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 are served by our Agricultural Attache in Stockholm, and Moldova is served similarly out of Sofia. 

 We are suffering from the lack of a full fledged, professional Agricultural Attache in each of our 

 embassies located in the FSU. The needs are esjjecially dire in Kiev for Ukraine and Alma Ata for 

 Kazakhstan. 



There are many crying needs for assistance in Russian agriculture, but none have been voiced more, 

 and over the years, than for an extension service. Tell me, explain to me, please, how docs your 

 extension system work? How is it financed' What does the farmer pay for the use he makes of it?" 

 There has been no more universal or fi-equently posed question that I can recall in all of my years 

 dealing with people concerned with agriculture in the FSU. One of the Deputy Ministers of 

 Agriculture in Russia has been tasked with creating an extension service. They are serious about 

 this and have been. I cannot say our record is very bright, in my opinion. Unfortunately, we take 

 our own very successful agricultural extension service for granted and do not consider it terribly 

 glamorous. We are envied because of it, nonetheless. 



One of my main concerns is about the comment all of us have heard, "Russia is just another Third 

 World country, but it has nuclear weapons." Clearly, the foct that Russia does possess such weapons 

 makes it different from other countries with very serious economic difficulties. It is a huge country 

 in many ways and we are used to thinking about it in terms of millions or hundreds of millions or 

 billions. That picture - amplified by our own mentality • is behind why we and others have already 

 spent so much, and pledged even more, where Russia is concerned. 



There are many more and far reaching differences between Russia and other countries that we have 

 ever attempted to help, and here I feel the United States could do better. In foct, I would go so far 



