Word: yeltsin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decide how it should relate to its allies and former enemies. For a man who famously prefers domestic to foreign policy, Clinton is engaged in a particularly demanding international agenda this week. At summit meetings with NATO leaders in Brussels, with Central Europeans in Prague and with Boris Yeltsin in Moscow, he intends to take the first steps toward reshaping the entire East-West matrix. It is a task that would challenge a President far more at ease in foreign affairs than...
...North American Free Trade Agreement. "We need to sort of gin up the collective spirit of Europe," he said last week. He will also try to reassure the Central European states that he is concerned about their security while at the same time soothing the apprehensions of Yeltsin and his generals about an encroaching NATO...
...develop democratic, free-market societies. "There is a firm assumption in American policy that reformers will finally win in Russia," says Henryk Szlajfer of the Polish Institute of International Affairs in Warsaw. "All that is nonsense." Says Jaromir Novotny, chief of foreign relations at the Czech Defense Ministry: "Yeltsin is not a democrat. He is a Russian feudal lord." Angry about NATO intransigence over the membership issue, Polish President Lech Walesa has accused the West of "indecision and selfishness...
...discussions in Moscow will focus yet again on the proposed expansion of NATO and on Yeltsin's reform plans. A new furor about the NATO issue exploded last week when Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas formally applied for membership in the alliance. The Kremlin put out a statement warning that such moves could generate "undesirable attitudes in civilian and military circles" and "lead to military and political destabilization." Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev grumbled, "We don't like their seeking protection by hiding in NATO...
...Wharton as Deputy Secretary of State, the No. 2 post in the department. An Oxford roommate of President Clinton's and still his close friend, Talbott now serves as ambassador-at-large to the states of the former Soviet Union, and has helped formulate the Administration's staunchly pro- Yeltsin Russian policy...