A Man of Change by The President В. Yeltsin Centre Foundation;Malysheva O G;Malkhozova F V;

Author:The President В. Yeltsin Centre Foundation;Malysheva, O G;Malkhozova, F V; [YELTSIN, BORIS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 2033459
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications Ltd
Published: 2015-04-23T00:00:00+00:00

On the road to the Novo-Ogarovo accords

Yeltsin had not only held onto his post as chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR at the Congress, but had also managed to secure additional powers for the Congress so that it could implement reforms. In his speech at the Congress, Yeltsin set out his political program, taking into account the changes which were occurring in the Soviet Union. Commenting on the need to prepare a new Act of Union, he observed:

“At the Union-wide and republican levels it is essential that we satisfy the following political conditions. Number one. The immediate start of dialog between all the political forces and professional associations of all the republics, on the principles of a ‘round-table discussion’.

Number two. The formation of a broad democratic coalition of parties, workers’ movements and various associations, including forward-thinking members of the CPSU.

Number three. The official rejection of the use of force, including military force, as an instrument of conducting a political battle.

Number four. The development of a system of direct democracy, and the implementation of decisions taken in union and republican referenda.

Number five. Genuine departization of the bodies of the procurator, justice department, KGB, army and state administration; a ban on combining party roles with senior positions in executive bodies and government, including for the President of the country.

Number six. The introduction of a system of delineation of powers as the start of the construction of a legal state. An immediate moratorium on unsanctioned lawmaking at various levels of the legislature.

Number seven. The cancellation of unconstitutional decisions made by union and republican bodies, which impinge on citizens’ political, economic, social and personal rights and freedoms, and the creation of an effective system of guarantees that they will be provided.

Number eight. The creation of genuine political pluralism, and guarantees of a multi-party system.

Number nine. The creation of the right conditions for the exercise of citizens’ constitutional rights to receive accurate information, and a guarantee of independence on the part of the mass media.”

Yeltsin insisted that a coalition government of popular trust and national consensus be set up immediately, and that an Act of Union between sovereign states be signed very soon, as a federative, voluntary association, whose members had equal rights and which was open to new members, and on the immediate formation of new Union bodies. He spoke of the need “to effect the transition to a market economy...quickly and decisively, or else we will see not only the processes of collapse developing, but also processes of divergence. And it is not as a result of good standards of living that the republics and regions are attempting to withdraw into themselves, but because of economic instability, devastation, and social apathy, which are all related to the fact that social problems have not been solved. For this reason a rapid and determined movement towards market relations is capable — uniquely capable! — of binding together in an economic sense our regions, our republics, all of our territories into a single whole — what you and I call the RSFSR.

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