UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, May 2, 1997
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Yeltsin urges U.S. government to give NATO pledges meaning
Little progress made in talks in Moscow
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin urged the Clinton administration yesterday to give concrete meaning to pledges by the United States and NATO not to expand to Russia's western border.
The administration signaled back that room for bargaining remains before President Clinton and leaders of the 15 other NATO countries meet in July and invite former allies of Russia to join the alliance.
Much of the negotiating until then will be in European mini-state and NATO member Luxembourg, where Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov and NATO Secretary General Javier Solana meet next week; and in neutral Austria's capital, Vienna, which is among the 30 countries, including Russia and the United States, that are debating troop concentrations.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, true to her prediction, was unable in talks with Primakov yesterday to close the gaps on a charter to give Russia a link to, but no military voice in, the Atlantic alliance. Their 2 1/2-hour discussion included a 20-minute telephone conversation with Yeltsin, vacationing at his dacha outside Moscow.
"We still have some ways to go," Albright said at a joint news conference with Primakov in a foreign ministry guest house. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and other U.S. negotiators met with their counterparts Wednesday, and arms experts met again after the Albright-Primakov sessions.
Yeltsin has expressed hope that Clinton and other leaders can sign the charter in Paris on May 27. Even if it's not signed, Albright has vowed expansion will go ahead in any event, although she said yesterday, "We would very much like to have a NATO-Russia charter signed."
Madeline Albright
The Russians were described by U.S. officials as having a deep-seated fear
that an expanded NATO may be even more hostile than the military bloc that confronted the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies during the Cold War.
Borls Yeltsin
Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary are expected to be invited to join at a NATO summit meeting in Madrid on July 9. Their membership would add about 2,500 tanks, 700 combat aircraft and about 2,000 artillery pieces to NATO's arsenal, thus widening an already huge advantage against Russian forces.
NATO promised this year not to deploy substantial numbers of troops on the territory of former Soviet allies and not to have nuclear weapons there.
Yeltsin's reference to U.S. pledges harked back to his March summit with Clinton in Helsinki, Finland. A communique released afterward said Yeltsin "underscored Russia's concern over a potentially threatening buildup of permanently stationed combat forces of NATO near to Russia." President Clinton, the document continued, "stressed that the alliance contemplates nothing of that kind."
Yesterday's inconclusive bargaining on the Russian-NATO charter was so difficult that Albright told reporters afterward, "We are earning our pay." But Primakov's good-natured response that his pay probably is less than Albright's indicated the mood of the talks was not antagonistic.
"There are some outstanding issues without whose resolution it cannot be signed," Primakov said. "I think neither side has made its final positions on the details" of the charter.
Telephoning from his dacha, Yeltsin told Albright that thorough work was necessary "to prepare a full-fledged Russia-NATO document, especially to give concrete meaning to mutual understandings reached in Helsinki regarding the nonadvancement of NATO military infrastructure and the adaptation of Conventional Forces in Europe treaty."
Zairian president a no-show at flight to meet with rebel
KINSHASA, Zaire — Without explanation, President Mobutu Sese Seko failed to show up yesterday for a flight to talks with the rebel leader who has seized half of his country. Mediators and Zairian officials insisted the meeting was still on, but it might be delayed.
The Associated Press
It was not the first time Mobutu has hedged on attending talks, which mediators hope will lead to his peaceful resignation. For the past week, he has committed to meet Laurent Kabila and then reneged.
With talks set for today,
Mobutu's no-show at the Kinsha
airport left the status of
negotiations unclear.
Zairian Cabinet ministers and other officials waited for Mobutu at the airport yesterday, ready to depart for the talks to be held on a South African naval ship. Sources close to Mobutu said the situation was confused and that the meeting could be postponed until tomorrow.
As diplomats scurried to keep the meeting on track, aid workers in northeastern Zaire flew more than 1,500 Rwandan refugees home yesterday, and
reports emerged that troops and tanks from Angola were helping the rebels in their march toward Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire.
South African officials insisted Mobutu would meet Kabila today, while a rebel representative said nothing would
happen until Sunday.
Sunday.
"The end of the war will be on Sunday when I m o b u t deciples to leave," representative Bizim a Karaha told
Mobutu
Mobutu, 66, has insisted he would never bow to Kabila's demand to resign, but he is ill with prostate cancer and under intense international pressure to step down.
The United States and other countries want a cease-fire in Zaire's civil war, the establishment of a transitional government that includes rebels and opposition parties, and a plan
for free, fair elections.
Not convinced that a peaceful transfer of power is possible, Britain yesterday urged its citizens in Zaire to leave.
An American diamond miner in Lubumbashi, meanwhile, said troops from Angola as well as Angolan tanks and heavy equipment were involved in the rebel push toward the capital.
The United States has warned Angola not to get involved in the conflict in Zaire. Bill Richardson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, was in the Angolan capital of Luanda to discuss the issue yesterday.
A U.S. official in Washington confirmed the miner's report, and said Angola is also massing troops in its Cabinda region, which is within striking distance of Kinshasa.
The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Angolan troops could enter war if Mobutu's forces resisted a rebel attempt to take the capital by force.
The American miner, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, has been helping the rebels by flying reconnaissance missions over the Kwango River east of Kinshasa.
Military data leaked to American
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean general in charge of buying weapons lost his job yesterday after classified military data was allegedly leaked to a U.S. defense contractor.
Maj. Gen. Lee Poong-kil was held responsible for failing to prevent the alleged leaks, the ministry said.
South Korea's main intelligence agency arrested a 62-year-old American on Wednesday: Donald Ratcliffe, head of Far Eastern operations for Litton Industry Inc.'s Guidance and Control Systems Division. He was charged with collecting classified information on South Korea's arms procurement plans.
His arrest comes at a time that U.S. defense contractors face increased competition in the multibillion-dollar South Korean arms market.
For decades, South Korea has bought most of its weapons from the United States, but lately it began diversifying, buying weapons from Russia, Britain and Israel.
Ratcliffe's arrest was South Korea's first involving a U.S. defense contractor. He turned himself in Wednesday after Seoul banned him from leaving the country. Litton representative Robert Stangarone said Ratcliffe had been a Litton employee for 20 years and was based in Thailand.
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