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<CENTER><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+4">Implementation of the
Partnership for Peace</FONT></FONT></CENTER>
<CENTER><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+3">General-Major Vasili
Filipovich Latta</FONT></FONT></CENTER>
<CENTER><I><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+2">Russian Ministry of
Defense</FONT></FONT></I></CENTER>
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<CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION
IN THE PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE</FONT></FONT></B></CENTER>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Great attention was focused
during the NATO Workshop on the specific conditions or status attached to
Russia's participation in the Partnership for Peace program. For me, there
are no convincing arguments about why particular conditions or a special
status should be necessary. Keeping other Partners from being offended is
certainly not a viable argument. I would also question whether it is fair,
as is now proposed, that only the 16 NATO members should decide all issues
concerning Central and Eastern Europe without allowing Russia or other
Partnership members the right of veto. We must think about this. Clearly,
we do not want to distort the idea of partnership--an idea based on the
participation of members that are equal in all respects, not on the notion
that some members are leaders and others outsiders.</FONT></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">No one doubts that the
Partnership for Peace program, as it has been proposed, cannot exist
without Russia. This is an objective reality. Russia has already decided
to join the program, as was announced by our Minister of Foreign Affairs
and our Defense Minister. It was also announced that Russia will sign the
Partnership for Peace Framework Document in mid-summer of 1994 and that it
will simultaneously present its own initiatives about a common
Euro-Atlantic partnership. We intend to reach a full-scale agreement with
NATO, after high-level discussions and negotiations on our initiatives and
the Partnership parameters have taken place. I cannot understand why this
might cause confusion and why particular conditions must be met.</FONT></FONT>
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<CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING
RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION</FONT></FONT></B></CENTER>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Russia does not want to join the
Partnership for Peace program as it formally stands. It wants to
participate on a wider scale, in accordance with its own status,
capabilities, and obligations and in respect of principles that would
ensure that:</FONT></FONT> </P>
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<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Russia can defend all of its
national interests.</FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Russia's participation in the
Partnership program would not exclude the prospect of creating systems
of collective security in the Asia-Pacific ocean region or Russia's
participation in them.</FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Russia would be able to
develop bilateral consultations with other states and program members
about national security problems.</FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">The Partnership would take
into consideration the role of the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS) and Russia's regional obligations in the CIS collective security
system.</FONT></FONT></LI>
</UL>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">These principles form the basis
of Russia's participation in the Partnership for Peace and of its
full-scale cooperation with NATO militarily and in other important
sectors. It is along these lines that the parameters for Russia's
practical participation in the program were presented in Brussels. They
include:</FONT></FONT> </P>
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<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">On a political scale--the
development of a working mechanism for consultation at all levels about
security problems.</FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">On a military
scale--cooperation with NATO and Partnership members in such areas as
coordination of common military activity, peacekeeping operations,
transparency and openness in the field of military planning, and
personnel preparation and training.</FONT></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">The possibility of developing
Partner relations in the areas of disarmament; control of armament
conversions; non-proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological
weapons; and environmental problems.</FONT></FONT></LI>
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<CENTER><B><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+1">CONCLUSION</FONT></FONT></B></CENTER>
<P><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT SIZE="+0">Let me say in conclusion that my
country is ready to have within the NATO structure its own working group
or its own representatives to decide on all questions that concern
Russia's practical participation in the Partnership program. I will be
very happy if my NATO Workshop address has convinced even a few people
that, when Russia speaks about its interest in a wider-scale partnership
than the one proposed in the PFP, we do not seek privileged status. We are
only concerned about the essence of this partnership, so that all states,
West and East, can share the same degree of interest in the development of
its program.</FONT></FONT> </P>
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