>From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [STOPNATO] Putin Snubs West With Presidential Inauguration > >STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > >Daily Telegraph (UK) >ISSUE 1799 Friday 28 April 2000 > > > > Putin issues presidential snub to West >By Ben Aris in Moscow > > > WESTERN leaders will not be invited to the >inauguration of Vladimir Putin, Russia announced >yesterday. >The decision reinforces the widespread perception that >the new president plans to cool relations with the >West. Sergei Prikhodko, the presidential deputy chief >of staff, said: "Practices of such ceremonies differ >from country to country. We believe that this will be >a Russian domestic event and choose who to invite in >this light." > >Leading figures from the Commonwealth of Independent >States and the Customs Union, which includes the >Central Asian countries and Belarus, have been invited >to the ceremony on May 7. The Russians had hoped that >the West would help to restructure their country after >the fall of the Soviet Union. But instead of a flood >of aid and loans, all that most Russians saw was >out-of-date products sold at inflated prices by >businessmen out to exploit the new market. > >Recently, Russia has begun turning to Iran, Iraq, >China and Pakistan for alliances. A row with America >over the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty will >provide the first international diplomatic test of >Putin's administration. This month, the Foreign >Minister, Ivan Ivanov, said that Cold War tensions >could be renewed by America's plans to build a "Star >Wars" defence system - banned in the treaty - to shoot >down missiles from "rogue" states. > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Advertisement: >Workstation with Monitor under $800! >So, you just heard that you need to add how many new workstations by >the end of next week? Check out the bundle below. It includes >everything you need to get everyone up and running quickly. >http://www.listbot.com/links/cdw5 > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
