During the bilateral meeting between Sergey Lavrov and Anders Fogh Rasmussen on February 6 this issue was indeed discussed. The Minister drew the NATO Secretary General’s attention to the relevant formulations of the new Military Doctrine indicating that it is not NATO per se that creates risks to the security of our country, but the “desire to endow the power potential of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with global functions that are realized in contravention of international law, to bring the military infrastructure of NATO member countries closer to Russian borders, including by expanding the bloc,” as well as the “creation and deployment of strategic missile defense systems that undermine global stability and upset the established balance of power in the nuclear-missile sphere, as well as militarization of outer space and deployment of strategic high-precision nonnuclear weapon systems.” In addition, the Doctrine clearly states that one of Russia’s principal tasks in containing and preventing military conflicts is to develop relations with the European Union and NATO 

January 11, 2010   B.Gromov, D.Rogozin. Russian Advice on Afghanistan (The New York Times, 12 January 2010)

How long would the Afghan government endure today if it were left alone to face the Taliban? A rapid slide into chaos awaits Afghanistan and its neighbors if NATO pulls out, pretending to have achieved its goals. A pullout would give a tremendous boost to Islamic militants, destabilize the Central Asian republics and set off flows of refugees, including many thousands to Europe and Russia... A “successful end” to the operation in Afghanistan will not come simply with the death of Osama bin Laden. The minimum that we require from NATO is consolidating a stable political regime in the country and preventing Talibanization of the entire region. That is the Russian position. We are ready to help NATO implement its U.N. Security Council mandate in Afghanistan. We are utterly dissatisfied with the mood of capitulation at NATO headquarters, be it under the cover of “humanistic pacifism” or pragmatism

December 2, 2009   The exhibition of disabled children from Russia opened on Tuesday in Brussels

On December 1st there was the opening of exhibition of disabled children from Russia in the Centre Culturel et Scientifique de Russie in Brussels. It was organized by the Russian cultural centre in Brussels, the Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO H.E. Dr. Dmitry Rogozin and his spouse Mrs. Tatiana Rogozina. The exhibition is timed to the International Day of Disabled Persons (December 3rd), established by the UN General Assembly in 1992 (resolution No. A/RES/47/3) 

October 12, 2009   Dmitry Rogozin - now on Twitter

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September 17, 2009   Dmitry Rogozin. Moving beyond strained relations (European Voice, Brussels)

The areas of mutual interest between Russia and NATO are very broad and the potential for co-operation is significant. Indeed, to a certain extent, the future of NATO as an organisation primarily responsible for security issues in the Euroatlantic region will largely depend on the fulfilment of this potential. NATO is primarily a military union, and its objective should be consolidating security. Building up a common zone of guaranteed security along with Russia could smoothly blend with the new strategic concept of NATO and breathe new life into the alliance's transformation process. This would mean that the alliance would need to abandon what appears to be its mindset – that there should be only one power centre. But the alternative is that NATO and Russia will both remain in the cold. There is no certainty that the alliance is capable of successfully managing alone the tasks that it faces today. The success of many a NATO mission, including in Afghanistan, depends on the quality and extent of Russia's involvement

June 26, 2009   Repeating the abduction of Europe (European Voice, Brussels)

It is in Russia-NATO relations that Russia’s relations with the West are most strikingly revealed. If we deepen Russia-NATO co-operation, build up trust and crystallise a ‘common cause’, we can succeed in building a United Europe. Russia does not wish to join NATO. It does not wish to ‘dissolve the alliance’. NATO and Russia will maintain different approaches – but we should learn to defend both European approaches. That is best done by concerted action along the perimeters of both Europes. With that goal in mind, Russia is ready to restore relations with the alliance

April 29, 2009   H.E. Dr. Dmitry Rogozin's Press Conference after the NATO-Russia Council meeting (audio)

The Press-Conference of H.E. Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin is available on our web-site via audio-player below. The translation into English made simultaneously by Attache of the Russian Mission to NATO Mr. Vitaly Golitsin

April 27, 2009   Press-Release of the Russian Mission to NATO

The Cooperative Airspace Initiative (CAI) was launched within the NRC framework in June 2002 according to the provisions of the Rome declaration.  The project aims at the creation of a system of air traffic information exchange along the borders of Russia and NATO member states.  Presently the system consists of four units in Russia and four units in NATO nations, and includes sites from the far north of Europe in Bodø (Norway) and Murmansk (Russia) to Ankara (Turkey) and Rostov-on-Don (Russia) in the south. The NATO Coordination Centre is located in Warsaw, Poland, and the Russian Federation Coordination Centre is located in Moscow. The units will host operational staff and will provide both an air situation display and their own voice communications between the sites

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