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Speech of and answers to questions of mass media by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov summarizing the results of the session of NATO-Russia Council at the foreign minister level, Brussels, 23 April 2013

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have conducted the next session of NATO-Russia Council at the foreign minister level. We talked in detail and sincerely about problems in the sphere of international security that are growing and, we will not hide it, are escalating and affect security in our Euro-Atlantic region.

The thereat of terrorism does not decrease. The Boston tragedy confirmed again that we cannot talk about a victory over the international terrorist “international”. To that end, we talked about the tasks open to the NATO-Russia Council from the point of view of deepening the political dialog, as well as practical actions and cooperation programs. We presume that all of us need to move to the achievement of the goal set at the summit of NATO-Russia Council held in Lisbon in 2010 faster and more actively, namely – to create a common space of peace, security and stability in the Euro-Atlantic region. By the way, the conference planned for 22-24 May that will be held by the Ministry of Defence of Russia in Moscow, is aimed at accelerating this process. Representatives of NATO member-states are also invited to it, among others.

On the US-Russian briefing in the NATO-Russia Council on implementation of the New START Treaty

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On the 18th of March, NATO Headquarters hosted the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council Working group on arms control, disarmament and non-proliferation with the participation of the Russian Ministry of Defence delegation led by the Mr. S.M.Koshelev, Chief of the Main Department of the International Military Cooperation Russian MoD.

During the event S.M.Koshelev and A.E.Friedt, Principal Deputy Assistant US Secretary of State for Nuclear and Strategic Policy, presented joint briefing on the implementation of the New START Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States. read more...

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation opened its page on Facebook

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation opened its official page on the social network Facebook: http://facebook.com/midrussia. read more...

NATO-Russia military-to-military direct line

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On 14 February 2013, General Knud Bartels, Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee and Chairman of the NRC Military Representatives, initiated an historical phone call with Colonel-General Valeriy Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, enhancing military-to-military cooperation and promoting transparency between NATO and Russia.

As agreed at the NATO-Russia Council meeting in Chiefs of Staff session last month, NATO and Russian Military Authorities implemented a common secure line of communication between their offices to strengthen their relationship and bring military-to-military cooperation to a new level of trust and transparency.

HEAD OF THE MISSION

Alexander V. GRUSHKO

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Born in 1955

In 1977 graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Languages – Dutch, English

He has been working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia since 1977 and held various diplomatic posts in the central office of the MFA and abroad.

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The Biography, Latest Publications, Day-today Activities

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Important Issues

September 29, 2012

Statement by Mr. Sergey V. Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, at the 67th Session of the UN General Assembly

July 30, 2012

Prime-minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev gives interview to The Times newspaper (United Kingdom), 30 July 2012

June 20, 2012

Answer by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to the question on missile defense during the press conference following G20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, 20 June 2012

March 23, 2012

Speech of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev at a conference organised by the Russian Council for International Affairs, Euro-Atlantic Security Community: Myth or Reality?

March 19, 2012

Exclusive Interview with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to TOLOnews, Sunday, 18 March 2012

March 14, 2012

Statement of S.V. Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, in the State Duma of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation within ‘Government Hour’, Moscow, 14 March 2012

Documents

February 23, 2011

About the Special Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation for the Interaction with NATO in Missile Defence, 18 Feb 2011

February 21, 2011

Instruction about the Inter-Agency Working Group under the Administration of the President of Russia for the Interaction with NATO in Missile Defence, 18 Feb 2011

November 23, 2010

NATO-Russia Council Joint Statement (Lisbon, November 20, 2010)

August 18, 2008

Statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

June 5, 2008

Dmitry Medvedev's Speech at Meeting with German Political, Parliamentary and Civic Leaders

April 4, 2008

Chairman’s statement: Meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at the level of Heads of State and Government held in Bucharest

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NRC(LOG) meets in Brussels

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On 12 February, NATO HQ hosted a meeting of the Ad Hoc NRC Working Group On Logistics (NRC(LOG)) attended by the Russian MoD delegation headed by the Assistant to the Deputy Defence Minister of the Russian Federation on Logistics Colonel Alexander G. Turkov.

During the event, the sides assessed the results of NATO-Russia logistics cooperation in 2012 and discussed the implementation of the objectives in 2013.

Representatives from NATO’s Multinational Logistics Coordination Centre briefed the participants in the meeting that the Capable Logistician 2013 exercise will take place on 8-26 June 2013 at MTA Lest (Slovakia), with an active phase on 16-22 June 2013.

Within the frameworks of the activity, NATO side confirmed its readiness to finalize NATO-Russia Framework Document On Fuels Interoperability in the timelines set forth in the current Roadmap (by the end of March 2013).

Interview with Ambassador Alexander Grushko, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to NATO, for the NRC web site, 5 February 2013

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NRC.info:

You participated in the negotiations on the Rome declaration "NATO-Russia relations: A new quality". Was there a general awareness that this was a new era for NATO and Russia?

Ambassador Grushko:

I would not call it a new era. In 2001-2002 it became vital to restore the relations between NATO and Russia which were in a deep crisis after the military intervention of the Alliance in the former-Yugoslavia. It was imperative to find a new and more solid basis for cooperation in the fight against new threats and challenges. The tragedy of the 9/11 testified to the fact that in the modern world there are no "islands of security" and that we are all exposed to the challenge of global terrorism. The overall negotiations of the Rome declaration were tense. However, at that time we managed to lay down the new philosophy for our relations. The Rome declaration clearly stated that the members of the NATO-Russia Council were acting in their national capacities. If the memory serves me well, this provision was bracketed until the very last minute of the negotiations. What was also innovative in the Rome declaration was the establishment of a continuous political dialogue on security issues, the statement of its all-weather character. In practice it meant that the cooperation within NRC was moving ahead without being fully dependent on the divergences between its members.

NRC Scientists Cooperating to Detect Baltic Oil Spills

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Ensuring environmental security is a present-day challenge all NRC nations are faced with. One NRC Science for Peace and Security (SPS) project in particular, is already tackling a significant environmental threat in the Baltic Sea, and in the process, taking on the ambitious task of becoming a leading region for environmental safety and security. The project aims to improve the detection of oil spills in the Baltic Sea, initially by researching and comparing existing technology for oil spill detection, and then in later phases of the project, by testing the best methods in the South-Eastern region of the Baltic.
The project for the “Development of solutions for effective oil spill management in South-Eastern Baltic” was mandated in the NRC’s Work Programme for 2013, and is jointly led by Klaipeda University’s Coastal research and planning institute in Lithuania, and the Atlantic Branch of Shirshov Institute of Oceanology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the support of the SPS Programme. It is a direct response to regional economic and environmental challenges in the Baltic. read more...

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