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Pres sees no progress in key problems, wants to discuss them with
TOYAKO, Japan, July 6 (Itar-Tass) - President Dmitry Medvedev intends to openly state his concerns over some issues at a meeting with US President George Bush, which find no solution, despite assurances of the American leadership, said the Russian president's aide Sergei Prikhodko.
According to the president's assistant, the matter in question is the US air-defence system, the START Treaty, NATO expansion and other problems.
"The total balance in the Russian-American strategic dialogue remains positive, which does not mean of course that it lacks points of disagreement and serious differences," Prikhodko noted, speaking of the coming meeting of the two leaders to be held in Japan on July 7 at the G-8 summit.
"These are, above all, interconnected air defence questions and
strategic offensive weapons. The Russian side openly says of its concerns over the state of affairs in this sphere," he emphasised.
Prikhodko pointed to the Kremlin's position on air defence. "We are against unilateral plans of bringing the strategic military infrastructure to our borders. We have a reasonable alternative of joint and equal response to hypothetical missile threats, and it remains in force," he added.
The president's aide noted that Bush "heard our concerns at a Sochi meeting in April and promised to take measures to remove them". "True, regrettably, his signal was likely to die away at the executive level," Prikhodko regretted.
"We hope that the Toyako meeting will give an additional impetus to American negotiators to perk up work on real rather than propaganda
account of our concerns," he continued.
According to Prikhodko, a similar situation is shaping up around the START Treaty. "There is no real progress: Russia is offered "clap-trap", as before, in the form of transparency measures, excluding control over strategic launch vehicles and other SOW components," he explained.
"We hope again that the US president will succeed in swinging the
situation during the time, left to Bush at the White House before the
presidential elections, so as to reach a mutually acceptable understanding before the year-end," he stated. "The entire world community is waiting for us to make this move," the president's aide added.
Prikhodko noted that "differences persist both on Kosovo, future
control over conventional armaments in the context of the CFE Treaty and concerning luring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO". "This is, as before 'a red line' for us for developing relations with the alliance and the US in particular," he explained. "I believe that the Russian president will confirm this at a meeting with Bush," Prikhodko went on to say.
"Sure, he will describe in detail his proposed alternative to raising new dividing lines in Europe - an idea of working out a new European Security Treaty, he recently aired in Berlin."
According to the president's assistant, the matter in question is the US air-defence system, the START Treaty, NATO expansion and other problems.
"The total balance in the Russian-American strategic dialogue remains positive, which does not mean of course that it lacks points of disagreement and serious differences," Prikhodko noted, speaking of the coming meeting of the two leaders to be held in Japan on July 7 at the G-8 summit.
"These are, above all, interconnected air defence questions and
strategic offensive weapons. The Russian side openly says of its concerns over the state of affairs in this sphere," he emphasised.
Prikhodko pointed to the Kremlin's position on air defence. "We are against unilateral plans of bringing the strategic military infrastructure to our borders. We have a reasonable alternative of joint and equal response to hypothetical missile threats, and it remains in force," he added.
The president's aide noted that Bush "heard our concerns at a Sochi meeting in April and promised to take measures to remove them". "True, regrettably, his signal was likely to die away at the executive level," Prikhodko regretted.
"We hope that the Toyako meeting will give an additional impetus to American negotiators to perk up work on real rather than propaganda
account of our concerns," he continued.
According to Prikhodko, a similar situation is shaping up around the START Treaty. "There is no real progress: Russia is offered "clap-trap", as before, in the form of transparency measures, excluding control over strategic launch vehicles and other SOW components," he explained.
"We hope again that the US president will succeed in swinging the
situation during the time, left to Bush at the White House before the
presidential elections, so as to reach a mutually acceptable understanding before the year-end," he stated. "The entire world community is waiting for us to make this move," the president's aide added.
Prikhodko noted that "differences persist both on Kosovo, future
control over conventional armaments in the context of the CFE Treaty and concerning luring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO". "This is, as before 'a red line' for us for developing relations with the alliance and the US in particular," he explained. "I believe that the Russian president will confirm this at a meeting with Bush," Prikhodko went on to say.
"Sure, he will describe in detail his proposed alternative to raising new dividing lines in Europe - an idea of working out a new European Security Treaty, he recently aired in Berlin."
