CO 6 6 9 4 4 8 7 IED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694487 Date 03 29 2019 '• To • J I Thu Jan 20 21 17 14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SNIS COPY 05 OP 06 • SIIE ltl l'I' C I • of • • - DECLASSIFIEDJ IMMBDll'l'B SHIS 01 POST MIUI DISTRIBUTION SUBJECT INCOMING 201050Z J»I 94 MOSCOW 0001457 RODIS S SS NSCB SBHS SRIS TD · PRBSIDBHT'S DIHHBR WITH PRBSIDBNT YBLTSIN ·JAHtJARY 14 1994 DA'l'B TIMB S S AOTHORIZATIOR s RELEASE IN FULLj DBPAR l'MBNT OP STATB C • A'1I Tl ARA D llP p B T M C CA DS OBS OIG BB PA BlJR B PM NBA SA HA S RIS SMBC Paga 01 OP 10 IHM IRR IO RP S CT S P USUH W L HSCB CIAB DODB CJCSB ACDA AID USTR JUSB T p J3 Z Sul S S S S·O S S-S S S-IRM s s M f RBAD SBHS TOSBC PBIB Jr rrJ 111lt- 1 1vy This RODIS message will-be automatically dacaptioned after 5 years unless exempted by the Executive Secretary or designae 1 1 Check box if not automatica ly decaptioned SBHSITIVB The attached document may be seen only by the addressee and if not expressly precluded by those 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14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SNIS COPY 05 0 06 PAGE 01 MOSCOW 01457 01 OP 07 RELEASE IN FULL 2010SOZ NOTBS OO NODIS OO S Ol SS Ol SS Ol I I NSCE 00 SENS 01 SNIS 01 TD 01 DECLASSIFIED 202123L GNS TOTAL COPIES 006 - @INFO ACTION NODS-00 INFO LOG-00 CCOE-00 ADS-00 OOOW ------------------lBDOBS 0 201050Z JAN 94 PM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW TO WHITEHOUSE WASHDC IMMEDIATE SECSTATB WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6736 201050Z 38 9 Be RB W SECTION 01 OP 07 MOSCOW 001457 NODIS DECAPTIONED ST ATE S NIS TALBOTI' ONLY AND WHITE HOUSE NSC BURNS ONLY PROM PICKBIUNG E O 12356 DECL OADR TAGS PREL BAID EPIN US RS SUBJECT PRESIDENT'S DINNER WITH PRESIDENT YELTSIN JANUARY 14 1994 1 SECRET - ENTIRE TEXT 2 THIS CABLE IS FORWARDED FOR YOUR CLEARANCE 3• SUMMARY IN A SERIES OP DISCUSSIONS ABOUT DOMESTIC AND WORLD AFFAIRS ON THB EVENING OP JANUARY 13TH PRESIDENT YELTSIN AND PRESIDENT CLINTON TALKBD ABOUT THB TRILATERAL AGREBMBNT FOR UKRAINE AND ITS CHANCES FOR SUCCESS THEY ALSO DISCUSSED ATTITUDES IN THB COUNTRY AMONG THB RUSSIAN PEOPLE PRESIDENT YELTSIN'S NEW EFFORTS TO ORGANIZE THB PARLIAMENT AND RUSSIAN INTEREST IN REDUCING ARMS TRADE WITH IRAN AND- OPENING UP THB SANCTIONS REGIME AGAINST IRAQ IN AN EFFORT TO ENSURE IRAQI REPAYMENT OP A PORTION OF ITS _ __ DEBT TO RUSSIA THERE WAS A DISCUSSION OF MILITARY COOPERATIO WELL AS BOSNIA PRESIDENT CLINTON· AND PRESIDENT _ _ YELTSIN BOTH DISCUSSED THB'NATORB OP THB U S -Russfil il RELATIONSHIP AND THB IMPORTANCE OP THAT RELATIONSHIP TO THB POTORB OF WORLD STABILITY AND PBACE PARTICULARLY-IN BUROPE AND IN THB CONTEXT OP THB- PARTNERSHIP POI ' E PEACE PRESIDENT YELTSIN SIGNALED A POSSIBLE CHANGB 'I-N HIS CABINET DROPPING FORMER PRIME MINISTER GAYDAR-- l'O WORIC IN THB LOWER-HOUSE OP THB NEW FEDERAL LBGISLA PRESIDENT CLINTON BXPLAINBD THB CONCEPT OF ENSURING A LONG TERM PEACE IN BUROPB THROUGH PRANK-- CONSULTATION AND STRONG AND CLOSE COOPERATION BETWBEN RUSSIA AND THB UNITED STATES BUT WITH CARB TAICBN TO · ENSURE RESPECT FOR THB INTEREST OF OTHBRS END SUMMARY 4 THB PRESIDENT MET WITH PRESIDENT YELTSIN AT THB DACHA AT NOVA-OGARBVA OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW ON JANUARY 14TH FOR A DINNER IN WHICH A NUMBER OF BUSINESS ISSUES AROSE · THIS MEMCOM RECORDS THB BUSINESS DISCUSSION THE PRESIDENT WAS ACCOMPANIED BY SECRETARY CHRISTOPHER SECRETARY BENSON NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR LAKE AMBASSADOR AT LARGE STROBE TALBOTI' AND AMBASSADOR PICKBRING PRESIDENT YELTSIN WAS ACCOMPANIED BY PRIME MINISTER CHRNOMYRDIN FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SOSKOVBTS FOREIGN MINISTER KOZYRBV DEFENSE MINISTER GRACHEV AND BY HIS LEGAL ADVISOR ILLYUSHIN 0 · · DECLASSIFICATION AUTHORITY Geoffrey W Chapman Senior Reviewer A GIS IPS 3 25 2019 UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 io CO 6 6 9 4 4 8 8 IED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 Thu Jan 20 21 17 14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SNIS COPY 05 OF 06 Paga 03 OJ l-0 5 rurrER OPENING PLEASANTRIES PRESIDENT CLINTON NOTED THE IMPORTANCE HE ATl'ACHED TO HAVING HAD A CHANCE TO SEE RUSSIAN PEOPLE ON THE STREETS OF MOSCOW HE TOLD PRESIDENT YELTSIN THAT HE HAD PASSED ON HIS CONCERNS TO PRESIDENT YELTSIN'S ADVISORS ABOUT THE PEOPLE AND THEIR REACTIONS 6 PRESIDENT YELTSIN CHANGED THE SUBJECT AND NOTED MRS YELTSIN HAD CALLED HIS ATl'ENTION TO A WONDERFUL ARTICLE IZVESTIA NEWSPAPER HAD RON ON PRESIDENT CLINTON THE ARTICLE ALSO COVERED MRS CLINTON'S ACTIVITIES 7 PRESIDENT YELTSIN THEN RETURNED TO THE INITIAL COMMENT ABOUT PEOPLE BEING WORRIED THEY ARE CRITICAL OF US AND THEY ARE CERTAINLY RIGHT HE SAID TO DO BETTER I HAVE SENT SERGEI ALEXANDROVICH FILATOV THE KREMLIN CHIEF-OF-STAFF TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR SYSTEM WE ARE TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT HOW TO BE MORE EFFICIENT AT OUR WORK AND TO SPREAD THE RESPONSIBILITIES TO THOSE WHO CAN CARRY THEM OUT THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN OUR COLLKAGUBS IN THE CABINET IS STRONG AND WE HAVE A STRONG CABINET 8 PRESIDENT CLINTON NOTED THAT IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO SPREAD AROUND THE DECISION MAKING IF I DON'T HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION I ASK THE CABINET TO DO IT PRESIDENT YELTSIN AGREED AND SAID THAT IT 'IS THE SAME IN HIS OWN GOVERNMENT MRS YELTSIN HAD TOLD HIM THAT IT APPEARED AS IF THE AMERICANS HAD A GOOD ORGANIZATION FOR RUNNING THEIR GOVERNMENT AND QUESTIONED WHY HE DID NOT TAKE SOME LESSONS FROM THEM 9 PRESIDENT CLINTON NOTED THAT THERE IS AN OLD SAYING ABOUT A PROPHET WITHOUT HONOR IN HIS OWN COUNTRY HE THEN COMPLIMENTED VICE PRESIDENT GORE NOTING THAT HE RELIED HEAVILY ON THE VICE PRESIDENT WHO HAS AN EXCELLENT MINQ ___ DOES MANY DIFFERENT THINGS AND DOES THEM WELL PRESIDENT CLINTON THEN THANKED PRESIDENT YELTSIN FOR WORKING SO CLOSELY WITH VICE PRESIDENT GORE AND PRIME MINISTER CHERNOMYRDIN AND THE LATTER FOR HIS LEADERSHIP IN THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION SBCRB'i' SECSTATE WASHDC IMMBDf-ATE 6737 SBC RB T SECTION _OF 07 MOSCOW 001457 10 PRESIDENT CLINWQN TURNED THEN TO THE -RECEPTION -- · WHICH HE HAD JUST' C8MIHFROM AT SPASO HOUSE -NOTING THATHE HAD MET MANY REPRESENTATIVES OF VARIOUS PARTIES PRESIDENT YELTSIN M_l« E IF MEMBERS OF THE UPPER-HOUSE · WERE THERE AND PRESIDENT CLINTON SAID THAT THEY HAD BEEN PRESIDENT CLINTON SAID THESE PARLIAMENTARIANS REMINDED HIM OF HOMB c 'MANY HAD DIFFERENT IDEAS AND -· SOME OF THEM WERE QUITE GOOD WE TRY TO MAKE IT A PRACTICE OF LOOKING AT_THBSE GOOD IDEAS AS A WAY TO IMPROVE OUR JOB PERFORMANCE PRESIDENT YELTSIN SAID HE VERY MUCH AGREED AND THAT HE TOO WANTED TO WORK WITH THE PARLIAMENTARIANS ON THEIR IDEAS 0 - -- -- --- ----- - - 11 PRESIDENT CLINTON-REMARKED THAT ONE OF THE BIGGEST SURPRISES FOR HIM IN COMING INTO OFFICE WAS GAINING A CLEAR VIEW OF WHAT HE COULD DO AND WHAT HE COULD NOT DO AS PRESIDENT IN SOME AREAS IT IS MUCH HARDER TO ACT THAN OTHERS HE SAtp· - AND IN SOME AREAS HE CAN DO MORE HE ALSO NOTED TO PRESIDENT YELTSIN THAT HE WAS · IMPRESSED BY SOME OF THE IMPROVED FIGURES ON THE ECONOMY WHICH HAD BEEN Dl SCUSSED THAT MORNING INCLUDING THE REDUCTION OF THE DEFICIT FROM 20 TO 9 PE RCENT THE IMPROVED FIGURES QN BRINGING DOWN _IJ iJFLATION AND THE FIGURES WHICH SHOWED THAT THE RUBLE WAS BEING STABILIZED OVER TIME • - _-- ___ - t• • - t t i t f' 111 · •• - - r -1 i2 PRESIDENT YELTSIN SAID THERE ARE STILL LOTS OF 'DIFFICULTIES AHEAD IN 1994 SINCE LAST JANUARY WHEN · -L· - P §-si - - UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 CO 6 6 9 4 4 8 8 FIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 Thu Jan 20 21 17 14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SHIS COPY OS OP 06 Paga 04 o io THE PRIME MINISTER AND I FIRST GOT ENGAGED IN THESE PROBLEMS THERE HAVE BEEN MANY CHANGES AND DIFFICULTIES THE GENTLEMAN SITTING NEXT TO THE PRIMS MINISTER FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SOSKOVETS IS PARTICULARLY AWARE OF THESE SINCE HE REPRESENTS OUR INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION SECTOR IF THINGS GO WRONG THEY ARB GOING TO BE HIS RESPONSIBILITY 13 PRESIDENT YELTSIN-THEN SAID TOMORROW WE EXPECT WE CAN DISCUSS MILITARY SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS QUESTIONS · EXCEPT OF COURSE FOR UKRAINE WHICH IS NOW SETTLED AND ON-WHICH WE EXPECT TO HAVE A SIGNING HE NOTED TO THE PRESIDENT THAT HE WOULD BE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE AMERICAN INFORMATION ON UKRAINE EARLIER PRESIDENT CLINTON SPOKE TO PRESIDENT YELTSIN ABOUT SOMB OF THE PROBLEMS THAT HAD COME UP OVER THE DAY IN CONFORMING THE AGREEMENT TEXT AND SOME CHANGES THE RUSSIANS HAD WANTED TO INTRODUCE AND ASKED HIM NOT TO DO SO YELTSIN CONTINUED THAT THIS WAS A GOOD AGREEMENT AND THAT IT WAS GOOD FOR ALL THE PARTIES HE NOTED THE TWENTY-EIGHT AND ONE-HALF MONTHS THAT THE UKRAINIANS HAD AGREED IN THE SECRET LE'ITER TO BE THE PERIOD WITHIN WHICH THEY WOULD DISMANTLE AND MOVE ALL WARHEADS OUT OF UKRAINE AND TOMORROW PRESIDENT YE-LTSIN SAID WE WILL MEET AND THEN GO INTO THE ROOM AND SIGN THE OTHER AGREEMENTS AND ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS THAT HAS ALL BEEN AGREED BY OUR PROTOCOL PEOPLE AND AFTER THAT WE WILL NOT PAY ANYMORE ATTENTION TO KRAVCHUK WHO WILL LEAVE 14 PRESIDENT CLINTON SAID HE WOULD WORK TO HONOR THE AGREEMENTS PRESIDENT-YELTSIN SAID THAT HIS PEOPLE HAD TO DO THE TECHNICAL WORK IN UKRAINE ON THE MISSILES HE SAID WE·CAN NOT BE RESPONSIBLE HOWEVER FOR THE STATE OF AFFAIRS OF THOSE WARHEADS AND MISSILES IF WE ARE NOT PERMITTED ACCESS TO THEM OR TO RECEIVE THEM BACK IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN WE DISMANTLE THEM WE WILL GET BACK THE NUCLEAR --FUEL AS YOU KNOW HE TOLD __ PRESIDENT CLINTON -WE ·wILL GIVE UKRAINE ONE HUNDRED TONS OF URANIUM REFERRING TO THE FUEL ASSEMBLIES CONTAINING LOW-ENRICHED URANIUM AND WE WILL RECEIVE BACK THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED WARHEADS 0 15 PRESIDENT YELTSIN THEN SAID IZVESTIA HAD WRITTEN THAT IF THEY WERE WR tr lNG THE PROGRAM FOR BILL CLINTON IN RUSSIA THEY WOULD·HAVE DONE IT DIFFERENTLY THEY RECOMMENDED MORE INFORMAL MEETINGS AND WITH DIFFERENT _ CIRCLES THEY $JUD - --- - ' --··-· · '•· YOU SHOULD SPEAl 'WITH MORE RANK AND '· '' - c- · - ' ' - ·· - · FILE PEOPLE PRES DENT CLINTON SAID THAT OF COURSE HE HAD DONE IT TODAY -ANir PRESIDENT YELTSIN AGREED·THAT-WAS- - - -_ · ' - ' - VERY GOOD - ° - - -- -_- · -___ -- _ 16 AFTER SOME DiscuSSION ABOUT THE MBAL PRESiDENT · · - · · - c -YELTSIN NOTED THAT THE RUSSIANS WERE STILL A PRIMARY EXPORTER OF RIFLES AND CARBINES THEY HAD -NO'I' YBT - - - ---- -PRIVATIZED THEIR ARMS INDUSTRY SO ALL THEIR EXPORTS - - ---WERE CONSIDERED TQ_BJfA STATE MONOPOLY n·NOTE-YOUR--'· REQUEST ABOUT IRAN AND IRAQ WE DO NOT INTEND TO -- ·· · · EXPORT TO IRAN HE-- TOLD PRESIDENT CLINTON T WITH 0 _ _ _ _·_ · ·___ _ _ _ _ SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6738 9 B R B If' SECTIQ1 _o_3 OF 07 MOSCOW 001457 RESPECT TO IRAN AND _-'l'HB REPORTS THAT WE -ARB BUILDING A TANK FAC'f QR-X-1_ IN IRA f ARE TOTALLY INCORRECT WE ARB NOT DOIN S0'1 HE ADDED THAT WE HAD ONLY TRANSFERRED ONE SUB NE THAT AGREEMENT HAD BEEN MADE BY THE FORMER -itussIA HAD CARRIED IT OUT u Yi ND 17 TCJRiitiilii·Tt IRAQ PRESIDENT YELTSIN SAID THAT THEY WANTED T UCE THE CTIONS AGAINST IRAQ THE IRAQIS OWE _ RUSSIA OVER SIX BILLION DOLLARS THE RUSS srjtN ' fED REALISTICALLY OF GETTING BACK THREE BILL1idN 1-'DOLLARS IF IRAQ COULD SELL OIL THEY UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 ·1 CO 6 6 9 4 4 8 8FIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 To- J Thu Jan 20 21 17 14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SNIS COPY 05 OP 06 0 • • • C -a-Ac i •• • -•Ta a o• • Page OS OP 10 WILL NEED AMERICAN HELP TO DO SO AND IT WAS NOT JUST A POLITICAL QUESTION FOR RUSSIA ALL THE SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAD TO DO WAS TO RELEASE THB RESTRICTIONS ON IRAQI EXPORTS PARTICULARLY ON OIL IT CAN BE VERY IMPORTANT FOR RUSSIA IN TERMS OF RECOVERING ITS DEBTS FROM IRAQ ·--i F THE UNITED STATES WILL SUPPORT THIS STEP RUSSIA WILL GET THREE BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE IRAQIS KOZYREV INTERRUPTED AT THIS POINT TO EMPHASIZE THAT PRESIDENT YELTSIN WAS TALKING ABOUT THE U N SECURITY COUNCIL ··-NOT JUST THE U S 18 PRESIDENT YELTSIN°CONTINUED THAT BY RUSSiAN CALCULATiONS THEY WOULD GET BACK ABOUT ONE-HALF OF THE DEBT 19 THE PRESIDENT RESPONDED THAT IT MIGHT NOT BE A GOOD IDEA FOR RUSSIA · OIL PRICES ARE DEPRESSED AT THE PRESENT TIME AND IF IRAQ SOLD MORE OIL IT WOULD FURTHER DESTABILIZE THE OIL PRICE PICTURE AND THIS WOULD EFFECT RUSSIA HE ASKED SECRETARY BENSON ALSO TO COMMENT SECRETARY BENSON SAID THE FUEL MARKET HAD JUST GONE THROUGH A VERY SERIOUS SLIP AND IN THE FUTURE MORE SLIPS WERE EXPECTED MORE WOULD CERTAINLY COMB IF THE IRAQIS STARTED PUMPING SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF OIL OUR CONCLUSION IN THE UNITED STATES IS THAT RUSS tA WOULD LOSE MORE ON SALES THAN IT WOULD GAIN ON DEBT THE PRESIDENT SAID THERE WERE ALSO POLITICAL QUESTIONS HERB NOT JUST ECONOMIC ONES WHICH ARE IMPORTANT TO US INCLUDING IRAQ'S CONTINUED MISBEHAVIOR FAILURE TO OBSERVE U N RESOLUTIONS PRESIDENT YELTSIN SAID THAT HE HAD TALKED TO HIS MINISTERS ABOUT THIS THB RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT HAD MADE OIL CALCULATIONS AND THAT IT WAS ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY BUT RUSSIA MUST HAVE YOUR SUPPORT IN -ORDER TO BE ABLE TO DO IT U S INFLUENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS'PARTICULARLY STRONG RUSSIA HAS INFLUENCE THERE TOO OF COURSE BUT WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT REMOVING THE SANCTIONS JUST LESSENING THE SAN I N_S ON IRAQI OIL KOZYREV AGAIN INTERRUPTED AND SAID IT IS RUSSIA'S IMPRESSION THAT THB U S HOLDS THB TOUGHEST POSITION ON THIS PARTICULAR CASE - 20 21 PRESIDENT CLINTON ASKED AGAIN WHETHER IRAQIS WERE COMPLYING WITH U N RULES -c-• 22 • YELTSIN NO'l'ED FJmSPONSE THAT 'I'HB I IS JJER B NOT c · _ - IN EVERY RESPECT AGREE HE SAID THAT · ATl'ITUDES TOWARD MINORITIES IN THE IRAQ HAVE NOT - - - · · - CHANGED WE ALSO ' RE- WITH YOU ON THE BORDERS _WITH · - _ --- --- - - ·_ l in bU L - I i 0 0 - iiW - · - __ Btrr NOT EVERYWHERE' - B UT WE HAVE GIVEN THEM A VERY TOUGH LESSON TO f CAN'T WE CONSIDER - IN SOME __ __ __ __ MANNER FINDING A WAY TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO- MAKE MORE c--- - · •e · __ __ PROGRESS IN THIS E WE NEED THE SUPPORT-OF-THE -·-·- ____ Le - • - _ OTHER PERMANENT FOOR MEMBERS OF THE SECURITY- COUNCIL · ---- -o-_ • • ··• 23 KOZYREV ALSO· gjcr i5 THAT THE IRAQIS WERE--PRBPARED TO - - - - CONTINUE TO USE OU -P ICES TO CALCULATE THE DEBTS WE HAVE WITH RESPECT TO THAT TALKED TO THEM AS WELL ABOUT AN AGREEMENT TO USE SOME KIND OF MECHANISM TO OFF-SET THE DEBTS THE WAY ·g DID WIT H THE INDIAN DEBTS IN THAT CASE HE SAID IRAQI ITSELF DOES NOT GAIN ANYTHING ALL OF -OIL INCOME WILL BE USED TO PAY BACK THEIR OLD DEBTS TO RUSSIA ' D 0 · • - --- - '· · ' 24 THE DISCUSSION - NDED WITH PRESIDENT CLINTON AGAIN REPEATING THE DIFFICULTIES THIS WOULD CAUSE ys 25 AFTER -ANOTHER INTBRfltml 0 i N'·THE CONVERSATION PRESIDENT YELTSIN BEGAN BY- N©TING THAT 'THB SECURITY SERVICES ·oF BOTH OF OUR COUNTRIES WERE WORKING BETTER TOGETHER THAN y HAD BEFOR B WE CANNOT DO IT HE SAID WITH JAPAN AND KOREA_ ONLY WITH YOU THERE ARE NO CONTRADICTIONS·AMONG THE SERVICES ON BOTH SIDES AND WE ARE QUITE SATISFIED WI'i iL WiiAT IS HAPPENING HE SAID UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 __ _ _ _·_ • _ _ CO 6 6 9 4 4 8 3 IED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 Thu Jan 20 21 17 14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SHIS COPY OS OP 06 o io Page 06 SBCRB'f SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6739 8 Be RB T SECTI -_ J F 07 MOSCOW 001457 __ _ HE WAS SURPRISED THAT THE AMER fCAN SECRET SERVICE WAS UNDER THE TREASURY -bE PARTMBNT PRESIDENT YELTSIN SUMMARIZED BY ·sAYING--AGAIN THAT THE SPECIAL SECURITY INTELLIGENCE SERVICES' WERE WORKING WELL TQGETHER AND THAT THE AMERICAN S E - SERVICE HAD HELPED IN ·MAKING · · · '· THE VISIT A SUCCESS ·PRESIDENT CLINTON NOTED THAT HE HOPED THAT THE RUSSiAN- SECORITY PEOPLE WERE POSSIBLY · · FRIGHTENED BY HIS ' J rT TO THE STREET CROWD THIS - AFTERNOON NEAR THE KREMLIN BUT THEY DID AN EXCELLENT JOB PRESIDENT YELTSIN IN RETURN NOTED THAT AT TIMES HE HAS GONE INTO A CROWD OF A HUNDRED-THOUSAND PEOPLE AND THAT HIS SECURITY PROTECTION SERVICE HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB 26 PRESIDENT YELTSIN THEN SAID THAT HE WAS WORKING HARD WITH THE PARLIAMENT HIS CLOSE COLLEAGUE FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SHUMEIKO HAD BEEN RUNNING HARD FOR SPEAKER OF THE-NEW-UPPER-HOUSE HE HAD COMB WITHIN TWO VOTES OF WINNING iiUT THAT HAD NOT YET HAPPENED · SUBSEQUENTLY THE NEX t DAY SHOMEIKO DID WIN BY· A VOTE · - · OR TWO PRESIDENT- YELTSIN SAID THAT THEY HAD BADLY ·- WANTED HIM TO WIN fN°THB FEDERAL UPPER-HOUSE ·THE · UPPER-HOUSE WOULD HAVE STRONG RESPONSIBILITIES AND COULD NULLIFY LEGISLATION OF THE LOWER-HOUSE • IT WAS THEREFORE IMPORTANT FOR PRF SIDENT YELTSIN TO HAVE SHUMBIKO WORKING · C toSELY WITH HIM AND IT WAS-ALSO ' _ IMPORTANT TO RESOL 'nfE ISSPB OF WHO WOULD BB THE- -· - __ --- - -- - --- - _•·-· LEADER OF THE NEW I Q __R-HOUSE THE STATE DUMA ·· A _ · · · - - -- ___ _ DEBATE WAS STILL GQIN ON HAPPILY YELTSIN N9TED ' ' _ THAT ZHIRINOVSKIY HAD JUST WITHDRAWN RYBKIN WAS A · ·· · · - ' · 0 0 • • COMMUNIST AND WAS NOT _SOMEONE THAT YELTSIN-WANTEb· YELTSIN IN EFFECT $ JµD THAT HE WANTED LUJCHIN THE TIJE __ CURRENT AMBASSADOR IN WASHINGTON HE WAS THE CENTRIST - _ - - -- · _c- - _ HE WAS NOT NECESSARILY WITH YELTSIN BUT HE WOULD SUPPORT THE YELTSii LINE HE WAS AN INTE I IGENT_ MAN AND HE WOULD AVOID- CONFRONTATION HE HAS POLITICAL· _ '· SMARTS AND HE UNDERSTANDS THE BALANCE OF-FORCES THE PROBLEM WOULD INVOLVE A SIGNIFICANT STRUGGLE AND WOULD CONTINUE TOMORROW s -- PRESIDENT CLINTON ASKED I-F0-THBRE'i- z - _ c -- - - ·- ---•4 WERE ONLY TWO CANDIDA'l BS FOR SPEAKER PRlME''MINYSTER'--- - · -- CHERNOMYRDIN -SAID O THERE WERE NINE CANDIDATES BUT SOME HAD ALRBADY w ETHDRAWN AND OTHERS WOULD- PROBABi Y' ·- -r · - c - ' ·_ '-'l f ' i - - -DROP OUT AS THE G WENT ON PRESIDENT 1YBtTS INHSMi f' r - 'e zj im · - 1 £ 1 THAT DEPUTY PRI ·'1 STER SHAKRAY WAS AiiS6Tii mRi-qAND l' l' i' l R t i-i ·r I WE WOULD LIKE TOfHAW HIM ZHIRINOVSKIY HAD 'DROPPEDr · - 'G -- '¥·- -- ' 0 _ _ 0 1 e -- E i J Now_ 1 SLATE 27 YELTSIN ADDB THE OUTC t # £ L WITH RESPECT TO THifdFAACTIONS- i lfiiJ e_ - · - # 7hi l _ 0 E H i1ti N IWzs GETI'ING HELP- FROM SOME 65 REGIONAL DB·PUTiES' -fN -TffE'- 'I 'fx °¥ -- - - e - LOWER- HOUSE WERE§STILL DECLARED TO BE INDEPBNDBNTS - -0 §t 0· - c I WE HAVE HOPE FOR THEM HE SAID AND WE ·WANT·· IT TO OO '- ' 2 C - - -- ' ' -- _-_ - WELL IN THE GOVBRN NG PROCESS • · MORE IMPORTANTLY '-·n - - •· • ' ' · - - -- -- · _--• -- · PRESIDENT YBLTSIN7ADDED GAYDAR WAS THE -LBADBR ·oF-- · - · RUSSIA'S· CHOIGE t IN _THE PARLIAMENT HE ·WAS• BOTH ·- · - --· INTELLECTUAL ANILW fSE AND KNOWS THE SITUATIOlf VER¥1witi -- c AND WE HAVE GREAT 1 01 E FOR HIS INFLUENCE 'ONiTHE '· tQWElt- ' -·__ - - HOUSE PRESIDENJ' -Y LTSIN CLEARLY IMPLljDJTHAT GAYO AR_-_- WOULD BE OUT OF THE' GQVERNMBNT AND WORK ON iY IN THE - wo·· · 0 - _- - - TER AN i RL E · s rDsNTf4s ±i I THAT HE HAS MAINTAINED A STEADY WEIGHT AT i oo KILOS 220 LBS MORE OR LESS FOR A NUMBER OF _ HE SAID THAT WHEN HE WAS PLA l ING TENNIS ACTIVEL WEIGHED A LITI'LE LESS -- ·· ' • 85 KILOS HE SAID THAT HIS OVERALL HEIGHT IS 187 CENTIMETERS AND 'THOUGHT WAS A LITI'LE SHORTER THAN PRESIDENT CLINTON NOTICED ·- - -- - -- _ · - ··- - -- -i UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 · ' CO 6 6 9 4 4 8 8FIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 Thu Jan 20 21 17 14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SHIS COPY OS OP 06 Page 07 01' O THAT IN THE PICTURES 29 PRESIDENT CLINTON ASKED PRESIDENT YELTSIN ABOUT WHETHER HE CONTINUED TO KEEP UP WITH HIS SPORTING ACTIVITIES PRESIDENT YELTSIN TURNBO ASIDE THE QUESTION BY SAYING-THAT WE BOTH·STRONG PEOPLE WE BOTH LIKE COMPETITION AND HARD WORK WE VALUE THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP WITH· AMERICA AND _WANT MAKE s THAT IT COVERS FULLY OUR POLITICAL AND MILITARY INTERESTS - -····--·· ro pur ·rr___ --- - -- 3 0 • PRESIDENT CLilfl'QN SAID WE WISHED WE COULD TO WORK IN BOSNIA - HE 7 SAID HE DID NOT SEE IT FUNCTIONING IN THAT-- _ AA EA ALL THE FACTIONS WANT TO PO IS FIGHT AND HE SAID-THAT HE HAD SPOKEN TO THE PRIME MINISTER A BIT ABOUT IT LAST NIGHT IN THE CAR COMING IN FROM THE AIRPORT KOZRBV NOTED THAT NBXT_MO tPA seeRB'f SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 6740 SB SR B 'I' SECTION os__OF 07 MOSCOW 001457 NEGOTIATIONS WILL · eEGIN AGAIN HE SAID WE WILL DO ALL THAT WE CAN TO GET THE- SERBS TO COOPERATE WE MUST ALSO NOW WORK TOGETHER-c ON THE MUSLIMS AND THE CR TS WHO SEEM MUCH LBSS AND MORE PRONE TO MAKE TROUBLE • 31 PRESIDENT CLINTON-SAID LAST YBAR THE DIFFICULTIES WERE OVBR THE SERBS -WB DON'T WANT TO IMPLY THAT IT WAS ONLY THE SERBS _ B'QT LAST YBAR THE SERBS WERB A SERIOUS PROBLEM -NOW·' THE SCENE HAS SHIFTED AND THE MUSLIMS AND THE CROATS ARB CONTINUING TO BB DIFFICULT THE MOST WORRISOMB' ·ERQBLBM IS THE CONTINOING J EAVY • FIGHTING BETWEEN MUSLI-MS AND CROATS IN THE- CENTER OF- BOSNIA AND· THE CROAT UNWILLINGNESS TO PR0VIiis• THE - · MUSLIMS WITH ADEQUATE ACCESS TO THE SBA - - - h- _· ·- - _ •---- -- - - - -- ·-' _ - -- - - - • - - 32 YELTSIN THEN NQT ED THAT RUSSIA STILII HAS-TO _-__- _-·_ _ _·_ --· · - · ' ·- _- _ - ·- ' '· CONTEND WITH ALL nm- c-- -eoNFLICTS GOING ON IN_THB_ FORMitiC ·- __ - ·_- ----- - 0 ·_ - - _· -- -_ _ SOVIET UNION WE -CANN OT UNDERSTAND WHY NO- ONBHBLPs-··us- · __ · __• C VBRY MUCH IT IS WRX PAINFUL FOR US THE ALLEGATIONS _ •• • OF IMPERIAL ASPIRA l IONS ARB HARMING OS AND· ARE NQT____ __· __ --- -- __ -· - - --• ---- _ CORRECT WE WAN'r I ES S BLOODSHED IN MOLD OYA WJt MOVED· _ _ ---- ·c - - - · ·--- -- --- · IN AND STOPPED ·TlfB£BLOODSHBD WE HAVE ALSCf-c-DbNE THB - • -- _ _ '- ' - ' SAME THING IN SOJ nH O $SETIA WE INTEND TP 'J it 71 - LP- - ° - _ - - - _-__ IN GEORGIA I HAVB£BEEN IN TOUCH WITH SHEVARDNADZE ' AND· - ' -- - ' - -- WE HAVB HELPED SHB¥ARDNADZE TO SHOW MY I -$ T- _ · - _ · _ ·_ SUPPORT I INTEND ' - SIT GEORGIA IN LATB-' FEBRUARY- - l _ 1 1 1 rii - ' h- -- fL•_f1-• j11 _ £ n r · -TI G ¥£ · ' c rw ATJ 33 PRESIDENT C SAID THAT GENBRAL -- $Tr' · _ - -'- ' -'· - _- i - _ HAD A GOOD VISIT __ HINGTON AND WB ENJ QY BD TALKIN _G --- ' _ _ __ _ - - -· ' WITH HIM ABOUT nm·sE SSUES INCLUDING THB -0NES __THAT _WE_ HAVB JUST TOUCHifD 0N • HB ASKED GENERAL GRACHEV '-IF HE HAD ESTABLISHED · @ D ' CONTACTS WITH THE AMB J c oY- 2 ·i··• ' - - _ _£' -_ ii ' · - - - - ie5 - aT · THE DIRECT TELBPH0NB· -LINK AND THAT HE HAD-'A-GOOD· - -_ -- - - - ·_ _ CONVERSATION WITH SEGRBTAR Y ASP IN LAST WBiU - _ y - __ · ' _ _ - _ --_ -- WOULD LIKE CLOSER COQPERATION IN JULY · 1' IB_RB -_ 0 -- -E ' ' s--- -- · A BILATERAL MILITAR¥- 'EXERCISE IN RUSSIA INVOLVING - _··- _ _ _ - ·- · ELBMBNTS OF nm· 2 1m-' MOTORIZED RIFLB DIVI·s-IbN AND TiiE --' '- -- --- - -- - -· - - - ·· c AMERICAN 3RD INFANTRY- DIVISION GRACHEV- -SAID-·HE- WOULD - - -· -- -LIKE TO INVITE -BQ'l'H·-jiRBSIDENTS TO ATTEND - 'IELTSIN -- _ _ · · - - ----- -- ·· - - ADDED WHY NOT -rm· -PART AND BE PRBsEwr nmN 1-r - - - · ___ ' ' -· ----• - __ _ HAPPENS PRESIDENT CLINTON SAID THAT IT WOULD PROBABLY BE BEST AT THIS STAGE NOT TO TAKE PART BUT TO SEE HOW THINGS DEVELOP --_ - -- -- -- - 35 PRESIDENT YELTSIN THEN SAID THAT HE WAS INTBRBSTBD IN KNOWING WHETHER PRBSIDENT·CLINTON WAS GOING TO DAVOS TO ATTEND THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM WHICH A LOT OF LEADERS WOULD ATTEND PRESIDENT CLINTON SAID THAT HB HAD NO PLANS TO DO SO AND YELTSIN SAID THEN I WON'T 7 1• ' ' UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 CO 6 6 9 4 4 8 8 FIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 • c -• To e l • C C Thu Jan 20 21 17 14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SHIS COPY 05 OP 06 f • • II •••- •• o'f Page 08 OP 10 EITHER 36 PRESIDENT CLINTON THEN SAID THAT OUR CONGRESS WILL BB IN SESSION AND I NEED TO BE WORKING WITH THEM PARTICULARLY ON SOME OF-MY IMPORTANT DOMESTIC INITIATIVES HOWEVER - WE SHOULD MEET- IN JULY AT THE G-7 MEETING IN NAPLES AND THAT WE CAN WORK OUT A GOOD SET OF ARRANGEMENTS THE _ _ _ _ ---- 37 PRESIDENT- cLINTON_iiraN ADDED THAT HE wom o LIK1r _ __ _ ioNVI iigE i i g Ff f• STA - -I __- -- --38 YBLTSIN RESPONDiti- THAT IT WOULD BB VERY GOOD - - - - • ro'--· --- AND -· - - - ' _- -1 --- HB WOULD LOOK FORWARD ro IT THEY WOULD ALSO CONTINUE THEIR CONTACTS INTENSIVELY BETWEEN MEETINGS URGING MORE LETTER EXCHANGES AND TELEPHONE CALLS PRESIDENT CLINTON SAID THAT THIS SCHEDULE WILL GIVE OS OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET DIRECTLY IN THE SOMMER AND FALL OUR ELECTIONS WILL BB IN THE FALL AND IT WILL BE GOOD FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO SEE HOW WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER •C - _ 39 PRESIDENT CLINTON ruRNED TO GENERAL GRACHEV AND · SAID THAT THE EXERCISBS_ ARE CLEARLY BEING PLANNED FOR THE SUMMER AND THEY- WI-hb FIT INTO THE DEVELOPMENT - OF _ __ THE PARTNERSHIP FOR PEAC_E IN EFFECT PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE CAN DO MUCH MORE lN ENCOURAGING PROGRESS AND AVOIDING FRIGHTENING--THE OTHER EUROP S __ s 40· 1is YELT IN SAID HAD TOLD THE PRESS THAT THE- NH S PORT OF IT AND PRE Il _E _ ___ - • - _- - - - - SBSRBlf SBCSTATE WASHDC I MlqDl'AP 6741 SB El RB 'I' SECTION - F 07 MOSCOW 001457_ -·-- - - __ - - -- - - •7· _ _ - -- - - - - ·-·- · 41 • GRACHEV THEN AQD p'_ THAT HB WOULD LIKE - Tei HAVE A ' DECISION FROM THE TW LP RESIDENTS ON AN EARLY MEETING WITH THE NEW AMERICA SECRETARY OF DEFENSE · PRESIDENT ___ --- ---- - c - - -- - - _- - · - - - -- -· · - · - N R' TI BAu 1 tJi --- 1 f C - _ - GARMISCH HE HAD -' I TO SECRETARY GBNB wo R c il - f jc _ -- -1 - - c - AT NATO ABOUT EXP · _G RUSSIA'S NEW MILIT J u- -$i 1 -'ED j -i · -l l-w Jµ _ _ 't DOCTRINE THEY ______ ED THAT IN FEBRUAR 1 _ fijOl TGll_ _ _ 1 · ·• • _ •• - _ - - ' NO DATE WAS YBT FI _l P TO MEET AGAIN IN GERMANY TO· '• ---·- -- -EXPLAIN THE MILIT INE TO ALL THE R -fa T _ r 7 n J 'J- T- MINISTERS FROM THE---s-HA° 'OJ COUNTRIES COULD § Ci J J' · 1 Jr -1 l l•' ' 2 - - - £' ' • INMANN PERHAPS A THAT MEETING · - _ ·- -- - · - - _ -- · - ' 7- · ' · ' ciii Eg i i - _ CONFIRMED BEFORE HE QU LD UNDERTAKE SUCH A' MBETING PARTICULARLY OUT _I DB THB COUNTRY C i ____ - - _ -- - ---- r- __ -- - -- · __- ' - - 1 e J - s 7 5 SAID HB WOULD BB- SEND ING HIS DEFENSE MINISTER- OFF- FOR - _- ·_- - - - - · · C I i OF TCAN - THE DO - e t ¥' r - _ -- _45 YELTSIN SAIO- ' t' THE O S -RUSSIAN POL -- - _ -- LATIONSHIP WAS• C Y MOST IMPORTANT TQD ¥ · N R- _ ·· _ --- · __ '' -- - - ¾- _ i--•· - · - - •- _ 'APPROACH TO SECURITY· AND STABILITY WE- ALL HAVE TO - - -- - • - ·--·-· - u D 'l' HINKING ABOUT HOW 'WE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO STABILIZATION - - - - · -• t _ · THIS WOULD APPLY TO ALL AREAS OF THE WORLD AND WE · i U c-CE RTAINLY AGREE WITH YOU ON NATO RUSSIA HAS TO BE THE ' 1E T -iI · • ' ' '--'FIRST COUNTRY TO JOIN NATO THEN THE OTHERS FROM _ _ • - - T _ - CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE CAN COME IN THERE SHOULD - r - inn ' 8 A KIND OF CARTEL OF THE U S RUSSIA AND THE · - '- 1·c EJ r WOPBANS TO HELP TO ENSURE AND IMPROVE WORLD SECURITY _·· T r C J -· · UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 1 i CO 6 6 9 4 4 8 8 FIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 Thu Jan 20 21 17 14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SNIS COPY 05 OF_ 06 4 6 HE ADDED IN TRUTH RUSSIA IS NOT YET READY TO JOIN NATO RUSSIA FIRSTS NEEDS TO START THINKING ABOUT REACTIONS IN OTHER AREAS THERE IS A POTENTIAL CHINESE REACTION THERE IS PERHAPS-A FORECAST ON THE FOTURE THROUGH STUDIBS BY THE CIA- · WE DON T_ HAVE A KGB WE ANYMORE TO ONDERTAKE --OfiR OWN · • ARB GOING- TO ·SAVE A OV 10 Page 09 -- - ·- LOT OF MONEY WITH T STEP WE SAVED IT OF Q E FOR USES IN OTHER- PARTS OF OUR COUNTRY YELTSINOC THEN -- _ - - -_- ADDED THAT SOMETIMES WE ARE CRITICIZED IN OUR----- -- - - · GOVERNMENT FOR OUR -CLOSE CONTACTS WITH AND PURPORTED - -- - ·- - --- I R t- g I o S E FI _ '7_ - - -- · -_AND SOLID NOT O ruY- I-S HE THANKFUL FOR- IT-BUT RUSSIA------ - - _____ - _ -·- · IS BETTER OFF FOR- IT' '- -_EVEN MORE SO WE APPREC TE- THE _ · -_ __ -ATTITUDE AND SUPPORT-OF THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENT· - - TOWARDS RUSSIA THE RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP AND THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE EVEN MORE so-WE DEEPLY APPRECIATE IT _THIS IS _ MY PERSONAL VIEW AND -IT IS A FRANK ONE BUT IT SHOULD BB CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD ON YOUR SIDE WE HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR YOU FOR YOUR WORK FOR YOUR POLITICS AND FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING_ IT IS THROUGH JOINT EFFORTS WE CAN DO MORE TOGETHER _ OUR PEOPLE PRESIDENT YELTSIN SAID KNOW YOU AS OUR-PAPERS SAID TODAY THEY' KNOW YOUR NAME THEY KNOW_ IT IS BILL AND THEY UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION YOtJ COME TO RUSSIA NOT TO CONFRONT US - BUT WITH THE AFli'E t _Q_J AND LOVE OF OUR PEOPLE AND WITH - ' __ __ _ A SENSE OF SUPPORT FOR RUSSIA WE MOST WORK TOGETHER- - _ TO SOLVE BILATERAL·· ANif INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS·- -- - _ ·_·- • ' ' - -- - - _ • - -•_ -- -· - --- OPL IDENT CLf $ REPLIED THAT THE _ - - RUSSIA HAVE ALWAY BEX IEVED THAT -THEY WERE DESTINEDAFOR -- g I o S E k Qr R - --- __ _ _ - - a __ _ - c • ___ - c- -- -_ --- DEMOCRACY AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM AND OUR COOPERATION -WILL CONTINUE AND WE-HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE A TRULY _' '°' _ MAJOR IMPACT ON EUR0PE HERE WE HAVE THE FIRST CHANCE EVER SINCE THE RI-SE OE THE NATION STATE TO HAVE THE- - - --- ---ENTIRE CONTINENT- -of'iBUROPE LIVE IN PEACB- • w- ARE • ---- -- - _ - -· WORKING TOGETHER TOWARD THE TIME WHEN WE WILL ALL - -- ' - · - - -· - - c- CONSIDER AN ATl'ACKiO kONE OF US AN ATl'AGK ON EVERY ONE -- ·-c _ - _ _ OP OS EVERYONE _N_OJi MtJST RESPECT THE BXlS_TitiG BORDERS _ -- · - - - _WORKING TOGETHER WE CAN DO MORE THAN JUST ·TQ SOLVE_ __ - '- ' __ ·_'_ - -- ·· --- ' - ·- PROBLEMS IN THE-NliAA ABROAD AND IN RUSSIA- w ' ov E1f _ _- _-_ - - - _ ' · · EUROPE WE HAVE SEEN A RECORD OF SELF-INFLICTED · --- ···· a-- -- -'----------· - -- _-- LY _Sr I S - 48 PRESIDENT C TURKEY AS OPPORTUNI - - •1 C' ' A nT i iJ 2 I 11At ·--1 -- s s J A s h--___ CONTINUED THAT IF ·1 ffl G_QNS DEl - -Jii T A• R rro- -1 # -- PE TURKEY IS TRYI · 9 tN E1iT f'l fl- t TO T j SBGRB'f' TE 6742 SECSTATE WASHDC · S B e R B If S C'_f- ¥Liu N · - -IT Y 1 ' - - - -- b - @ l P S A'i ' ' i 1 ' -- _• - __ OF 07 M9SCOW 0014 _ - _c f- 1 • - _ --- r£Js 1 _ '-' ' f 11 - 1_ _ 1q 7_ - ' - s f - r _ - ------ -- _ -- e - - - - - - - rf' - ITSELF IN BUROJ B_ if WE CAN SAY oF A 9-yr JE-R PP - i - - - ii s THERE A - g E - 75 - - -• --- CHINA POSSIBliY 'FG THE FUTURE BUT THAT _J lQES_liQX- SE - --- - e s TO BE A LIKBLY POSSTB-ILITY THEREFORE WE COULD ···· · •» -· -·--- - - _ GUARANTEE THE co ks OF EUROPE A c istuORt OF- PEAcs oR _ - · ---' - _ _ - - J g ·EF Trm a w E IPJ ' -i _ - 0 ----- - - - TRusT AND coNFii Eics ENDURE THAT wILL Bs bY roe --- -- - -- __ · -· GAINING THIS OBJECT t ' - - · - ---- -- - ·--- -- -· _ - - -- - - •• ' - - - - - - - 49 PRESIDENT YELTSIN SAID I VERY MOCH APPREGIATB-IT- ·_ _ ' - __ • - - --AND I AGREE WITH -THAT YOU HAVE SAID -· _THE -TWO OF-US ___ · _____ __ _____-_ - -HAVE A UNIQUE POTENTIAL AS PARTNERS THAT _IF WE DECIDE TO DO SOMETHING TOGETHER EVEN IN THE FACE OF OBSTACLES IF WE HAVE YOUR SUPPORT IT CAN'BE DONE AS A RESULT WITHOUT COOPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO OF US IT IS HARD TO ENVISAGE CONTINUATION OF A PEACEFUL AND STABLE WORLD IF WE CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER AS YOU SUGGEST WE CAN DO MOCH TO ENSURE PEACE AND STABILITY FOR EUROPE AND FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 CO 6 6 9 4 4 8 8 IED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019 Thu Jan 20 21 17 14 1994 MOSCOW 0001457 SNXS COPY 05 OP 06 •To ··o••· •• • • C • Page 10 OJ 10 PICKERING sseR Bf • -• of - ·- ' UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06694488 Date 03 29 2019