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To: Yaacov who wrote (11150)	6/4/1999 12:57:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

remember Chechov/ If you see the gun on the wall in the Theatre in the first act, you should expect the gun to be used in second act

To: Yaacov who wrote (11150)	6/4/1999 6:48:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

Moscow envoy faces betrayal claims at home By Marcus Warren in Moscow Russia, EU give peace plan to Milosevic [3 Jun '99] - Russia Today Record of lies may mean the crisis is not over yet MOSCOW'S Balkans envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin, flew home last night to persuade sceptics that yesterday's diplomatic deal ensured peace with honour for both Russia and Yugoslavia. Mr Chernomyrdin was accused by some of his countrymen of betraying Belgrade to curry favour with the West. After five trips to Belgrade by Mr Chernomyrdin, yesterday's breakthrough should be hailed in Russia as a triumphant vindication of President Yeltsin's Balkans policy. Relations between Russia and the West appear to have been saved from what threatened to turn into a new Cold War, although Mr Yeltsin still regards the recent behaviour of Nato leaders as a personal betrayal. However, the Kremlin is in such chaos and Mr Yeltsin in such feeble health that a diplomatic victory abroad is unlikely to improve the situation at home. Sergei Stepashin, the prime minister, insisted that Moscow's conditions for a peace settlement would soon be met: an end to the bombing and an international military presence inside Kosovo under the United Nations. The Russian military also emphasised that its senior officers travelling to Belgrade to help supervise the withdrawal of Serb forces from Kosovo would be answerable only to Moscow. A footnote to the peace plan circulating at the EU summit in Cologne highlighted differences between Russia and the West over the command structure of any international force in Kosovo. Russia refused to put its troops under Nato orders, while the West was sticking to its demand for a unified Nato command and control, the document revealed. Mr Chernomyrdin's apparently successful trip to the Yugoslav capital had been accompanied by a whispering campaign by top brass who believed that he was making too many concessions to the West. In footage of the talks in Belgrade broadcast on Russian television, one uniformed officer could clearly be seen shaking his head in disapproval as Moscow's delegation signed documents opposite Yugoslav officials. Behind Mr Chernomyrdin's back, the military also briefed Russian journalists in Belgrade of their doubts about the package negotiated by their own envoy, the Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and Strobe Talbott, the US deputy Secretary of State. Silence from Igor Ivanov, the Russian foreign minister, who was returning from a visit to China, was also interpreted by some in Moscow as a mark of displeasure. Deputies in the Russian parliament, which is dominated by communist and nationalist allies of Milosevic, also attacked Mr Chernomyrdin's efforts. Nikolai Kharitonov, a leading communist sympathiser, said: "The events of Munich at the end of the 1930s are still fresh in our memory. "hernomyrdin is repeating those mistakes in Nato's interests. We deputies of the State Duma cannot allow one person, even if he is the president's representative, to decide such fateful questions for Russia and the whole of Europe." Yuri Nikiforenko of the Duma's Communist faction said: "Yugoslavia's capitulation is being pushed through. The generals have done the right thing to register their protest." Russia's opposition and voices from the Defence Ministry have been predicting a Nato ground invasion of Kosovo for so long that the prospect of a peaceful solution is almost a disappointment. However, open insubordination from the military when Russian troops are ordered in to police a peace settlement is highly unlikely, although relations with Nato are likely to be tense at first. The general staff will be more worried about how to put together a combat-ready peacekeeping force from the dejected and poorly equipped ranks of Russia's armed forces. telegraph.co.uk I think it would take lot higher oil prices or lot of money to save this Russian Gvn (Chernomyrdin is dead as President)