Yeltsin tells Clinton economic reform top priority
Tuesday August 25, 12:55 pm Eastern Time
EDGARTOWN, Mass., Aug 25 (Reuters) - Russian President
Boris Yeltsin pledged in a telephone call on Tuesday with U.S.
President Bill Clinton that economic reform would be the top
priority of his new government, the White House said.
''Both presidents reaffirmed the importance of a clear decisive strategy for tackling Russia's
economic crisis. President Yeltsin stressed that this will be the top priority of the Russian
government,'' he said.
White House spokesman Barry Toiv told reporters the call, which lasted about 30 minutes, also
dealt with other issues on the agenda for the summit between Clinton and Yeltsin next week in
Moscow.
These include nuclear proliferation, Iraq's vow of noncompliance with U.N. weapons inspectors
and the U.S. attack on targets Washington says are part of a terror network run by Saudi-born
dissident Osama Bin Laden, Toiv said.
Toiv said Clinton told Yeltsin what led up to last Thursday's cruise missile attack on targets in
Sudan and Afghanistan linked to Bin Laden. ''The president reviewed the events leading up to
U.S. actions last week and the dangerous threat posed by Osama Bin Laden to the United
States,'' he said.
Moscow has expressed unhappiness about the attacks, and Toiv said the leaders agreed they
would talk about that at the summit.
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