----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:54 AM 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 But instead of a flood of aid and loans, all that most Russians saw was out-of-date products sold at inflated prices by businessmen out to exploit the new market.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
