and russia a very interesting platform they don't share their proposals they come up with joint initiatives so i think that's my reply to your question. and now question from. from the interfax news agency mr lover of switch on the microphone. that was previously announced that you were. and russia will hold consultations on the missile defense shield yes they will take place here in moscow and in washington. very brief response to you i don't know i don't remember all of the dates but the experts are now in consultations they agree the dates on the schedule

. we do have consultations. with the russian native council decision was taken to. work on this issue within the russian it's a council as our american partners and our american counterparts say. there is no more such thing as the american missile shield in europe there is. shield so our experts are now considering a joint missile shield between nato and russia which is. in the union and the first results will be unveiled seen. in june we hope we can make it. otherwise the situation.

will. transform and will go in the wrong way it won't become a strategic breakthrough as we would like to be. a question from the world. dimitri that says. we greet national television this lover of. japanese and chinese officials. by while on the visit to europe. say they will back the euro will buy europe in. a big ations. european bonds greece has been one of the first heat of this crisis. considering any steps to help greece from probably buying state

bonds or buy some investment programs other any programs any plans for this i think the european union is your major finance system and huge sums have been allocated to help greece out of the crisis asked for our contribution. we are not interested in. the. collapsing of the euro we would like the euro to be strong. for. half of almost half of the gold in currency reserves are in the euro so that should come you down a base. there. and now a question from the. polish television so what's your opinion of the reports . we have yet to meet the. kind of catastrophe

a plane could act but the plane catastrophe near smolensk. pass for the reports that has been published the foreign ministry. cannot comment on the results of the technical investigation or its. it has been held in accordance with international norms said sat in the cica go conventional. it's being conduct. on the request of the russian and polish government has been taken by the international committee and when you polish colleagues say it's the russian investigation it's not that that's not true. interstate institution a it's an independent. center and this technical commission

based is fact based it's a conclusion on the opinions of major experts from poland from from russia from c.i.s. and from the us too and also some international organisations were part of the investigation so i will not comment on this one. because i've watched this press conference. and we would like to follow on how these issues how this tragedy has resonated we would like why me. to be something that. we said to you something that can corresponds to the memory of those who lost their lives in this tragic accident and . comment some spawn some specific statements that have been made. although there's been some controversial statements. as. opinion is that it's an

ethical to speculate on this issue. it's a huge loss. we all of the documents almost all of the documents are in public to maine on the internets. but the reports. and other materials. have been through more than one. submitted to the investigates is which continues the criminal conduct the criminal case and they work in close contact with their polish counterparts at the level of prosecutor general's offices so i hope. that any speculations on the record are you. will not that there will be no speculations no will try to try to score political points and the policy of that says being.

adopted and agreed during which the presence mr president that it sees it. as will be followed up and all of the agreements will be fulfilled which musculature would hold against both walk and now question from seen their way and use h r c not ok. you mentioned china could you talk. a little more about. russia. chinese relations in the new year and the. major events could be expected. thank you you have to look into the. quite optimistic of russia china russia chinese relations. we will have top level call on your contacts. there will be a number of summits come back and we'll have more or you can also. from the

governmental summits and some meetings. with foreign ministers participating. and there will be a major event another brick summits a regular summits. you liberals and the south african presidents will take part in it for the first time and it will be a milestone for the market. strengthening bric which will most possibly be called brics. leaders will also have other common events. the shanghai cooperation organization summits the anniversary summit in cuz astounds capital. the president of the russian federation and the. head of the. republic of china

they also regularly meet at the g twenty summit. so. we look forward to that apart from many multilateral. talks there will be delightful summits and we are now preparing for it we are agree we now are working on the schedule very much as you have with us we have significant damage very speedy relations improvements in relations. we would like to. improve our commercial relations. and we'd like to explore more high tech products. most probably we will rely on. energy deals we

will. provide more machinery more innovative products to china. because. when you've got the we're very. happy that. cultural events have been very effective very interesting we have the year after china and russia and the year of russia and china. and we prepare to move the same events in terms of the language because it's a new approach to cultural ties. there are plenty of issues not an issue replanting of important changes. in a bridge in a nutshell we also are cooperation and we don't improve a corporation within breaks with shanghai cooperation within the g twenty

so relations with china are one of the most important priorities and this year they will be given and you can persist. when the people who did would never. question far from a yard heap of bloomberg. you have just mentioned about africa joining bric what i would like to know is that russia supports this move overall and with what expectations do you have from break on the brics as it will be in. the future what's the prospects. how serious. a cent could it become. and also just to clarify on. president medvedev as

a statement he said that one of the priorities for the year two thousand level is to prove the investment image which do you think other cough ski trial we'll. undermine this work. to improve the investment with your image. and overall. what about the ucas trials in strasbourg. russia could face a multi-billion claims. talking of breakup breaks. we. believe that it has very much of a very good advantages compared to other platforms it's not just a formal structure it does it's not based on some bureaucratic. things. a way for the leaders ministers to. interact to discuss

issues the summit which took place in april last year in brazil a syndicate that. we have a broader range of common a she's. interested in. contacts. both of the level of ministers that the live lives civil society. business community summits. demonstrated that the countries which are part of the bric sherif some. share the vision of the future world. the world needs to reflect. the multiple center approach. but. it's crucial that. we are on the sidelines of the brics summits

we've had very specific events taking place we've had a meeting. of the heads of the security council's all of the four countries there's been a meeting of the bank is the representatives of the business community and. also other societies. present. small scale business they have been there was a workshop of. political scientists the representatives of think tanks. we had an agreement and with the participation of brazil and also with the participation of south africa there will be a workshop of scientists conference. we have

an agreement within the break. to cooperate on corporation between the financial development institutions. that we will provide we will issue annual statistics. city sticks book statistics reports. and of course we'll continue cooperation on the reforms of the currency systems it's been one of the pirates see the break policy within the g twenty. largely things to a coordinated position of break and some other have come partners we've been able to move on in the reform of the. international currency fund. and the bric countries are now the top ten after this reform and our top ten of the

international world fund in terms of quotas. so it's a very young but very promising very hopeful. situation on the platform. which corresponds to modern trends in the world asked for the investment image which i think. the foreign ministry dislike for the mass media. you cannot influence cannot. perform this image investment image is formed by the conditions by the laws that is create conditions and if the business believes these conditions to be profitable to be advantageous and favorable business the business community. moves on to this country

because if you look at the. american or western european investment in china. there are huge problem although there are problems between china and the us. and there are problems within any two countries so our position. we proceed from the fact that the businesses do their job what. will happen will judge the business conditions presented in the russian federation we know that our legislation is not perfect but the government. is working actively to improve its well you do what you have to bear in mind that russia has entered this free markets

. free markets who. just for twenty years it's like a trial and error methods. but we can take into account international experience we have council on foreign investment within the government there russian federation. tries to hear listen to the concerns. about the investment climate and i think it is improving where you feel unsure in my meetings with the representatives of business community. and their regular often hear that they see some positive changes. as for. the ucas trials. this is a topic we have commend to. we do not interfere

at the political level. or. the foreign policy level it's an investigation which should be conducted in accordance with the judicial procedures with the norms that are in the existing this area. you've court judge you've caught the defendant everyone should do their job. you. now question from lottery and newspaper mr lavrov. last december there's been a breakthrough in russia in relations. with a lot finn president. came here they have been nine agreements signed. is it just. and russian president has been rumored to come to latvia what are. the conditions

for such a visit. to show you that the president has provided has given the invitation of course we need to agree on the schedule of the visit. we. do this. of course based on the presidential schedule. vijender of the visit so. we will work proceeding from these conditions. question from the german television. city of its love of well

a question about belarus. it's a states. in neighboring states and states with which you're building your. own union state do you plan to go to the to visit the inauguration and how do you value the ways that he uses. opponents. what about boots. other a negotiation so there are any plans to swap him for any other person talking of bell or see first question. not heard about any invitation. for integration. i do not know how it happens in belarus. we we do

not russia does not according to russian protocol we did not invite say anyone to the inauguration of the president or. any foreigners as for the. the incidents surrounding the election we. have closely followed. the destiny of our citizens. most of our citizens have been released two of them. have been charged now and well our diplomats are in contact with them. for. more a broader approach i think yesterday in the. council of europe has. agreed to a. consensus resolution and it also reflects supposition and

he can read what he says. as for victor boot. no one has mentioned no one has discussed any plans to swap is to bid for anyone else i would not comment the process we have commented just on the way it is in our russian citizen has been. brought from one country to the us. in violation in defiance of the norms which exist in international law in thought i. and there's been an incident. with his. spouse he had a visa and activism she was held up in the airport in a separate facilities she was interrogated. and we. harsh measures we used unacceptable measures used during the questioning we've.

talked about that. and to. the american partners that they have noted they have not been able to. win with mrs boots that she doesn't have a visa now she just have temporary permission. and. since she has only got permission she could be questioned in this way. very unfortunate that. people. which are not charged with anything have to. bear with such have to put up with such conditions.

i'm on. a long and from salon news. i sorry news agency mr love rauf and he said that's the year two thousand and ten was very intense in terms of contacts also for the russian azeri contexts from a long. circuit to say that relations. waltz and will happen in the next year the. meeting conflicts what's going to be in the year will we have any specific steps taken to resolve the issue all diplomacy will still silently. meaning. constructive position. will. there be progress for my point see some progress there what.

what will moscow propose talking of russian as a relations last year was very significant in terms of development. because we're signed a number of agreements on. we're going on the border delimitation to make ation. negotiations have been complicated but we've managed to resolve all the issues and both sides are now satisfied and also the border regions have been satisfied to tega stun has been satisfied i hope that vis agreements will be implemented next year. and as well as any other cooperation agreements. signed during the magog about the talks with you. and have been

numerous context between russian and presidents. for i also hope that we will try to speed up the caspian settlement process who hosted the summit of the five caspian states and the presidents have urged the. experts to. resolve the situation both in terms of fishing and also in terms of. the convention on the legal status of the caspian sea as for the nagorno-karabakh conflict. between now are observed john in amenia russia. as one of this day along with france and. the us. has taken steps. to resolve the issue.

mitchum it's very if. he's trying to use personal. ties. to the much younger. to look for ways to resolve these conflicts within the true lateral relations mr president has numerous numerous meetings between with the presidents service of gentlemen here. there have been. a lot of such sessions by the ministers and i think there will be two or three points to three issues that's will be resolved. in the new year. with the most crucial thing at this stage. is not to. intervene

into this process is not to create additional barris in the but when you. try to use see over the next nation's. platforms then. but of boils down to discussion. stops being a business like straightforward talks between antagonizes the sides. up until now we've been we have managed to get over the these kinds of barriers. and i've personally observed president held meaning and deserve a president.