Word: summited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently as January, Secretary of State Warren Christopher fought with French diplomats pressing for a more bellicose stand in Bosnia. According to an eyewitness, Christopher, chatting with British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd before the NATO summit in Brussels about the long-promised American commitment to help police a peace agreement, asked him, "How do we get out of that...
...President sets aside trade differences at the summit, he risks the charge that U.S. strategy is a paper tiger. At the G-7 summit last July, Clinton insisted that negotiators work out "objective criteria" -- some kind of measurable goals -- to gauge Japan's progress toward more open markets. Tokyo never liked that agreement, and has argued hard that Clinton's idea amounts to guaranteeing the success of American products in Japan. In the past there was considerable popular support in Japan for U.S. trade arguments, but there is none for objective criteria, not even by Hosokawa...
Market reform is in retreat as well. The day after President Clinton finished his Moscow summit, Yegor Gaidar, chief architect of economic reform, resigned. Four days later, Boris Fyodorov, the other major reformer, was purged from the government. The ruble is collapsing. The Prime Minister talks of a return to wage and price controls...
Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the U.N. Security Council that without a substantial new ground presence there would be little point to using air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, as threatened by NATO leaders at their summit meeting in Brussels earlier this month. U.N. officials advised Boutros- Ghali that air strikes would endanger U.N. peacekeepers and humanitarian- aid workers...
...first European trip in office, President Clinton delivered a well- received speech in Brussels in which he stressed U.S. commitment to Europe and pledged to keep 100,000 troops there. Brussels was the site of a two-day nato summit, and the alliance agreed to Clinton's Partnership for Peace plan. The initiative provides for the possibility of former Warsaw Pact countries' joining NATO gradually over an unspecified period. The President toured Prague with Czech President Vaclav Havel and then arrived in Moscow, where he urged Russians to continue reforming their economy. In the Kremlin, Clinton signed an agreement with...