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a good program the noid pursued all right. well and there's a headline is up next the trial when all the foreign affairs committee of the russian federation council me helm arguello speaks to all good all about dressing to the logic issues facing russia is up next. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and welcome to spotlight. today my guest is mark. after president medvedev visited the russian territory and tokyo recalled its ambassador from moscow russia pulls this move emotional and hopes it won't hamper

bilateral relations but now tokyo is going to exercise its best at the forthcoming apec summit. how are the two countries going to get along well i asked the chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the federation council. japan's move to recall its ambassador in moscow has been criticized by the russian political elite but they don't believe it will seriously spoil relations between the two countries which have been through worse at least the russian foreign office says it recalled its ambassador in tokyo another challenge to moscow's foreign policy these days is coming from the us the democrats who launched the reboot in relations with russia have lost majority control in congress have to losing the lower house to the republicans but they still retain control over the senate which gives some hope the essential bilateral documents like the new start treaty still have a chance of being ready fight. thank

you very much for being with us well first of all i'd like you to comment on this. and the it was called of an ambassador for consultations is is sort of a diplomatic move yes it's a diplomatic scandal well. russia's ambassador to nato mr wasn't already is quoted as saying i quote it's a bizarre demarche which can't be analyzed in terms of international law and quote well do you agree with that and do you think that this is the highest point in our ground with japan or it may be decelerating. well actually. president viet if as you rightly said is planning to go to yoga hama to attend the a pic meeting the meeting between president been a good if and the japanese prime minister is planned going to be fun well so we shall see how it goes on and i hope that all the misunderstanding will be cleared

during that meeting touchwood. the emotional stamp of the japanese government to recall them back to the from moscow for consultations i think can be explained by the japanese government at the end of the day as consultations prior to the apec meeting if they want that but i think that it's quite obvious for all our partners abroad that it's absolutely impossible to dictate. their will to russia to be did dec tick talking to russia we never agree with never accept that one of the position on this dispute dispute over the peace accord with the islands this is a sovereign part of the russian territory i mean the president can get whatever you want of the decision is crystal clear we allow our president does the russian citizens who elect him to visit any part of our country and who will grow it and even govern it out so why should i when neighbors be be furious about that may

remind you that after nine hundred forty united states of america never agreed with the soviet union on estonia latvia and lithuania on the occupation obvious to any lothian lithuania by the soviet troops were by the soviet union and incorporation of these three baltic states into the soviet union but when come a version of her comrades. were visiting tallinn riga of vilnius so the state department or the white house did recall they they didn't recall their messages so the real let's take a look at the history of the russian japanese dispute over the crew. i learned in a report by spotlights unit the me that. the soviet union was encouraged by the allies in one thousand forty five to take over the cool on a lands which had done belonged to japan the u.s.s.r. was a truly poor missed the territories in exchange for entering the war against japan

after japan's capitulation in the second world war the folks who are islands became part of the us a cell which was recognized by the international community japan could never reconcile with the fact and the territories remain a bone of contention between the two countries russia keeps sticking to the provisions of the one nine hundred fifty six agreement that included the possibility of hand in two of the islands back to japan however japan is not ready to accept these terms claiming that all food on should be returned because of these territories russian leaders in the past have been reluctant to visit the islands president medvedev has broken the unspoken to buddhists with his visit to the koreans sparked an outcry in japan reacted by recall in its message or to moscow.

a lot of another i want you to comment on the russian foreign minister said that japan is over reacting to what was your thought in this visit and that it was at that that it actually is japan's own domestic affairs i mean the reason for which them bastards are called do you also see the reason the reason. for this route for japan's reaction in japan's domestic problem is that they have a pretty tough situation in government three days ago four years ago the japanese prime minister and the japanese foreign minister were given hard time in the japanese parliament the discussion was really tough and. the temperature of debate was really high and of course the government had to react so they reacted recalling the ambassador but i think that for any politician in any country it's so easy to attract attention to problems abroad to attract to attract attention to aggressive neighbors when there are real problems inside the country which you can hardly

solve today or tomorrow and of course it's not difficult to unite the nation united we stand as we heard one day to unite the day of the nation against the enemy so before that. scandalous disputes between talk in moscow. yesterday and today's ago there was a tough dispute between tokyo and beijing. quite recently of the relations between japan and china deteriorated and it was a real crisis so it seems like japan has a lot of problems with the neighbors with korea with china with russia demanding the territories which the neighbors consider to be their territory as you mentioned you mentioned the forthcoming visit of medvedev to to yokohama next week is going to be a fourteen fifteen not a member has his planned meeting with the japanese prime minister you express. tell that they that they will sell the situation i hope so too i believe they will

settle the situation but. does this mean does medvedev a visit to to the korea livens mean that this is the end of negotiating the problem of the chordal islands there that we no longer are ready to to remember that there were proposals to give to and to leave to a space many many ways and so i largely starting with one thousand and fifty six starting with. rounds from secret secret talks between the soviets on the japanese in london i don't want to buy to you right away when the information leaked from these talks to tokyo and the opposition inspired the demonstrations on the scandal in talk here this issue has always been an issue of the japanese domestic politics and we are not eager to stop any negotiations on the peace treaty on the borderline

with japan while by the way we were negotiating i were borderline with china for three hundred years and finalists exceeded it was not an easy read if occasion in the upper house of the russian parliament which i'm proud to represent here but it was a successful read if occasion so i think that we shall continue in if there is a good we'll express from both sides we will succeed ok the turtle a dispute japan has with russia over the southern can reals is not the only one this country has with its neighbors there are also territorial tensions with china and south korea here's a quote from a south korean newspaper. japan must take a look at it soon history disputes over the brilliance and couple islands in korea still don't find its can be viewed as the consequences of its for you domination. it's just simple you can one story it being military to what maureen did enter the

document it's clearly playing the rights of the other country to another territory this tension to destroy didn't you see. japan needs to get itself in the series of the others. the only country seems to support your claims is the united states i want to i want to quote that the u.s. state department spokesman philip crowley who said recently that washington that back japan regarding the northern territory's the koreans and quote so is japan really isolated is washington is the only supporter of that again i would like to say that i would allegation in the apec summit which i'm a member of which will see how the meetings go on there about it's quite obvious that there is nothing new in the american position and what was said by mr gridley is not any change of the american position we know that for quite

a long time and i should say that we are also ready to continue no negotiations with with japan we want to have peace agreements with japan and we want to have a peaceful and corporative neighborhood with japan no one can take so to speak geostrategic a razor and it raises from the map of the world either russia or japan we we will be unable as like it or not what you call a razor as president obama calls reset and as you said just a minute ago that doesn't seem to be not change that doesn't seem to be much reset i mean where you well i mean. in russia america relations forums come on come on. in a now about literal relations to my mind there is a lot of reset spirit i just returned about a week ago from san francisco for a from the us russia business council annual meeting and i should say that the substance of discussions between representatives of the government of the business

community and financial community was still to the different from what time soon to a three years ago now we want to talk about positive agenda no about the two relations it's not difficult to be together to stand together against common enemy like we do come betting narcotics drug drug for it trafficking in afghanistan for example or combating piracy of somalia schall together or working together in sudan and other countries of africa but we have to have positive agenda otherwise we will be resetting i would bother to relations every for every eight years and i'm sick and tired of the believe and says it needs a lot again the chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the russian federation council will continue contributing to be willing to talk about also about the influence of the eastern elections and based on their. leashes and it.

sure is that so much as i can recall. the year after the u.s. since the start of the brave new revolution inevitable and destructive gridlock will anything. welcome back to spy. the light i'm going up in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is me how you'll meet a v.l. of chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the russian federation council which talks about the diplomatic row between russia and japan over of a president medvedev visit to the who deal islands which japan claims as their northern territory we started talking about reset in russian american relations. it

seems that the recent elections the mid-term elections in the united states won by the republicans who are now controlling the upper chamber of the law which of the though it's fairly house to represent that. of the american parliament may may hamper their reset it may influence u.s. foreign policy especially towards russia do you think it will well i think that first of all we have to keep in mind that. in american foreign policy. all the result was what we call institutional memory institutional memory is preserved and may remind you of the russian the united states american start with their cooperation. in combating international terrorism right after nine eleven with the republican administration with republicans in the senate with the

republicans dominating in the house of representatives with a republican government in the white house there is nothing wrong. with our relations with the republican party. and all the criticism of the republicans against a star three agreement for example were once criticism not against russian position or russian views on of the star three agreement but against the position of democratic government during the negotiations and against against obama. primarily so i think that reese. that is not in danger we managed to create some substance for the reset. for example russia is selling its military helicopters to the united states of america to be used in afghanistan we are responding positively to what americans are asking for in africa we are redeploying our war helicopters from

some regions of africa to in other regions of africa to to support the international peacekeeping operations we are working hard on the providing military transit and civilian transit to afghanistan through the russian territory we are fighting together against drug trafficking in of ghana so we have doing a lot and i think it will help democrats and those responsible republicans who are still present in the senate and in the house of representatives to to to move forward in the reset but anyway some people are pretty pessimistic your opposite number in the russian state duma convention kasich off its pretty pretty pessimistic about the start treaty well actually the situation what you're their situation there's an active of the ratification while the situation in the duma is different from the situation in the federation council we in the upper house of the russian parliament do not have political factions we represent the regions. of the

lower house the duma is of course much more politicized there is a tough political discussions between the united russia faction and the communist party faction for example on the start really even though one star and the well yes and no because because. colleagues in the duma who represent the communist faction they've always been criticizing the russian government for debris and for betraying russian national interests citing start three agreement with with the democrats so i think that the discussion on start three agreement in the duma may take its said . and round now after the elections in the united states of america but i hope it will not undermine the resignation process and it will not to be to that process so you are optimistic times are you optimistic that if occasion or we we are working hard we are in permanent contact with our colleagues on the capitol hill in the u.s. senate may remind you that it is done differently in both countries in the us is

done only by the senate in russia is done both by about by the law and the opportunity for so we are working hard to get russian president medvedev is going to attend the nato summit in lisbon later later this month well meanwhile some russian politicians including stayed duma vice chairman have led to the zhirinovsky one of the most popular politicians country there raising the question of russia's joining nato well do you think or do you think that russian foreign policy may be really. thinking of that as a possibility or it's just pure populist well as a moscow state grad mystery i ask is an excellent historian and the force of course he recalls of the position of comrade stalin who was the first in the soviet union to express loudly of the idea of the soviet union joining nato so tracing the troops going along with the. historic proposal i think our colleagues

in the duma. may start discussion on russian. accession to two to two to nato i think that's kind of discussion can be very helpful for the discussion on the european security and on russia's attitude towards its national security i do not think that it will be realistic in the short run but in the long run anything is possible ok rasmussen is in moscow the head of nato he's here for a couple of days and that. this is why we're once again discussing nato. the position russian made to relations ukraine and nato is another serious question foreign minister grisham coul ukrainian foreign minister says that ukraine is not going to join nato anytime soon so this is the changed position of you create under the new presidency straight away nato general secretary rasmussen insists that the

major's doors are still open to ukraine so does nato still have means to attract well you crave that in effect well you know nato has status. allows needed to have an open door policy to all the european nations who apply to for nato join for nato membership and should meet the criteria as of nato membership so theoretically speaking any country in europe including liechtenstein on dora may join nato i do not know about the holy see either that you can can do that or not but what about keller well well you know i don't think so now well it depends it depends on the development of democratic processes and belarus i think it depends on nato as leaders opinion but that of the development of the democratic process. on our will be more attentive due to the opinion of the build russian

people ok so so so so you think that though that this new ukraine's position is tough and they're going to hold on hold on to it until until the new president well i think that no one in brussels going to insist that kiev has to join nato it's a sovereign decision of the sovereign state and those that are owed ukrainian or great yeah there was a referendum so i think. there's no any thread for minister grecian go he will be punished from brussels ok now and other question about nature rasmussen also while he was must have said that russia is that room. welcome to intensify cooperation with nato on the new anti-missile defenses in a joint and time missile defense system so what does russia got to offer a two to two nato what kind of system a deed do you have any leased out of the well actually actually we'll what we have already offered

a lot some years ago including our readers stations and gabble azerbaijan an arm of the russia we made our offer to the previous u.s. in ministration we also have some preliminary discussions with with nato and russia wants to have a system of the european security that was the reason actually one of the reasons behind the president of the i have proposed maybe it is proposals which he made in in summer two thousand and eight saying that it's time to talk about the new architecture of european sea but what rasmussen is talking about in moscow today doesn't seem to be an answer to what medvedev said two years ago it's something that something needs at least this is my impression it's it's some kind of a new situation new development well they're well on if if it is so if it is so and we will know the results of his meeting with president bush give pretty soon and well if it is so it should be well it should be given. proper consideration it

should be discussed in moscow and should be discussed also in the russian parliament in defense of security committee and foreign affairs committee where if there is a concrete serious proposal we have to consider well since we're doing pretty well on time now i want to ask you two four questions first of all a question about getting back to the united states about the elections do you have an impression that a battle is becoming a lame duck not yet i don't think you know i'd say well i don't think so because it's too early to say that. the main term alone. shows showed that on the one hand democrats lost the majority in the house of representatives on the other hand the tea party movement. is it is successful but it is not possible to get all hearts and all minds of all the american people and to address a young aggressive well they are they are they are young aggressive they're pushing

but they're not dominating even in the republican camp so i think president obama and the democrats will study of the results of the midterm elections and they will do their homework prior to two elections coming in the united states of america they are ready to fight that's what we see when we see the and to interviews on the t.v. and the badness to still has his veto power because because because they they they didn't make it over sixty percent he said. keep in mind that the democrats managed to overthrow terminator in california and he was saying pretty recently that i'll be back yes ok now and the last last very short question. once again back to the very beginning of our interview do you think that that the incident with japan over the korea lies and the dispute is not gonna terror rate is

not it either relations they're not going to get any worse and then want it to get better well actually we were not aiming at humiliating would have been his neighbors we didn't want to irritate. what we just wanted to say with that trip of mr me to be a gift to the korean to the real islands is that the president of russia has a sovereign right to visit any part of the russian territory so the russian policy makers like yourself just added some spice to international relations and to the forthcoming meeting of the i got my guess about about feel very good useful and very friendly thank you thank you very much and just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was knee high yield but a gallup chairman of the foreign affairs committee at the russian federation council and that's it for now from all of us here will be back with more comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take care.

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