Speaking after the year's first meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC, the permanent committee of NATO member states and Russia), Rogozin said that he was an "optimist" and that "we are capable of finding a compromise."
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January 27, 2011
The audio-file of Dmitry Rogozin's Press Conference (26.01.2011) is available via links below: In Russian, mp3, 37,8 Mb, original sound In English, mp3, 37 Mb, professional simultaneous translation by Third Secretary Mr. Vitaly Golitsin
*** BRUSSELS (AP) — A recent cyber attack on Iran's nuclear program could have triggered a disaster comparable to the one in Chernobyl 25 years ago, Russia's envoy to NATO said Wednesday.
Dmitry Rogozin urged NATO to join Moscow in investigating who created and unleashed the mysterious and destructive computer worm known as Stuxnet. The virus hit Iran's nuclear facilities last year, temporarily crippling its uranium enrichment program, which can make both nuclear fuel and the fissile core of warheads.
Iran is under four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to freeze the activity, which it says it needs to create fuel for a future nuclear power network.
Rogozin told journalists at NATO headquarters that the virus could have caused the control system of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor to malfunction, leading to the release of poisonous radioactive dust into the atmosphere, as happened in Chernobyl.
"The virus which is very toxic, very dangerous, could have had very serious implications," Rogozin said. It "could have lead up to a new Chernobyl."
Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 exploded in 1986, spewing radiation over a large swath of northern Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people were resettled from areas contaminated with radiation fallout in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Related health problems still persist.
"This is a security-related issue," Rogozin said. "We insist that we have an investigation with the NATO-Russia Council."
The council, which meets each month, groups the alliance's 28 states and Russia to discuss security issues and to coordinate responses.
Rogozin, who attended the panel's meeting on Wednesday along with Russia's military chief, Gen. Nikolai Makarov, said greater cooperation is needed between NATO and Russia in cyber defense. The former Cold War rivals already are cooperating closely in other fields such as missile defense, the war in Afghanistan, counter-narcotics, the battle against terrorism and maritime piracy.
The Bushehr power nuclear plant was completed with Russian help after years of delays.
U.S. government experts and outside analysts say they have not been able to determine who developed the malware, short for malicious software, or why.
*** Brussels, DPA - NATO's proposal to link its planned missile defence system with Russia does not go far enough and appears aimed at weakening Russia's nuclear arsenal, the country's ambassador to NATO said Wednesday after talks with alliance diplomats.
Last year, NATO proposed that the alliance and its Cold War foe link their systems in a bid to build trust and security. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accepted an invitation to start talks on the possibilities for cooperation at a summit in Lisbon. NATO's vision is of "two independent, but coordinated systems working back to back," Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a video posted a week ago. But Russian Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin said that concept "could not be called cooperation, it's not even a marriage of convenience: it's just living separately in different apartments, with different entrances and addresses." Speaking after the year's first meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC, the permanent committee of NATO member states and Russia), Rogozin said that he was an "optimist" and that "we are capable of finding a compromise." But he stressed that Russia wants to see the two sides build a single, shared missile defence system in Europe, "so that, without the participation of one (side's system), the second one cannot be considered as fully operational." Anything less would mean that the system "will not only be targeted against some violator of the nuclear regime, but more at the Russian strategic nuclear potential," he said. That demand is highly unlikely to meet the approval of NATO members, as it would imply that the alliance would need the permission of Russia to use its own planned missile defences. Separately, the diplomat accused NATO of "hypocrisy" in drawing up secret contingency plans for defending the Baltic States and Poland in the wake of Russia's 2008 invasion of Georgia. The plans were revealed by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks late last year. "Everyone understood that, far too often, 'cooperation' has such hypocritical forms when such beautiful words are spoken but in reality the knife is still in the pocket," he said. NATO and Russia should pledge to never target any military plans against one another again, he said. *** BRUSSELS (AFP) – NATO and Russia vowed Wednesday to stand side-by-side against terrorism after Moscow's airport bombing but remained at odds over cooperation on a missile shield for Europe's population.
Russian and NATO military brass met at the Western alliance's headquarters in Brussels in the latest chapter in thawing ties between the former Cold War foes following Russia's 2008 war with Georgia. The NATO-Russia Council, the forum for discussion between the two military powers, issued a statement condemning Monday's "terrorist bombing" at Domodedovo airport which left 35 people dead. "Our countries stand together in the fight against terrorism, and we are determined to expedite our efforts to counter this scourge," the statement said. Wednesday's talks follow a landmark Lisbon summit in November, when Russia agreed to allow NATO to transport more goods to Afghanistan through its territory, and explore the possibility of working with the Western alliance on the missile defence system. NATO decided at Lisbon to deploy radars and missile interceptors to protect Europe from rogue attacks, and invited Moscow to cooperate in the project to ease Russian fears that the system was aimed against its nuclear deterrent. The two sides agreed Wednesday on a work plan in six areas of cooperation including combatting terrorism, countering sea piracy and renewing cooperation on a missile defence system to protect troops. But the military powers remained apart on the missile shield project to defend European populations and territories. NATO insists on keeping two independent systems that would share intelligence while Russia proposes a "sectoral" system in which each side would shoot down missiles coming from a certain geographic area. Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin told reporters that it should be a "common" system. NATO's vision "could not be called cooperation," he said. "It's not even a marriage of convenience. It's like living separately in different apartments." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev this week called on NATO to provide a clear answer over his country's role in the European missile shield, warning that Moscow could deploy more nuclear weapons if it was left out of the umbrella. "Our partners have to understand that we do not want this simply to have some common toys that NATO and we can play with, but because we want adequate protection for Russia," Medvedev said in televised remarks on Monday. "So this is not a joking matter. We expect from our NATO partners a direct and unambiguous answer," said Medvedev, who has demanded an equal role for Russia in the US-European missile project. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in a video blog last week, said the two systems should remain separate but could cooperate by sharing information and developing "potential synergies". "The vision of the alliance is for two independent but coordinated systems working back to back," Rasmussen said. The meeting of Russian and NATO military chiefs came the same day that Russia gave final approval to a nuclear disarmament treaty with the United States, a major step in Washington's own "reset" of relations with Moscow. "I also hope that political momentum generated by this treaty will help Allies and Russia to make concrete progress in their strategic partnership, including in the field of missile defence," Rasmussen said. *** Voice of Russia - Russia's permanent representative at NATO Dmitry Rogozin says that gathering NATO members in Russia was discussed Wednesday at NATO headquarters.
Rogozin intends to discuss the date and agenda for the event with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen shortly.
Earlier, the head of the Russian General Staff Nikolai Makarov said Moscow should have a continuous involvement in the development missile defense architecture in Europe and that Russia-NATO cooperation "must be parity-based, with a clear understanding of the outcome."
*** RFE/RL - A Russian official says a recent cyberattack on Iran's atomic-energy program could have triggered a nuclear catastrophe on the scale of the Chornobyl disaster in 1986.
Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's ambassador to NATO, said the virus that hit the computer system at Iran's Bushehr reactor had caused centrifuges to spin out of control.
He called on NATO to investigate.
Iran began fueling the Russian-made nuclear plant at Bushehr last year.
Officials have said the reactor will begin generating energy early this year, a delay of several months following the spread of the global computer virus, known as Stuxnet, which is believed mainly to have affected Iran.
*** BRUSSELS, AFP — Russia called on NATO on Wednesday to launch an investigation into the computer worm that targeted a Russian-built Iranian nuclear power plant, saying the incident could have triggered a new Chernobyl.
Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said the Stuxnet virus caused centrifuges producing enriched uranium at the Bushehr plant to spin out of control, which could have sparked a new "Chernobyl tragedy," the 1986 nuclear meltdown in Ukraine. "The operators saw on their screens that the centrifuges were working normally when in fact they were out of control," Rogozin told reporters after a regular meeting with ambassadors from the 28-nation Western alliance. "NATO should get down to investigating this matter," he said, adding that he was interested to know if the German firm which built the centrifuges, Siemens, was probing the matter. Russia is helping Iran build a nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr for civilian use. Êîììåíòàðèè |
Important Issues
DocumentsFebruary 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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