[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] FW: Zyuganov on U.S. aggression Interfax. 02.05.2001 11:23. Communist leader thinks Russia must protect its national interests in case U.S. withdraws from ABM Treaty. MOSCOW President Bush's statement about the deployment of the NMD system and actual withdrawal from the 1972 ABM Treaty "is not a new thing to anyone," Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said. Zyuganov stressed in his interview with Interfax that the U.S. "has long been ignoring and in fact withdrew from all international treaties and agreements a long time ago, which was shown by the bombing of Yugoslavia and the fact that the U.S. has classified a number of countries as rogue states." "The main thing in this situation is that the Russian Foreign Ministry and the government should in general not give up, but behave properly and actively and protect the national interests of our country," the Communist leader said. He recalled that when the START-2 Treaty was ratified by the Russian State Duma, the united left opposition categorically opposed the document. "We had expected the U.S. to act in this way. Even at that time [when the START-2 Treaty was ratified] we pointed out such a danger, but the Kremlin insisted on ratification of START-2, and now we have to deal with the consequences of this inept foreign policy," Zyuganov said. SPAM TO FOLLOW Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
