Russia's ambassador to NATO says to combine public life with diplomacy

       ROME, September 13 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry
Rogozin, who is also a special envoy for the issues related to the
antiballistic missile systems, plans to continue combining activity in
social and public life and work in the field of diplomacy.
    He said it addressing a group of Russian reporters in Rome where he
held talks with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and officials from
the Defense Ministry and Foreign Ministry. The talks were held at a
request from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
    "I never broke away from public or political life in Russia and along
with it I've spent the past three and a half years in the capacity of a
politician and diplomat," Rogozin said.
    "No one has ever forbidden the expression of a Russian citizen's
political position for me," he went on. "I don't see any contradictions
between the execution of professional duties, which I have as a
presidential envoy, and my civic position inside the country."
    "I don't have the right to call into question the tasks that the
President sets forth to me for the talks, and I'll try to combine these
things in some way," Rogozin said when a reporter asked about his activity
after a possible return to Moscow from Brussels in the run-up to a
presidential election due next March.