I was talking about strengthening personnel. Perhaps this affects not the minister, but the need to find a good deputy. Then the problem can be solved.

Bill Clinton hopes that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will capitulate, give up the whole of Yugoslavia. We will not allow this. This is a strategic place.

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

President Yeltsin is pushing the nation to a civil war.

I, of course, will fight so that, literally, in the course of the week he will be confirmed as prime minister,

The stakes are very high, not only for the Balkans and Europe, but for the whole world,

We will solve this problem.

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

We can be proud that this is being done peacefully, without revolutions and coups.

Above all…intervention from abroad holds the danger that the conflict could spread beyond the borders, … This would lead to destabilization in the Balkans with unpredictable consequences for Europe.

I hope that through an open dialogue we will be able to convince those and other countries that their security will not increase by bringing them closer to NATO,

a new and free Russia.