Russia's ambassador to NATO called Wednesday on the alliance's leadership to support Russia's initiative to develop an international legal framework to deal with pirates on the high seas. "I turn to NATO and to the secretary general personally with a proposal to show political will and exert influence on certain Western states that are currently skeptical of ... Russia's resolution sent to the UN, which refers to the fact that the UN secretary general should present within three months various options for prosecuting pirates," Dmitry Rogozin told RIA Novosti. He warned that without the proper legal framework, the fight against piracy will always be "a game of cowboys and Indians" in which the pirates are caught and then released. Many NATO ambassadors consider piracy not just a regional, but an international problem, Rogozin said after a Russian-NATO discussion on ways of fighting piracy in Brussels 

May 21, 2010   Russia, US, EU and NATO negotiate anti-piracy measures

Russia has been negotiating anti-piracy measures with the US, the EU and NATO, the country’s Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov told the RIA-Novosti news agency Friday. He added that on Thursday he and his Italian counterpart met in Rome to discuss the piracy situation off the African Horn. “Since the international community has not yet passed a package of laws on sea piracy, the Russian sailors, who rescued the Moskovsky Universitet tanker, had to release the pirates”, Mr. Serdyukov said 

 

May 20, 2010   Russia expects NATO proposals on missile defence

Russia expects concrete NATO proposals on common missile defence in the Euro-Atlantic area. Russia’s NATO Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin was speaking about this in an interview Wednesday a few days after NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen unveiled a vision of an anti-missile shield protecting the hemispheric belt from Vancouver to Vladivostok. Mr. Rogozin also urged NATO to disclose its unilateral missile defence plans, before inviting Russia to cooperate. Decisions about NATO’s system are to be made at the Alliance’s next summit in Lisbon in November 

May 14, 2010   NATO failed to build central structure in Afghanistan - analyst

Jim Brann from the Stop the War coalition in London believes that the durability of central power in Afghanistan is very doubtful. “Years of private contractors in Afghanistan, as in Iraq, is a major factor and a major new development,” Brann told RT. “I think a few months ago it was estimated that there were more private contractors than were US troops, so they have become the biggest foreign contingent. In fact, in Afghanistan a lot of these people are locally recruited. They get paid considerably more than the Afghan national army.” 

 

May 11, 2010   Outdated, unwanted, US nukes hang on in Europe (Associated Press)

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's blunt-spoken ambassador to NATO, laid out its position: While the U.S. still has nuclear weapons abroad, "we have already withdrawn all the tactical nuclear weapons of Russia back home," from the territories of former East European allies and ex-Soviet republics. "We are now expecting some steps on the U.S. side," Rogozin told the AP — namely the voluntary pullback of the B-61s to U.S. soil. Today's American "hot potatoes," as Rogozin dubbed them, date back to the 1950s and a U.S. effort to demonstrate a nuclear commitment to Western European defense by embedding such weapons near the potential battlefield. Some credit these binational "dual-key" missions with dissuading more Europeans from developing their own atomic arms in the old standoff with the Soviet bloc 

May 7, 2010   Russia proposes international tribunal, laws for dealing with pirates

Russia urges NATO to stop dragging its feet over Russian initiatives for international laws and courts that allow the family of nations to arraign pirates. Its Ambassador to the Alliance Dmitri Rogozin says such laws and courts would resolve an intolerable situation in which sea brigands from failed states like Somalia cannot be properly brought to justice anywhere in the world. The Russian law of the sea expert Professor Anatoli Kolodkin runs through plausible options. The proposed court could be global, like the ones already sitting in The Hague. It could be regional, with a jurisdiction across the Horn of Africa. It could also function in the form of an internationally-enhanced chamber of an existing court in an interested country, for instance, Kenya. A code of laws for it is also of essence, said  Anatoli Kolodkin 

May 5, 2010   Russia to sell weapons to NATO members

Russia will seek direct opportunities to sell weapons to NATO member states, according to Russia's envoy to the alliance, Dmitry Rogozin. He also said Moscow is considering sending weapons to Afghanistan to assist its present government. In return, the Alliance might lift all barriers for free military trade between Moscow and NATO member states. Last December, the alliance's secretary general asked Russia to supply Kabul with military helicopters 

May 4, 2010   Moscow wants to sell arms to NATO

 Russia is tying helicopter supplies to Afghanistan with permission to sell arms to NATO countries, the Kremlin’s Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said during a Moscow-Brussels video conference on Tuesday. “We are seeking an opportunity for the Russian defense industry to trade its products within the alliance’s member-states. We will earn money and they will acquire reliable quality weapons,” Rogozin said 

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