MOSCOW, JULY 21 (from RIA Novosti correspondent Maria Balynina) - Federal President Boris Yeltsin rules out Russian military intervention in the current Afghan developments. "We shall not do it -- enough is enough," he said to Defence Minister

Igor Sergeyev as they met at the Volga Cliff sanatorium in the

Samara Region, where the President is vacationing.

The conferees also debated situations in several other powder-keg areas, the North Caucasus and Georgia among them.

An upcoming Russian army reform was also on the agenda. The President said that he had been informed about NATO and Chinese opinions of it. Both think that Russia is to gain much from this reform, Anatoli Sherstnev, in charge of the Samara regional administration press service, said to RIA.

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Johnson's Russia List

#1071

22 July 1997

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