CIAO DATE: 11/2008
Volume: 54, Issue: 3
June 2008
Strategic Partnership between Russia and the EU as One of the Pillars of the new Europe (PDF)
S. Lavrov
Raising living standards for all citizens of Russia is the highest priority of the Russian Government's policies. Over the past few years we've achieved considerable progress in reaching this goal. Recent decisions in the social sphere will ensure that this policy is implemented consistently and on a long-term basis. This policy is based on steady high economic growth which is mostly due to the dynamic development of real sector, i.e. industry, construction and trade, rather than oil and gas prices. Major infrastructure projects are being carried out. Development institutions have been established to ensure a transition to an entirely new innovation-based economy. Foreign direct investments grow at a record pace. Russia is now among the world's leading economies. From 2000 to 2006 alone, the total volume of our foreign trade more than tripled, the volume of trade with the European Union grew fivefold.
We Favor Setting up an Open Collective Security System (PDF)
S. Lavrov
The annual Disarmament Conference is on from January 21 to September 12, 2008 in the UN Office at Geneva. The Conference was convened for negotiating arms race limitation treaties and agreements. It is concerned with designing effective methods of arms and disarmament control acceptable to all states. The Disarmament Conference brings together 65 nations, including Belarus and Ukraine, as well as the five nuclear powers.
First of all, I would like to welcome all the participants in the Conference on Disarmament. I appreciate the opportunity to address this representative forum and to share our views on the state of the disarmament and non-proliferation process, which cannot but cause concern.
Scientific achievements and the use of advanced technologies offer unheard-of opportunities for addressing the primary task for any State, i.e. to ensure sustainable development and prosperity. The growing interdependence of the globalizing world and the emerging multipolar system create a favorable environment for expanding international cooperation with a view to taking maximum advantage of such opportunities for the benefit of all the countries and peoples. On the other hand, the new global threats and the aggravation of many existing ones, ranging from terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to climate change, require from the international community to come up with a joint response. This is the imperative of the time.
Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects (Draft)
Basic Elements of an International Legally-Binding Arrangement on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range (Ground-Launched) Missiles, Open for Broad International Accession
Oil in American Politics
N. Simonia
Russia-EU Parliamentary Dialogue Continues
V. Likhachev
China Goes Olympic
I. Antonov
ASEAN Three Communities Doctrine
A. Voronin
Argentina: The Kirchner Family Contract
P. Yakovlev
The Race for White House Heats Up
M. Bragin
A Divided Party Cannot Win
Ye. Ananieva
The Yugoslav Tragedy (PDF)
L. Kerestejiyants
History of the Balkan Slavs can be described as never ending disunity and disagreements frequently developing into mutual repulsion and even enmity. Throughout the last six centuries the states of the Southern Slavs have not merely failed to consolidate - they distanced from one other. Slovenia was developing first under a strong German influence and, from the 13th century on, under the Austrian Habsburgs. Venice dominated over the Adriatic coast, mainly over what is now Croatia. In the 12th century, Hungary established its influence in the continental part of Croatia and later in Bosnia. By the mid-15th century, the Turks had captured Serbia, by the end of the century they established themselves in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Canada’s Defense Policy at the Start of the 21st Century
D. Volodin
Gazprom and European Energy Security
A. Medvedev
The Foreign Ministry and Perestroika: 20 Years After
Ye. Shmagin
What We Mean by the Dialogue of Civilizations
A. Guseinov
The Ball Is on the EU Side
L. Klepatsky
Canada: Close Neighbors and Natural Partners
S. Petrov
Tajikistan: Relations Gaining Momentum
R. Abdulatipov
How the Berlin Wall Fell
I. Maksimychev
Remembering Japanese Prime Ministers
A. Panov
Psychology for Diplomats
P. Akopov
Historical Portrait in a Gilt Frame
K. Kosachev, N. Vukolov