foreign ministers of russia and france are speaking to the media after talks at a meeting about security well that's my decide now to take on this. sort of sense of the system if the former. do foolish a new president of france or the who because well it certainly occurred in the news most of the so when you before you know should start this little problem you have to look at the story the story because this is the closest. it was going to be the c.e.o. they really are listening there we're just waiting for a bit of a translation there right now they are to going to be talking about global and regional security and this is of course france where the russian fresh want to foreign ministers are together and also on the agenda is european cooperation taking into account moscow and parses cooperation in the u.n. as well as the security council well you know let's take a listen at now let's take a listen to mr la probably right now. it's good to. see.

that so of course we have differences on some situations just remember those but even in such situations so strategic partnership. we can have an open discussion and discuss even the most complex issues. just what. to do to place in exactly this kind of that most fear and the russian president dmitry medvedev had. also. leading in this kind of atmosphere to do. which and we attribute this indicates the significance that russian and french leaders attribute to this strategic cooperation interaction to do. during the meeting with the president and during our plenary meeting we discussed a whole range of security issues both in europe and. and on

a wider scale in the year atlantic region we agree that we need to use four common approaches to strengthening the security architecture the architecture that would be based on the. rule of international law and the principles of democracy and collectivity and that would be up to date it is very important to us that our french partners are ready to discuss the russian initiative on the european security treaty and they also have their own ideas some on this issue and today we discussed the prospects of russian french cooperation to promote the eight years of common european or here atlantic security in this context. at the meeting with the president with paid special attention to developing cooperation which we know russia nato. we are pleased to note the good results

of the lispunds summit and we also noted through all that france is playing in the positive results. in the declaration that reflects our coming approaches to building strategic partnership between russia need to based on the principles of mutual respect respecting each other's interests transparency predictability. and. perhaps tickles at quality and into visible security in our region. also within this context we considered the prospects of further cooperation with nato and the such issues as fighting terrorists men and we have achieved some practical results here's also issues that have to do you with the situation in afghanistan and around afghanistan again we have achieved some very solid practical results together.

in this area and we of course discussed missile defense. we see that france is interested to see despite certain difficulties certain differences to find. mutually acceptable solution that would allow us to implement the missile defense project without endangering any country any nation in europe. s. for it to russia e.u. peroration and. agreement. with think that france is playing a leading role promoting our partnership for modernization and other and joint projects addressing the issues that have to do you would signing the new framework agreement and defining clear parameters for our cooperation with the european union on the issues of international security to salsa. involves peroration on crisis

management. crisis resolution. and there is an initiative proposed by. german chancellor angela merkel and supported by the e.u. to create a council for addressing security issues we are interested in have. non-proliferation of w.m.c. and we considered our joint work on implementing the greens that had been achieved last year on a day. to review conference. we also. reviewed our joint efforts. to resolve this situation with the iranian nuclear program we also had an exchange of views on the best way to approach. the nuclear problem of the korean peninsula naturally we also discussed

the situation in the middle east and in northern africa only be it. we agree that the results of the meeting that took place in paris on september first of the international conference should cause us to review the entire situation and shifted towards political resolution political solution of the problem. accord in building a democratic. and be united. nation and the united nations should play it leading role coordinating these efforts to get there was a fair will take place will take part in the next meeting in new york that will take place later this month for natural we also discussed the situation with syria . we are convinced that it is imperative to d.

and that we start. talks and this is actually what the syrian leadership calls for with think that it is extremely dangerous to promote to. prompt certain forces in syria to boycott these talks and neither russia nor france wants to see this happen this is extremely dangerous. because. every. poor r.t. he in syria should stop using violence and we have proposed resolution to disaffect . we encourage the government to carry out the reforms it has launched and the opposition should not use provocations and reject invitations to dialogue with whom our approach is very close on the middle east settlement primarily. in terms of. we need to resume talks between palestinians and israel.

we also discussed the situation in some other regions as well as our position so very close sun and such issues as fighting piracy the situation in afghanistan and we also paid special attention today to our top aeration in the g. eight and she twenty. primarily preparing for the next meeting in cannes later this year still this is what i think about the situation now our colleagues will share their impressions thank you. first i would ask the french foreign minister to say something mr lynch appeared to the forty. ladies and gentlemen. the defense minister of france is

present today in moscow and this day. goals is will. we have started this day on negotiations. about the. tanf session of the council of security. i would like to add certain points to what sergei lavrov has said though. first of all we would like to state again. that the relations between france and russia are at an excellent stage very. confident in many domains in many spheres and in the cultural sphere for example. but also in the economic sphere. our companies are contributing to the

diversification of the russian economy for example in the project of the russian silicon valley or if in the development of tourism in the north caucasus and other possibilities. paris has just launched a large scale project called a big paris and moscow is ready to do the same. this is giving a lot of opportunities for exchange of experience. but of course in the domain in these serious security. we have had negotiations. when when talking about the military situation we have had several discussions. i would like to say that. when it comes to the participation of for the russian president within the framework of the g eight. we would like to say to

bring our support to the initiatives promoted by the russians russian side to resolving the situations in egypt in morocco in jordan. we would like to complete these negotiations within the mother in the month of september. russia will be one of the main players in the reunion of the g eight. when it comes to talk about the stabilization. of security. and also when it comes to economic domains in reforming the international monetary system. we have also. bringing our commitment to the strengthening of. relationships between russia nato and the un when it comes to the global security space of the year atlantic space. we have also

developed ties within the framework of nato russia relations. here we have to say that. this is the hopes that we expected to come out of the lisbon meeting. we hope that they are strong and that russia's participation will be completely supported by the e.u. french side. we are. also confident that we will reach. a certain. understanding and dialogue in terms of the nuclear nonproliferation russia is our partner. this must be clarified that russia and france will work together. when it comes to the russian relations we have talked through certain aspects.

as france is in the heart of europe we are very much interested in developing this cooperation that our russian colleagues. when it comes to the energy the furred energy package. it hasn't been completely. discussed and we haven't come to a complete conclusion. but francis showing his commitment in developing negotiations in this aspect. we have talked about certain crises international crises this has been a friendly dialogue but we have to say that at certain aspects we have not come to . a good understanding. we have talked about the military phase of the operation in libya but there is no point in

returning to this topic because it's now over. we would like to see a russia present at the at the meeting of the affair friends of libya which will be held in paris and we hope from the russian side we will see mr marvellous present. will be talking about the reconstruction of the company of the country when it comes to syria. we have different approaches. when it comes to the expression of the. public opinion about the situation was going on and that the measures that are being discussed are seen as disproportionate and unacceptable. will we have to have a strong message produce a strong message with russia. within the framework of the security council even

though. we have different approaches in this respect when it comes to iran. as we have talked about all producing efforts as to the nonproliferation of nuclear weapon. in iran. well. we have to. project strong messages towards iran so that this issue does not become an international problem. we have mitchell approaches to the situation of middle east. it's only coming back to the negotiations table that may be a solution to stabilizing the situation between the israelis and the palestinians. it's also the task of the quartet. to continue negotiating.

with the two sides. we have talked about many other topics too. but i'd like to again. appreciate the quality of our relationships. ladies and gentleman we had a volatile meeting with my french colleague mr along the way we discussed the issues of regional and international security we discussed military cooperation in much detail i could give you if you figure is this year we'll have sixty six and tents even though in two thousand and ten and nine we only had fourteen to end to end so this gives you an idea of how relations are improving we have meetings at the level of their experts in the chiefs of the general staffs and. quite often we meet at the level of defense ministers who discussed military technical cooperation

and the further development of this scope aeration as you all know we have signed a contract for a two helicopter carriers means trolls and that we're currently working on contracts for a third and fourth. ships we also discussed some issues related to modernizing the armed forces of both the russian federation and france we had a detailed discussion of every area related to the reorganization of our armed forces i mean both hardware financial issues weapons. modernizing our equipment everything. we covered the european missile defense. once again we have expressed our concerns. russia's concerns on this issue and we also discussed this in the two plus two meeting so basically these are the issues

that we covered in our meeting think you. know i give the floor to the french defense minister. we misuse it. thank you very much at this moment we would like to confirm i would like to back up the statements of my colleague mr surgical of. was the more this is our first meeting. at paris of bush and moscow. this cooperation is not just an exchange between a ministry is an exchange of experiences we have certain operations that we are conducting of different different origins this is. what i know is that we have a common approach and comes to the modernization of the army here. we have a common approach to reducing the military staff give. us we must

better train our personnel. to adapt to different kinds of missions. we are beginning to know each other are different approaches. on terrain we are cooperating when it comes to pirate of the combating piracy. you know. we are developing cooperation on african soil and you know russian soldiers are learning from our experience in this field. when it comes to the construction of two helicopter carriers of mistral class. this will be partly realized in france partly in russia. free or for will be actually produced over here in moscow in russia.

we are still talking about the employment of these of the usage of these ships. but i'd like to add. to what the foreign ministers were saying is that the usage of fancy ballistic missiles will. we have all of. our unanimity of positions of between france and russia that we do not want to see this missile defense. to be frets to national security is about fresh in france. and that this is an. early week that we do not want to see this as a new phase of. an arms race. no you know. we have partnership ties between with russia both through nato and frou frou the

e.u. . now we would like to talk about the. interest that russia has in the operation in afghanistan that this is a good sign. on the on the. the concern that one. country surrounding afghanistan have to the situation afghanistan is a very important element for us all. on and so we have expressed the french point of view to the this transition process. to restoring the principles of responsibility when it comes to the situation in kabul as well as it's important to signal to the to the to my colleagues that our

work has been very fruitful who. will now take a few questions and the first question goes to the french news agency and have transgressed. question to mr. from the us. do you think that the approach to the situation in syria that russia is still a very useful diplomatic partner when it comes to this question. is do you think russia france can still accept russia's position when it comes to syria. when answering to your question mo the answer is yes this is. this is the one i'm pretty used to these kind of questions. so in some respect it is absolutely very important. that we should always

remember all the aspects of our partnership work russia is a very important and privileged partner when it comes to the bilateral. plain of solving international issues you know that. we have constant dialogue between with with mr medvedev mr putin. lives. but when it comes to going above and beyond the bilateral relations. yes you will grow as we do have certain differences. in syria and go for to the situation in libya. but right now we are absolutely agreed that it is very important to participate in the construction of a democratic libya and a reconstruction of the company. so exchanging opinions sir could lead to solutions

home. i don't want to talk about syria here but when it comes to iran we have a totally common approach. so yes russia is still a very important and long term partner. and we are not going i'm not going to talk about syria right now we're going to talking about this at the security council. who else. is second question goes to the russian news agency in august you know or will know the state who said your cell phone of my question is for the teen defense ministers mr steady golf and mr long good of you talked about cooperation between our two countries on the strolls well could you please clarify when are you going to sign a contract. with about the third and fourth ships being built on

russian ship here at the russian shipyards. perhaps i'll start. you know we have already signed a contract for the first to ships with france. and besides these two ships were also buying a few technologies related to should building in addition will train two crews there as for the third and fourth ships we are currently negotiating the deal. and will soon have the contract signed by the joints of bolting corp and the third and fourth ships will be built in russia i believe before the end of this year will finalize the negotiation process center will sign the contract. in addition to that we discussed other areas and military technical cooperation we have a few projects and we discuss those issues every time we need communications

financial leashes modernizing our weaponry and some joint projects. in research design and many other things so our intentions are quite serious we plan to work together that set up i confirm everything my colleague has said. next question. all right so we've just come out of a press conference there we have the a foreign ministers and the defense ministers of both the russia and france essentially they're all rating be cooperation that they want to pursue in terms of russia's relations for example with the u.n. and nato e.u. as well as a knowledge of the differences that they have with issues a specifically syria which was also brought up to journalists there acknowledging that there are differences whatever they do agree on bare common approaches for

example with iran and afghanistan also of course missile defense system issue had come up and russia's foreign minister has said that they have discussed ways for russia to pursue missile defense plans without endangering any country in europe quoting mr lavrov there and also again our french foreign minister. reiterating that russia is our partner in nuclear nonproliferation of course bringing up there the issue of iraq's nuclear program as well as the issue of the korean peninsula the nuclear program of north korea a whole slew a slew of issues they're basically again reiterating the specific steps that they have discussed on the side on how they will approach these issues that are facing care and i will we will bring you more of the highlights of that press conference throughout the day here on archie going to germany's excuse me so ok let's take a short break and we'll be back.

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