Word: nato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lunch in the State Department cafeteria, then gave a press conference that yielded a conspicuously high turnout. She announced that within a month she would go around the world; it would be both a global victory lap and a stamping of her authority on the struggles upcoming, such as NATO expansion and the transfer of Hong Kong to China. Later that evening she was host at a reception for family, friends, political colleagues, diplomatic officials, office seekers and the media elite. They showed up in two shifts because the guest list was so long. And everyone showed...
...France, a country she had loved since sneaking away as a teenager for a weekend in Paris with a married earl. As ambassador, her fluent French, hard work and access to the highest officials in Washington and Paris eased the sting of such contentious Franco-American issues as NATO expansion and differences over the Middle East, U.N. leadership and trade...
...first trip abroad in nearly a year, after heart ailments and pneumonia in the last six months. Although the meeting is partially designed to show that Yeltsin can still perform his duties, the summit will be more than a photo op. On the table: the impending eastward expansion of NATO and Russia's finances. "The top issue on the agenda will be negotiations on a charter -- Russia wants to call it a treaty -- to regulate the relations between NATO and Russia," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "The Russians are against the expansion in principle, but they are willing to discuss...
...army into a much smaller, more efficient and better-armed fighting machine has not begun. In foreign policy, Yeltsin's more liberal aides had hoped to move Russia further into the mainstream of international relations. Instead, Moscow is bogged down in an ill-tempered exchange with the West over NATO's expansion plans. Western diplomats say the President's absence injects uncertainty into their negotiations with Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov. And Primakov himself has been the target of sniping--said by some to originate with Chubais--which risks further weakening Russia's negotiating position...
...Paris' re-entry into NATO came with a condition: that the organization "Europeanize" its command structure. Last summer Chirac insisted that the alliance's southern command in Naples, which includes the U.S. Sixth Fleet, be assigned to a European officer instead of the traditional American admiral. Washington said no way, Chirac dug in his heels, and the honeymoon was over. Suddenly the U.S. and France seemed to be butting heads all over the globe. Cases in point...