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Cable from U.S. Embassy Kiev to Secretary of State: "GOU Clarifies Meaning of START Ratification." [Meeting between the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, FM Zlenko, and Rada Foreign Affairs Commission Chairman Pavlychko]. November 20, 1993.

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IMPLBMBNTATION OP THB RATIFICATION DBCISION ZLBNl O RBPBATBDLY STRBSSBD KRAvannt'S IR'l'BHTIOR TO IIJYB -·· FORWARD BOTH WITH DISMJUffLBMBRT ARD WHBN -THB NBW JIAllA C OIIVBRBS NBltT SPRING WITH BPPORTS '1'0 RATIFY THB LISBON PROO OCOL IN ITS BNTIRB'l'Y AND TO BAVB lJlCRAINB ACCimB-- TO THB NPT AS A IION-NOCLBAR WBAPOHS STATB B0'1'H ZLBHKO • AND PAVLYCHKO SAn THAT THB DBACTIVATIOR DISDNTLBMBirr PROCBSS WILL PROCBBD IN PARJIJIJ BT wrDI RBGO'l'IATIORS ON· THB CONJ ITIONS - ·- · - _ --- I • 5 t I · ___ 3 IR A PRIVATB CONVBRSATIOR WITH THB AMBASSADOR- •• SOBSBQOBNT TO THB JOINT MBBTDG WITH PAVLYCHKO ZLBNICO OR INM' Ollf lk ' llentJK '1'BB AMBASSADOR THAT tJltH CCIJG rmu RP RBGIMBN'£ L SS•2t MISSILBS QN THB · P THB RADA VOTB • AND RBPARBD TO - - -·-DBACTIVATB ALL ALL RUCLBAR WBAPORS • IP LAHGOJU3B CAN BB POUND WI'nl YOtJR ADMINISTRATION ON BCONOMIC ASSISTARCB • ZLBNKO SAID THAT KRAVCHOIC INTBNDS TO PROVIDB lCIRB INFORMATION OH HIS DBACTIV1 TION DBC ISION TO PRBSIDBNT CLINTON IN THB PHONB CALL THB GOU HAS RBQDBSTBD KRAVCIIClC WILL ALSO SAID ZLBNKO BLABORATB ON THB TYPB OP BCONOMIC ASSISTANCB tJl RAINB SBBKS BND SOMDR Y IMPLBMBNTATION AND CONDITIONS - 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