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MAMEDOV
ACTION REQUIRED: PLEASE REVIEW THE FOLLOWING DEBRIEFING
REPORT FROM THE CANADIAN DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS'S
INTERVIEW PROGRAM, CLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL CAN UK US AUS NZ EYES
ADVISE IF
ONLY, DATED 08 JANUARY 1996, NUMBERED ISIW 922-1-7.
WE SHOULD
RESUBMIT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING IN INTEL FORMAT.
THIS REPORT MAY
BE SHARED WITH DI ANALYSTS. THE INTERVIEW WAS CONDUCTED DURING
AN OVER TWO HOUR CAR RIDE BETWEEN MONTREAL AND OTTAWA.
CONFIDENTI A L-WNINTEL--NOFORN--REL CAN/US/UK/AUS/NZ
COUNTRY:
RUSSIA
SUBJ: GEORGI ENEROVICH MAMEDOV, DEPUTY MINISTER OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS
DOI:
DECEMBER 1995
SOURCE: A CANADIAN OFFICIAL WHO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHAT
INFORMALLY WITH MAMEDOV.
SUMMARY:
1.
NONE.
SOME OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS:
GEORGI ENEROVICH
( (MAMEDOV)) IS UNPRETENTIOUS AND TRAVELS LIGHT; FOR A THREE-DAY
TRIP HIS_LUGGAGE-CONSISTED OF ONE GARMENT BAG WHICH HE HANDLED-
HIMSELF. AS HEAD OF A DELEGATION, HE EXPRESSED CONCERN FOR
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MEMBERS WHO DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH AND HOPED PROVISIONS WOULD BE
IN PLACE TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE FULLY IN THE SCHEDULED
MULTILATERAL MEETINGS. HURRYING TO A RECEPTION SHORTLY AFTER
ARRIVAL FOLLOWING A LONG FLIGHT, HE DID NOT WISH TO BE LATE BUT
WHEN
NEITHER DID HE WANT TO LEAVE OTHER DELEGATES FAR BEHIND.
IT WAS MENTIONED THAT THEY WOULD HURRY ONCE THEY SAW HE WAS
THAT
READY, HE COMMENTED WITHOUT ANY HINT OF REGRET
EVERYONE WAS DEMOCRATIC NOW AND IT NO LONGER WORKED THAT WAY.
2. HE EVIDENTLY HAS A GREAT INTEREST IN, AND RESPECT
FOR, THE JAPANESE, REFERRING TO THEM AS A SPECIAL CIVILIZATION.
AT THE RECEPTION, HE AND JAPANESE DELEGATES AGREED TO MEET LATER
THAT NIGHT FOR FURTHER DISCUSSIONS IN SPITE OF SOME BADLY NEEDED
REST.
3. A PERSON WHO LIKES TO ESTABLISH A ONE-ON-ONE
RAPPORT, HE EXPRESSED A REGRET AT NOT SPEAKING SPANISH SINCE
HE
LATIN AMERICA IS ONE OF HIS MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY.
NOTED THAT LATIN AMERICANS DO NOT REALLY OPEN UP WHEN SPEAKING
THROUGH INTERPRETERS. TIME CONSTRAINTS PREVENT HIM FROM
LEARNING SPANISH AT PRESENT.
MAMEDOV SHOWED A
4. ECOLOGY - A SPECIAL CONCERN:
PARTICULAR CONCERN FOR ECOLOGY AND NOTED THAT RUSSIA WOULD NEED
HE RUEFULLY
HELP IN DEALING WITH ITS PROBLEMS IN THIS AREA.
COMMENTED THAT MAN WAS THE ONLY CREATURE THAT WOULD DESPOIL HIS
ENVIRONMENT. THE PROBLEM WAS A GLOBAL ONE AND REQUIRED
CONCERTED COOPERATION ON AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL.
5.
PROBLEM AREAS FOR RUSSIA: ACCORDING TO MAMEDOV,
RUSSIA'S CURRENT OPEN BORDERS MAKE THE COUNTRY VULNERABLE TO
AND
TERRORIST INCURSIONS (IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN WERE MENTIONED)
TO THE OVERFLOW ONTO RUSSIAN TERRITORY OF BORDER CONFLICTS.
WHEN PROBLEMS BEGAN IN AZERBAIJAN, IRAN SENT FIGHTING UNITS
ACROSS THE BORDER TO ASSIST AZERIS; RUSSIA WAS NOT NOTIFIED.
THE PROXIMITY OF THE CONFLICT IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND ITS
POSSIBLE ESCALATION IS VERY WORRISOME. THE CIVIL WAR IN
CHECHNYA HAS THE POTENTIAL OF BECOMING MORE SERIOUS AND IS A
VERY TROUBLESOME ISSUE.
6. THE ECONOMIC TRANSITION: MAMEDOV ASSESSES THAT
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, PARTICULARLY WITH CANADA AND THE UNITED
ECONOMIC
STATES, WILL BE STRENGTHENED THROUGH COMMERCIAL TIES.
DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA STILL HAVE 50% GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT.
THE BANKING SECTOR IS MAKING PROGRESS TOWARDS
INTERNATIONAL-STYLE BANKING. YOUNG MANAGERS (MID 30'S) ARE
INTRODUCING NEW IDEAS, WHILE OLDER EXPERIENCED STAFF PROVIDE THE
NECESSARY ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT. THE CURRENT PERIOD IN WHICH
RUSSIA IS BEING ROBBED BY SOME, IS SYMPTOMATIC OF TRANSITIONAL
UPHEAVAL AND IS COMPARABLE TO THE POST CIVIL WAR ERA IN THE
UNITED STATES WHEN A NUMBER OF ITS CITIZENS ACQUIRED WEALTH I-N-
THE 1960'S. THE U.S. WENT THROUGH A STAGE OF MILITANT LABOR
IN POINT,
UNIONISM ASSOCIATED WITH_MOB ACTIVITIES. A CASE
ACTIVITIES OF HOFFA AND HIS ALLEGED ORDERING OF THE
*<ASSASSINATION>OF<PRESIDENT KENNEDY>OFFERS AN ILLUSTRATIVE
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*<ASSASSINATION, >WHICH MAMEDOV APPARENTLY REPEATED AS IF IT WERE
ESTABLISHED FACT.)
COMMENTS ON TERRORISTS: TERRORTSTS, EVEN THOSE-WHO-
OPERATE UNDER THE GUISE OF RELIGIOUS FERVOR, NORMALLY HAVE AN
RUSSIA, AS
UNDERLYING FINANCIAL MOTIVE ACCORDING TO MAMEDOV.
OTHER COUNTRIES, IS ESPECIALLY CONCERNED THAT ADEQUATE
SAFEGUARDS BE IN PLACE TO PREVENT TERRORISTS FROM ACQUIRING
NUCLEAR MATERIALS. RUSSIA ALSO WANTS TO SEE AN IMPROVED
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK TO DEAL MORE EFFECTIVELY WITH
TERRORISTS AND PREVENT THEM FROM TAKING ADVANTAGE OF LEGAL
LOOPHOLES.
8. MAMEDOV ALSO MADE THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS ON SEVERAL
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
IT
( (ZYUGANOV)) - ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS AND THE RESULTING
DISCONTENT HAVE ENHANCED HIS CHANCES AT THE PRESIDENCY.
WOULD NOT BE OF CRITICAL CONCERN SHOULD HE WIN THE COMING
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS SINCE THE COMMUNISTS HAVE UNDERGONE A
TRANSFORMATION AND WOULD NEITHER BE ABLE NOR WILLING TO TURN THE
CLOCK BACK. THE NEW RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS WOULD BE SIMILAR TO
ITALIAN COMMUNISTS BUT MAMEDOV WOULD DREAD TO SEE AN
THE RETURN OF
ITALIAN-TYPE POLITICAL SCENARIO IN RUSSIA.
COMMUNIST PRESIDENTS IN POLAND, HUNGARY AND ROMANIA HAS NOT
CAUSED DISRUPTIONS IN THEIR RELATIONS WITH WESTERN NATIONS, NOR
SHOULD THIS HAPPEN WITH RUSSIA.
((ZHIRINOVSKY)) - A POLITICAL HOOLIGAN, ZHIRINOVSKY HAS
LOTS OF FINANCIAL BACKING. WITH HIS ATTENTION-GRABBING ANTICS,
HE PROVIDES A DIVERSION WHILE OTHER ELEMENTS CARRY ON THEIR
ACTIVITIES.
UNSAVORY (I.E. CRIMINAL)
IT REMINDS ONE OF THE
RUSSIAN TALE WHERE TWO CHARACTERS DISTRACT A CROWD WHILE THE
ZHIRINOVSKY HAS PRESENTED
THIRD IS BUSY RIFLING THEIR POCKETS.
NO SERIOUS PROGRAM TO PERMIT HIM TO ATTRACT SUFFICIENT VOTES.
((LEBED)) - WITH HIS BASS VOICE AND PRONOUNCEMENTS THAT
BUT
APPEAL TO THE DISCONTENTED, HE HAS EARNED SOME POPULARITY,
HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COME UP WITH SOLID PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE
AND WILL NOT BE A SERIOUS CONTENDER FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
9. RELATIONS WITH CANADA: MAMEDOV FAVORS CLOSER TIES
THE
WITH CANADA AND PARTICULARLY IN THE ECONOMIC SPHERE.
HALIFAX SUMMIT AND ( (YELTSIN'S)) BACKING FOR STRONGER ECONOMIC
(I.E. THE CENTRAL
COOPERATION WAS AN IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD
THE
GOVERNMENT'S BLESSING IS ESSENTIAL TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN)
FOR RUSSIA, DEVELOPMENT OF
NORTH IS AN IMPORTANT COMMON FACTOR.
THEIR NORTHERN SEA ROUTE WILL BE A HIGH PRIORITY AS IT WILL
PROVIDE A SHORTER LINK TO INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING ROUTES.
-ECOLOGICAL CLEAN-UP WAS ALSO MENTIONED IN THE CANADA/RUSSIA
CONTEXT BECAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY.
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