of certain individuals affect the overall state of russia to relationships this is a very sensitive issue you probably know that the problem here is the shortcomings of russia e.u. relations in the sphere of observing international law situation concerning uk meds archive is a clear example of this he obviously took part in terrorist activity on the territory of the russian federation despite this fact he is granted political asylum by an e.u. state he is free to move from one european country to another obviously there is no way we can put up with the situation and of course things like that do have an influence on the character and atmosphere of our diplomatic relations that's why i'd like to call on our european partners to be more responsible because if they continue to act as they do now it will have a negative effect on the development of our relations thank you very much for this interview but you are welcome.

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dimitri were gosan russia's envoy to nato about moscow's future relations with the alliance is coming your way next in spotlight stay with us. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. hello again welcome to spotlight the interview show on r.t. . today my guest in the studio is the need to keep. the upcoming summit the nato leaders will discuss and most probably accept a new security concept this document will guide the block's policy for the next decade the concept of terrorism nuclear proliferation and cyber crime the main

threats to security. agree scott's did manage to somehow those who masterminded the strategic paper or maybe something moscow would like to improve were asking russia a special envoy to nato. just a month before the lisbon summit many experts agree the proposed security concept be welcomed by all analytical think tank criticizes the concept or the lack of a unified perception of threats to the alliance with countries to their own goals and failed to find a common threat the need to secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen says he was sure the walk real. proposed missile defense shield. also sounds. like russia to become a part of the system. hello mr i was.

for joining our program first of all how would you assess the recent. porton for russia to work at various levels both in large scale form. the european union the united nations in the see anyone formats in other forms and says well russia has existed was developed in europe for thousands of years so we have a long history of relations with the leading european nations so i mean that's why whenever i'm asked to wonder this summit has brought something new. that would be holding joint summits with france and germany for at least three hundred years it's a very important because both france and germany are in the. european

union in nato. they have influence and they have their own opinions and russia has not a total indifference to their positions i think that's danger and should also take account of the russian stance it's an open secret that the arrangements we are trying to reach are related to other organizations including nato and the european union at the school do you think that the document. really have a bombshell effects or is it just routine politics. the russian president is not the only person who thinks about how to build relations inside the european union side of the greater europe so to speak from the point of view of restoring imbalance of interests or other leaders who are thinking about that everybody knows about. the eighty is nicolas sarkozy who is borat is so-called concept of security from his russian colleagues so the regards to the creation of the common european perimeter of security and various levels of security within

a vast european space and that is why in this respect all president has an opportunity to talk to people whose presence. not just nominal and who are ready to listen and come up with their own ideas. there had been a lot of call prior to the. creation of the. moscow axis the idea was first launched in two thousand and three. abandoned later as it's true that the idea is once again on the agenda. and i think that it's for our fellow journalists i myself am a journalist. so it's important for our fellow journalists not just to write a simple story but. it's not just an obstacle that falls on the pedestrians here but a nightmare. they're also building well not he but i can see panic

feeling it's it's a nightmare everything is falling. apart the european union is to collapse. the russians have made friends with the successors. but in fact we are really working with various formats so i will give you an example stay in moscow for just a few days now and then i'll have to return to brussels. highlevel expert conference to be held in a totally different forum that will be russia poland and germany so we are trying to build triangles. tents because this is what consultations are all of. when you have twenty eight or twenty nine states in one form and like the nato council each state to risk even a few minutes at the most to express his point of view so narrow four minutes are used to form something different so narrow formats is where the actual work is done

and they help finalize agreements that have been reached. standing behind. russia and europe which is something the. you don't deny that the new york times for example writes the main reason is desire to distance russia from china on the contrary the british newspaper the times says that it's an attempt to tear off from america writes british history. partially have always been. when russia started building up its european policy. also thought that it should be in their interest there are. others. certainly not in our. continent i would love to skeptics are so much concerned with russia's return to european experience that russia has always been and will continue to be a european nation. was

a century of exceptions rather than rules what i mean is this isolation self isolation. bit of us trying to restore your unity create ever lasting peace. between russia and europe from the twentieth century. seems that the germans are going to insist on their right to have nuclear weapons withdrawn from german territory and how far do you think they will go. just their trump card or is it serious politics. just given an example would be a subject of accord between france and germany because the french nuclear doctrine the use such that it doesn't even provide for france's participation in nato as nuclear planning. to nato military organization france has reserved its full sovereignty nuclear. france's return to nato train.

still sticking to the equality. directions started by charles de gaulle but it's there's also certain unpredictability with regards to watch be considered an act of aggression against france an attack on french territory an attack on french interests for the germans theory absolutely different like some other european countries germany favors that would. have to go nuclear weapons on the european continent and went to russia has withdrawn all tactical weapons from the territorial form and saw that allies and keeps these weapons in russia while the americans consume keeping their weapons in europe many europeans don't quite that when i talk to ordinary people in brussels you know not just working there i'm also living in the city so i go to the barbers and speak to my neighbors and when i tell

them that u.s. nuclear bombs are located fifty kilometers away from their homes you know firstly they don't know anything about that and secondly they get depressed when they find out if this is that or not to tell all of the world no i think we should keep telling them that is why it's very important for the germans to seek the europeans so world becomes free from foreign sceptical nuclear weapons just make sure you don't mention nuclear bombs to your dentist when you're in his chair. as far as i know has suggested involving russia in this so-called european missile defense he did moscow hear anything specific about this and what was the reaction when can we expect a reaction that. the defense is not limited by missile defense per se. giving nato's integrity let me explain what i mean by that the bush administration used to overstep nato and build relations with different partners

directly that's the way they dealt with poland and the czech republic which are the neato would find out. after the fact it was. train nato rasmussen in houston to see nato is integrity preserved talks with all countries and with the u.s. in particular about this common european missile defense system for all the allies you know also partners like russia but at this point is more of a political ad t.n.a. has to do more with nato so internally show of unity. so when we are trying to figure out so to see if there is a black cat in this dark room or maybe diskette is no longer black or maybe it's missing a tail or ahead no one can explain it so we're dealing with a political invitation basically economists but they're trying to involve russia into something unknown to us. head of the summit to the debates over the new strategic concept final stage in the discussions among nato

wise men how can this new concept change nato as policy towards russia. he didn't even. first of all there was manna have no longer anything to do with this new concept it was some sort of a trick on the one hand we saw that some work was being done on certain paper there wasn't one to all capitals including moscow he did come here. yes they came here wrote a paper we studied did fearful it began to comment on it and suddenly we find out that this paper doesn't really matter instead there is another paper that they were not going to show anyone. have nothing to do with it to nato secretary general himself wrote the real peeper you know it is being discussed by nato member states behind closed doors strong russia has not seen this document but i hope it will be introduced at the summit so you haven't even seen it. yes let's put it this way we

haven't seen it and no one has given it to you to read right we're not doing these documents or that's why you can't make any comments have. that's right of course. right another question is the munich security conference session that's currently taking place in moscow sums up us as to what issues are being discussed at that session so that's first of all i would love to say that the russian president will be hostile to screw you know i think it will be a significant event because the president he's hosking the group after he made certain decisions in deauville together with his french and german court nurse but the mini conference which has the reputation off the main security forum it involves country leaders or key decision makers. and the fact that it's a mini conference now has sessions in russia. says a lot about the importance that russia is not playing in the decision making

process it asked for in the munich conference itself it will take place in february next year and its main fall course will be in the caucasus. and they're off also leaders over. here but china will be key presenters dear john says the. russian representative to nato spotlight will be back shortly off till we take this should break saddles stay with us. welcome back to spotlight i'm malvern love and just

a reminder that my guest in this studio is the meeting i was in russia representative to nato. and it's not a nato summit in lisbon let's go to. place in november but russia was invited to it . this invitation and who will represent our country there so. we're not supposed to take part in nato or the turn of events and we will but on the sidelines of this event there will be a special meeting for countries that send troops to afghanistan. president. and some others. participate in this meeting so they will go to lisbon even though there won't be any special meeting with ukraine in georgia. as for russia we don't participate in nato advance but we are ready for a serious dialogue at the top level within the russian nato council format. have discussed their share of russia joining nato several times. you like to quote

since you're one of us love to discuss this topic. whenever we talk about nato because it's the most interesting part of what. city you expert and former german defense minister added heat by saying that the time has come to accept russia and to nato. he suddenly say that. mr full career as a friend of mine even published a few things together in the german press. but i have never doubted he's a personal integrity and professional skills. and as a former term defense minister mr shaw really thinks that it is possible to by the way you asked this question it seems like it was your idea and you. know not at all of course not on the contrary i have always told you i don't believe in

it. mr rogers you have this opinion and he's sincere in his. others on the other hand are not being so sincere or talking about this issue because they think this could entrap. and want to get carried away talking about joining nato it is like saying that if a grandmother had a mustache she would have been a grandfather. we know that and would not turn a grandmother into a grandfather. it's the same with russia when it will not become in the member and it's pointless to discuss this but it is just. used to undermine our objections against other countries joining nato countries like georgia ukraine and so forth. if we ourselves join nato how can we be. doing the same

in fact we realize that the new nato members to join nato escaping from russia will not produce a scary russian beer. to join the alliance. the presidential thing called. they often raise this issue of russia joining nato saying this step is a necessity. what do you think about these guys from the institute of contemporary development. i think they are naive. concept nato ones to stipulate its rights far beyond the borders of nato countries . but of course press thinking about the guys down there right away. as russia concerned about this freedom that nato is trying to grant and sell. well yes. it could because there need to be certain criteria for assessing threats coming

from different parts of the world. nato thinks that these threats come from everywhere and usually from forward beyond nato. give it a few substantial but our home then. just imagine the situation what if nato thinks that a mosquito on your forehead if he actually means to bite them. or they gather all their nato mighty. sledgehammer and it was huge huge in the florida would it. both you. and the mosquito really knew us was it was it that you told me sounds very russian started to people sit on the porch drinking tea. because the other one on the forehead and says sorry mosquito i have not seen this kind of concern in other countries. and all russian traditions are good and should be applied by other countries the u.s. state department has confirmed the european travel alert issued earlier this month

spotlights in the event of a has the details. europe is a dangerous place at least according to the us state department which issued another it at the beginning of october it suggests europe has become target for al qaeda what immediately raised questions was the vagueness of the alert which wasn't country specific but covered the whole continent the media speculation that several european landmarks could be targets among those most frequently named have been there a few and not are dumb cathedral in paris as well as central station and hotel and lawn it was mentioned that the planned terrorist attacks could go along the lines of the move by attacks two years ago then a small group of terrorists attacked a number of sites and killed more than one hundred sixty people the threat apparently comes from the region on the border between pakistan and afghanistan where terrorists are trained following the u.s.

alerts several countries including britain japan sweden and france issued their own travel warnings as for the travel as they appear to be. trip advisor dot com and usa today only thirteen percent of americans decided to defer their trip to europe. this terrorist threat. from al qaida talking about. complicated structure as dated does not help in dealing with today's challenges. just think about security problems and by the way. this point needs its military forces only in order to defend its borders from outside of. who would attack nato. especially because she's no longer considered an enemy but it

needs to be involved in all nato projects. then it can accept nato is a good question if anybody plans to attack nato this would not be a military threat and in order to deal with this threat they don't need such huge military forces they need some. special services these services could exchange information some duct special operations targeting certain regions dealing with specific threats nato can spend as much time as it wants looking for a job but i think its current qualifications make it hard for the alliance to find an appropriate job. has been revealed. into the issue of delegating. to the afghan authorities. we are now getting alarming reports from afghanistan. you think this process of.

take. i don't think will find. any example in history when americans answered some country and then exited right away but when they do something like that they don't usually plan on an immediate pull back to you know i think that in some form or another if the nato contingent will stay near ghana stand or in the entire region they will find some kind of excuse for staying so they will stay on some military bases maybe not in afghanistan itself but close to its borders but of course the one hundred fifty thousand soldiers and a huge amount of equipment will be pulled out but you will with the wife well because nato realized that their methods dealing with insurgency don't work in afghanistan and secondly they don't really want to fight there that. they mostly

try to use our there are special forces or the afghan army but afghan forces don't have a strong fighting spirit yet we will do so in this sense meaning in the nato headquarters or discouraged maybe when close to panic but each so the troops will also because of the war in afghanistan is very unpopular especially with the european countries so they will delegate responsibilities to the local afghan people and to special services. to do this will be discussed unless bought a right to go ride but let me give you some numbers which may surprise you need to expand was about seventy thousand people to resign from the have can secure it the forces next year but how can you say that you have an army how can you say that you have security forces when half of me were soldiers resigning every year some afraid

it thirty americans and their allies have just stirred up the corn it's nasty and now they are pretending like everything is fine when you post stuff that has happened that europeans who post. going out of gas town and americans will be the only ones left there to fight that war alone the whale was. very possible as i said most likely americans will studio here in one form or another so you're leaving americans will stay but what about nato. will nato solidarity is useful in the forward a way in the battles to european military presence is often purely nominal should take iceland for example and they have two officers in of ghana stand because it was always talking about here. it is important to marry constantly to have their reactions outside and as a legitimate you see that's why the answered of ghana stand along with the european troops and then you. give about this is not important to europeans europeans for

one reason and the shuttlecock this way they see one security. stand he actually spend money and personnel for the supplanting solidarity so it doesn't really go well with the european law and you can see also you need to remember ship which. thank you very much for being with us and just delighted that my guest here in the studio today was that was and russian representative to nato and that's if the now from all of us here if you want to have your sales spotlight or if you have someone in mind to think i should until next time. at altitude. and let's keep spotlight interact with me back with more friends and comments on the what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on and take care.

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