CO 6 6 9 9 7 3 0 FIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 ' Mon Apr 10 10 31 31 1995 MOSCOW 11782 D COPY 1 OP 1 Page 1 OP 6 PTP4624 RELEASE IN FULL PTP4624 PAGE 01 MOSCOW 11782 01 OF 04 081929Z DECLASSIFIED @INFO D Ol @INFO 101031L APR 95 AJT TOTAL COPIES 001 S Ol 081802L APR 95 BJS TOTAL COPIES 001 @COMMENT COPY FOR FAXING TO SECRETARY IN CALIFORNIA @INFO NSCE OO P Ol S Ol SS 04 081721L APR 95 BJS TOTAL OPIES 906 --- ------ --------- @COMMENT NSC EYES ONLY FOR BERGER AND OVP-FUERTH _- @INFO SSO Ol TD Ol -------- ---- - ---- ' 0 81649L APR 95 BJS TOTAL COPIES_ _002 _ _ @COMMENT REPEATED TOSBC BY S S·O ®ACTION SWO OO ------------- ------ ACTION NODS-00 082051Z APR 95 STePS TOTAL COPIES 000 ---- CCOE•_OO OASY-00 ADS-00 O foW - · ·· - • - - · · • · • · - · - -B99F18 081949Z 38 0 081934Z APR 95 FM AMEMBASSY MOSCOW · - TO SECSTATE WASHD -- - DIATE 8092 INFO LOG-00 -- - - ----- ----- -- - _ S Se RS W SECT 9 f OF 04 MOSCOW 011782 NODIS DECAPTIONEDI - EYES ONLY TO THE SEW-'l'ARY - - _ -____ -_ _ -_· _ _ -·· --- -a-¼ - - b •• •- - i'A - _ •• ••• i 1 A •- 'l · • ·f•l 1 - • _ _ i - _ 1_· --' - • --- - - _ -- • _- - _ _ _ • 1• 1 • · 0 •f -•- i_t_ '- - t • t ·-- l a •• 1 E 0 12356 DECL 4 8_rf 5 -- · '· · · - '-· · ''· ·'·' ·---·- _ _· __ '-' · -- __ CT RE I - MY LUNCH WITH ANDRE-'--f· _ --' --- _____ - - -- -- '· -- -- -- - - - - - - SECTION 01 OF 04 QW 11782 1 - -- ------ - • -• - · _ BSRS ' - - ENTIRE TEXT 2 CHRIS ANDREI KOZYREV TOLD ME IN A ONEON-ONE TODAY SATCRDAY THAT A YELTSIN REPLY TO PRESIDENT CLINTON•-s EUROPEAN SECURITY LETTER IS ON THE WAY HIS DESCRIPTION OF ITS CONTENTS TRACKS CLOSELY WITH THE PREVIEW WE'D ALREADY GOTTEN FROM- MAMEDOV OF THE DRAFT IT WILL ASK THE PRESIDENT TO WRITE BACK WITH FURTHER ASSURANCES ON HOW RUSSIA'S SECURITY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS WILL BB PROTECTED AS NATO EXPANDS SPECIFICALLY ON THE NOW-FAMOUS FOOR QUESTIONS KOZYREV SAYS THAT A SATISFACTORY PRESIDENTIAL RESPONSE MIGHT MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR RUSSIA TO SIGN THE PFP DOCUMENTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE PERHAPS BVBN BEFORE THE SUMMIT 3 FOREWARNED AND FOREARMED I TOLD HIM THAT IT SOUNDED AS THOUGH THE RUSSIAN SIDE IS __UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 • _ _ CO 6 6 9 9 7 3 O IED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 Mon Apr 10 10 31 31 1995 MOSCOW 11782 D COPY 1 OP 1 Page 2 OP 6 TRYING TO SELL US THE SAME HORSE FOR THE THIRD OR FOURTH TIME THAT DRAWING OUT THE EXCHANGE OF LETTERS HAS ALL THE EARMARKS OF FURTHER MOVING THE GOAL POST THAT SUCH STALLING TACTICS ON PFP WILL NOT NOT SLOW DOWN NATO'S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECEMBER NAC DECISION THAT BY REFUSING TO PLAY ON PFP AMD THE NATO-RUSSIA DIALOGUE RUSSIA RISKS ISOLATING ITSELF THAT WE BELIEVED IT WAS AGREED THE EXCHANGE WOULD CONSIST OF TWO LETTERS ONLY ONE IN EACH DIRECTION AND THAT NO FURTHER U S LETTER WAS NECESSARY OR APPROPRIATE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT HAS NO NO INTENTION OF NEGOTIATING WITH RUSSIA OVER FUTURE NATO POLICY VIA PRESIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE 4 ALL THAT SAID SEVERAL TIMES AND WITH GREAT EMPHASIS I PRESSED KOZYREV HARD ON WHAT WOULD HE BELIEVED WOULD CONSTITUTE THE AMERICAN RESPONSE NECESSARY TO ENABLE RUSSIAN PFP SIGNING HIS·REPLY WAS AMBIGUOUS -INDEED SELF-CONTRADICTORY HE ALTERNATED BETWEEN TWO ANSWERS- - -ANSWER NUMBER ONE --- ' ALL7 c - ---- --- _ - _- - - · _ - --· ·--THAT'S REQUIRED IN-RESPONSE TO THE NEW YBLTSIN LETTER IS A U S PRESIDENTIAL COMMITMENT TO TREAT THE FOUR RUSSIAN CONCERNS AS LEGITIMATE AND TO SEEK THROUGH L- _ _ --- - _ _ _ ENGAGEMENT OF THE-OTHER ALLIES A GOOD-FAITH ''°-·-NATO EFFORT TO REACH MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE AMSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS BY THE TIME NATO-- - ---- · ACTUALLY TAKES IN NEW-MEMBERS ANSWER NUMBER TWO WHAT'S REQUIREO Is A SPECIFIC FAIRLY DETAILED U S PRESIDENTIAL RESPONSE NOW TO BACH OF THE FOUR QUFfSTIONS - - ESSENTIALLY A WRITTEN VERSION s rn D BY POTUS OF THE TALKING POINTS YOU USED ORALLY WITH KOZYREV - IN GENEVA I REITERATED WHY NUMBER TWO WAS NOT NOT ACCEPTABLE - THE PRESIDENT CAN'T - ·' · · COMMIT THE ALLIANCE-ON THESE ISSUES WE DON'T WANT TO GET INTO AN OPEN-ENDED CORRESPONDENCE THBrfil UR QUESTIONS ARE- - - - -- ---- -c _-- - APPROPRIATE FOR THEi -AGENDA OF THE NEGOTIATION- 't _ ' · --' ' -- _--- -- - · ·FOLLOWING RUSS IAN PJ-' P SIGNATURE BOT NOT NOT FOR PRE-SIGNA TERAL HAGGLING I - o ' ·· cl C 1·j' '1 i J • · -- -· i 5 I PLAYED BACK -1' Q IM WHAT HE'D SAID · _ - · POINTING OUT THE INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE TWO ANSWERS HE HAD N ME TO MY QUESTION '- c -' c ·'- '-' - i · i i sr AND OFFERING THE JUDGMENT THAT NUMBER TWO WAS A TOTAL NON-STARTER HE ADMITTED THERE WAS ' ' - i1r t is r - SUCH A CONTRADICTION AND SAID WE NEED TO i - t · - - _1 _- 7L AGREE ON A FORMULA _ FOR YET ANOTHER ANSWER- · _ - - --· '-·- ---· THAT WAS SOMEWHE t- __li BETWEEN THE TWO - --- - --- EXTREMES AND THAT-ME ' HIS AND YELTSIN'$' -cc -- --·-- --·-· POLITICAL NEEDS WHl'iltE NOT NOT CROSSING THE RBD LINE I ID LAID DOWN MUCH AS HEID DONE WITH YOU IN GENEVA HE CAST HIS PITCH ALMOST ENTIRELY IN TERMS OF RUSSIAN DOMESTIC POLITICS AND THE 'THREAT TO RUSSIAN REFORM · - - - - - - -- --· POSED BY THE PROSPECT iOF NATO EXPANDING - ·- - - -- EASTWARD I SAID 1 1 D '-PASS ALL THIS BACK TO- --c -- - - · - - - · --- _ - _ -- - YOU AND THAT WE'D' B if BACK IN TOUCH VIA TOM- - - - ' - e 1 ' __ - ' - - - ·- -- -o - -c - ' PICKERING ONCE WE· GOT THE YELTSIN LETTER -- · - - 2 • - _ STRESSED THAT I COUW NOT NOT COMMIT TO A· ·NEw-r · r - - - - · · - - - -- - POTUS LETTER END y - · '·· · - - -_ 0 0 - - -- 6 KOZYREV AND I MET FOR TWO HOURS ONE-ONONE NO NOTETAKERS OVER LUNCH IN THE FOREIGN MINISTRY GUEST HOUSE AFTER SOME PRELIMINARIES FEATURING HIS CURIOSITY ABOUT THE NEW CONGRESS HE INVITED ME TO SUMMARIZE UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 CO 6 6 9 9 7 3 OIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 Mon Apr 10 10 31 31 1995 MOSCOW 11782 D COP 1 OP 1 Page 3 OP 6 SECTION 02 OF 04 MOSCOW 11782 UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 CO 6 6 9 97 3OFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 Mon Apr 10 10 31 31 1995 MOSCOW 11782 D COPY 1 OP 1 Page 4 OP 6 THE STIMULUS FOR PARTNERSHIP HAS TO A LARGE EXTENT BEEN KILLED BY ENLARGEMENT 11 THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PFP AND ENLARGEMENT IS THIS PFP IS A FORMULA FOR 'WE TOGETHER YOU AND US' ENLARGEMENT IS A FORMULA FOR 'US VERSUS THEM 1 HE USED A RUSSIAN PHRASE THAT TRANSLATES LITERALLY AS 1 WHO WHOM 1 AS IN 'WHO WILL PREVAIL OVER WHOM IN A ZERO-SUM GAME' ALL THIS TALK OF THE ENLARGEMENT OF NATO IS CAUSING A FEELING OF ALIENATION IN RUSSIA WE DON'T WANT ISOLATION WE HAD ENOUGH OF THAT FOR 70 YEARS LET'S OVERCOME THE US-VERSUS-THEM MENTALITY AND EMPHASIZE WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER n 12 ENLARGEMENT IS QUALITATIVELY DIFFERENT FROM PFP YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN US ANY ANSWERS TO THE LOGICAL QUESTIONS THAT ARISE HERE IN seeRB'l' -- SECTION 03 OF 04 MOSCOW 11782 EVERYTHING YOU SAY YOU KEEP STRESSING HOii -s --r •· -- __ __ _ __ __ __ • _ RUSSIA DOESN'T HAVE-A-VETO WHEN YOU SAY -·· - - - - - - · YOU' LL TAKE ACCOUNT ·oF OUR VIEWS AMO OUR - - - - _ _ INTERESTS IT SOUNDSJ ISMISSIVE NOT SERious· •- ·- IT CAUSES MORE ANXIETIES THAN IT ALLAYS n - -- · -· - - -- - --· -- __ -- 13 YOU SAY THAT· WB CAN ENTER NATO OURSELVES SOMEDAY BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY SERIOUS EITHER IF-YOU WERE TO SAY 'RUSSIA' --f_ ·- - -· FIRST ' THAT WOUW_ iE- ONE THING BUT WE -- OJi_____ WE'RE LAST IN LINE · THAT'S THE POSITION WE KNOW BEST AND HATE ST- --- - - ------ -- • __ ---- 17 • IT WAS AT THAT POINT THAT KOZYREV TOLD ME THAT YELTSIN VACATIONING IN SOCHI WOULD BE SIGNING A LETTER TO OUR PRESIDENT WITHIN THE HOUR AND NEEDS A REASSURING POTUS REPLY ONLY IN THAT CASE HE SAID IS THERE A UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 -- - _ CO 6 6 9 9 7 3 OIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 Mon Apr 10 10 31 31 1995 MOSCOW 11782 D COPY 1 OP 1 Paga 5 OP 6 CHANCE NOT A VERY BIG ONE BOT STILL A CHANCE TO SIGN THE PFP DOCUMENTS 18 HE CLAIMS THAT YOU AND HE DISCUSSED IN GENEVA THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL LE'ITER IN REPLY TO THE YELTSIN LETTER THE AMERICAN LETTER HE SAYS SHOULD CONVEY THIS MESSAGE DEAR BORIS I RECOGNIZE YOUR POINTS THEY'RE LEGITIMATE LET'S NEGOTIATE THIS WITH NATO NOTE THAT WAS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF ANSWER NUMBER ONE 19 HE WENT ON TO SAY I'M TRYING TO DESIGN A COMPROMISE SOLUTION BOT I'M UNDER SEVERE ATTACK BOTH WITHIN THE BUREAUCRACY AND OUTSIDE OF IT BUT I CAN'T DO THAT JUST BY PAYING LIPSERVICE TO PFP WHAT BOTHERS ME MOST IS THE MAY 30 NAC MEETING IF WE SIGN PFP BEFORE THEN WHAT WILL THE NAC DO WHAT IF THE NAC COMES FORWARD WITH CRITERIA FOR ENLARGEMENT A LIST OF CRITERIA FOR NEW MEMBERS HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT YOU'D ADDRESSED THIS POINT IN GENEVA BUT SAID CHRIS'S REASSURANCES MIGHT WORK FOR DIPLOMACY FREAKS LIKE us BUT NOT NOT FOR LUKIN HE PREDICTED a - - BETTING ME A BOTTLE _ OF THE BEST ARMENIAM COGNAC -- THAT WITHIN HOURS AFTER THE MAY 30 NAC MEETING LECH WALBNSA WILL ISSUB-· As STATBMENT SAYING THAT ' - _ ____ _ _ ' _ _ POLAND MEETS 90 PER E OF THE CRITERIA AND- -- · ________ _______ _ THAT THE OTHER 10 PERCENT WILL TAKE NO TIME -- ----- · --·-·_· - - __ -_ ___ ·- - -- -- -_AT ALL TO MEET· AND THEN VARIOUS POLITICAL _ · - c c c- - _-- -_ - FIGURES IN THE' U S- - -PLUS PERHAPS EVEN SOME-c - · · -- _ _ - - - · -- • ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS HE EVEN USED A NAME HOLBRIGHT WOULD ENDORSE WALESA ON BACKGROUND _THEN LUKIN WOULD SCREAM• AND PROTEST PRES' U BNT YELTSIN CAN'T --- - - I ' - -- -- _ _o 7 0' • -- - - - AFFORD THAT KI _O_F_ _AMB_USH n - - · _ _ _ - - - •• 20 THAT'S WHY HE-NEEDS HE SAYS A LB R· --- - -- ' _ --'--- ·- - ·--• THAT WILL GIVE ME AMMUNITION TO USE IN THE DUMA OR IN A MEETING OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL -···- _ • • y - - ·· ____ -- AND TO TAKE TO THE F _SSIAN PUBLIC AND THAT- ' tEi T Y ' ' 1ffr _· - 1 cc -•WILL ALLOW ME TO SAY 'YES THERE IS A STE - - - - _ ·- - - _ • £ 1 --- - _ -irfR J#Y _ Ji1 0 0 • c - • - • SBSRB SECTION 04 OF 04 MO£COW 11782 •• T ·· 1 - 1 _ i r - J lr1 3 1 r 1 - - Hh f LrCA 1 1 t' ' L Y UP ff _l J 1 • · ·£ d_ YE L Ltt - 1 n - F 3 A r1L i ul · - f l - t '-1 t r f Pi- WE HAVE THIS LBTf _ 1 - ' • l - · s-A'-''_ b T • Y 1·• _2 ' 1_ FROM PRESIDENT CLINTON IT SAYS 1 THERE I $ 14 i - p -- - - - - NO RUSH TO ENLARG 2 PFP IS FOR REJU _c• THF E EF T T w i n _ _ '-' r AND WILL BE AT THE NTER OF THINGS FOR 'HE• J t ' n r r y '11 · g-· riC ff ·n · NEXT 2-3 YEARS -- PF·P STANDS AT THE CENTER MA lI'l L1 T1 · T•· r lf •N' t-· ·· i' AND ENLARGEMENT HOWEVER PRE-DECIDED AND · - -- ----' T' - -' • _ INEVITABLE WILL B ' 'SECONDARY FOR SOME Tl ME -· · _ AND 3 HERE ARE CLEAR ANSWERS TO ALL OUR - -· - _ ·- - coNcERNs wITH suCH A LETTER PREsIDEN'I' • - - r- - - --z - - · - ·r-- -- YBLTSIN CAN GO INTO ''l HE ELECTIONS IN GOOD - a - - - _1-c- _ SHAPE AND I CAN GO TO MURMANSK AND WIN RE··-·ELECTION 11 THAT-- SOtJNDED LIKE AMSWER NUMBER _- - • _ - cc 1 1 4 ' LT TWO _ - ·' ' - -- -· - -• ---- 21 CIRCLING BACK-TO THE LETTER HE'S LOOKING FOR HE SAID I NEED LANGUAGE THAT IS ASIGNAL PRESIDENT CLINTON SHARES THESE CONCERNS AND IS DETERMINED TO FIND SATISFACTORY AMSWERS WITH THE OTHER NATO COUNTRIES THE LE'ITER WOULD SAY ' I SEE YOUR POINT YOU'VE IDENTIFIED THE RIGHT ISSUES AND I'LL WORK WITH THE OTHER NATO PARTIES TO FIND THE RIGHT ANSWERS ' THAT SOUNDED MORE LIKE NUMBER ONE ·-_ _ _ - -- _ •- __ -- · - - • -· - · · - - -- - • ' i __- - - 7 M --- -- UNCLASSIFIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 · CO 6 6 9 9 7 3 OIED U S Department of State Case No F-2017-13804 Doc No C06699730 Date 06 25 2019 Mon Apr 10 10 31 31 1995 MOSCOW 11782 D COPY 1 OP 1 Page 6 OP 6 22 I NEED A LETTER THAT AVOIDS VAGUE EVASIVE LANGUAGE WHICH IS THE WAY HE CHARACTERIZED THE EXISTING PRESIDENTIAL LETTER AND THAT I CAN USE AS AN ARGUMENT FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE ON ALL FOUR NUMBER TWO AGAIN QUESTIONS 23 BY THEN HE WAS WINDING DOWN RETURNING TO THE NEED FOR A LETTER THAT RECOGNIZES THE FOUR POINTS IN A FEW SIMPLE WORDS FOR EACH AND PROMISES TO WORK TOGETHER IN ADDRESSING THEM IN A POSITIVE WAY A LE1TER THAT SAYS 'OF COURSE RELATIONS·WITH NATO SHOULD NOT BE DBTRIMENTAL TO YOUR INTERESTS' -- WHICH BROUGHT US BACK TO NUMBER ONE 24 MY INTERJECTIONS THROUGHOUT MADE WITH SOME DIFFICULTY ATTEMPTED TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON VARIOUS POINTS PFP INCLUDING IN YOUR PRESENTATION TO YELTSIN IN OCT 9 3 WAS NEVER A SUBSTITUTE FORiEXPANSION AND TO NAJ L DOWN WHICH VERSION OF 'l'HE PROPOSED AMERICAN--- -LETTER HE REALLY HAD iN MIND WE LEFT IT----- ------ -- -- - 7 __ -- - a S c Yro1 t l 1 E Ig i - _ -· - - - E i -- _ T WITH OUR REACTIONS HE ASKED US THEN TO GI-VE _ - - - - -- - · ___ _ HIM SEVERAL DAYS TO WORK THE ISSUE BACK- TO YBLTSIN AND SEE IF· w _c_oULD FIND COMMON · - - -- ·-·•· 7 -·· ' - _ __ -- _ GROUND THAT MIGff' ' Altl OW PFP SIGNATURE TO GQ o- - '' ' - _ _ ---· •-- · --- · __ FORWARD I SAID OF COURSE WE WOULD GIVE -HIM- · _ •· · _ _ __ - --- - -c- REACTIONS BUT I __ cqytb NOT NOT COMMIT TO - -· --• - -' z _ANOTHER PRESIDENTI-AL LETTER THE NEXT STEP --- - - -c- · • • • _t_ - i' ' -· CLEARLY IS TO WAIT FOR THE YELTSIN LETTER-AND - ---- _ -- -- SEE WHERE WE GO- FROM_TffERE STROBE _ - °-__ _ l ---- -- _ - · --- - ---- -___ -- -_ _ PICKERING __ - ·-- --- -- - - __ _ seenT - -- - - l-f lll -- ' __- - _ F_ _ _ _ ·- u • _ _• ' _ - f _f _ ' - - p _ '- -I t -- lX L' ' -- -- ------ - - - ---· 1 -- _ _ - - ·-- - -- - - _ - _ _ • _ ' - - - _ -• T t t't ·- -- _ cn A nu- - ' ' rr - i-r -- - • • - - DT'iz ii i f z i t 1 s A L w 1 1 Br j T 71iE h1 r£r Vf- -HJNCS NE £ T' 2-' Y E J _ RS -- _p STJ Nf - 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