USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON PLEDGES FULL SUPPORT FOR RUSSIAN PRESIDENT YELTSIN, SAYING THREAT TO ECONOMIC REFORMS JUSTIFIES THE CALL FOR A NEW PARLIAMENT

Record ID: 1022345

  • Title: USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON PLEDGES FULL SUPPORT FOR RUSSIAN PRESIDENT YELTSIN, SAYING THREAT TO ECONOMIC REFORMS JUSTIFIES THE CALL FOR A NEW PARLIAMENT
  • Date: 21st September 1993
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 21, 1993) (RTV) 1. LV: UNITED STATES PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AT NEWS CONFERENCE (ENGLISH) 0.04 2. MCU: PRESIDENT CLINTON TALKING TO RADIO SHOW HOSTS CHUCKLING AS HE REPORTS NEWS OF OF YELTSIN'S DECREE (ENGLISH) 0.52 (POOL) 3. GV: SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE 1.01 4. MCU: CHRISTOPHER TALKING ABOUT CLINTON AND YELTSIN'S PHONE CONVERSATION (ENGLISH) 1.35 TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 2: BILL CLINTON: "IT IS NOW COMMONPLACE TO SAY E ARE LIVING THROUGH A TIME OF PROFOUND CHANGE. NOT ONLY IN OUR OUNTRY BUT AROUND THE WORLD. PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO COME TO GRIPS ITH A RATE AND NATURE OF CHANGE THAT COMES ALONG LESS FREQUENTLY HAN ONCE A GENERATION. YOU MAY KNOW THAT SINCE YOU'VE BEEN ITTING HERE BORIS YELTSIN HAS DISSOLVED THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT, ND CALLED ELECTIONS FOR THAT PARLIAMENT IN DECEMBER, AND HIS AJOR OPPONENT HAS DECLARED HIMSELF PRESIDENT. THEIR GOING HROUGH THESE THINGS TRYING TO COME TO GRIPS WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO ECOME A DEMOCRACY, WHAT IT MEANS TO TRY AND CHANGE THE ECONOMY." TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 4: WARREN CHRISTOPHER: "PRESIDENT CLINTON HAS UST SPOKEN BY TELEPHONE WITH BORIS YELTSIN TO ASSURE HIM OF OUR TRONG SUPPORT AND TO SEEK ASSURANCES THAT THE ELECTIONS WILL BE REE AND FAIR. I HAVE JUST COME FROM A MEETING WITH THE SPEAKER F THE HOUSE AND OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. I STRESSED THE MPORTANCE OF RAPID CONGRESSIONAL ACTION TO COMPLETE THE NACTMENT OF THE IMPENDING PROGRAMME OF SUPPORT FOR RUSSIAN EFORM. BY ACTING DECISIVELY AT THIS CRITICAL JUNCTURE WE CAN ELP DEMOCRACY AND MARKET REFORM TAKE ROOT IN RUSSIA." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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  • Location: WASHINGTON, D.C. AND NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES
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