WORLD : Shevardnadze Return Suggested
Vice President Gennady I. Yanayev suggested today that Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze might withdraw his resignation and stay on, and he reiterated that Soviet foreign policy will not change.
If Shevardnadze decides to stay, it may be because President Mikhail S. Gorbachev persuaded him to do so. The two have spoken by phone and met several times since Shevardnadze announced his resignation Dec. 20 in a dramatic speech to Parliament, stunning Gorbachev and the world.
“In politics and personnel issues, prognoses of things are dangerous,” Yanayev told the Associated Press.
Then he added cryptically, “I never said anywhere there would be a new foreign minister. Why do you exclude that Shevardnadze might remain?”
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
