the future of their russia belarus and relations and is this union state viable at the current juncture first as regards the future of foreign policies after elections i briefly mentioned that in my introductory i will add to that that defining policies. in accordance with our constitution is carried out by the president it's based on this solid ground clear of all. logical interests hammering out these principles has become the outcome of the lengthy process of reflecting on the juncture of policing the world in the stance of russia in the world today. and we have formulated those principles and they parted ways to implement that means such a manner so that we could ensure the consistency and predictability of policy activities we are aware of the fact that our citizens would like to see their

country independent strong confident. coming out for fairness and the international arena for. further bolstering of the legal. grounds and i'm sure such policies will be supported by our citizens in the wake of the elections and i am positive that the fundamentals. multispectral approach transparency based on non-confrontational support of our national interests we'll find their place and. will be pursued because they're not on our part only if we get a sense of that being productive in basic meaning they are universal principles of international relations and their perceived. virtually. all deeds and international arena by all countries. and i am convinced that further on to will utilize what we have accomplished to set out. maximum favorable conditions for

modernization in our country so that the citizens who would get a sense of practical results whether it be the increase of number of visa free countries for our citizens protection our citizens find themselves in difficult circumstances brought up to setting out. equal nondiscriminatory. for our businesses abroad i'm not talking about big business but also small and medium businesses there are many people willing to have trade with the european union to start some small bakeries other enterprises there are now it's not allowed to do but after the entry to the w t o i think that. will also get a sense that. there are so good natured expansion abroad it will be perceived more favorably and perhaps i'll stop here now the second question was regarding. the union state between russia and belarus you know certainly this. is

still valid no doubts about that. many questions being asked concerning the fact that. they have already shaped up to come and they can expect european a. union is there will that in devour the union state a russian bear was a wonder i will not. try to predict things at this stage i might as well say that the union state includes serious agreement which is so far so far i should stress within this troika. all this economic space have not been reflected and they go beyond the agreements already reached there in particular i will point out the fact that ensuring equal rights for citizens of a bill arose in russia and ensuring equal rights of russian citizens in the bill i was addressing such matters is already made that there are some dems down the road

too will probably go with them over and. ceiling and other aspects. involved i don't. receive. any reasons on the contrary i would think that this state will further be developed. things including the fact that. you know. we certainly. have. who is. at the helm of this unit state and who will take a fresh look at what needs to be done in addition for the well being allowed countries there let alone the fact that the military aspect of the interstate defensive aspect is also there i predict that it will be developed bearing in mind the integration process is where russia and belarus are involved. by johnny colleagues had a question here please. please

could you make your question more coincide if possible and questions and answers to mark on size right. i want to go for their budget information agencies and their surrogates. my congratulations to the on the holidays i am a question i will ask just one question here what was the two thousand and eleven era like regarding a russia as they are but in your relations were especially concerned. with this thing is russia intending to further invigorate their cooperation on the settlement and would like to clarify the date of the upcoming meeting a lot of presidents if possible my second question concerning the. investments on the caspian state what's the current state of the disk questions and very briefly third questions that's the government's. radar what's the current status of.

talks and what should be the agreement there thank you. cameraman i respect them very much. to you you know i could probably provide you better for opportunities with me probably fit in here and there are relations with. our strategic and very important ones so we assess highly the potential already reached there in existence for further development to our parents have been regularly meeting we've been regularly in touch with my colleagues many are of. literally tomorrow who will be visiting with us here in moscow will sign a very important document an agreement on the issues pertaining to the public diplomatic. immobile so we have computed measure of everything included and this is how we'll close the overdue question and we'll be discussing

the next trilateral meeting of the presidents on the bilateral settlement on the twenty third of generally this meeting will take place in sochi and basically holding this meeting or will answer a question of whether russia intends to pursue its intermediary efforts on gore and i've got about settlement of course we do plan to do that we've been doing it in the framework. our participation in the troika of the co-chairs of the means to see. the group co-chairs will also be there in such a and it if necessary their presence might as well communicate with them. as to whom of the global in iraq are. virtually these days i don't remember what dates are involved these talks will be continued between military delegations i understand the question is about the concrete plan interests of the lease rates i know the basic problem is. and simply they need to agree on this things editor of

the status of caspian i will have to express my dissatisfaction after the buck or summit. unfortunately not very vigorously those greedy decisions by presidents have been pursued to basic agreements reached there that's to announce most of sturgeon. experts and they gave two months for preparation for such agreements to be implemented up till now they have failed to do so. it's not the fault of azerbaijan of russia i might as well say here is a second ago and to concerned. the basic agreement. to establish the literal areas to define the electoral areas of caspian which would. include the area on their serenity of the lateral state and the area of exclusive fishery rights and here. we have been continuing our

discussions working parties have been. working together and have been discussing these matters they have agreed already on the thought of two sides areas. apparently that satisfies our one and all but it's also important to move ahead on other issues including the issue of the right of peaceful path. intending. that their military ships of all electoral states in the caspian area could go on and defeat cation peacefully pass those areas. the question is being tackled. i don't exactly remember at the end of the year i guess that the regular meeting of the working party took place on the serious of aspects of the legal status has been have they have achieved progress and i'm quite optimistic on the father and so this effort that we are interested in being a promptly productive on top of that there is an agreement of the next has been

a summit to be a station in moscow once again negotiators will have agreed. will plan their dates for such a meeting. russia. t.v. channel. russia. that's already been erratic language sure russian t.v. channel now that's a big spring early show to have that affected the global processes and the vital interests of russia. which is what you from your perspective as of today do you think. certain forces in the world which would like to step in is there a new influence over those states trying to export democracy over there what's your insight on what needs to be done to restore stability in the region and what role

might be played by russia thank you. for the stability in the region it's important not to introduce not to put fuel to the fire there's a lot of fire in place already out there not to impede. the efforts to establish and improve a national political dialogue internally in all those countries where you have that turbulence not to instigate. croupe see involved. in the conflict so that they would be. impregnable in their positions and not to take to arms and russia might as well help with the fact that it supports for only those principles of international law or not interference seen domestic affairs. world. there are our long term partners russia to have a multi confessional country islam is the second largest religion in our country.

and. to us we cannot stand aloof dogs going on in the countries we thought for decades when developing a close friendly relations their second. from our own experience we know how important it is to develop the intercom fashion of. peace and. concert and we prepared on these positions of upholding those principle to take a specific steps to calm down the situation there. as of late regularly for several months we have not just. on a day to day basis being working with the syrian leadership but also we've been regularly in touch with the serious syrian opposition we've been actively promoting all the participants in this syrian drama. that they would promptly hold a meeting where they could agree on the launch of the international national or other dialogue we've heard that down the league of arab states proposes to start

such dialogue in cairo. if and of and there are any difficulties to occur with regards to this then we are prepared in our territory to receive all the syrian parties involved without any interference in their discussion to set out proper conditions for them to start talking between themselves one more thing them i do and will do that just have said we'll. suppose we will not allow that to happen told that the security council should do bless. any illegal. little student and decisions which would not meet the interests of the countries of the region place. first channel sergei victor what's the probability that this here the war in iran will start could you provide us a waiting for such an opportunity where is a guarantee that the nuclear program iran is soley peaceful second question

concerning protection of our citizens abroad to the consular service had been criticized there the kind of corridor line or the i don't need you know. case he stayed for several months in. educate stand and in the case of a city or a mother of five months in custody again i saw what needs to be done by the russian diplomats to protect the. citizens of russia well or getting the facts just posed to have different effects i had a chance to express myself earlier and maybe you have not noticed the fact. put forward or getting settled in a chief first. i don't exactly remember the date. when he and he says stony and colleague we were informed that they could not fly out or that they are not allowed to. from distance.

nobody informed diplomats or consular offices in either side on each he or his colleague or the owner of that airliner we've learned about that all in may and the next day literally our ambassador early to an official request to the minister of foreign affairs to the service of national security. national security if that you can stand our letter and since then at all litigations. our consular officer was present and this subject was. up to the top level on several occasions we did not make too much fuss about that well you know about sometimes. horror dealing with a specific problem they are. getting results rather than get. a popular blessing or getting it research the situation is much simpler that the fact is she released in chile without any court litigation that was married to

a law or consular service and. there who dealt directly with the leadership there and once they got information on her detention this was the situation under control this lady. self tells this story i've seen it on t.v. myself unfortunately signed a paper there you know a big language which was a forwarded to her. without any insistence on prior to signing on that paper she had to meet our consular officer but in the paper she signed her sincere admission affect even it having such. as the queen of approved it has been possible for us to resolve this big problem now as regards costa concordia casualty probably have a distorted information a couple of days ago at this second channel competing with you on the russian t.v. i guess there was

a big program with but his patients. all those people who were on that boat. the ambassador spoke directly on the t.v. it was not exactly how some people would like to portray to i've heard that one of our tourists who traveled to st petersburg and in airports he said that people might give gave him no money and no tickets was purchased for him by our diplomats and allegedly he was given some paper. to replace passport well. and education of return without which you cannot travel because all passports have drowned understand funds. for the purchase of a ticket we cannot provide those since there is don't have such funds in the first place still. since the embassy learned about what happened about that casualty and that's approximately two hundred kilometers all for all our representative travel

there immediately he linked with the. emergency you group of. government and our consulates in their kenya and marsay were involved immediately. we established contact here in moscow with the minister of emergency said direct link was made to the embassy of. russia in rome and there are stories and fact is one hundred eight tourists and three russians are members of the crew there for the rebels they were. documented by different tourist companies and some of there were individual tourists too so they found themselves in different hotels still immediately contact was established with them computer weeks the and by the way would like to first get information. about the fact that our citizens well on the vassals that have been no casualties.

she says january fourteenth our amber c. started around the clock duty. and. channel five from st petersburg once dialed the number of the hotline that was given five am that was and then a duty officer answer it all the questions the correspondent had by the way i also heard that who were reproached that japanese for instance used helicopters to transport their citizens so we asked the italian civilian population service whether that was true they said that it was not just the. passengers that were evacuated from the cruise vessel. that was. still drowning they were evacuated you know machines with helicopters not because

they were japanese but just because helicopters was the only means of rescue that could be employed in this situation so i could not agree. with. your grievance all the negative assessments of book about embassy on the contrary we think that they worked very well and we're getting gratitude from aggression citizens that were rescued you know many people actually decided to stay until the twenty first in rome because they wanted to enjoy the tel and capital we had a duty doctor who was in a hotel or told times. type get trick you had but was also there. we also purchased clothes food fruit or baby formula for those that need it before they were given any money from the

tourist agency so i want to ask colleagues to check before you make such statements because in this case. my colleagues were beyond reproach of course it is not always the case but in this case it is. we were just. told by you guys spanish newspaper recently trends new strain elections took place a new president was elected which marks new stage or an attempt to start a new stage of relations and get respect does russia have any new approaches. or is it ready to be more creative in finding so lucian's to the conflict try to blend meeting in should any economic assistance be rendered in the future should be conflict continues russia which version has relations first

transnistria it's an important component of our relations with. we have economic ties with the region and we believe that the arrangement. that were reached by transplant kitchenette. unobstructed to foreign economic activity of. companies should be honored at the moment financial or speak in. a strange situation is difficult as we used to rent them assistance and the past were prepared to consider any other quest on further humanitarian assistance and would care just because many. russian citizens and then they of course enjoy all social rights. because russian citizens have as regards the settlement. well there's no new solution is needed back in one thousand

nine hundred three we had good opportunity to finalize the matter but then i got to him and that was initialed by the ballot years the night before the signing ceremony where you. can you give me a few things. that was assisted by some european colleagues. was it was huge. wish the only people you put aside from discussion so this long awaited document was not signed had it been signed eight years ago i am sure that it would have long forgotten about chance just turned conflict now i don't know what or the reasons behind that stop probably someone in europe you have records of which one it relates. to the laurels of peacekeeper to themselves but that is but let it be on the conscience of those that committed.

we are not. going to sit idle but really we need to take a number of important steps first and foremost we need to recognize that during negotiations balloting is equal and i stress. it's a general global practice in the kitchen of and. equal participation of negotiations secondly doesn't. need to give up any extreme positions because in the year two thousand and five in moldova a law was passed on certain aspects of the status of certain settlements on the left bank of which you missed trail which basically states that there is no transnistria issue a joint decision should agreed to deliver a new unitary state solution this approach is not realistic.

if you do not wish to move. response to that approach is. in saying that they already made their own decision and that they independent so as long as kitchen of incest that. law of it was and five was the only framework for settlement trans just trans will continue advocating another extreme we formulated our proposals solution would that have been broadly supported by our colleagues with no hope that they will. also be induced by the barges we need to give up extreme positions and agree on the broadest possible. solution autonomy for transnistria for special status of the region then united sovereign people neutral republic of moldova that should preserve its territorial integrity

what it takes is a political world of those that can influence both parties when touch but those thought is we frankly and openly give our position and explain how we see the conditions for settlement some other. how to get a sense of this from the outside. those who try to back one of the parties and pressured the other. but this will not have any positive effect and i don't think it's moral to use for political purposes the incident that took place on january first on the checkpoint. when the. country to all the agreed rules that were read by to rest. and freshened diskeeper both. so contrary to all those rules. people rushed through checkpoint. on their car without stopping to get

a peacekeeper in accordance with the rules that have been approved by all parties had to shoot in the air and fought. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov fielding questions over russia's foreign policies over the past year the situation in syria and the turmoil there he said we cannot interfere in processes using armed force especially the outside countries who have nothing to do with the region we should support national dialogue of course we'll have more on this throughout the day here in r.t. and that news conference continues a live translation i started out. if you do it's.

when an uncomfortable question leads to a grave accusation the world who is more is you know far. the president who isn't supposed to hide anything. or someone asking him why do you make a secret out that when the powers to be suppress the voice of those who think different. when you get experiencing very serious problems off of the saakashvili government came to power in two thousand and three if you put it from a book that was when the problems began piling up. interviews were now off limits to our journalists they were often be seen up and humiliated in public and one of the attempt to protect property puts life in real danger is that we have been deprived of the only needs of a living and i have gone to the original source all the papers. then legalized the ownership rights on the basis of companies freedom becomes just

a stage prop. welcome back the headlines now. russia says no to violence or foreign military intervention in syria as foreign minister lavrov. in moscow he also criticized sanctions on iran saying country is ready to hold six party talks over its nuclear program. the largest online encyclopedia temporarily shut up shop in every u.s. bill it says.