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...before he leaves for France and then a New York summit with President Clinton, Boris Yeltsin suggested that he would fire his longest-serving senior official, Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev. The statement, an almost offhanded response to a reporter's question, was widely interpreted as a capitulation to Russian nationalists who claim Kozyrev kowtows to the West. But TIME's Sally Donnelly reports that the Russian President is playing a subtler game. "Yeltsin said much the same thing on September 8. Kozyrev won't be fired anytime soon. But if he's going to make political points with Vladimir Zhirinovsky...
...foreign ministers of the 16 members of the NATO alliance met with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in the Netherlands to try to begin building a closer relationship between the former enemies. For the first time, Kozyrev agreed to participate fully in the Partnership for Peace program, which links NATO with its former Warsaw Pact enemies. But Kozyrev warned the ministers that Russia continues to oppose its neighbors' actually joining the alliance: "We would need to clarify whom nato is going to defend itself against," he said. "If one has Russia in mind, it is obvious that this would mean...
Meeting with his NATO counterparts in the Netherlands, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev committed his nation to expanded military and political exchanges with the West. "NATO is no longer the enemy of Russia," proclaimed NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes. As part of the informal agreement to strengthen ties, the foreign ministers of Russia and NATO countries will meet regularly and work toward greater cooperation in areas such as peacekeeping and curbing thesmuggling of nuclear material. Claes said such cooperation "will bring more stability, more guarantees for peace in Central and Eastern Europe...
Evoking what some see as shades of Adolf Hitler's rhetoric regarding Germans living in Czechoslovakia before World War II,Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrevhas caused an uproar in the former Soviet Union. In remarks Tuesday at a defense and foreign policy council meeting, Kozyrev said that Russia will use its armed might to defend Russian nationals abroad. The statement immediately drew the ire of many in Ukraine, the Baltic states and other former Soviet republics with large populations of ethnic Russians. The states were quick to interpret the remarks as an indication ofRussian imperialist aspirations, but Kozyrev on Thursday...
There was broad agreement in the Administration to kill the Conoco contract as an example to Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev, whom the Secretary is to meet in Geneva this week. There, Christopher will urge Kozyrev to stop Russia from delivering two nuclear reactors to Iran, which the U.S. fears could be used to help develop nuclear weapons...