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To: SOROS who wrote (202)9/11/1998 9:13:00 AM
From: SOROS  Read Replies (7) of 1151
 
International Christian Embassy Jerusalem - 09/11/98

The man expected to be voted in by the Russian parliament today as prime minister of the troubled country is no friend of Israel.

Acting foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov was proposed as premier by President Boris Yeltsin as a compromise candidate after deputies rejected his first choice. The US and European Union responded
positively to the nomination.

Primakov, 68, a former Soviet foreign policy expert and senior official in the notorious KGB intelligence service, is generally described as an Arabist.

In 1989-90, Primakov worked as a speaker of one of the houses of the Soviet parliament. In 1990 he became Gorbachev's special advisor for foreign policy issues and in 1991 became widely known in the West for his efforts to avert a Gulf War through direct negotiations with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

In a 1996 editorial, THE JERUSALEM POST called Primakov "a former KGB operative who is now head of Russia's intelligence services and the country's most prominent expert on the Middle East ". He has
also been called "one of the champions of the traditional Soviet anti-Israel policy" (THE JERUSALEM POST, Nov 1, 1991).

Primakov has on several occasions blamed Israel for deadlocks in peace negotiations, with the Palestinians and well as on the Syrian front. He has also sought to expand Russia's role in Mideast peacemaking efforts, most recently during a regional tour in November 1997.
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