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...Russians, it seems, very little. Early in the week, Russian diplomats staged an unsuccessful effort to force through the Security Council a statement that Iraq had cooperated with the inspectors on nuclear weapons and long-range missiles and therefore deserved a reward. Just before that, President Boris Yeltsin had spent 40 minutes on the phone with Clinton arguing for a time limit on inspections in Iraq. Clinton turned him down and, worried that Yeltsin may not be getting the straight story from Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, an old friend of Saddam's, fired off a long written message detailing Iraq...
Back in the chilly days of the Cold War, news of a Soviet leader promising to slash one third of his nuclear arsenal would have made banner headlines worldwide. But when Boris Yeltsin made that pledge in Sweden on Tuesday, it barely rated a mention. Which could have something to do with the fact that his spokesman, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, told reporters that his boss had been "tired" when he spoke ? and no, this was not a promise, merely a suggestion...
...Brussels, are concerned about the state of up to 16,000 tactical warheads still in Moscow?s silos, and want the Russian parliament to stop dragging its feet on ratifying the START II missile reduction treaty. Given that the traditional bugbear of NATO expansion is also on the table, Yeltsin's words look like less of a stumble ? and more a subtle bargaining ploy...
...willing to go along with it. The other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council--Russia, France and China--opposed military action, as did every country in the Middle East. That left diplomacy, which the White House began intensely two weekends ago when Clinton telephoned Russian President Boris Yeltsin to give him the green light to find a way out of the crisis. Eager to have the U.N. sanctions lifted so that Russia could trade with Iraq, Yeltsin summoned Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to Moscow. Meanwhile, Albright warned Primakov that even though Clinton was also eager to have...
Before he decides whether he will run for a third term as President, BORIS YELTSIN will have to put out a political fire fueled by a book deal involving First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoli Chubais, the country's leading economic reformer. Last week it was revealed that Chubais was one of five co-authors who received $90,000 advances for a book on the history of privatization. Yeltsin promptly fired two of the writers, First Deputy Chief of Staff Alexander Kazakov and Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Boiko, and accepted the resignation of a third, Cabinet member Pyotr Mostovoi. Chubais also...