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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a pre-Helsinki summit meeting with President Clinton, Yevgeny Primakov continued his push to wring the maximum possible concessions out of the U.S. before NATO begins its eastward expansion. With the Russian Foreign Minister taking an increasingly hard line towards expansion, Clinton laid several concessions out on the table. Among them were a charter to give Russian more participation in NATO proceedings, joint peacekeeping operations similar to those in Bosnia and promises that NATO would not deploy troops in substantial numbers in newly admitted states. But because none of the proposals addressed one of Russia's most...
MOSCOW: Faced with the likelihood of NATO expansion, Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov spent a Friday meeting with Madeleine Albright trying to win as many concessions as possible before giving in. Russia has begun to weaken, but still remains officially opposed to NATO's eastward move. "We are still negatively disposed," Primakov said after the meeting. But, in a significant departure from earlier claims, he added that Russia now wants only "a voice, not a veto" in the NATO alliance. Primakov has taken a hard line toward NATO expansion ever since taking over Andrei Kozyrev, whom Russian critics had accused...
...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...
MOSCOW: Secretary of State Warren Christopher arrived in Moscow on Thursday for consultations with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. Christopher's reception in Moscow may be unseasonably chilly, coming on the heels of his reiteration this week of NATO's intention to expand its membership into the former Soviet bloc. The issue could prove troublesome for Yeltsin in the upcoming election campaign, providing anti-NATO Russian nationalists with political capital. NATO's plans to expand are not new. The process has been underway since 1994, and encountered staunch Russian opposition from the start, even though NATO...
...increasingly unstable political situation in Russia, Secretary of State Warren Christopher will meet Russian leaders next month, and again in March, in anticipation of a Clinton-Yeltsin summit in April. Christopher will fly to Helsinki on February 9 for talks with new foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov, a hardliner who recently replaced reformer Andrei Kozyrev. TIME's Bruce Nelan reports that a series of similar retrenchments on Yeltsin's part has "many people in Washington very worried about the course Yeltsin seems to be taking. Though some at State believe he is trying to play a political game before the elections...