How Yeltsin and Clinton tried to bring Cold War foes together at Halifax G7
Former United States president Bill Clinton delivers a speech to a full house at the Cunard Centre in 2007. In 1995, Clinton was in Halifax for the G7 Summit and met with Russian president Boris Yeltsin. - Tim Krochak / File“Bill, we agreed in Moscow that a day or two prior to the NAC we would join PFP and we did so.
Yeltsin made a spirited announcement that Chechen president Dzhokhar Dudayev, who had been at war with Russia, had asked for asylum in Turkey. When the pair made their way up to Brunswick Street and sat down at the Citadel Inn, Clinton addressed what had just happened. Russia had joined the PFP, an organization that allowed countries to align with NATO that may not be able to keep up with or meet the expectations of the organization.
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