CO 6838514 IFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06838514 Date 10 19 2021 HY KU iAN LTF JROM PRESIDENT YELTSIN l IAS DELIVERED FYI TO STATE MBA -s 'H TO THE WHITE HOUSE 12 3 ' PROVIDED · DECAPTIONEDJ • DIST 12 5 PER S S GALLIVANJ s RELEASE IN FULL · -· Translated from Russian Ii __ •-· DONILON ' D p T Dear Bill EUR K 3g NODIS 9427427 ' SNIS I ' DECLASSIFIED 10 USUN W PM S P SIS I have carefully read your message of December 2 The question of NATO evolution has become today central for our relations and for European stability as a whole That is why nothing · should be left insufficiently discussed between us in this question The meaning of my message to you of November 30 should not be seen as declaring alert In the days before the Budapest summit I wanted to stress the importance of coordinated actions of Russia and the United S_tates on issues of refonning European security structure I- welcome your reaffirmation ·of our September agreements It is important though lhat thc e he adequately reflected in relevant multilateral documents I was confident tharthis would be lhc case with the NAC communique of December l ' I can not agree with your appraisal of this document as containing nothing new and unexpected I am not inclined to dramatize the situation but the AC esition requires careful analysis and explanations to us The Russia-NATO partnership program will be concluded there should be no doubt here A Ko1 yrcv will cxplai0 this to his colleagues But we need assurances that enlargement nuher than partnership is not being emphasized now The problem should be tackled as a large-scale one there should be dialogue on adopting spec dfic obligations and security guarantees for Russia and NATO which would correspond lo the nature of radical changes in the European situation Only in this context one could conlemplute NATO enlargement the alliance hcing new unc J transfnrmc l through purtnership His Ext ellency William J CLINTON President or the Unilcd States of America Washington D C_ UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06838514 Date 10 19 2021 CO 6838514 1FIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06838514 Date 10 19 2021 · ··· · '-- ·- 2 J I think you will agree that a candid conversation is necessary in order to have as you propose yourself a clear view of our reciprocal approaches and of the prospects I propose organizing such conversation with y·our participation as well as with that of Helmut Kohl in January next year at a residen e near Moscow As for Nagomy Karabakh our understanding on prep tion and adoption of a Security Council resolution which would bless the start of a peace-keeping operation preferably according to the Haiti scenario undoubtedly stays in· force This resolution will be a serious ·document and it will not be possible to prepare it in a couple of days That is why we should look forward towards including into the Budapest decisions as Kozyrev and Christopher talked about this in Brussels langu ge on the CSCE making an important contrit ution within its powers and in close coordination with Russia not in competition with it into both the 'negotiating roccss 1 and fonning under UN uspices multinational peace-keeping forces for Nagorny Kurabakh The details have to be elaborated tater Naturally pa_rallel to this work wou d he undertaken on the text of a UNSC resolution By the way as far as I understand Europeans support such an approach Looking forward to our meeting in Budapest Sinc_crcly L B YELTSIN ' Moscow lhc Kremlin Dcccrnhcr 3 1994 UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06838514 Date 10 19 2021