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<title>
President Yeltsin's Message to Conference Participants
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<hdr>
Foreign Policy Bulletin, January-April 1992
The Reorganization of Europe: President Yeltsin's Message to
Conference Participants, January 20, 1992
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<p> I salute the participants of the Washington Conference,
representatives of the states that expressed readiness to
extend a helping hand to the peoples of Russia and other
Republics of the former U.S.S.R. at this crucial juncture.
</p>
<p> We have opted irrevocably for creating a civilized,
democratic state in which an individual is the supreme value and
where his or her interests constitute the basis of the state's
foreign and domestic policies. However, one has to pay dearly
for past mistakes and delusions.
</p>
<p> Humanitarian and other forms of assistance by the
international community will no doubt help alleviate the
difficulties our population is facing as we move to a market
economy. As for a way toward genuine economic and social
revival of our country, we see it in a large-scale and diverse
business-like cooperation with all those who are interested in
it. Russia is open to foreign enterprise, and we are creating
the necessary legal guarantees for investment, economic
activity, and repatriation of profits. An equal economic
partnership should become one of the decisive factors
contributing to a rapid development of economic life in our
country.
</p>
<p> Expressing our gratitude to the international community for
its assistance, I would like to reiterate that the leadership
of Russia shall take all measures that are necessary to ensure
its delivery to concrete addresses and its fair distribution.
</p>
<p> I wish the participants in the Conference fruitful and
successful work in resolving a humanitarian task of providing
help to those who really need it today.
</p>
<p>(Text from Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents of
February 3, 1992.)
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