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Baturin Gives Background To Rodionov, Samsonov Dismissals

Interfax in English

May 22, 1997

MOSCOW, May 23 (Interfax) -- Defense Council Secretary Yuriy Baturin did not expect President Boris Yeltsin to decide to dismiss Defense Minister Igor Rodionov and Chief of the General Staff Viktor Samsonov at the Thursday council session. In an interview with NTV channel he disagreed with the opinion that it was a spontaneous move. "If Boris Nikolayevich [Yeltsin] made the decision, he must have thought it over properly," he said. At the same time he said he felt the course of the session could have influenced the decision "for certain psychological reasons." After a tough opening word the president set a 15-minute limit on the reports by the minister and the chief of the General Staff, Baturin said. Baturin said Rodionov remarked that he would be unable to report anything in 15 minutes. The president "retorted quite reasonably that he had studied the written reports of the minister and chief of the General Staff for over a month and council members also had them in their hands, so if there was anything

to say, it could be said in a shorter time," the council secretary said. Baturin said that after that Rodionov "permitted himself a somewhat improper remark which was not addressed to anyone particularly but which hurt the president, of course." In his turn Samsonov said that as his report was the continuation of Rodionov's report he had nothing to say. "And after that, what happened, happened," Baturin said. He said the behavior of Rodionov and Samsonov was "not quite correct."

He accounted the appointment of Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Rocket Force Igor Sergeyev as the acting defense minister to the fact that the force is the foundation of the country's defense. Second, Baturin said, Sergeyev "has proved a very thrifty leader: Not a single kopeck in his force was wasted and the situation in it is much better than in others." He also made it understood that the force is not ridden by corruption.

Speaking of other reasons for the appointment he said that "today the Armed Forces are becoming and must become technically more advanced, equipped with 21st century arms, hence the Defense Ministry should be led by a technically-minded person who has a very good idea of the essence of the new and future hardware."

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24 May 1997

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