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Russian Pres, NATO Secretary Gen to discuss European security problems.
MOSCOW, December 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's initiative on signing a
European security treaty is going to be one of the items that President
Dmitry Medvedev will discuss at talks in the Kremlin with NATO Secretary
General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
"Considering the tendency towards improvement of the quality of
partnership with Russia that NATO's new Secretary General has made public,
special attention will be given to the importance of stepping up
cooperation in the interests of greater trust, stability and
predictability of the military and political situation in the
Euro-Atlantic region and more efficacious reacting to the challenges that
equally cause concern in Russia and NATO countries," a source in the
Kremlin told Itar-Tass.
"The Russian President's initiative on signing a treaty on European
security takes on special importance nowadays," the source said.
"It's based on the 2002 Rome Declaration and the principles of
indivisible security and mutual accounting for each other's interests," he
continued.
The draft text of the treaty was handed to NATO November 27, 2009.
"Besides, Medvedev and Rasmussen will examine priorities and concrete
projects of practical joint fighting with terrorism, the proliferation of
the weapons of mass destruction and their delivery vehicles, drugs
trafficking, piracy, as well as elimination of the aftermaths of natural
calamities and manmade disasters," the source said.
He indicated that the two men plan exchanging opinions on a range of
international problems, of which Afghanistan, the Iranian nuclear program
and the Middle East peace settlement come first.
Also Wednesday, Rasmussen is expected to have a meeting with Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the speaker of the upper house of Russian
parliament, Sergei Mironov, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Thursday, Rasmussen will hold talks with the speaker of the State
Duma, Boris Gryzlov, and the Secretary of the Russian Security Council,
Nikolai Patrushev.
As a special item of his itinerary, he will address the students of
MGIMO Diplomatic University.
Rasmussen arrived in Moscow Tuesday.
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European security treaty is going to be one of the items that President
Dmitry Medvedev will discuss at talks in the Kremlin with NATO Secretary
General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
"Considering the tendency towards improvement of the quality of
partnership with Russia that NATO's new Secretary General has made public,
special attention will be given to the importance of stepping up
cooperation in the interests of greater trust, stability and
predictability of the military and political situation in the
Euro-Atlantic region and more efficacious reacting to the challenges that
equally cause concern in Russia and NATO countries," a source in the
Kremlin told Itar-Tass.
"The Russian President's initiative on signing a treaty on European
security takes on special importance nowadays," the source said.
"It's based on the 2002 Rome Declaration and the principles of
indivisible security and mutual accounting for each other's interests," he
continued.
The draft text of the treaty was handed to NATO November 27, 2009.
"Besides, Medvedev and Rasmussen will examine priorities and concrete
projects of practical joint fighting with terrorism, the proliferation of
the weapons of mass destruction and their delivery vehicles, drugs
trafficking, piracy, as well as elimination of the aftermaths of natural
calamities and manmade disasters," the source said.
He indicated that the two men plan exchanging opinions on a range of
international problems, of which Afghanistan, the Iranian nuclear program
and the Middle East peace settlement come first.
Also Wednesday, Rasmussen is expected to have a meeting with Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the speaker of the upper house of Russian
parliament, Sergei Mironov, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Thursday, Rasmussen will hold talks with the speaker of the State
Duma, Boris Gryzlov, and the Secretary of the Russian Security Council,
Nikolai Patrushev.
As a special item of his itinerary, he will address the students of
MGIMO Diplomatic University.
Rasmussen arrived in Moscow Tuesday.
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