- Andrey Kozyrev
Andrey Vladimirovich Kozyrev ( _ru. Андрей Владимирович Козырев; born
March 27 1951 ) was theforeign minister of Russia under PresidentBoris Yeltsin from October 1990 until his dismissal in January 1996.The son of a Soviet diplomat, he was born in
Brussels, Belgium .Andrey Kozyrev graduated from the
Moscow State Institute of International Relations . He joined theUSSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1968, and held various posts including the Head of the Department of International Organizations.After the failed
Soviet coup attempt of 1991 , he found himself in Yeltsin's team of young reformers, which includedYegor Gaidar andAnatoly Chubais , and shared their Western liberal-democratic ideals.Fact|date=December 2007At the
UN General Assembly Kozyrev declared in 1993, by the time of the end of Abkhazian War: "“Russia realizes that nointernational organization or group of states can replace ourpeacekeeping efforts in this specific post-Soviet space.”" [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979366,00.html In Russia's Shadow] , "TIME Magazine ", October 11, 1993]Kozyrev was criticized by the Russian
State Duma for capitulating to the West, which led to Russia's loss of the position of "superpower ", as well as for the alleged failure to support theBosnian Serbs duringBosnian War .He was succeeded by
Yevgeny Primakov .References
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