FBIS London UK: Moscow Consolidated 13 Mar 92

This document is a Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) summary from London, dated March 13, 1992, detailing a consolidated report of news and briefings from Moscow. The document covers a variety of political, economic, and military topics. Politically, it notes a press briefing by Russian foreign ministry spokesman Vitaliy Churkin and a meeting between Khasbulatov and Hans-Jochen Vogel of the Socialist International. Economically, the report highlights a drug-trafficking case involving heroin moving from Asia to Holland via Moscow, an international business conference, and various Radio Moscow programs, including a 'business club' and a 'women's world' program. The document also touches on the potential revival of the COMECON economic organization. In the realm of defense and security, the report summarizes statements by defense analyst Vadim Solovyev regarding Russian-U.S. strategic nuclear cutbacks. It further details reports from CIS nuclear forces spokesman General Sergey Zelentsov concerning the future of Soviet nuclear weapons, the alleged presence of nuclear weapons in Transcaucasia, and a denial by a CIS armed forces official regarding the theft of enriched uranium from army depots. Finally, it mentions an interview with General Zelentsov regarding a proposal by Kravchuk to create an international control body for the destruction of Ukrainian nuclear missiles, and a brief note on talks between Kozyrev and Baker in Brussels.