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Mark Warner: “I accompanied the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Cohen, to Russia in the January timeframe, where we sat down in the U.S.…”

On the recordApril 27, 1998
I accompanied the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Cohen, to Russia in the January timeframe, where we sat down in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and listened to the protests of about half a dozen Members of the Duma for the better part of 2 hours. There was absolutely no equivocation on their part that they felt that the future ratification by the Russian Duma of the current arms control arrangement now pending is in great doubt.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the uncertainty of Russian Duma's ratification of arms control arrangements.

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