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Putin, reading the last message, suggested the OSCE to discuss the topic about the United States in Europe
Russian President Vladimir Putin, announcing his last message to the Federal Assembly on Thursday in Moscow, suggested discussing plans for the placement of elements of American strategic weapons in Europe, Interfax reports.
"For the first time in Europe, elements of American strategic weapons may appear. It is obvious that such US plans for the placement of a missile defense system in Europe are not an exclusively Russian -American relationship," the president said.
He indicated that this affects the interests of all European states, including those not part of NATO. In this regard, the president believes that "this issue deserves, even requires discussion in the OSCE as part of the military-political measurement of this organization."
“It is time to fill the OSCE activity with real content, turn the organization with a person to the problems that really exciting the peoples of Europe, and not to look for fleas in the post -Soviet space,” Putin said, immediately adding that he supports Kazakhstan’s candidacy for the post of OSCE Chairman and hopes that “Kazakhstan’s chairmanship will allow this organization to give the necessary positive impulse to work.”
According to the Russian president, Russian foreign policy is aimed at "joint pragmatic and non -uniform work to solve the problems for us." He clarified that we are talking "about the culture of international relations based on international law without imposing models of development and forcing the natural process of the historical process."
According to Putin, "here the issues of democratization of international life, the new ethics of communication between states and peoples, as well as the expansion of economic and humanitarian interaction between countries, acquire a special role here.
“Hence the attention that we must pay to strengthen the common humanitarian space within the CIS, increase the efficiency of working with compatriots abroad, and the use of well -established forms of cooperation through civilian societies,” he emphasized.
The President noted that "an important reserve of humanitarian work is a youth, educational and cultural exchange." “Modern Russia, restoring its economic potential and realizing its capabilities, strives for equal relations with all countries and does not behave arrogantly. We only defend our economic interests and use our competitive advantages, as all of the state of the world do without exception,” Putin emphasized.
Lavrov: The question of about will be raised in Putin's negotiations with the president of the Czech Republic
The Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, answering the question of ITAR-TASS, said that at the negotiations on Friday the presidents of Russia and the Czech Republic, Vladimir Putin would raise the question of placing elements of American Pro in the Czech Republic. “Of course, this question will be raised,” he said.
Recall that NATO supported the US plans for the deployment of a Pro system in Europe. As the general secretary of the Alliance, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, "allies are united in matters of threats and plans for further actions" said at the end of negotiations in Brussels.
At the same time, the former UN military analyst William Ritter warned Europe about the danger of accommodation about the United States. He considers the US plans for the construction of the Pro in Europe as an attempt by the Bush administration to isolate Russia and calls for Europeans not to participate in this project, fraught with a new turn of nuclear weapons race, in which American about will not protect Europe from "modern military technologies of Russians."