroika-style reforms. "The Third World," says Andrei Kozyrev, a senior Soviet Foreign Ministry official, "suffers not so much from capitalism as from a lack of it." What this means for Moscow's Asian, African and Middle Eastern clients is a drying up of crucial economic and military funds -- and a shift in their own attitudes...
...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...