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use that as damascus foreign minister prepares for talks with his russian counterpart in an attempt to resolve the deadlock. two years after the polish president's failed plane crash in russia the two countries attempt to turn the page in their relation to some politicians and war so try to ride the wave of grief into power. because they have us here in our teen our spotlight is next and today i'll get off talks to the now do you get to love fresh as deputy minister of foreign affairs who spent nine years working in the middle east he's now responsible for russia's work at the united nations.

welcome to sponsors. and solution. and play my guest here on the program is. the russian foreign policy has been much concentrated lately on the middle east and particularly on so for several months now while the world community negotiates a solution to the crisis rebels and government forces keep shooting. may help but some uncertainty and weak points to sell what's moscow's strategy. we'll discuss. deputy foreign minister you know. according to the koffi annan plan the violence in syria must stop by the end of this week the government forces should be the first to hold fighting with the

rebels to within forty eight hours the parties had reached an agreement but recently stepped back demanding region guarantees from each other diplomats are down for the plan ever work out but believe russia can become a mediator the kremlin continues to store kind of outside intervention in syria but is ready to put more pressure on the massacres. if you get your thank you very much for that. well let's start talking about about the peaceful syria may. the plan well the violence according to the coffin and plan is supposed to start on the tenth hour of april so what would be russia's reaction if bashar assad's regime will fail to withdraw. by the eight. thank you very much under

a litany start from the games maybe major point. as you know yesterday the security council indorsed. presidential statement on syria as you rightly mentioned one of the pro vision of the is the. is about stopping or fighting. suggested the syrian authorities stop the violence stop fighting with the rule of the heavy arms by the tens of april after the period. starts and during this period the opposition and the government should stop all kind of violence so this is the major war and of course we are not alone

the beginning of the group after there as. i suggested it's a little but also chilled start syrian led early tickle ball embrace of political process and if it happens so that means the. solution and the political therefore is may succeed. as for the russians position it is a very well known but on the very beginning we created a political settlement we supported the effort of saw. you in a special in way coffee or none it truly was a. russian initiative in the very beginning and we in the security council suggested then this it pretty general should be appointed special envoy to start contacts with opposition and the government. so. for us it's very clear

that the film should be syrian and the settlements should be without any external interference the furious point is to stop fighting. to let the human you believe there is be dispatched to the people you need and then to start the political process but he will must continue the supporting if he if he is to fulfill the requirements of the. world i wouldn't try to persuade him to to do so this what we are doing all the time and we are persuading. and we have been persuading from the very beginning to start reforms to. implement what he has already did clear it and for us it's not the point that we support we support the president pastor.

we support political settlement. in the end who will be the leader of the crown three big question the decision of the syrian people so for us personally is not the point but if a person is not the poor we should continue to try to block the attempts to stanch the syrian government well we have to wait and see. so far we don't know how the their will of man may. proceed because you know if you are talking about the syrian government the officially said. they are in favor of political process they would be really to start a political negotiations with their position but i would say the problem would be.

their position is fragmented it's not united and. frankly speaking is. a minor police see there is very difficult to distinguish the two speed invariance of their position if the army in case the army really pulls back from the city and case in case the deployment of observers will monitor the ceasefire in case it happens is it possible that russian representatives may take part in this observing operation. well we have not been approved by the united nations you have to on this issue. you know this is a quite sensitive issue. and as we know the secretary general kofi annan now are just in the process of thinking of the

composition of the mission of the mandate of the monitors so in our point of view of course the composition of be balanced it should consist of. representatives of the country of birth who would be acceptable for a syrian side so you would like to be on the mission. well i cannot tell you this poem did not insisting you not insist on not insisting we have not been yet and why if there is a invitation or propose nation on this side of the united nations of the secretary general of course we would consider it is better for the education is going to happen happen when people like you work and so are you working on. well concourses politicians then getting loans where we are calculating all possible scenarios if you ask me i think i either there's nothing about my question i think it's a lovely lateral if a russian representative it is is it is part of the observers mission because

because russia has always always backed a peaceful solution so if it happens why shouldn't i should be part of the voting machines or i will do things medical ok now in the media we hear reports that a quote russia's willingness to trust the syrian opposition has explained why the rule which the sunni islamist supported by saudi arabia played in the army uprising and quote is that true. no i wouldn't say that true because the us now there is the problem of this through needs and. in. context of the whole situation in syria but as far as we are a constant we are we've been not make just distributed between the sudanese and cheers for us it's important to reach the political settlement saying syria this is our primary goal the same way we'll get to be this way so. we have good

relations with all confessionals. this is not the point we are trying to make a grand picture of his political solution a you said that one isn't sticking to the persona of basher of europe for peaceful settlement but you also mentioned that you are trying to persuade him to go ahead with the reforms in the liberalization that he has promised do you think that this person is still capable of conducting those reforms only psychologically after all that argument is he is still the person that may go or maybe it will be more sensitive to to to to to to change him to somebody somebody more reformist like today. well again i would reiterate it once again that this is for the syrian people to decide as far as we feel it now usher who was willing to go with the reform process and if you look at the facts have truly.

been a number of important political decisions. they had to go in line with the democratization of the political life in the series on depression was that. years to certain extent if it was. to certain extent he was maybe too late we'd these the reforms and i would sit there so we. draw his attention to do all these misdeeds. but. we also have to take into account the. part that. in the syrian population i was seeing a large part of the syrian population still supports. us i'm sure a larger homes are in and. so far. we cannot say that he's totally isolated from his people he still enjoys so little of the population

of the syrian people will see syrian society here and this is an important because the standoff is continuing. to be going on mental forces are fighting is the putting it there really is the troops and merely groups in syria for them it's an important and something different issue says you know if he gets to a russian deputy foreign minister will be back shortly after we take a break so stay with us we'll be back in west. wealthy british scientists i. time to. time.

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welcome back to spotlight i'll do another in just a reminder that my guest on the show today is good idea good to look for russian deputy foreign minister. well there are plenty. of peaceful transition of power in syria and some of these plans include. guarantees safety guarantees provided to the share of alaska. who support one of these plans if it's starts to be implemented with guarantees provided to us

well i would put it this way that there are speak english unknowns about possible grantees do. if he steps down but practically we did not hear from any party and the discussion on how to implement this. will is for shuttle acid to decide well if you can't get news he's probably to call live for his third star on the. room will transfer miscues authorities to someone else actually he already did this because he said that he's very new to shadow would be in charge of the. political process a political process would be opposition if political negotiations start so it's up to them to decide as i said in the beginning. even there is any.

possibility or any scenario that would be acceptable for all. major polluters in syria of course russia would support any any any option that would be acceptable for them in the christmas number of the opposition i know that in a couple of days in moscow there will be talks russian side will be talking to the syrian representatives of the syrian opposition so any requirement sends requests that you were to the opposite each. we have only one request and one appeal to their position to start a political process with the syrian authorities because as i said cole already said this position in this thread meant if it's not united some of their position especially into or know is work or with their position in syria. more responsive

to suggestions to start a political process another part of the position external so called it stored in opposition is more rigid in their position is more powerful they do not agree to be engaged in any conflicts with russia. and his surrounding so i understand it there it's a big problem is now to the will to find the will if you will become and doing them in the story i'm defo titian or of the. opposition and to will to establish a group that would be responsible for starting political process. and by the way. the special envoy said that would be one of his major

loss because if you kill those who hold to talk to on in damascus he said i don't know how to talk within the ranks although i was initially well i understand that morse code doesn't really trust the syrian opposition but you mentioned the opposition being fragmented so maybe there is a group in so in one of these fragments of the syrian opposition that moscow those troops the worst things is worthwhile talking to link deals with we would be open to any contacts we all groups or position even what you call external. it was actual we maintain contact with be explored in opposition in capitals you know where the seed to where they reside but not in moscow you so we are open and we would be happy to go to moscow to start

a little concerts with them ok now i have to ask you i know it's not exactly your job inside the foreign ministry but since you're there peter minister i have to ask you a couple of the latest news way getting connected with the russian diplomacy route to route the the russian accused and sentenced to twenty five years in prison an american jail for a little allegedly trying to smuggle arms to terrorists while the foreign ministry already issued a statement saying that russia will be trying to to to to get back to to free him and to to me in this think you. really think so do you really have any leverage do you do you have a resource to do that what is the resource that flows something else i want yes mostly diplomacy we of course we do not agree with the beard.

against the reports we see that all the accusations are weasel is they do not have any. any any specific grounds no facts. so from the very beginning of the process we help. all our diplomatic missions and. then when he was transferred to the united states senor were helping him and you know that as a result of our diplomatic efforts some some restrictions were eased of. prison in the united states so of course we do not accept severe of it and we would continue to do what there were is possible on the diplomatic level what their worries forcible in our political context would be your administration. to do well to

solve this problem but. the legal agreements that we help but think that moscow has lost the diplomatic battle the day he was extradited from taylan to the u.s. because if there was to begin with he wasn't supposed to be extradited he according to law he was supposed to be extradited to russia. so so so they will lose the battle or is it just the first part of the. bill will continue. i will not say that we lost the battle because though we tried to do our best in from the very beginning but. in the framework of international law the existing legal agreements are fortunately the best how our partners behave in not only in these peculiar clears by. you know other similar cases there's

a world around you know about them so we always. will draw attention of our american partners and it's not acceptable and we will not accept the we how they handle the issue and of course we would continue to have this case in our focus and it will be always on the agenda with our war including our political negotiation diplomatic concert with our american partners a question to not force. but as the number two. diplomat in this country why would you come and why do you think america needed so badly to get booed and get him convicted why why why was it so necessary for the guy you know personally called times prime minister the prosecutor general i mean acted in this

case to get a warrant why do they need i think the whole case is politically motivated. because they really don't hear any proof and it was in the wall in this kind of a t.v. and just so. i don't have any other explanation i mean the reason i'm asking you because this is so strange to me because it's underground. wants to be associated with a reset in russia american elections the power is talking to medvedev the other day saying. if i really acted i'm going to come to st petersburg everything will be fine here and at the same time he is pushing and putting this mantle judge why they did this sounds this sounds logical to me. made it sounds a lot recalled to us but for the americans maybe they have some lawyer because it's not the suit they have had to be a little process and it's. there are different political.

powers in the united states with their own understanding or a vision of the russian and married. relations saw. long i think. they only have this one kind of with they have to calculate all these so you know their political game especially when they have thought of the elections you will remember last year a spy case which ended up wouldn't change process if the tribute is to be probably maybe exchanged to some american detained in russia and some of the charges would be a diplomatic case or is it a political case and the foreign ministry has nothing to do with the world well to my understanding of course. it should be a political decision it should be a political decision. ok. last question the new russian

ambassador. or is said to be. perfectly appointed to to be the new russian and most likely to he's he's a career diplomat rather a hard line politician doesn't mean that we're getting soft in their relations with later but you say you know this it was really well of course that i know mr bush he's a very good colleague of mine and he's a very good professional he's. in charge of the relations. between russia and nato for a long period of time can knows the problem very well. i think that of course. he will be accepted in the in the in nato is the police station as a diploma and he will make his. positive contribution in

well improving. and advancing our relations with might very. well and serve the region thank you very much and i salute and just sort of mind that there by yesterday was good are they getting a russian deputy foreign minister and that's it for now from all of history if you want to have yourself fought like are if you have someone who you think are experiencing the next time do just their mind at all do not act as the chief doctor you unless the spotlight interrupted to be back with more friends comments on what's going on in and outside russia something then stay in party and take. place.

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