YVES SILLARD LETTER

Yves Sillard, who was NATO assistant Secretary General for science and environment and the former commander of the Kourou cosmodrome and the director of the Oceanography Insitute, named after Jacques Yves Cousteau, wrote some letters to N. E. Alyoshin (e. g. http://isaurian.blogspot.ru/2013/03/darwin-species-bible.html#more). One of his letters read further.

ORGANISATION DU TRAITE DE L'ATLANTIQUE NORD NORTH   ATLANTIC  TREATY   ORGANIZATION

LE SECRETAIRE GENERAL ADJOINT

POUR LES AFFAIRES SCIENTIFIOUES

ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT

ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL

FOR SCIENTIFIC AND

ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS

8- 1110 BRUXELLES TEL : 707.4209/10

11th December, 1998 ASG.SEA(98)451

Prof. Nicolas E. Alyoshin

Dlinnaya St.

W108, F1

Krasnodar

350000 RUSSIA

■ Dear Professor Alyoshin,

Thank you for your three letters, which provided very interesting information about the situation in your country and, more specifically, in the Krasnodar Territory. I understand that you have to face very difficult working and living conditions and I do hope that this situation will improve as soon as possible, although it will probably take a few years to find solutions to the enormous challenges set by Russia.

In a modest way the NATO Science Programme is trying to help scientists from your country and from the Eastern European countries to create new links with the international scientific community. It has been fully reoriented in 1998 towards promoting cooperation in all civilian scientific and technological areas between NATO and Eastern countries. New documentation on this Programme is under preparation and will be available on the NATO web site (http://www.nato.int/science) at the beginning of next year.  In January, I shall send you this documentation in written form.

Despite the difficult problems you have to overcome, allow me to wish you a very happy New Year.

Yours sincerely,

Y. Sillard

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