thirty am in the russian capital good to have you with us here on our t.v. easier headlines together with nato or face the possibility of a new arms race president dmitri medvedev gives a stark warning to the indians and you will address the federal assembly he also highlighted ways to modernize the russian economy by corruption and pledged more help for families to tackle the demographic problem space and becomes. perspiration time for barack obama as he makes a lot space to attempt in the u.s. senate to ratify a new arms reduction treaty with russia the green to cut the nuclear arsenals of russia and the u.s. was signed by president obama and meant that have been prague in a broken. leg and the final whistle blows stows the next two football world cups is

competing countries await the decision of the sport's governing body russia is up against england and joint bids from spain portugal and the netherlands belgium to host its first world cup if the executive committee will announce the winners. up next a look at how to tackle the afghan drug threat and to stop the flow of heroin to russia for all the issues in the spotlight with al gore enough coming up. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on. cultures that so much i was about to feel and i think i'm going to give it real and be ready when people start fourth or start back to the new strategic arms reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. ever become long obama is putting. how

again a welcome to spotlight on r.t. . today my guest is. the organization for security and cooperation here at this holding its meeting this week in. leaders are coming to discuss threats to the region one of the biggest challenges is the drug trade from afghanistan the reason joint anti-narcotics operation was a success and many experts i doubt advocating closer to work between nato russia and afghanistan but what i'm going to say she could have the muscle and now to boost the coalition efforts in afghanistan here said the general of the collective security treaty organization. the forthcoming always

see saw i don't because i capitalized or not will feature leaders of the top political and military blocs the un nato and see europe present in europe and america will join the cia ass and c s t o to discuss terrorism international crime and drug trafficking the c.s.t. zero has been pessimistic about cooperation with nature so far but the successful joint anti-drug operation in afghanistan has. prove teamwork he's possible the c.e.o. also sees the ethanol summit as a perfect chance to blueprint real steps for creating a new pan-european security system proposed by president dmitry medvedev. thank you for being with us today. we just listened about the upcoming summit in astana well it is a five major international organizations are participating. in do you personally

like to see as a result of this meting your main objectives. sums well firstly the o.e.c.d. hasn't held a summit for eleven years but but it's and now it's happening in us to not because i stand as a siesta member state chairing it the very fact that top government officials are meeting to discuss security issues is a very important achievement. and for our objectives i would certainly want to discuss the issue of afghanistan but. i believe representatives of these five organizations could discuss coordination of their efforts in tackling the problem of afghanistan and improving the situation in southern kurdistan. i'd even say that the fact that we're meeting to discuss all these matters will give an impetus to our joint efforts in maintaining security in the region more

specifically i'll have a meeting with the always see secretary general to discuss the new always see initiatives regarding kurdistan the so-called peaceful police mission. we're willing to assist the always seeing these actions as we have been cooperating with the kurds authorities in stabilizing their situation and restoring order there. let's briefly discuss them to from. summit the nato summit has just taken place if i'm not mistaken back in summer you said i quote maters position is the exact opposite of that's all the c.s.t. oh there is no consensus among nato members regarding cooperation with the c.s.t. oh they obviously prefer bilateral contacts from the viewpoint on which are in their political goals unquote. the summit took place it was a success as we heard and russia participated in it as your position changed or has it remained the same. or nothing actually happened regarding the interaction

between nato and the c.s.t. you firstly the summit adopted need is new strategic concept secondly the summit took place without russia's participation russia participated. exactly you participated in the russian nato summit which had its own agenda indeed many political analysts are saying that the summit was successful indeed the new strategic concept was adopted nato and russia agreed that russia should be more involved in supporting need to keep it is in afghanistan that they agreed to work together on a european missile defense system but there are other issues for instance that of urging russia to the knowledges decision to recognize south of. the summit did not discuss our initiative on the european security treaty is because i also believe there was no breakthrough on the c.f.e. treaty so odds say that was a summit of

a major international organization concerned with security representatives of need to member states assess it as successful we took note of its results nonetheless i want to stress we would really like to cooperate with nato in such areas as maintaining security in afghanistan and central asia drugs. gratian terrorism and so on well indeed the latest russian nato council meeting has seen a real breakthrough in corporation between the former and tackiness as many analysts say today more on the agreements to achieve the lisbon in a report by spotlights. the words from the new strategic concept adopted by the alliance made of poses no threat to russia or considered the major political achievement of those has been summit no school in brussels have agreed they're facing common threats like terrorism drug trafficking and the proof

aeration the weapons of mass destruction and pledged to embark on a new era of cooperation we've worked hard to reset the relations between the united states and russia which has led to concrete benefits for both our nations now we're also resetting the nato russia relationship the most dramatic step forward in russian media ruination is the prospect of a new missile defense shield for europe the us the should was a stumbling block in relations between moscow and the west known the two sides seemed ready to make it in joint in we try to show would be responsible for handling ruled missiles from the east and later from the west. we have agreed with our nato partners that we will pursue dialogue on european missile defense yet our main good here should be that our participation ought to be equal at it and i will stress this it can only be a support character because it would definitely take time to work out the details

for cooperation in the defense experts agree this question the idea is revolutionary in itself bringing russia ever closer to real partnership and. since in september commenting on the suggestion for russia to join nato you said it was unrealistic not to quote. i don't think russia should develop a discuss on this matter. unquote. but today nonetheless western and russian politicians seriously claim that this may happen some time in the future. so do you still believe that russia will never turn nato and that all those discussions are just a publicity stunt i haven't heard any russian politicians seriously discussing this matter. to your organs well right i know that many political analysts are saying this issue first of all i repeat i believe that russia doesn't need to change the

existing security system there is a well established security system within the collective security treaty organization. this system includes countries which used to be together in the salvias union they share the same intelligence the same approach the same military school the same structure of security forces the same agenda so it makes no sense to ted down what we already have and build something new with new partners in europe secondly there is a much cheaper option russia and the sea is still can interact with nato and that's exactly what we're talking about we can join these potentials and work together. so you believe that since there is no confrontation now. there's no need for us to journey to a new longer right confrontation and a long time ago there is no cooperation either third i believe any discussion of this topic is harmful as it makes zero allies feel uncertain.

we should be able to tell them clearly we take our stand with you with the c.s.t. you. we may be the leading country here but we're building this security system together with you. my next question is about. you mentioned when you answered question my first. first on purpose with a serious c.e.o. . and i believe this was the first instance of such cooperation. to continue coordinating your work and cooperation and courage. and possibly other hotspots or was it a one time thing you know that. actually we started coordinating our activities several years ago. we started discussing and evaluating various events together and considering what we can do together. kurdistan was the first

instance where we coordinated our work not only with the sea but also with the un and in fact the e.u. but it's nearing the period of unrest the representatives of these four organizations gathered an assassin for those events together and prepared their proposals on the situation and we continue doing so on other problems of central asia besides kurdistan's for instance we've been working together on the problem of the border on afghanistan and i'm very grateful to the always see secretary-general mr bush on board for being so open to this cooperation. by the way some criticize the safest here and we talked about that last time for not responding quickly enough to i think question is encourage. the russian foreign ministry even said recently that in the. crisis response mechanisms should be a priority what do you think these mechanisms are developing now. they certainly

are the next serious to summit to which will take place on december tenth will be devoted to these issues but actually one the leaders of the c.s.t. countries met in the year of on recently they spoke highly of c.s.t. oh efforts our response to the current is crisis was prompt and effective we designed. the measures which the presidents then approved of the reason for criticism was different because we chose not to send up peacekeeping forces to kurdistan however a considering the way. we see that we were right not to send military units there instead we focused primarily on helping the current as authorities and law enforcement agencies to restore order in the country says. general collective security treaty all the spotlight will be back shortly will continue this interview in less than a minute so stay with us. today

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welcome back to spotlight time alvin of in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is nikolaj but in general how the collective security treaty organization. has been going to get them is somebody you trust to do what's in two thousand and five and two thousand and six which was the period of college revolutionists. kurdistan criticize the oars see. below sea but in the past moscow criticize it harshly for example moscow did not like the way the o.s.c. morning to hold elections we didn't like the service and in fact we questioned their conclusions their analysis and their evaluations of elections well this reason was strongly advocated or. form of the o.c. i remember much talk about the need to reform the o.c.a. yet the reform did not take place. needs to be reformed it's just my opinion it's all this is still member states thing in fact they believe the scene needs more

than just a reform first it is necessary to establish the o.s.c. as a full blown international structure because it even doesn't have a charter of its own or take the bureau for democratic institutions and human rights which monitors elections what are the founding documents approved by all the always see members that its activities are based on or does it operate simply based on what its officials want to do what the representatives of the c.s.t. oh state suggest is that we should prepare some bylaws for the o.c. in general and for some of the structures two years ago the c.s.t. all member states released a special statement calling another participants to reform the organization. seasickness original message to. this month in a newspaper article that i quote. the idea is to create a security community united states and the euro plan to take and eurasian regions

its chances three quel real outlines in the context of the overseas summit in. december the first and second quote that. considering the defects you mentioned nevertheless even mr laws understanding has become a new foundation for the new security system that president medvedev spoke about. yes it can but only if the international security organizations support its activities the president of russia incidentally spoke about that too. we need a legally binding treaty establishing a new security system in the euro atlantic area q one which by the treaty should include not only nations located in that region but also security organizations they deal with security issues in that region. it would bring some specific decisions on afghanistan but i'd like to discuss that

in more detail. many believe it is high time something like the marshall plan for afghanistan was approved that bush would not only put. an investment which is a basis for a new life in anything or at least agreed or even decided. i don't think so. who isn't ready i think what we can have is an in-depth discussion of security problems including those in central asia. and we'll of course discuss of. them when we can come to terms on starting this work but i don't think us to now will approve any specific decisions i believe will have a concern discussion and outline some approaches and plans for the joint activities over those problems including afghanistan's problems then today's the weak link that defines the state of security in the central asian region and not only there.

we know i think you know. that. georgia's go in to request that the reset and its mission to south. and on that issue russian with possibly one find itself in the minority or even in isolation. from the compromise on that issue with the always see that. scenario that. might go back to. this picking it's not appropriate for me to speak on behalf of russia because after all i represent an international organization to want to think of the mission and asserting the parties are looking for a compromise but it's a crucial issue we say that south a set up cause here are independent states while georgia says that they are georgian territory. accordingly was say there should be three separate missions for

south. enjoy georgia says no. no you mean you're not against the mission or you know. if they send separate missions. they will actually recognize them as independent states which is something they can . assure the dispute is about the positions of states no more than that i think a compromise is possible the parties are looking for it but right now i can't give you the details of the. those talks. here's another interesting question of. internal ministers meeting. russia's security council secretary said this threats from transnational crime are emerging as the most ones for the entire civilization to pose them to the actions of international community are necessary.

to fight the transnational crime we know about u. joint operation together with afghan and nato forces in afghanistan what else you know what we do today in the so-called challenges like drugs terrorism illegal immigration it. is precisely working to can short transnational crime from all that out single out two things first drug trafficking understandably there are a transnational international criminal groups operating in the field moreover their activities are well coordinated and we saw that particularly during the operation you mentioned and after it as we analyzed its results and received expert assessments and estimates and second which extremist groups we are observing some very serious processes in progress in central asia for example we have specific

information indicating that based extremist groups were implicated in the mass scale rioting in southern kurdistan. where those extremist groups attempted to destabilize a situation in certain areas of the stand i mean they're becoming more active not long ago the taliban whose flag those groups light turned up on the north in northern afghanistan they are able to extend their influence to northern afghanistan and across the pounds reba to the territory of member states. this is why we agreed at the c.s.t. zero interior ministers meeting that we should counter extremist activities in central asia. but everything i mentioned including criminal groups specializing in human trafficking is transnational crime that has to be dealt with their activities. are withing these problems. real

then the threat of an armed conflict. which i visited many times i was told the history of the conflicts by both sides. can only be forced into looking for compromises but. that doesn't. see or no one else have the mechanisms to force the two states to look for compromise. i don't think a compromise can be found through coercion. and if they will never come to terms on their own. agreement is bayes done good will mutually acceptable agreement coercion. we can have peace and meant by force. but you cannot enforce compromise seeking. why has this process lasted for so long ten years because

a compromise has to mature not only. be ready for it but the public opinion as well the nation should be ready for a compromise helping to resolve the deadlock and i don't think this can happen overnight at any rate i know one thing better than any war yes i agree so it makes no sense to ask you whether they. will bring any decisions or not. you know you can ask me all right and the answer will be no i don't think any decisions will be passed but the some. it is likely to come up in discussion you say the situation is somewhat better now but on the other hand there are many a defense minister said the other day that in case of any contingency he was ready for a peace in force mental preparation in relation to. in other words they're ready to go from all. sides the same thing they don't seem to be willing for a compromise and you should what makes you think so they are looking for a compromise they don't want to be forced into that compromise but generally he

said nothing out of the ordinary armies are created to be ready for war this is why the minister said exactly what he should be saying but in reality only a compromise no combat operations no confrontation a compromise and a long wait perhaps for years and generations yes perhaps a new generation of politicians should come the whole final is settled the conflict yes this is how i see things it is my personal view but i think the parties should be looking for a compromise expressive thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my gift to the studio today was to do that secretary general called the collective security treaty. and that's it for the aftermath all of us here if you want to have your sales talk live or maybe have someone think i should tell me next time. are you let's keep the show interactive we'll be back with more comment on the what's going on in and outside russia. r.t.

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