Washington Summit
The following represent various postings from the Internet about the
ongoing Summit between Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin and other
European leaders. If you have other materials appropriate for this
archive, please send them to: benshoof@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
- Summit
Gets a Rave Preview
- . . .agenda is heavy on trade and
investment issues, including a session with senior business executives who
will tell Yeltsin that U.S. corporations are prepared to invest billions
in Russia provided the Russian government provides a stable legal
framework
and brings organized crime under control.
- U.S.-Russia:
Summit With A Difference 'Emerging Partners' Forging Complex Bond
- This time . . . the mood and atmospherics could not be more
different. The emotions and violence of last fall and winter have faded
as
Russia has settled into relative tranquillity. Yeltsin seems secure in
his
position, for now, and economic reform continues . . . .
- For
Yeltsin, a Capital Opportunity Clinton and Corporate Leaders Promise
Billions in New Investment If Barriers Fall
- President Clinton has invited U.S. business leaders into a meeting with
Russian President Boris Yeltsin next week to deliver a pointed message:
Billions of dollars in new corporate investment will flow to Russia if only
the Russian leader could tackle problems ranging from high tariffs and the
lack of laws governing commercial transactions to the menace of organized
crime.
- Yeltsin
Claims Russian Sphere of Influence
- Russian President Boris Yeltsin told the United Nations today that
Russia's priority interests lie in the newly independent nations of the
former Soviet Union, and he served notice that Moscow believes it has the
prime responsibility for ensuring peace and stability among those
neighboring
states.
- Clinton,
Yeltsin Open Discussions in Climate of Peace
- With a dispute over Bosnia delayed and an agreement close on
ending arms
sales to Iran, President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin opened
talks yesterday with a public embrace and soothing declarations about the
new
"climate of warm peace, not cold war."
- Yeltsin
Arms Proposals Aimed at Russians, Historians
- Yeltsin chose the U.N. General Assembly in New York to deliver
what he
considered a seminal address, conscious that Soviet President Mikhail
Gorbachev had used the same venue for a key 1988 speech signaling the end
of
the Cold War. Yeltsin intended Monday's U.N. speech and his meetings with
President Clinton today and Wednesday to inaugurate a new era of foreign
policy-making, according to advisers who helped formulate his speech and
other sources.
- PLANS
TO GUARD CLINTON, YELTSIN DURING N.Y., UN VISITS
- CHICAGO TRIBUNE reports on Friday, September 23, 1994 about one of the
best-kept secrets is how law enforcement is planning to protect
President Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, dozens of heads of
state
and scores of foreign ministers due in Manhattan next week for the opening
of
the United Nations General Assembly.
- Text
of "Partnership for Economic Progress"
- The text of a joint
U.S.-Russian
statement on a "Partnership for Economic Progress." The
statement was signed
by President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsi
n at a news conference
Wednesday near the end of their two-day summit.
- Summit
Business
- 09/29/94 -- (C) 1994 The Washington Post report on the two
Presidents' after meating remaarks.
- WASHINGTON
(Reuter) report on an agreement on ending Moscow's arms sales to Iran
which had not been signed during the summit.