Word: vorontsov
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Matlock finds Shevardnadze a shrewd negotiator, so do the Foreign Minister's own countrymen. According to Deputy Minister Vorontsov, when Shevardnadze informed Soviet generals that the INF treaty required on-site verification of nuclear missiles, "they told us we were selling them out." In pressing military officials for a reason why U.S. inspectors could not visit these sites, the Foreign Ministry discovered "ridiculous explanations, like 'We don't have hotels there.' We said, 'Come on, we'll build them.' " The Soviet brass eventually gave...
...Yuli Vorontsov, Soviet deputy foreign minister, gave a similar report at a news conference in New Delhi, where he met with government officials in talks aimed at ending the war between the Afghan government and the guerrillas...
...Vorontsov said some guerilla groups were in contact with the Kabul government, despite their public vows against any negotiations with Najib. "Some dealing exists already--clandestinely," he said. He declined to comment further...
...Delhi, Vorontsov criticized the Bush Administration for continuing its aid to the insurgents. He said it was trying to plunge Afghanistan into a bloodbath following the Soviet withdrawal...
...Soviet pullback from the capital began about three weeks ago, even as Yuli Vorontsov, the Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan and a Deputy Foreign Minister, threatened that Moscow would halt the withdrawal if the mujahedin leadership did not accept some participation by Najibullah's People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (P.D.P.A.) in a shura, or council of leaders, that would choose a new government. The mujahedin, smelling a bluff, would not budge, and the pullout from Kabul continued...