Missile defence as a common cause for all (Jane's Defence Weekly, London)
Russia, who had every reason to believe that the American BMD in Poland and the Czech Republic is not suitable to confront Iran, raised the obvious question: who read more...
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On September 1, when the academic year begins, Lavrov addressed Russia’s future diplomats – students of the Moscow State University of Foreign Relations (MGIMO). “We expect more clarity from our partners in NATO. I think this organization has been balancing between the past and the future far too long,” he said. The minister mentioned discussions about NATO’s new Strategic Concept, which is to replace the 1999 concept, as an example of such duality. Lavrov agreed with analysts that the report “can hardly be considered a strategic response to Russia’s security initiatives"
Artificial linkage the Agreement on Adaptation has not yet been ratified by the United States and other NATO member countries. Moreover, the Rome Declaration by Heads of State and Government of Russia and NATO “Russia-NATO Relations: A New Quality” (2002) is likewise not observed. Its “Arms Control and Confidence-Building Measures” section reads that the Parties “will work cooperatively toward ratification by all the States Parties and entry into force of the Agreement on Adaptation of the CFE Treaty, which would permit accession by non-CFE states.”
Dmitry Rogozin insists that if someone has doubts about the peaceful nature of such facilities, they should share their concerns with the organizations responsible for building these plants. “In the case of the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, they should contact the IAEA and Moscow,” he said. The Russian envoy to NATO underlined that the Bushehr nuclear power plant has nothing to do with the military and it would be a crime to use military force against civilian facilities. The diplomat reminded that Russia closely co-operated with the UN and China, a Security Council member, over the peaceful nature of the Bushehr nuclear project. Also, Rogozin ruled out the very possibility of NATO attacking Iran
Afghanistan should be a neutral state, Russia’s Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin announced Tuesday. “We will push for a neutral Afghanistan, unaligned with any military coalitions,” he told Ekho Moskvy radio, Commenting on the leak of secret documents on NATO military operations in Afghanistan, Rogozin said the incident should be treated with caution as this could be deliberate misinformation. Some participants in the Afghan campaign may seize the opportunity to consider a troop pullout, the diplomat said
Russia is the country with the world`s third largest group of drug addicts (after Afghanistan and Iran). Whereas a decade ago Russia officially counted 369,000 drug addicts, by 2009 the figure topped 500,000. The reality is even more frightening than the healthcare statistics reflects — tentatively, 2 — 2.5 mln Russians are drug addicts, the people thrown out of normal life. It is a significant dimension of the problem that some 20% of the drug addicts in Russia are schoolchildren, roughly 60% are aged between 16 and 30, and 20% are people over 30. Russia`s drug control agency estimates that narcotics kill around 100,000 people across the world every year. The loss of life in Russia, the country whose population makes just 2% of the world`s total, accounts for roughly a third of the toll. The plan for joint struggle against the drug threat addressed at the forum to the Western coalition occupying Afghanistan included seven points
The Collective Security Treaty Organizations is teaming up with the International Migration Organization and the Red Cross for sending more aid to southern Kyrgyzstan and the refugees who crossed from this area into Uzbekistan. It also pledges further assistance to the armed services of Kyrgyzstan. CSTO head Nikolai Bordiuzha discussed these and other matters with the Kyrgyz national security supremo Alik Orozov and Interior Minister Ruslan Kazakbayev at a meeting with them in Moscow on Wednesday. They also looked into ways to defuse the situation after seven days of clashes between members of the ethnic Kyrgyz and the ethnic Uzbek communities in southern Kyrgyzstan. All three agreed that the rioting was the result of deliberate incitement
"The discoveries – if there were some – were made by the Soviets during the 1980s. There was a World Bank report from 2004 that has all of this stuff. At the time of Karzai coming to Washington and meeting with Hillary Clinton there was a bunch of talks about the mineral wealth of Afghanistan. So it is a very important thing, but not new. The question is, what are we dealing with here? This is a planted story. Who is the only US top official mentioned in the article? It is General David Petraeus, the commander of the Central Command. People in Washington know that he is an active candidate for president. He has been groomed by the Republican Party. What he saying is ‘make me a President and we can exploit this wealth’,” Tarpley explained his point of view
In addition, as Chairman of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), President Medvedev gave directions to hold consultations of secretaries of security councils of the CSTO member states in the nearest future to come up with joint response measures. The Russian leader also had a series of meetings devoted to the situation in Kyrgyzstan with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha. Dmitry Medvedev receives detailed briefings on the crisis in Kyrgyzstan and is aware of communications being addressed to him. Nevertheless, at the moment Russia does not intend to send any peacekeepers to Kyrgyzstan to participate in settling the situation in Osh
The United States believes the policy of destroying all Afghan opium crops has badly backfired and must be stopped. Its forces on Afghan soil have already received appropriate orders. Ambassador John Beyrle told this to a Russian news agency in an interview in Moscow Wednesday. He cited numerous instances in which poppy eradication stripped farmers of their livelihoods and forced them to join the Taliban. At the same time, he did not rule out localized opium destruction operations. In the period since the year 2000, the Afghan-produced heroin is estimated to have been killing some 100 thousand people each year. The Afghan drug industry generates income for three and a half million people
Russia has asked the United States for information about a number of people suspected of organizing the trafficking of Afghan drugs to Russia, a Russian official said on Thursday. "We have identified several people who live in the U.S. and organize the trafficking of drugs from Afghanistan to Russia. We have passed this information on to the appropriate U.S. entities and we are waiting for confirmation," Russia's drug chief, Viktor Ivanov, told an international anti-drug forum in Moscow. He said he hopes efficient mutual cooperation will help detain the dealers and halt the flow of drugs
NATO should cooperate with the CSTO post-Soviet security bloc in efforts to combat Afghan drug trafficking, Russia's NATO envoy said on Wednesday at the international anti-drugs forum in Moscow. "We are interested in cooperation between the CSTO and NATO. We do not understand those who say the CSTO represents only Russia's interests and can therefore have no contact with NATO," Dmitry Rogozin said. "Such ideological approaches do not match the threat coming from Afghanistan." Russian and NATO approved earlier this year a military cooperation treaty in which Russia gave its support for the U.S.-led military operation in Afghanistan and agreed to military transit via Russian airspace
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Important Issues
June 08, 2010
The first weekly media briefing in June by the Russian MFA Spokesman Andrey Nesterenko
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April 20, 2010
Remarks by Sergey Ryabkov at the International Conference on Disarmament and Nonproliferation
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Documents
June 5, 2008
Dmitry Medvedev's Speech at Meeting with German Political, Parliamentary and Civic Leaders
April 4, 2008
Chairman’s statement: Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Heads of State and Government held in Bucharest
April 3, 2008
Bucharest Summit Declaration, issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Bucharest on 3 April 2008
February 22, 2007
Vladimir Putin's Speech and the Following Discussion at the Munich Conference on Security Policy
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