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To: jbe who wrote (15530)	12/12/1999 8:01:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Lighten-up Joan, Clinton vote was <gg> However the reason to vote for Clinton would be to make country better...How in a world somebody like Clinton, with his anturage would be expected to do this is simply beyond me...unless you subscribe to the crazy (IMO) theory that Presidents are responsible for economic cycles As for <<To equate humanitarian disaster in Chechnya and pre-NATO bombardment of Kosovo is intelectual travesty...>> I do not understand that myself..<gg> Except Kosovo before NATO bombardment was not a humanitarian disaster..Human rights abuse to be sure, but not a disaster

To: jbe who wrote (15530)	2/16/2000 6:48:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Viva Friendship beetween Nations and People! Viva! Russia, NATO Declare Ties Restored Wednesday, 16 February 2000 M O S C O W (AP) AFTER NEARLY a year of tension over the wars in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, Russia and NATO announced Wednesday that they are restoring their ties. "I see this as being the turning of a page of the disagreements we have and are moving forward now to a deeper and broader agenda," NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson said after meeting with acting President Vladimir Putin and other top officials. Over the past year, Russia had all but cut its ties with NATO and shut down work on the Permanent Joint Council - where the sides consult on matters of mutual interest - in response to NATO's bombing campaign in Yugoslavia last year. During that time, NATO has condemned the war in Chechnya. Tension also was aggravated by Russia's adoption of a new national security doctrine broadening the circumstances under which it could envision using nuclear weapons. Russia also remains unhappy about NATO's eastward expansion and opposes the drive of the former Soviet Baltic republics to become members of the Western alliance. Robertson noted that disagreements remain, saying at a news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov that the resumption of relations meant, "We've moved from permafrost to slightly softer ground." Ivanov said the sides viewed each other as important strategic partners for providing security in Europe and the world as a whole. The current aim of Russia and NATO "is to restore trust and define spheres of interaction where we can cooperate effectively in the interests of stability and security," he said. By agreeing to restore relations with NATO, Putin is sending a message that he is not anti-Western, according to Dmitry Trenin, a defense analyst at the Carnegie Institute for International Peace in Moscow. "Putin wants to reach out to the West, and NATO has been knocking at his door for some time,' Trenin said. "This is a piece of political currency he can use and he doesn't have to fear a nationalist backlash at home" by being seen as a liberal lacking the will to pursue the war in Chechnya. Robertson said NATO's stance on Chechnya had not changed, though it understood the problems Russia faced in the breakaway republic. "We understand why Russia acted in Chechnya, but we have strongly disagreed with what Russia did about that in Chechnya," Robertson said. "The Russian side today robustly answered the points I made ... in what was quite a strong exchange of views." Demonstrating that it was not bowing to NATO, Russia on Wednesday dispatched a reconnaissance vessel to watch alliance vessels in the Persian Gulf. A Russian tanker was recently detained in the Gulf for allegedly violating the international trade embargo against Iraq.