Word: kravchuk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more immediate question is this: Kravchuk has named himself commander-in-chief of the armed forces deployed in the ((Ukrainian)) republic. However, he left out strategic ((nuclear)) forces. I put in a call to him on my secret line and said, "Do you know what you're doing? You're undermining the whole process...
...Kravchuk told me, "I assure you, nothing will change with regard to strategic forces." I told him, "You should announce publicly that until a new defense treaty is signed, there will be no hasty decisions regarding the armed forces, and that the military will stay under a single command and under my control. Don't go introducing uncertainty into these matters! The whole world is watching. Don't confuse people...
...Kravchuk and I agreed that everything will be decided mutually and in stages. I've just sent Defense Minister Yevgeni Shaposhnikov to Kiev to work out procedures for the transition. In fact, nothing has changed so far as the armed forces are concerned. You Americans have nothing to worry about...
...assertion by Ukrainian President Leonid M. Kravchuk and his commitment to adhere to the principles of human rights pleased Secretary of State James A. Baker...
...move immediately. The forces of dissolution in the former Soviet Union are picking up startling momentum, and the West must not be lulled by the fact that for the moment, the nuclear warheads remain under the hands of relatively responsible leaders like Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk. That could change all too quickly -- and disastrously...