MORE POSITIVE SIGNALS FROM MOSCOW ON NATO AGREEMENT.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 3 Issue: 91

Moscow and NATO appeared to inch still closer toward the signing of a proposed political agreement yesterday as Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov announced that he would meet with NATO secretary general Javier Solana on May 13 and another high ranking Russian diplomat said that Boris Yeltsin might travel to Madrid for NATO’s July 8-9 summit. Primakov held talks with Solana in Luxembourg on May 6, and the scheduling of another meeting so soon suggests that the two sides are following through on their pledge to intensify efforts to complete work on the agreement in time for a signing ceremony in Paris on May 27. (Reuter, Itar-Tass, May 7)

The news that Yeltsin may attend NATO’s July summit in Madrid came as a greater surprise. The announcement was made by Russian deputy foreign minister Igor Ivanov following a meeting yesterday between Yeltsin and the