and so on and so forth because the people who will be living and they cut in their own country the people who have never left their country and it is their voice including with the voice. of the immigrants. will be heard in sochi and we hope that by the end of this congress in sochi stuff under mr aristide recommendations about who else might be added to the. constitutional commission. and all. but. the parts issue. but they have been invited. let us wait until we have the results and then we'll have the talk. to the committee to give you credit i think. that this is

a good afternoon mr lavrov represented because i stand to the mark thank you for opportunity to me to ask you a question as you know president of kazakhstan visit us not long ago and one of the issues to discuss with mr trump is the relations between the u.s. and russia do you believe that kazakhstan will be able to become a mediator soon prove the relations between the two countries and my second question is. what is the importance of kazakhstan being in the security council well first of all. if we're talking about mediation we frankly speaking we have direct contacts between moscow and washington in terms of our foreign ministries and of our presidents i have met mr tillerson for aids times. since mr trump became president we have soaked on the phone and on on a number of occasions of course we valued the proposal of mr nasser by

a friend any many other countries to become mediators to see the russian u.s. relations improved. but. it's probably not something that depends on the quality and the quantity of this mediators it is something that depends on the readiness and the willingness of the u.s. to start a dialogue on the basis of mutual understanding and trust and respect what it was that. mr trump has been the to actually oppose some kind of domestic. intrigues and. all kinds of things happening inside the u.s. . we see how everything that's happening in the u.s. is calling this a phobia and adding to the trance problems. but i believe that this will pass this problems will pass and. the u.s.

will realize that it is there is in their core interests to promote and improve relations with the russian federation including for the sake of international security which we have been talking so much about especially mr lavrov. you think about the european leaders. record neutrally to the reintegration law. adopted in ukraine what you thing can be the practical ramifications. of this lot well this reintegration law if we speak to you from the legal terms is basically erases manes the minsk agreements the agreements that have been adopted. thanks to the. meeting of the four leaders of the normandy group in minsk and this is something that is obvious for us because it's obvious to us as for our

reaction i have stated on numerous occasions that we have you were clear information that in europe people in europe and in washington understand what kind of game the ukrainian authorities are playing right now how they're trying to evade their obligations under the minsk agreement but i hope that in the private. contacts. with other leaders. leaders are telling this to the ukrainian authorities. absolutely but this is. the most. can not. just simply do not. abide by their obligations and of course the uniters cannot say that they no longer have trust in the ukrainian. but we as for as for ourselves we will continue to

abide by everything we've signed under the minsk agreements and any attempts. to. somehow sidetrack these discussions to find new issues. instead of discussing what has been signed this is unacceptable and we will continue. to. support the initiative for all of the implementing. you said miss grammont if united states actually violates the iran deal it has grave consequences for north korea and generally international trade agreements like that but is there a possibility under what circumstances can this agreement be saved without united states in it discussions with the europeans to come up with a formula you know reimposing of sanctions and violating it by mr trump would not

kill the deal in one hundred twenty days. well google is was more than agreement this deal can not be implemented to even first some of its members just use what it was that refuses from implementing it. and everyone understands this and our european colleagues would. scold muesli but it's. this is a very important issue and as you've said the north koreans are looking at what's happening with iran with the iran's nuclear deal because iran's stopped its nuclear those are some grogram and it's sanction and there was a sanctions relief. on the. eve but it's not just iran is becoming nothing more than the bargaining chip. in other integrated geopolitical game. the

north korea will realize that the same could happen to them as well. and if you would like to continue listening in to russia's foreign minister addressing the media for a meeting of the u.n. security council in new york head to our website r.t. dot com live coverage of that in the meantime i'll be back with the latest news headlines from today in just a moment. right in the syrian government how are you dealing with these mixed messages from your american colleagues well there's an. issue where we receive messages you apostle and. little of days ago you saw. the u.s. said that they were creating a. forces for defending the borders in syria but now they said they're not creating these forces that are the creating alternative. i thought of the structures in syria and this is

a fact this goes against their own obligations which they have signed on numerous occasions including in the un security council. protecting the territorial integrity of syria and we are worried by that i have discussed this with mr tillerson a number of occasions on the military level. we have contacts about this issue i agree with you. this mixed messages. but insecure little words this back and forth diplomacy this. see to respect their own agree with their own obligations is something that is characteristic of modern u.s. diplomacy and. this is of course. something that is true in syria in terms of us presence there yes mr tillotson has said on many occasions that the u.s.

only goal is to defeat isis in syria. but now it seems that they have more long term goals some other goals will hold but the soul will have to find other ways to prevent the destruction of syrian sovereignty or a minister if the hundred leave from associated press office park ok i know mom to go i said we're going to break off from that but that was before we found out that our correspondent kelly morgan was about to ask a question so you know but it's our promotion you have to indulge as with that you can no head to our web site r.t. dot com for continued coverage of the russian foreign minister press conference there in new york r.t. dot com or you can stay with us because if you decide to challenge america's experiment in democracy it is going to be your worst day those were the words from the american defense secretary as he unveiled america's new defense strategy which now primarily focuses on deterring russia and china. but we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terror that we're engaged in today but great power competition not terrorism is now the primary focus of us now thoughts to cure it.

he has done a far correspondent joins me in a studio you've been following this closely more closely may that's for sure. but he's talking about a great power competition what did he mean well and they all first and foremost this america's defense strategy so to speak is so much on the offensive side of the tracks that it almost makes you think that someone copy and pasted the old name into the you know into the headline space so it's the first time since the cold war american military is focusing on this great competition of powers so this can really be seen as sort of a sort of mentality making a comeback would it also means the infamous war on terror is taking the backseat it is being put on the back burner so to speak instead washington is focusing on russia china iran and north korea but really the pentagon is singling out moscow and beijing have

a listen. we fish growing threat from revisionist powers as different as china and russia or from each other nations that do seek to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models for sure in veto authority over and over nations economic diplomatic and security decision. so we've already heard we've just heard in fact from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who well he made his comments and the the bottom line of this was the despite the new defense strategy focusing in targeting mainly russia russia is still looking to cooperate with the united states and russia is not going to be shying away from dialogue we spoke just in the last hour to a guest gregory koppel who suggested that this really was about the u.s. playing catch up trying to make its own forces as as modern as russia certainly has and also in china and that's that's a word modernization that was used by the u.s. defense secretary what is the doctrine actually promising well another word used by

the u.s. defense secretary was fundamental. this is how he characterized this modernization that he's been talking about and mostly the pentagon is going to be focusing on space on cyber security and on its nuclear program so in terms of cyber security there are going to be overhauling the whole thing really we don't know the details yet but obviously big big big changes are coming up especially with all of the russia and china hackers craze in terms of the nuclear program they're seeing it as a reaction you know a sort of a reaction to what russia has been doing in this sphere and if you're talking about certainly talking about outer space and defense position that this is not going to be cheap what's the money being talked about well the whole program the whole everything suggested in proposed in this document nothing of that is going to be cheap or come fried is more weapons more troops more everything is still obviously the secretary of defense used this opportunity to ask for more money or at least

well make it a step in the direction saying that budget cuts arguably delivered the worst blows to the pentagon and to the u.s. national and national defense but at the same time you have to remember that it's not only about how much money the pentagon gets but also how we choose to spend it for example hundreds of billions of dollars have been splashed out on the new thirty five fighter jet and development hasn't been even passed the most basic stages ok we have today many things you can stand off with me. let's get some analysis now from our guests bring in some great. political analyst and broadcast that china and iran officially on washington's list of rival states do you anticipate any ramifications in the region. i think that the bulk of all the genes might just this reporter to put up

a pedestrian that anxiety and he has mentioned so many people. in his. own time and they want to discuss is about as you mentioned the moral arden's in the what is now but he didn't mention that. this article are actually. well off a lot of disorders that he mentioned in his speech and is this. sense of. speech. we've heard donald trump rubbishing the iran nuclear deal i think he said is one of the worst tails of all recall correctly washington has now said it's going to set up regional coalitions with the aim of countering tehran what i want to know is where is all this heading had so far as as conflicts are a repeat of what we saw in iraq. and that

a kind of confrontation into the middle east because the other thing that james madison mentioned that there is a shift from tended them to one of the technology of the united states because if you did spend some time going to come back he's lecturing the world all the time at a time that that is a mistake. but now. that you mention that. that the national said that the united nations and talk dirty no and then the but then the paradigm shift from the terrorism was the message. i think that in the middle east and. that they had some sort of intervention some sort of back and. if we look towards the pacific region look at the korean peninsula. and also as well as the u.s. activity the.