> >STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM > >http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/120700/detFOR01.htm > >Hindustan Times >July 12, 2000 > >India and China to be priority areas for Russia >Moscow, July 11 >(Fred Weir) > >RUSSIA WILL place new emphasis on its relations with >India and is ready to support its candidacy for >permanent membership of a reformed United Nations >Security Council as part of Moscow�s new foreign >policy doctrine, announced by Foreign Minister Igor >Ivanov Monday. > >In introducing the first full revision of Moscow�s >international orientation since 1993, Mr Ivanov also >insisted that Russia remain a superpower and the main >military threat comes from the US. > >�We have completed development of our new foreign >policy,� Mr Ivanov told a news conference in Moscow. >�Pres-ent day experience and stormy developments on >the world stage demand a new attitude to some issues >and some changes to our previous approaches.� > >The new doctrine stresses that India, China and the >former Soviet states of Central Asia will be the >priority areas for Russian foreign policy. Mr Ivanov >said that Russia has been �very satisfied� to find >common ground with India and China on key strategic >questions and the fight against international >terrorism. > >A major emphasis of Russian policy in future will be >the struggle against terrorism, �which is capable of >destabilising the situation not only in individual >states but in entire regions�, he said. > >Moscow will also promote sweeping changes to the >United Nations, including an expanded Security Council >to give permanent representation to populous nations >which are also potential global economic powerhouses. > >In recent meetings with Indian officials, Mr Ivanov >and Russian President Vladimir Putin have explicitly >supported India as a future permanent member of the >Security Council. Mr Putin is slated to visit India on >October 2 to 4. > >Russia�s foreign policy will be much more pragmatic >than in the past, and fewer of the nation�s resources >will be devoted to overseas activities, Mr Ivanov >said. > >�The point is to make our policy more rational, more >profitable in the political and economic sense,� he >said. > >But he warned that Russia has been deeply disappointed >by the failure of post-Cold War hopes for partnership >with the West, and particularly by the expansion of >the military alliance NATO to the borders of the >former USSR. > >The main military challenge Moscow sees today comes >from plans by the United States to scuttle three >decades of nuclear arms control and build an >anti-missile defence shield to protect North America >from so-called �nuclear rogue states�. > >�If these plans go ahead, Russia will take adequate >measures to defend itself. No one should underestimate >Moscow�s capacity or determination. Russia was, is and >will always be a superpower,� Mr Ivanov added. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! >http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
