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Union cannot be saved, says Gorbachev
MOSCOW, Aug 26. President Mikhail S Gorbachev saying last week's failed coup had completely changed the face of the Soviet Union, indicated today he could no longer resist the demands of secession-minded republics for Independence, reports agencies.
In one of the most dramatic speeches since his perestroika reforms began six years ago. Gorbachev appeared to accept that the union of 15 republics could no longer be saved.
Several of those republics haw already decided that.
Uzbekistan Began moves
toward seceding. Moldova said It would declare independence on Tuesday, joining the Ukraine, Byelorussia and the three Baltic republics.
Iceland became the first Western country to establish diplomatic links with Estonia. Lithuania and Latvia. Canada. Austria and Poland Joined a growing list oQcountrtes saying they were ready to establish Ues with them.
"People are saying that I came back to a different country. I agree with thia." Gorbachev said, referring to his return on Wednesday from
three days of virtual house arrest at this holiday villa in the Crimea during the takeover.
" A man returned from the Crimea to this different country who looks at everything — both the past, the present and the future — with different
This coup has accelerated the breakup of the Soviet Union." Armenian nationalist President Levon Ter-Pctrosyan told reporters In the lobby, reflecting a widely-held view.
Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev said tn a speech the Soviet republics could live
only as a loose confederation.
"Il is obvious to us that the renovated union cannot be a federation." he said, rejecting the existing treaty.
Gorbachev said republics which did not sign, including the Baltics." should be given the right of independent choice."
"After the signing ... we must start al once businesslike negotiations with those who want to leave." he said.
Gorbachev said the republic! should pay compensation to people who decided to leave the republics because of
Independence, but he made no reference to previous Soviet demands that breakaway republics should pay for factories and other sites buill on their territory with union funds.
Be also apparently dropped demands that the republics follow existing constitutional procedures requiring five years of negotiation before secession.
Yeltsin's Russia said it reserved the right to question Its borders with any republic which withdrew from the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev on Monday accepted the blame for not fail
Ing lo head off last week's couf by communist hardliners and said national elections will be held for all government posts. Including his.
Immediately after the Union Treaty is signed, we must begin a campaign to elect all union organs, Including the President," Gorbachev said. Be did not give a timetable.
Calling presidential and parliamentary elections is the prerogative of the country's supreme legislature, the Congress of People's Deputies, which will meet on September 2- The Congress is also due to debate a new election law and will decide whether the elec lions should be direct or Indi reel.
Gorbachev was elected by the Congress in March 1990.
The Congress itself was elected in 1989 by a mixture of direct voting and indirect elections from organisations such as the now-shattered Communist Party.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, hero of last week's coup, was elected executive head of his giant republic in direct elections in June.
The Union Treaty is the document Gorbachev drew up to redefine the relationship between the Soviet central government and the republics.
Before the hard-liners began their putsch, nine republics have agreed to the document and the two biggest - Russia and Kazakhstan — were scheduled to sign ft last Tuesday
Yeltsin said no action can be
taken on ihc treaty until after the Ukrainian parliament meets next month.
Gorbachev said he should have foreseen the attempted overthrow, and accepted some of the blame
The coup was not unex peeled. It did not come out of the blue," he said.
There were portents in the hysterical and provocative articles by rightists tn our press, in the Central Committee, provocative statements by some generals, from the floor of the Congress of People s Deputies, and open sabotage of many decision and government tn a word, the plot was ripening. There were more than enough grounds to adopt extraordinary measures, lo defend constitutional order '
Gorbachev conceded he failed to act to prevent the
"Al the same time, instead of decisive actions and measures, liberalism and leniency were shown. I blame myself first of all for this," he said.
Yeltsin described Lukyanov as the 'principal ideologist* of the bid to oust Gorbachev.
Reporting the resignation. Tasa said Lukyanov had categorically denied being behind the coup when he was ques Honed by the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Valentin Slcpankov, on Saturday
Gorbachev has bitterly erill cised Lukyanov- one of his longest standing friends from student days for failing to call a meeting of parliament In response to the coup attempt.
A Gorbachev aide, Anatoly Chcrnaryev. recounted on Soviet television on Sunday night how Gorbachev had openly reproached Lukyanov when the met at his holiday dacha in the Crimea .
Lukyanovs resignation had been widely expected A spokesman for Gorbachev. Vitaly Ignatenko, told the U S CNN network on Sunday that Lukyanov had asked to be relieved of his post.
A week after the coup, a belated purge of disloyal ele-I mcnls was well under way
.The new Soviet Defence Minister said on Sunday that 80 per certt of the high command would be replaced — the I biggest change since Stalinist military purges in 1937.
On that occasion, the officers were shot after show trials. Gorbachev insist he wants no repetition of those times.
The President ordered KGB troops, seen by Yeltsin as the major threat during the three-day coup, transferred to the control of the Interior Minister. He also sacked the commander of the KGB's "Alpha" anti-terrorist unit who had ordered his troops to storm the Russian Parliament.