"My first speech at the CSCE Council in Stockholm last December, which was called 'shock diplomacy', was designed merely to demonstrate to the world community the dangers which lie in wait for it if the Russian reformers were defeated and representatives of the national-patriotic tendency came to power. This course of events, which would certainly not be in our common interests, must not be allowed to come about, and the strategy of partnership must serve to guarantee this."

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