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Liaison with Soviets on Berlin Polish aircraft hijackings US Strategic Defense Initiative Relations with US East Berlin Embassy Terrorist gangs Brussels, Belgium: NATO Political Officer and Deputy 1985-1987 Political Committee Nuclear and Space talks Sharing with Soviets SDI and INF deployment National Security Council, Soviet issues 1987-1989 Iran Contra fallout Reagan's "tear down the wall" speech Views on Soviet collapse Reagan's Moscow visit Reagan and Gorbachev Romania visit Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) 1989 London Information Forum Paris Conference on Human Dimension Vienna, Austria; Deputy Head of US delegation to CSCE. 1989-1992 Negotiations on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) NATO and Warsaw Pact Forces Negotiations with Soviets Germany reunified European Union/US relations The French Russians Warsaw Pact disintegration Germany and NATO Eastern vs. Western Europe Senior Seminar 1992-1993 Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Chief of Mission (Charge D'Affaires) 1993-1996 Bosnian war Kosovo Economy Warning Demarche to Milosevic Relations with Milosevic Vuk Draskovic Srebrenica Milosevic meetings Russians Personalities 2
Holbrooke visits Albanians Dayton Meetings Europeans Negotiating process Anti-US demonstrations Muslim-Croat Federation Perina's role in Dayton Meetings The Serbs Milosevic-Holbrooke dialogue Serbs reaction to Dayton Accords Serb Albanians State Department; Deputy Assistant Secretary, EUR Bureau 1996-1997 Dayton Accords implementations NATO expansion Strobe Talbott Warren Christopher Madeleine Albright Russia and NATO expansion Europeans Germany Ambassador to Moldova 1998-2001 Ethnic groups Transnistrian conflict Russian troops and materiel Romania interest Government Communists USAID Peace Corps Economy Prostitute trafficking Partnership for Peace Special Negotiator for Eurasian Conflicts 2001-2004 Nagorno-Karabakh International participants Negotiations Key West Approach Minsk Group Prague Process Co-Chairs method Armenian goals OSCE Negotiating problems US Armenian community Abkhazia 3
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Page 27 and 28: Q: So you were there from 1979? PER
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Q: OK, in 1989 you’re going to th
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PERINA: This was an issue because o
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position in Europe, and really the
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Soviet domination. They had histori
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Q: That was my impression as well w
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welcoming dinner in a restaurant an
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Q: How were you received by the Ser
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eard, and he functioned as everythi
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Part of the reason that we didn’t
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One of the more interesting people
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Q: So what was happening with Kosov
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Albanians were very anxious to have
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I remember Holbrooke’s first visi
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cannot now remember what finally tr
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Q: And this was not an idle comment
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price for having a very bad leaders
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PERINA: Certainly during the period
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Q: So you took over the Holbrooke r
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PERINA: Not really. We coordinated
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why I believed that it was not wort
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Q: Can you give a brief summary of
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PERINA: Well the American interests
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shorter visits of three to four wee
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Q: How so? PERINA: Well, he felt un
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Q: Still, it strikes me that all of
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As for the European Union, most Mol
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PERINA: Nagorno-Karabakh is the mos
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e called the “Prague Process” w
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we physically crossed the front lin
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were about three-quarters of the po
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down to the Black Sea. Since I was
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PERINA: It is difficult to say. He
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political interests to keep it goin
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a huge personal embarrassment. It l
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clearly followed the advice because
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good governance and so on. In its b
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Deputy Secretary, Richard Armitage,
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PERINA: Relations with Europe were
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