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Vladimir Putin um dear guests please allow me before we move on to our conversation like to thank you Mr
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President that throughout all these years you’ve been helping maintain a wonderful tradition the tradition is
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that the information agency of Russia toss news agency gathers its um foreign
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colleagues to meet with you and I don’t know the way you find every time um you
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find time in your business schedule and you find time to have have you been offered a tour
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around this Center yes we have and possibly after the conversation we’ll go up to the roof don’t don’t agree to that
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shouldn’t is it dangerous no it’s hard to get out of the um
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cleaning uh grip of Mr Miller um it’s hard to get out of it because he talked
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about detail of um every part of this building he’s in love with this building and it’s hard to get out but did you
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like the building yes I did naturally uh what’s the view from the 87th
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floor um yes it is beautiful and I hope that you will like it as well Mr Putin
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today you have 16 countries represented here through its leading information
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agencies uh there were supposed to be more of us however our Indian and Brazilian colleagues um were not able of
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to travel here because there there have been certain issues with the election and our egyp I colleagues broke a leg
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right before the trip so naturally we wish him to get better as soon as possible but those who have traveled
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here would like to welcome you in this most beautiful city of the world St Petersburg and in this new hip place
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called L center before you you can see um the
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people and we think that they make up for about 80% of the whole Global News
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um flow and throughout the time that we haven’t met many of the countries that
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they represented all of a sudden became non-friendly countries to Russia but possibly that would make it even more
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interesting to take a look at what’s happening in these countries and what they think most
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important despite the fact that it’s meeting number eight we like to note
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that it’s taking place when task news agency celebrating
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120th birthday I think it’s the first time that such meetings taking place amid such um un complex conditions and
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it seems that the world has gone crazy and it’s been pushed to the brink on purpose and but we truly hope that after this meeting we come maybe a a step
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closer to understanding the way we can lifts this tension to lower the degree
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of the double standards and misunderstanding of each other and hostility to boot colleagues as a moderator on behalf
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of Tas news agency I’ll give you the chance to ask you what one main question I don’t know whether it will be
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possible to ask the second question or number three question it will all depend on the president and we have a wonderful
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tradition the first floor goes to the beautiful part of humanity to women why
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because Russia treats women traditionally with love and respect and
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with awe so the first question goes to our wonderful enena akov director
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general of Belta BOS Telegraph agency she also has a higher education in music
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so we’ll expect her to set the right tone and tonality to our question uh
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Madame movich you have the floor um if you’d allow me I’d like to welcome you all and possibly you’ve been held in in
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this tower for half a day I guess and I’d like to apologize I’d like to repeat myself that it’s very hard to get out of
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the grip um of Mr Miller the head of gas prom and he keeps talking about each
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detail on each element of the build buing and his optimism is
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viral contagious so to speak about the gas prom
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activities people here are very well informed it’s it’s hard for me to imagine what can I tell you that you
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don’t know already you know it all and possibly you know even better than I do whatever I say you would still think
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that you know it better than I do therefore I
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suggest that we have more of a not a Q&A evening but rather an exchange
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of opinions I think it will be more interesting it will be interesting for me to learn your opinion as well to the
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questions that concern you and I think that’s that’s all I wanted to add at the outside so um Madame marovich please you
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have the floor thank you very much Mr President for this opportunity to have a conversation with you we understand
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fully well that indeed you have a very busy schedule this me
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is awaited not only by us but the largest news agencies in the world media
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are closely following it as well I’d like to say that the the right to ask
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the first question is not only that we’re trying to regulate gender issues but also because belus is the closest
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Nation for Russia it’s not a question but it’s more of a exchange of opinions and a
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statement with Alexander yushenko you’ve met about in the ’90s so you know our
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present for more than 30 years now there have been very different
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times in relations between our countries and their relations nevertheless you managed to find all solutions to all
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matters security and economic issues I wanted to ask you is it hard or is it easy for you now to talk to them and
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other leaders in the European Union with whom you can find solutions to complex
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issues today thank
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you yes um I’ve known the president of BZ for a very long
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time indeed we’ve been through different times there were different
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relations but since at the very core of the relations there are fundamental
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interests of both nations of of the people of Russia and the people of belus
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therefore we’ve followed that precisely and following that we’ve managed to find a solution to even more most complex
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issues seemingly impossible to solve without simple
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answers it is why from the very beginning we have worked to build and we
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continue to do that to build a Union state and we’re successful
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we’re doing that following the aspirations of our peoples we’re doing very
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carefully very calmly and always when we TR try to find a
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solution to any matter or when we take a step we’re always taking a look at our
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interests first and foremost in the sphere of economy politics and foreign polit
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policy as well it may seem strange but also in in Environmental sphere and
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cultural sphere this set of issues when we’re
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looking at it comprehensively at what unites us that
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allows us to solve in small issues sometimes even most complex when they
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arise and you know that we have such a such a relationship
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that we can always look at something if we take a look at our trade in dollar equival and it’s not a secret everyone
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knows that 48 billion US almost 50 billion us and that’s
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impressive and this economic relationship is very Diversified it goes for agriculture
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almost 90% of the whole export of bellarus is um to the Russian Market in
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as for agriculture as for industrial production and
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cooperation quite recently we’ve we’ve discussed at Minsk it seems that we are constantly in touch and we’re always
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discussing these matters and my trip after reelection as a president of
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Russia was a seemingly um matter of ritual but not
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so we gathered key players from the government and there were some disputes
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as well that regarded the industrial cooporation and localization of
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production it’s a traditional matter still we were talking about our supply
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of our goods and first and foremost oil to the
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processing plants of of belus and we were also talking about products of belish going to the Russian
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market and so on so all these issues are very tangible and the quality of life of our citizens depends on them but I can
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repeat myself that we have a good sentiment and aspiration of society
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helps us always find a
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solution you know sometimes it’s out of the box however strange it may seem we we
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have such a great relationship and it seems a routine matter but no you always have to make an effort to
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find an answer to the questions that arise we’re successful and I know that
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will continue so so there there are no difficult matters with belis no there are such but the solutions can be found
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we always find a solution because at the foundation of these Solutions are the
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interest of both Nations so can you find such Solutions with the leaders of the European Union well you can find it with
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leaders if if they felt more confident they would have they could
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find more courage to defend their National interest but I’m sure that colleagues will talk about that
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later thank you Madame makovich and I would like uh to invite to give the
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floor to the chief um Global News Agency
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Madame Samia nakul she has traveled through many hotspots and was heavily wounded in Iraq
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please you have the floor Madame n thank thank you
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Mr when did this happen with you when we were in during the US invion ofq
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in3 it’s during the invasion of Iraq in
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2003 thank you thank you for receiving us uh Mr President given your past
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interaction with both president Donald Trump and the president Biden can you
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give us uh according to your perspective and your views which one do you think would be the most favorable candidate or
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uh you know to us and Russian relations given the ongoing war that is going on
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in in Ukraine now I have already spoken about that and
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everyone perceived my statement about President Biden with a smirk so to speak
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and in that they saw some kind of a a hidden um critique of President
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Biden well indeed he’s an old school politician and the fact that he didn’t
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like it and and to a certain extent it started to attack me well I knew that
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that would happen that means that I was right and he predictable that only confirms our Notions about what I’ve
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talked about but in
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general we don’t really care because president Trump ex president Trump who
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was accused of being a spy for Russia we know that it’s pure nonsense just
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garbage just an an element of domestic political infighting between Democrats
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and Republicans um baseless ridiculous accusations against Trump well we have
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always perceived that as as an Ament of domestic bickering
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in in the United States that was later confirmed during National investigation
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in the US and there were no connection with President trump it never
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existed however what remains a fact is that he during his presidency started to
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introduce massive sanctions against the Russian Federation he
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left the intermediate nuclear forces treaty that was that happened during his
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presidency so and I’m speaking very sincerely Now That We
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Believe thinking that something will change in the US policy regarding Russia we don’t think
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that not we don’t think that anything will change no serious changes will take
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place but what’s happening in the United States you know it fully
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well what happens during the political infighting they’re burning themselves
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from the inside their political system their
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state and I I have to say it whether it’s Pleasant or not and their alleged
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leadership in in democracy they’re also burning to the ground because
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it is apparent to the rest of the world that the prosecution of trump is partially in court on the
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allegations that happened due to events that happened years
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ago without direct proof well this is purely using the court
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system for political
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purposes it is apparent to us here in Russia and I’m sure that it can be seen in the UK as well and the rest of the
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world can see that as well and most importantly they think that in the United States as well because after a
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well-known decision of the Court where the jury gave a guilty
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verdict we all know that the rating the ranking of President Trump grew by 6%
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right away I think and donations to his um election
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campaign also increased what does it tell us it tells us that the people in
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the US do not believe the the court system the Justice systems of the United
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States when it makes such decisions and believe that they’re politically
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motivated maybe it’s counterintuitive but in the foreign policy in domestic
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policy and in Economic Policy as well I think that today’s Administration are conducting one mistake after another
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sometimes I get surprised at what’s happening therefore we are watching it
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from from aside we’ve never interfered in the domestic politics of the United
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States and we do not intend to do it but we’ll see what will happen what it would lead to I’d like to um wrap up my my
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answer with what I’ve begun the end result as we believe does not have a great signif
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ific will will work with any president elected by the US people with regard to
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Ukraine you don’t think anything will change in terms of their support for ukra for the Ukraine war if Trump comes
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back you don’t think there’ll be a
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change it’s hard to say I don’t think I can make
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um a clear cut conclusion whether something will change
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or not I think we’ll need to take a look at the priority of the future Administration if the future
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Administration is or will follow the national interest and if they think that
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the national interest will be to stabilize the
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situation within the
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country not to bet on migration but to consolidate the society within the
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United States to amend the mistakes that led to a tremendous debt and inflation
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within the us then naturally following the domestic national interests if they
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would follow them then it
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would pursue the goals of global liberalism that I think is destroyed by
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the United States from the inside well they strive to be the leader of the
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global liberalism well no but if they follow the national interest then maybe
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there could be some changes in the foreign policy towards Russia and towards the conflict in
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Ukraine but remember how many ifs I
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mentioned in that case some changes are
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possible but I think you would agree with me that no one is interested in the
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United States in Ukraine they’re interested in the magnificence in the supremacy and Leadership of the United
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States in the world and they don’t want to allow any kind of success by Russia
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indeed because they believe that in that case that will be detrimental to the US
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leadership that’s the whole point of what the US is doing but if the future
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Administration changes the priorities for itself they
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would set the goals differently and they would see the essence of their work in strengthening the United States from the
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inside Finance economy building normal relations in the world more respectful
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towards everyone then something may change I
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think that it depends on the sentiment in the society
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and I think that the sentiment is Shifting to that end and I think that if
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the future Administration will will catch that wind in their Sals then the change is
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possible thank you Madame n now I give the floor to the
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men I like to ask my question to presid I have to give the floor to vugar aliev
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the chair of azer Taj please you have the floor Mr Putin thank you for the time
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that you given us today the relations between aeran and Russia are developing
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in an upward Trend and recent visit of president alev to Moscow gave a chance
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not only to celebrate a memorable anniversary 50 years of the bomb um
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railroad but also to discuss bilateral relations what’s your take on the future outlook
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for bilateral cooperation and in particular the development of the transportation
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Corridor north south our relations are developing
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successfully reliably and in a pragmatic
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fashion you know we feel the stance of as
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ban which is building our Interstate relations based on Mutual interests and
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also there is an element of mutual sympathy because otherwise it wouldn’t be possible to explain the presence of
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300 schools in Russian language in aeran
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children are being taught in Russian and I know that president aliev is fully supporting the study of the Russian
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language in aeran and we can see that in all aspects in all spheres which tells
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us that the leadership of aeran believes that the Russian language
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is going to be something the aeri citizens are going to need and they will need that language for further
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developing our bilateral ties which are developing our trade stands at
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4.5 4.6 billion US Dollars and the pace of
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this development is very good very steady and we are increasingly diversifying our relations I’m
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confident that should we manage
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to preserve these good intentions on both sides and in Russia we share those
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intentions then the outcomes are going to be great of course they still a lot
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that needs to be done and you are absolutely correct in saying that we need to further develop the logistics
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not just um the north south cor but also there are other dimensions to that such
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as setting up Logistics hubs at the aeri Russian border at the dagistan stretch
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where the works are currently underway it also applies to other directions we have uh quite a big number of uh
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students studying at Russian universities uh receiving scholarships from the
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budget and we see there is a very big interest in receiving further education
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as far as that north south coridor is concerned it can turn into a
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international route which is in high demand because right from here cargo you know in shipments from the
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port of St Petersburg can flow through the European part of Russia then on to
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aeran and then on Ward to the coast of
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uh the gulf maybe 10 days or so faster than if
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they were to go through the Su
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Canal we are not saying anything bad about this R Canal it’s very good for
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the world trade but this new trade would be an additional route a very good one
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for shipping goods from the north to the South and vice versa 10 days faster this
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will help us Save A Lot this is a very good route but still there is a lot that
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needs to be done we are working on both sides I am aware that President
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Le supports this project we’ve spoken with him about that on many occasions
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the leadership of Iran is also in support of this project and since this project promises to be very beneficial
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there are other foreign investors that have expressed their interest in that route
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uh not Regional investors investors from other uh say the wealth wealth funds
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soving wealth funds of uh the Arab countries because they’re always
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searching for possibility to invest money in reliable Endeavors there are
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still issues that need to be studied further in particular
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what stretches and where and how they’re going to be funded is it going to be
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based on loan or there’s going to be direct funding from Russia how this is
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going to fit with the uh strings that are going ahead
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westwards across the territory of aeran we need to finalize some issues with our
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Iranian friends and partners or whether it’s going to be a Narrow Gauge or
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wide gauge Road I mean the one that’s going to be
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built on the territory of Iran but the cracks of the matter is everyone is
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determined to implement this project we’ve set up the uh directorate vtb as
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uh the organization responsible for that I’m confident that we will complete this
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project well uh it’s going to take some time there are some issues about funding but this is not the only project we are
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pursuing together apart from that aeran is a Caspian State it’s one of the
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five Caspian States and that means that we’ve got many uh joint interests some
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apply to the environment of the Caspian
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SE thank you Mr Al and now I’d like to give the
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floor uh to a state you will never be different
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to and that’s Germany with guard Martin romanic head of news of DPA here knows
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uh from Firs hands about our country because in the ’90s he worked as a
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correspondent in Moscow over to you
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sir good evening Mr President good evening everyone
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Chancellor ol of Schultz
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has agreed to provide weapons to
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Ukraine if Chancellor were to change his
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opinion what would your stance be
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then and what do you think the future of Germany is going to be have you made any
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threats or any warnings to Chancellor when he made
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the decision to provide weapons to Ukraine well we we never threaten
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anyone especially if uh that means threatening
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the head of another country because that would be just bad form we have different positions on
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different matters we are aware of the position European countries have taken and in particular taken by Germany with
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regard to the developments in Ukraine everyone thinks that it was Russia that had started the war in Ukraine but I
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would like to underscore that no one in the West in Europe wants to remember how
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this tragedy had started and it started with a Keta an anti-constitutional Keta
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that happened in Ukraine that’s the origin of the
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war is it Russia that is to blame for that ketar
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no it’s not and have those that are trying to
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accuse Russia forgotten that the foreign minister Ministers of uh uh Poland
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Germany and France came to Kev and put their signature to a document aimed at
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settling the political crisis they put that signature to the document as
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guarant that the crisis would be resolved in a peaceful constitutional
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manner Europe and in particular France and Germany prefer
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to leave that out and if they were to remember that then the question question
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would arise why did the European countries and
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Germany and France as guars in particular have not demanded that the Ukrainian leadership should get back to
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the legal field as it were why have they ignored their responsibilities as the
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guars of those agreements that have been reached they’re the ones to
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blame they are guilty of what has transpired alongside with those
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forces from the US that provoked the anti constitutional
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C this was followed by the desire of the
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citizens of Crimea to withdraw from Ukraine then it was succeeded by the
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decision of the people of donbas not to submit uh to those who had supported the
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kud that’s the origin of the conflict afterwards Russia has made every effort
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to arrive at a formula that would allow to peacefully resolve that conflict in
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2015 Minsk saw the signing of the so-called Minsk agreements and
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incidentally these agreements were endorsed by a decision of the UN
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Security Council it’s document that should have been implemented
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but it has not been
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instead a choice was made in favor of addressing that matter in a military uh
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manner alter and uh Armed Forces started to be used against the civilians in the
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east of Ukraine for some reason in the west and in Germany and France in other
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countries no one wants to remember that so we facilitated the sign of the
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Minsk agreements but it turns out that no one intended to observe the
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agreements and the former chancellor of Germany former president of France have
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said that publicly Mr Roman what am I supposed to
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make of that they have made public statements that they had never intended
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to observe the Minsk agreements the only signed them to rearm Ukraine and to
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create a favorable environment for the continuation of hostilities so they were simply
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duped what other explanation could there be to that for eight years we’ve been
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pursuing a peaceful solution to this issue eight
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years some time ago the former Chancellor told me you know in Cova yes
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NATO had acted without the decision of the UN Security Council but eight years
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blood had been spilled in Kosovo she said to me and what about this particular case when the blood of
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Russian people was being spilled in the east of Ukrainian donbas is it not blood
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is it water for some reason no one wanted to pay any attention to that in
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the end we were forced to act when the then Ukrainian
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authorities declared that they were happy with none of the points of the Minsk agreements
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and the foreign Ministry declared that they were not going to observe the msk agreements you know that eight
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years there was a constant degradation of economy and in human rights in Donas
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uh people were killed so we were forced to recognize their independence it took
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us eight years to do that we were hoping that we would find a peaceful
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solution it was eight years before it was declared that
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they were not going to observe the agreements and once that happened we had to attempt to use Armed Force to force
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them to observe those agreements but we’re not the ones to have started this
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war the war started back in 2014 after the Kuda and the attempt
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at silence those who disagreed with the kar with the use of
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uh force with the use of guns
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now what did we do afterwards so it took us eight years before we recognized
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their independence and once we understood that the me agreements were never going to be implemented please pay
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attention to that we recognized the independence of these self-proclaimed
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republ republics could we have uh could we do it from the point of view of
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international law as article one of the UN Charter
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States we could do that because that amounts to the right of people to
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self-determination and the icj made a ruling you know in written form which
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states states that if a certain territory of a certain country decides
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to become independent it does not have to apply to higher institutions of the
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said country and that is what happened in Kosovo so there is a ruling by the I
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CJ which says that if a territory decides to become independent it is not
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to have to ask for permission from the capital in order for this right to self-determination to be implemented and
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if that is the case if that is what is stated in the icj ruling than
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those self-proclaimed republics which back then were not recognized they were
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fully entitled to do that which they did and what about us were we entitled to
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recognize those those republics yes we were and that is what we did then we
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entered into a treaty with them did we have that opportunity that right to do
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that yes and that treaty stipulated provision of Aid to those republics in
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case of aggression and ke was pursuing a war against these countries which it had
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taken us eight years to recognize did we have that right yes we did and then in
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compliance with article 51 of the UN Charter we started to provide a
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resistance to them whatever anyone here says you know
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I I told exactly the same things to Secretary General gutterz I explained the ration now to
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him where is the error where is the violation of international law here there are none from the point of view of
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international law the response is you attacked anyway we did not attack we
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were defending ourselves and everyone needs to understand that and the first step to with the war
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was made by those who had encouraged the bloody Keta which run a foul of the
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Constitution now as far as the provision of Weaponry is
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concerned such supplies to a conflict Zone well that is always a bad
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thing especially because those who Supply weapons are not simply supplying the
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weapons they’re also managing the weapons controlling them and that is a very dangerous very serious step we we
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we know that and Germany does not deny that I don’t know how it got
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into the media but you know the generals of the bundes Weare were discussing how
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and when they were to strike the Crimean Bridge or rather facilities on the
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Russian territory including the territories
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which uh no one Downs belong to
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Russia when the first German tanks appeared on the Ukrainian soil the
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uh German produced tanks it caused a moral man ethical shock in Russia
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because our relations with Germany had always been very good right now you know there’s talk that
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some missiles are going to appear that will strike the Russian territory then
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this will fully undermine the Russian German
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relations we understand as you know a famous German political leader said
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after the second world war Germany had never been fully independ
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dependent in the precise sense of the word a fully sovereign
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state we were in contact with Chancellor Schultz we had multiple
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meetings I would not give any assessment to
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um the performance of the German government it’s up to the German voters
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to pass judgment on that soon the European Parliament elections are coming
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and we’ll see how it goes you know I’ve still have many good
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friends and Germany I’m trying not you know to to compromise them so that they
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do not have any problems I try not to maintain relations right now with them but I’ve known them for many years and I
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know that they’re reliable friends and I’ve got many of those in
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Germany and I know the uh landscape um and how things go in the
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political landscape uh the CDU is around 30%
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16% as the social Democrats s SPD uh 15%
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um alternative for Germany afd and uh
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you know the rest and this is how the voters are responding this shows the
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sentiment among German citizens I understand Germany’s indep dependence in defense in
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Security in general I’m cognizant of their dependence in information
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policy because you know whatever
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big media Outlet you look at you’ll see that the end beneficiary is some kind of
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American Foundation well I applaud those American foundations they doing a great job
40:58
because they have a tight grip on the uh media uh landscape in Germany line all
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the while it’s very hard to stand up to that I understand
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it however some very simple things in those
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things well it’s even strange that no one today at the German
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leadership is defending the German
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interests yes Germany does not have the full sovereignty but there are Germans and you need to think about their
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interests look at look at it they blew up those uh poor
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pipelines in the Baltic Sea no one is even
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um in indignant about that as if it’s the right thing to do look still we
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continue to supply gas to Europe through the Ukrainian territory we continue to
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do it don’t we but there were two pipelines two systems one of them was closed down by
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the Ukrainian side they simply turned it
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off no foundation for that decision still there was one pipeline left and
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the European consumers receive the gas through the Turk stream there’s also
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Russian natural gas coming through the Turk stream to the E European consumer and they receive
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it well they blew up one string of the nordstream pipeline but one of them is
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still um functional why doesn’t Germany want to receive gas through that system
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what’s the logic in there you can receive it through the Ukrainian territory through you can receive it
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through turkey a yes but not through the Baltic Sea what what kind of nonsense is that
42:58
there is no formal logic behind it I simply cannot grasp it if they said well
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Europe should not receive an gas from Russia well all right we’ll survive it gas prom we’ll survive
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it you don’t wanted instead you you you you buy LG
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Three Times Higher at the three times higher price what about your environmentalists don’t they know the
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way LG is received uh through through fracking process you should ask the US citizens
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in those regions where this this kind of gases is produced sometimes instead of water
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they have some kind of a sludge uh flowing through their pipes do your
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environmentalists know about it possibly Poland took their pipeline
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yamal Europe they closed it down Germany received Natural Gas through Poland we
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didn’t close it down it was done by the poles what’s the
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result the the results the impact on the German economy of the breakdown of our ties in
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the energy sphere is known better to you than to me it is rather
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sad many major industrial companies trying to find a place to land somewhere
44:28
but not in Germany they open in up in Asia in the
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US however the economic conditions are not
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competitive in that inter turn might have difficult harsh consequences for
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the whole economy of Europe because German uh German economy is the driving
44:51
force behind the European economy not to offend others if it’s sick if it’s it’s
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coughing and sneezing it will spread over to the rest of of the Europe and now the French economy is on the brink
45:03
of recession and everyone knows that fully well if the German economy goes
45:08
even slower then the rest of Europe will be in shock I’m not calling you to break down
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some kind of Euro Atlantic ties or anything else someone will start hyping that I
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don’t know um someone would will hear what I’m saying and say that he’s calling for the breakdown of Euro
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Atlantic solidarity no listen I think you have a false policy this is a a
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major mistake at every turn and I think that the US is doing that and major mistake
45:44
is happening due to their desire to maintain leadership with the tools that
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they using they’re shooting themselves in the foot but it’s even worse for Europe
45:57
they could have said yes we support you here and there but if we undermine our
46:02
own economy it’ll be a problem for everyone it should never be done it’s a taboo
46:09
please do not lay claim to that but the current
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leadership is not doing that sometimes I’m mean I’m at loss where is the logic behind this these
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actions all right they tried to to undermine the Russian economy and they believe belied that it will happen
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within 3 4 6 months but everyone can see that that
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did not happen last year we had we had economic growth at 3 something
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3.4% I think this year the first quarter of the current year the economic growth
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of the Russian Federation stood at four
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5.4% moreover the World Bank has recalculated our growth we have set the
47:01
goal for ourselves according to the international financial
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institutions we were ranked number five on PPP purchasing parity power in the
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world we’re ranked number five and our goal was to be ranked number
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four and I think that we are following the
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calculations of our colleagues International financial institutions very recently
47:29
last week I think um the World Bank counted our GDP and came to a conclusion
47:35
that we’re um bypassing Japan according to the World Bank Russia
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Today is ranked number four in the world on purchasing power
47:47
parity the our goal has been reached but it’s not what matters that’s not an end
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in itself it’s important to maintain the the trend the
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impetus the move forward and we’re still maintaining that because as I told you
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the growth stood at 5.4% of GDP but I’m not saying this to boast to
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you I’m just saying that those who who are trying to be detrimental to us they
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try to put a break in our development but what they’re doing is more detrimental to them than to us and
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understanding that they’re supposed to draw some conclusion and to course correct for themselves for
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their own sake but it’s not happening I don’t want to offend anyone
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here but the level of professionalism of
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those people who are making decisions including in Germany I think leaves a lot to be
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desired I think it would um make sense not not to move away from the European
48:59
topics and to give the floor to France where quite officially they’re not really now sending of a
49:06
military to Ukraine and we have Karim
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talb um editorinchief for Europe and he speaks Uh Russian very well because just
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like Martin romanik he worked as a correspondent in Moscow Mr tby you have the
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floor my question also regret regards
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Ukraine why still you you cannot tell us the number the loss of Russian military
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servicemen in the Ukrainian during the conflict if it’s the only thing that is of interest to you I say that usually no
49:45
one talks about it and if they talk about it then generally they distort the real
49:52
figures now I can tell you with full confidence that our loss
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especially if it regards well unfortunately um irreparable losses there are many
50:06
times smaller than the Ukrainian side and I can tell you the number of
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people um and the prisoners of War our soldiers and offics that are being held
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captive 1 1,348 people I know these figures
50:25
because we’re working with every day and quite recently there was an exchange of 75 people on each
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side the Ukrainian soldiers that we are holding
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6,400 65 if we talk about IR repairable losses
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I mean the dead and I think uh it’s the same ratio one
50:59
to5 so that’s that’s our logic
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here that is why um they they’re trying to conduct a total draft in Ukraine
51:12
because the losses on the battlefield are
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tremendous you know we think that our calculations are that the Ukrainian Army
51:24
is losing about 50,000 people per month these are uh all
51:32
casualties though I think there are 5050 ratio of irreversible irreparable
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losses and um injuries the total draft that is being held right now does not
51:45
solve this issue nevertheless according to our data from different
51:52
sources about 30,000 per month is being drafted conscripted whether it’s a false draft
52:00
or not well there are not many volunteers right
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now so I think last month they have drafted about 50 55,000 but it does not
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solve the the issue why because this draft just covers the
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losses it’s all just to repair the losses
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it’s a major issue that leads to the lowering the age
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of draft now they’ve um lowered it from 27 to 25
52:42
years and we simply know it well it’s an Open Secret it’s there
52:49
are basically no secrets there in Ukraine the administration of the US is
52:55
insisting on stage by stage lowering of the conscription age from 23 to 20 to 18 or
53:04
to 18 years straight away because right now they’re asking 17
53:12
year olds um 17-year-old males to um to be put on the military register and we
53:19
know it for sure that’s the demand by the US Administration it’s a demand to the
53:24
Ukrainian leadership if we can um think that their leadership after the
53:31
elections were cancelled I’ve recently spoken publicly about that I think when I met with press when I left usbekistan
53:39
after a visit
53:45
there and I think that the US Administration will indeed make the current Ukrainian leadership make this
53:52
decision to lower the drafting age to the 18 years the later would get rid of
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zansky first it needs to be done because this is a very difficult matter a law
54:04
must be adopted certain steps must be taken now we’re in June
54:13
2024 and to do that all of it I think it would take a year so till spring the beginning of the
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next year he will be tolerated when zansky does it all they will wave him goodbye and will
54:30
change there I think there are several candidates
54:35
now but it has to do with tremendous losses 50,000 is is the most modest
54:41
calculations 50,000 is is what we see on the battlefield and if you take into account
54:49
that there are certain losses that well we know that they’re there but we cannot
54:54
um confirm them because they’re happening at the home front but still
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tremendous
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losses can can I allow me to ask yet another question about our Olympic
55:15
Games we used to have a a journalist Arman Surin on the 9th of May 2003 died
55:22
in in Ukraine we think that he died after the um drone strike as we
55:30
think the France is conducting an
55:38
investigation and and they’re saying that the drone that killed him came from Russia well
55:45
that’s not my question but the ministry of justice of France would like to conduct
55:52
investigation would like to conduct investigation okay is Russia prepared to
56:02
cooperate with France so you you would know what truly
56:08
happened it it was a major tragedy for us for our agency because um you know he
56:14
was survived by a family he was 32 Raman Selen was 32 years old so
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we would like to have some closure some kind of serious investigative work done
56:25
to know what happened uh would Russia take part in that you know we’ve we’ve never refused
56:32
to take part in in investigations do you know um how many journalists died in the war zone do you remember
56:42
mmri at least 30 journalists died our journalists died there and no one has given us an
56:49
opportunity to investigate what happen to them that’s number one
56:56
number two if we talk about what’s happening in Ukraine there in jail in prison of the
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KF regime an American journalist was tortured to death but unlike you the United States
57:13
are not even asking what happened to to him he was an American citizen a journalist he was captured at the border
57:20
dragged into jail and he died there he was tortured to death in
57:27
the that’s what happened it’s not a figure of speech but
57:32
no one asked what truly happened to him despite that we’re prepared to
57:40
organize this investigation I don’t quite know how to put it into practice because if a person
57:46
died in a war zone then well still we can do everything in our power
57:52
for that thank you very much Mr be and I’d like to give the floor to our Iranian
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colleague director General on the information energy agency Ina Mr Ali
58:06
nadri we appreciate that Mr nadri that despite the recent tragedy and died death of President RAC in the continued
58:13
election campaign in your country still found time to travel out to St Petersburg please allow me to express to
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you to the Iranian colleagues and Iranian Nation our deepest condolences please you have the floor floor thank
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you Mr President I would like to speak with my own language so I speak
58:41
[Music] Persian indeed
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we’re mourning the death of our foreign minister and uh the president a number
58:53
of people for administration and you in your letter
58:58
mentioned indeed there was a development of relations during the time of
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President r that is one of the great Services of our
59:10
president he also pointed out the role played by President R in the development
59:15
of bilateral relations and the regional
59:20
relations and the question that I wanted to ask you
59:27
is that there will be continued development of relations with Iran what kind of
59:33
program is planned where there some agreements
59:39
achieved with presid fry what is the outlook for Iran and Russia in the future thank
59:49
you we are developing the relations between
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Russia and Iran and State fashion making good Headway across many Avenues both
1:00:01
Russia and Iran happen to be under sanctions different sanctions regimes
1:00:07
you know I was surprised when we um learned recently
1:00:14
some of the levels of technological achievements in Iran we were surprised
1:00:19
uh how our Iranian friends had managed to preserve such a high level of uh
1:00:28
production industrial production and certain Technologies despite the sanctions that had been enforced for
1:00:35
many years we were presently surprised but our trade and economic ties are
1:00:41
developing we’ve got many joint projects we would like to take additional efforts
1:00:48
aimed at developing high tech certainly taking into account the restrictions
1:00:54
this is going to be difficult but still it can be done and this is something we are going to
1:01:00
do now as for president RI
1:01:06
who was killed in this tragedy I would like to say that we had very good
1:01:13
reliable business-like relations with him he was a very interesting person he
1:01:18
was a serious politician a reliable
1:01:23
partner he was uh possess of a great sense of irony and
1:01:31
humor and it was a very interesting person to talk to
1:01:36
to communicate with not just interesting but also useful and I would like to say
1:01:42
that if we achieved agreement with him on something then one could be 100% sure
1:01:49
that this issue would not be lost sight of that’s doesn’t mean that all issues
1:01:55
had been resolve because it’s not just up to the leaders
1:02:01
that these issues depend on but we were working together to improve and enhance
1:02:08
our relations and it was under pres Ry that Iran joined both bricks and
1:02:15
the which is testimony to the fact that we were moving together in the right
1:02:24
direction in particular in the direction of setting up a multi-polar world order and
1:02:29
Iran has continued to play a significant role in that regard there’s one thing I would
1:02:37
like to say concluding my answer to your question I would like to say that we are
1:02:45
hopeful that everything that had been achieved by President RI
1:02:52
and Russia Iran relations is going to be picked up and continued and I have no
1:03:00
doubts that this is exactly what’s going to happen because everything we’re doing meets the mutual interests of Russia and
1:03:07
Iran we know that the Iranian statehood is very
1:03:12
stable we are aware how
1:03:18
the executive U and the power system in Iran are organized we know that it’s not
1:03:25
just the president and his uh uh colleagues who work on foreign policies
1:03:33
the supreme leader is also playing a significant role in that regard so we’re waiting for the elections of the next
1:03:41
pres to happen and I look forward to meeting the new president of Iran at
1:03:47
different international events uh including the shanhai cooperation organization and the
1:03:53
bricks events I’m confident that we will find common ground and will follow up on
1:04:01
all the projects that whose foundations were laid by um the blate president R
1:04:08
the next speaker is a great friend of tax
1:04:17
agencies Ed in Chief of shinka agency Mr luang he speaks perfect Russian he loves
1:04:25
Russian songs in Russian Cinema everything you please Mr
1:04:31
President recently you have conducted a state visit to
1:04:37
China you have quite close relations with China this can be
1:04:45
cited as a model for building relations
1:04:50
between major Powers what’s your take on the current state of Cor between Russia
1:04:56
and China as far as our bilateral
1:05:03
relations go I would like to tell you that they are not short-term
1:05:13
relations they are based upon fundamental principles for 15 years
1:05:20
China has been our major trade partner so we started to build our
1:05:26
relations and we propelled it to the current level not pursuing some
1:05:32
shortterm fleeting goals that come and go day in day out we decided to pursue
1:05:39
this relationship based on Mutual interests we were acting in a calm
1:05:46
gradual fashion and I can tell you that we are making huge Headway currently our
1:05:52
bilateral trade has exceeded our expectations it’s $240 billion US according to the
1:05:58
Chinese statistics we assess that number at 230 billion according to our
1:06:04
statisticians but it’s not just about our trade our trade is being Diversified
1:06:10
and quite successfully to boot and it’s not just about hydrocarbons hydr power
1:06:16
there’s also supplies of oil and coal and energy we’re also building nuclear
1:06:23
power plants in the People’s Republic of China and doing that quite successfully all of that is happening
1:06:30
but we’re also cooperating in Hightech we’ve got very good prospects I refer in particular to Aviation to AI you know we
1:06:40
happy we celebrate China’s successes in different domains in
1:06:48
particular in space exploration these are some unique
1:06:53
achievements we’re talking about and the uh Communist Party of China is the
1:06:59
leading political force in China everything that’s done ever there is done under the guidance of the Communist
1:07:06
party with China there’s uh something I’d like to draw your attention to I
1:07:11
said that I don’t know whether I said that in this format and whether that’s going to be
1:07:17
interesting to you but there are some experts in Russia very good economists
1:07:23
uh quite young people will be already very experienced they say that the analysis
1:07:31
of what’s happening in China’s economy and the analysis of what’s happening in other economies across the world
1:07:38
including the legion economies such as the US show that China has succeeded in
1:07:48
building a efficient or be peculiar economic model that might be more efficient than
1:07:57
the one of the US and judging by the results the economy of China is
1:08:03
demonstrating this is something we can agree on yes there might be some
1:08:10
discussion some Western partners of ours say that China’s economy is not entirely
1:08:17
based on Market there are regulations uh by the party but you know the outcome is
1:08:24
out there for everyone see and it shows us that this model is
1:08:30
more efficient and no one would dare accuse China of that whether
1:08:38
that’s Market based or not it’s one and a half billion people and the Chinese
1:08:43
leadership needs to think about every citizen each and every citizen and not all of them leave on the same level as
1:08:51
an average European or American citizen so it’s up to the leadership of China to
1:08:56
take the decisions that will allow them to see to the needs vital needs of
1:09:02
Chinese citizens and all of that is done thanks to a good friend of mine and the
1:09:08
leader of China president shiin ping they achieving great successes doing
1:09:13
that reliably and steadily and we can only be happy for
1:09:21
them we’re aware of um everything that’s happening in the
1:09:26
world’s leading economies including China’s economy China’s economy is uh
1:09:32
generally very reliable and it’s becoming increasingly based on high
1:09:37
technology and I think it’s a huge mistake on the part of the us and a
1:09:44
number of European countries that are trying to somehow sty or bring down the pace of the
1:09:52
Chinese economy because I think in order for them to be successful they would
1:09:57
need to fit those processes to integrate them rather than trying to obstruct them
1:10:05
some very smart people say that China is overproducing cars and
1:10:14
also over producing electric cars who is saying such
1:10:21
things it’s those who believe themselves to be proponents of the
1:10:28
market don’t they know who decides whether there is an over production or
1:10:33
not it’s up to the market to decide if China produces a certain number of cars
1:10:40
and all of that is consumed and absorbed by the market what kind of an production are we talking about it’s just
1:10:48
nonsense is it possible to call that na production no that’s not called that that’s not what it’s called it’s CAU an
1:10:55
attempt at stying the growth through non markets means and that is harmful in
1:11:02
particular to the US economy and why is that because you know you’re not taking
1:11:08
goods from China these Goods or those goods what would it result in Will It
1:11:15
result in themselves producing something no it’ll produce in uh having to buy
1:11:20
from elsewhere and this is going to be more expensive this will result in high inflation rate and the higher inflation
1:11:27
rate is going to have a nefarious impact upon the economic structure of the
1:11:34
country that is doing such things and it’s going to be harmful and this particular case to the economy of the US
1:11:41
it’s an an error a mistake yet another one yet another mistake of the current
1:11:48
administration of the us as for China
1:12:00
yes they have a very professional guidance by President XI
1:12:09
and the are moving ahead at a very good Pace there are other fields I’ve always
1:12:18
spoken about them and I can tell you that our Corporation in the international Arena arena is a
1:12:25
a moderation factor and also source of stability you know we uh conducted
1:12:33
exercises and we are going to continue conducting exercises including military
1:12:38
exercises we’re also engaged in Military and Technical cooperation and we’ve got a lot to offer to our Chinese
1:12:47
friends and there’s an interest on China
1:12:52
side and this kind of cooperation but our coroporation is not confined
1:13:00
either to economy or to military technical coroporation or to international corporation this year
1:13:07
we’ve proclaimed cross years of culture and our moderator you know said
1:13:15
that you know Russian songs you speak Russian and I think this
1:13:22
is just as important as as the rest that I’ve just spoken about because that lays
1:13:28
the foundations of relationships between the peoples it creates a favorable
1:13:33
environment for pursuing relations across all other sectors and this is something we’ll strive to stick
1:13:40
to hence forth and I am hopeful that we will be able to meet with President Chi
1:13:46
and speak about all of these issues and well I hope we’ll be able to meet within the framework of the SEO and
1:13:58
Mr President you know I interviewed you three times first time it happened in 20
1:14:08
2002 so it happened a long time ago the interviews took place in Moscow and
1:14:16
Beijing this is the fourth interview and it’s in the city you were born in and
1:14:21
I’m very grateful to you for that I wish you all the best thank you Mr next over to Spain F news
1:14:31
agency januel Sate director of international relations of f news agency
1:14:37
is a very professional experienced journalist and also an outstanding expert on philosophy and history an
1:14:44
expert on European integration sir
1:14:53
every thank you Mr President for this opportunity to meet
1:14:59
you I do not speak Russian but I have read Russian
1:15:06
authors I am aware of Russia’s great contribution to literature science and
1:15:16
art I think it’s a Pity that we’re currently going through such a difficult
1:15:21
phase in international relations so I have a very delicate question you know starting from tomorrow
1:15:28
and until Sunday 25 countries European countries are
1:15:34
conducting elections and you know that analysts
1:15:42
experts as well as officials of European countries say that
1:15:48
Russia is uh guilty of spreading misinformation
1:15:55
with a view to destabilizing the Electoral presses across Europe what’s your comment on
1:16:06
that do you think the Russian government is behind this misinformation campaign
1:16:11
thank you well listen we’ve just had a conversation with your colleague from
1:16:21
Germany among other things we have SP about the economic situation in European
1:16:33
countries it’s you know the social politics is a
1:16:42
function of the economic situation it’s a function of the income of your
1:16:50
citizens it’s also a function of new jobs being created in
1:16:58
economy or a function of consumption on the whole European
1:17:05
countries are well-to-do
1:17:11
states and the major preoccupation of citizens is their material
1:17:19
well-being however as a result of policies pursued by the overwhelming
1:17:25
majority of Western countries in particular European countries this well-being people have grown
1:17:33
accustomed to over the recent decades
1:17:39
is fading well if it’s not fading at least it’s currently come under risk and
1:17:45
threat people feel that and they understand that and I think this is the
1:17:52
main reason why traditional politic iCal parties and the parliamentary democracy
1:18:00
at large are going through some rough
1:18:07
patch and if there’s someone in
1:18:13
Europe who doesn’t want to analyze the mistakes they had
1:18:19
made and they’re trying to shift the blame on some external factors then
1:18:25
it’ll constitute yet another mistake that will prevent them from drawing the right conclusions and understanding full
1:18:31
well what is really happening that’s the first part of my answer to your question and the second goes
1:18:37
is as follows our media in terms of their volume the
1:18:45
scope Their audience and their capacity of exerting their influence of uh Their
1:18:52
audience well they
1:18:58
are no match for the Western media the press or Internet media I
1:19:07
would hate to give you the wrong figures my colleagues going to give you the figures but whenever and wherever our
1:19:16
journalists are trying to do their work they run into obstacles they are employees are
1:19:23
threatened they accounts bank accounts are shut down their transport is
1:19:30
seized the list goes on is that what freedom of speech is certainly
1:19:40
not the only thing our media are doing our Russian journalists are
1:19:47
doing is presenting the Russian view on the developments in our country and
1:19:53
across Europe as well as across the globe our views differ but isn’t that
1:20:04
the the idea is the goal of media to service the needs
1:20:12
of the government well even if it’s the point of view of the Russian government
1:20:19
does not it deserve to be communicated to the audience in our country and in
1:20:24
other countries isn’t this what free flow of information is all about whether
1:20:30
you like that information or not what are we supposed to do if you
1:20:36
don’t like some kind of information of if someone thinks that it’s biased well you need to present another point of
1:20:42
view and you have to do that in a more convincing manner than the information you don’t like is been communicated in
1:20:50
rather than shutting down media in this particular case Russian media that are current were constantly harassed in
1:20:56
Europe and in the US and there so few of them just one or
1:21:02
two and they all being strangled and um closed down and they’re still
1:21:09
referencing the fact that we are having some kind of influence on the public
1:21:14
opinion in the Western countries if you simply take a look at
1:21:21
the volume would we’re prepared to provide as a content in the information
1:21:27
Market of the Western countries is simply laughable it’s not a matter of someone
1:21:33
conducting some kind of a nefarious policy against the European Union in this
1:21:38
case it’s a matter of the fact that what um the leadership of European
1:21:46
of major European countries have brought their economies to what kind of state and what what kind of policy they
1:21:52
conducting on International Arena and whether there people like it or not and I’ll repeat with what I’ve started
1:21:59
you shouldn’t shift blame elsewhere you need to take stock of your own actions
1:22:04
and hold yourself accountable that would allow you to draw some right conclusions
1:22:10
and possibly course correct if
1:22:16
necessary thank you uh Mr mot was that enough yes okay and next is Kazakhstan director
1:22:24
General of kin Forum news agency Oscar please you have the
1:22:33
floor Mr President could you please tell us about the future of relations between
1:22:39
Kazakhstan and Russia as neighboring
1:22:45
countries it’s it’s very good no other way to put
1:22:51
it we had where we have very very close well not just close we have Ally and
1:22:57
strategic partnership cooperation that fully applies to Russia
1:23:05
and Kazakhstan and their relations this applies to trade and economic ties they
1:23:10
they showing sustained growth each
1:23:15
year and the level of our trade also speaks about that the growing volume
1:23:21
trade we have many dimensions of our
1:23:28
Corporation it’s it’s impossible even to list them all energy Industrial
1:23:38
Corporation outer space a lot of
1:23:43
them we have a tremendous land border and people connect to each other
1:23:50
76 regions of the Russian Federation have direct relations with Kazakhstan
1:23:57
with the territories in in Kazakhstan direct
1:24:02
ties and they’re possibly even more efficient and they work even better because people are directly talking to
1:24:08
each other they know each other and trust each
1:24:14
other with Mr Takay we’re always in
1:24:19
touch we have very good relations based on trust
1:24:28
and now if we talk about energy you know that we’re going to sell
1:24:34
gas not only to usbekistan but to Kazakhstan as well to the northern
1:24:39
northern Kazakhstan they acquire energy yes Kazakhstan is itself a producer of
1:24:44
energy still there are some regions of Kazakhstan that require gas supply and it’s easier
1:24:53
and cheaper to receive it from us than to uh build new routs that would cost
1:24:58
billions of
1:25:04
dollars honestly I don’t see a single
1:25:11
issue that would be of dispute and would complicate our
1:25:16
relations in any way we spoke about cooperation with
1:25:22
China 90% of our trade is done in na in National
1:25:29
currencies with People’s Republic of China and the same is happening in our
1:25:35
relations with Kazakhstan I think we’re about almost
1:25:43
100% as for the United States well and I’ll be naturally there’ll be the same
1:25:49
kind of questions later at the plenary session in is why of the greatest
1:25:55
mistakes of the United States is there prohibiting from using dollar as an in
1:26:01
international payments and using it as a tool and they’re simply undermining the trust towards dollar is
1:26:08
ridiculous they should have taken care of the dollar and to preserve it and to raise its profile and it’s standing
1:26:16
they’re simply killing it off with their own hands but that stimulates us to move
1:26:24
move towards National currencies it turns
1:26:30
out it doesn’t stand in a way of developing our relations on the contrary it helps us strengthen our national
1:26:37
currencies humanitarian sphere and education sphere also a matter of our cooperation so we have a very active
1:26:46
joint work in in all spheres and also thanks to president Tov because
1:26:52
he’s he’s continuing our cooperation in all these
1:26:58
spheres soon we’re going to meet in AA for the shanhai cooperation
1:27:05
organization Summit and so on um naturally I have the invitation I will make use of
1:27:11
it thank you now moving on to the next
1:27:17
participant um Deputy head of answer agency stefana poly Mr py just like um
1:27:24
samul from reuter has tremendous experience of working in hotpots and in
1:27:29
general nansa Italian agency never missed a meeting with you and their our
1:27:34
permanent guests Mr paully you have the
1:27:43
floor thank you good evening Mr President thank you for organizing this
1:27:48
meeting I’d like to ask you a question about the latest events in Ukraine
1:27:54
Secretary General of NATO Mr Stenberg suggested that there will be that
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Ukraine be given an opportunity to strike the Russian territory using the
1:28:05
weapons procured from the from Europe some European countries agreed with this
1:28:11
notion including the United States not all of them but the United
1:28:17
States are also close to it still some countries are holding discussions about
1:28:22
sending military instr instructors and counselors I’d like to ask you to
1:28:28
comment on these two decisions what will be Russian response to that thank
1:28:33
you as for counselors and instructors and their presence there there is
1:28:39
nothing new they already present on the Ukrainian territory unfortunately for them they’re
1:28:45
incurring losses I know that for sure it’s not
1:28:51
done is it targetedly but um it just happens but the European countries and
1:28:57
the United States prefer to keep that
1:29:03
silent secondly as for high Precision long range
1:29:13
weapons I think we need to uh break this topic down into two first conventional
1:29:21
arms multiple launch rocket systems of 70 kilm range as so they have been used for a very long
1:29:31
time indeed the Ukrainian servicemen can do that on their
1:29:40
own now as for Hightech modern High Precision
1:29:46
Precision guided long range weapons such as sorum
1:29:52
shadow of UK or at camps of of the US or
1:29:57
the French missiles as well well and it Bears repeating since
1:30:04
well since I’ve said it before when I traveled to Central Asian countries at camps 300 kilm
1:30:12
range how are they used how are they transferred well they’ve transferred the missile system um it was given by
1:30:20
Pentagon by the US how’s it is used the Ukrainian
1:30:26
servicemen cannot independently uh conduct a strike with this missile they’re technologically
1:30:33
incapable of doing it for that they require satellite
1:30:39
reconnaissance intelligence and based on that intelligence data uh This Is Us
1:30:46
satellite intelligence they need to uh put in the flight task the flight
1:30:52
mission of the missile and later put it into the missile
1:30:59
system and the serviceman standing next to the missile
1:31:05
is doing that simply automatically he’s just pushing the buttons him mustn’t even know what
1:31:11
happens
1:31:16
next what could be the participation of the Ukrainian servicemen not those who are typing the
1:31:23
buttons but higher they can choose the target they can say what’s the priority
1:31:30
Target for them but they do not
1:31:36
decide whether to strike this target or not because yet again the flight mission
1:31:43
of the missile is basically typed in only by those who are providing the
1:31:49
weapons if it’s at a camps it’s done by pentagon Storm Shadow is done by the
1:32:02
UK it’s even simpler sometimes because the flight mission is typed in
1:32:07
automatically without uh the serviceman on the ground is done automatically by
1:32:12
the UK then that’s it and when the bundes fair officers
1:32:21
were thinking whether to strike the Crimean Bridge or any other facilities well they were thinking for
1:32:30
themselves right it wasn’t done for them that’s what they were going to do and the same applies to the French
1:32:38
Specialists so it is done by the Western Specialists therefore we Foster No
1:32:44
Illusion about
1:32:49
that well how are we to respond
1:32:55
naturally will improve our anti- missile defense systems air defense systems
1:33:04
will destroy these incoming
1:33:09
missiles second we’re thinking that if someone believes it possible to provide
1:33:15
such weapons to the military to to the war zone in order to conduct strikes
1:33:20
against our territory and to create issues for us then why don’t we have um
1:33:27
an opportunity to provide the same class of weapons to those regions of the world
1:33:32
where the strikes will be conducted against sensitive facilities of those countries who are doing that against
1:33:39
Russia therefore the response might be asymmetrical and we will think about
1:33:45
that number three such
1:33:52
actions well the they’ve deteriorated um they’ve um changed the situation for the
1:33:58
worse and they will continue to deteriorate the international situation and undermine International Security in
1:34:05
the end if we see that such countries are engaged in the war against the
1:34:10
Russian Federation and that is a direct participation in the war against the Russian Federation we leave ourselves
1:34:16
the right to respond the same way it’s a path towards very serious
1:34:22
issues I think that’s it if you have any other follow-up questions I think that
1:34:29
um I’m unlikely to add something else any other questions Mr Paulie or you’ve heard everything you
1:34:44
wanted I have yet another question but I don’t know whether it’s it’s the right moment to ask it there won’t be any
1:34:51
other moment we’ll just uh leave now so you should
1:34:57
ask I wanted to ask you a question about IL if I
1:35:03
may Italy supports Ukraine politically and
1:35:09
militarily but it also makes statements that Italy is not in the state of war
1:35:16
with Russia if you could please comment on the um position of the Italian
1:35:21
leadership we see the position of the Italian government is more moderate than
1:35:26
the policy of some many other European countries and we pay attention to it and
1:35:35
we give it the necessary evaluation then we see that there is no caveman
1:35:41
russophobia being spurred on in Italy and we keep that in mind as well
1:35:54
we expect that in Italy maybe after the
1:36:00
situation would be turning forur the better in the Ukrainian in the Ukrainian region well
1:36:08
maybe our relations will bounce back and possibly even faster than with any other
1:36:13
European country thank you Mr poly next we have Korea digital
1:36:19
development executive director Mr Park son hun
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Russia is cooperating with North Korea in development of the Far
1:36:44
East and in a great fashion
1:36:54
when you were when
1:37:00
the the South Korean Ambassador provided you with his
1:37:06
credentials you said that there could be development of relations what are what is the outlook for that you know just
1:37:12
like in our relations with Italy we see
1:37:19
that there is no russophobic sentiment in the work of the
1:37:26
leadership of the Republic of Korea there are no direct supplies of
1:37:34
munition to the conflict Zone and we highly appreciate that but we can also
1:37:40
see that there are certain attempts of sales to the US companies to further
1:37:50
re repurposed for the Ukrainian region and we are closely following
1:37:59
that however we truly hope that Russian South Korean relations will not
1:38:06
deteriorate considering our interest in the development of biolateral relations in terms of the Korean peninsula in
1:38:16
general unfortunately everything that’s happening has a negative impact on trade
1:38:23
and econom IC ties but we truly hope that the
1:38:28
foundation laid in the previous decades the level of our
1:38:34
relations will be maintained at least partially in order to have the chance to rebuild it in the
1:38:42
future today unfortunately many spheres of our
1:38:48
cooperation have been discontinued by the Republic of Korea they have created certain issues and we’re truly
1:38:57
sorry we’re working with other countries though we could have continued to work with the Republic of Korea but
1:39:03
it’s not our choice it’s the choice of the Korean
1:39:09
leadership but as for us um our door is open we’re prepared for
1:39:17
it thank you very much Mr park for your question Mr Putin if you would allow me
1:39:23
I ask the question on behalf of TS news agency yes please go ahead I would like us to go back to the Russian economy you
1:39:30
know this is just like um as people say um please keep talking about it you
1:39:37
spoke about the current state of economy but there were if you remember there were um people who said that um the
1:39:42
Russian economy is in tatters and then there were sanctioned
1:39:48
multiple times hundreds of sanctions now it’s 3 years of the special military operation
1:39:54
what’s the future outlook for Russian economy is it just as wonderful as the current state what do you
1:40:00
think some of our ill wishers believe that those multiple sanctions 16 or 17
1:40:08
thousands it’s unprecedented there’s no other country of the world against which
1:40:14
as many sanctions would have been slapped certainly these sanctions are an
1:40:22
impediment but the those ill wishers estimate that in the midterm this will
1:40:29
have a delorious effect in the Russian economy in this or that way and there
1:40:35
are grounds to that claim and those who believe that have
1:40:41
grounds for that especially as far as uh
1:40:48
high-tech and other domains are concerned micro Electronics AI everyone
1:40:54
knows you know the problematic domains as it were but there is a butt
1:41:03
coming you know even during the best years of our relations with the
1:41:08
so-called Collective West some of the cocom sanctions were
1:41:14
never analed or cancelled so restrictions remained in
1:41:19
place and I have every reason to
1:41:25
believe that you know expecting close cooperation in the most sensitive issues
1:41:32
is not something that would have happened we shouldn’t have expected that to happen in the first
1:41:39
place of course issues do come up but strange as it may sound even to us we
1:41:48
rise up to the task and overcome we used to you buy many things
1:41:55
from abroad but then we run into an obstacle we can no longer
1:42:02
buy some things we’ve got to think to use our brains we have
1:42:09
to look and turn to our producers our
1:42:15
designers and they are not simply replacing those who have with drawn from
1:42:24
our Market I’m talking about the Western producers but they
1:42:30
are picking that up taking the relay as it were and replace them with their
1:42:36
production this is the effect our ill wishers did not expect nor did we expect
1:42:42
that ourselves you know I’m not going to say what domain it is but you know there
1:42:48
was uh something they bought from France
1:42:56
like a cist or something uh the metal work was uh quite
1:43:02
complicated then the supplies stopped I asked what did you do they set up a
1:43:07
production facility in n and they replaced that and now it’s three times
1:43:13
uh cheaper and it used to be when it was imported from France and this is a real
1:43:20
life example and it happen it happens across many Industries hence the growth
1:43:25
we’re experiencing the growth of
1:43:31
3.4% in our GDP of course this growth will run into
1:43:38
certain limits these new niches currently occupied by Russian producers
1:43:46
and the subsequent steps in developing the niches the European and Western
1:43:53
producers have uh left all of that is going to run into limits into
1:44:00
certain restrictions So currently we’ve set some
1:44:06
strategic objectives and one of the objectives we have set forth is
1:44:13
technological Independence we used to pursue this path in the past and we are going to continue along this path we
1:44:19
will invest resources so that we can catch up and maybe take a leap
1:44:26
forward you know maybe jump forward in
1:44:34
technological matters whether we’ll succeed I cannot tell you right now but we’re optimistic I think we will be
1:44:43
successful and especially if everything changes and we you know if we
1:44:50
get cheap Hightech Goods then maybe the
1:44:56
economic actors will switch back to Western producers that
1:45:02
provide Goods at a good price and of high quality but if it does not happen
1:45:09
we will have to do that on our
1:45:14
own maybe we’ll have to revise our
1:45:21
forecasts first F into the future you know there’s one example I
1:45:27
always site there is the MS 21 aircraft we’re producing and there is a
1:45:36
airwing it’s not just metal but also some
1:45:43
reinforcement uh the US Administration has slapped some sanctions on that saying that there are some dual use
1:45:50
materials involved but um you know there’s no dual use it’s just uh a
1:45:56
competitor for boying uh 737 it’s a midr
1:46:01
uh meat Hall aircraft and we’ve managed to replace
1:46:09
those reinforcements we used to get from the US it’s taken us two years longer
1:46:16
but still I do not doubt that we will succeed but it’s all about the time that it’s going to take us of course
1:46:23
the deadlines are important because uh there is competition we are fully cognizant of that we’ll try to stay
1:46:32
ahead but I wouldn’t say there are some
1:46:38
critical difficulties involved in overcoming the sanctions and I do hope that that will be going the uh that’s
1:46:45
going to be the case going forward and it’s only logical to give the floor to
1:46:51
representative of the country that leading in terms of slapping sanctions there are three and a half thousand
1:46:57
sanctions u in we have uh news director for Europe
1:47:02
and Africa at the Associated Press James Jordan over to you sir thank you very much thank you
1:47:10
President Putin for this opportunity to address you directly um over two years ago you sent
1:47:17
Russian troops into Ukraine as you say to protect Russians and Russian speakers
1:47:23
in the donbass uh region and to keep NATO from your country’s eastern border
1:47:29
since then thousands have died on both sides uh and the fighting has even come
1:47:35
to some regions of Russia in the last few hours it’s been confirmed to the
1:47:41
Associated Press uh by a western official that Ukraine has used Us weapons on Russian soil in the last few
1:47:49
days do you see this as a further provocation to follow on from my colleague from an’s uh
1:47:56
question could you sum up for us what you feel Moscow has achieved in the last two
1:48:02
years and how does the fighting
1:48:13
stop the first thing we did was to perform our duty to the the first
1:48:21
thing we did was to perform our duty to the people
1:48:27
that had been suffering of the
1:48:32
kud and the ensuing hostilities unfolding in the southeast
1:48:39
part of Ukraine we recognized the rights of the
1:48:47
people leaving in these living in these territories to protect their interest to
1:48:53
protect their lives and the lives of their children and in my view this is the most
1:49:00
important thing we have also demonstrated both to
1:49:06
ourselves and To The World At Large that we’re not just talking about protecting
1:49:12
our interest but also walking the walk and we will continue to do that regardless of what happens and everyone
1:49:19
will have to take that into account
1:49:25
as far as the second part of your question is concerned what needs to be done for the fighting to stop in Ukraine
1:49:32
as a representative of the US I can tell you something I once told President
1:49:40
Biden some time ago he sent a letter to me and I sent a letter to him in
1:49:46
response I said if you want the fighting in Ukraine to stop stop providing
1:49:51
weapons and you know it’s going to take us two maximum three months for the
1:49:57
fighting to stop that’s the first thing
1:50:03
secondly we call on everyone not
1:50:09
to hamper the peace process distinguished Mr Jordan I have
1:50:16
to remind you of what was happening at the end of 2022
1:50:22
we did reach an agreement with
1:50:28
Ukraine we were willing to sign an agreement with them
1:50:35
which responded to a number of important issues the first issue was ensuring the
1:50:43
security of Ukraine and in the draft agreement
1:50:48
Ukraine entered such a formula that that said that Ukraine was
1:50:54
not a NATO member that it was a natural state but the security guarantees were
1:51:00
formulated in such a way that it was very close to the formulas used in the
1:51:07
Washington treaty um you know article four Article 5 I do not think there’s
1:51:13
any need for me to go into detail but that basically meant that all of those
1:51:20
who signed the signaries uh assumed the responsibility to provide assistance to
1:51:27
Ukraine it was a difficult decision for us I said we had to give it some thought
1:51:33
but I said we were willing to contemplate that and the same applied to
1:51:38
the Russian interest because the neutral states of Ukraine met the interests of
1:51:44
Russia you know the non uh block block free Status some restrictions on weapons
1:51:50
and this is something Russia is is interested in moreover you know we spoke about
1:51:58
dentifying Ukraine and I was very surprised when
1:52:05
the question started coming on what dentifying actually meant the naify
1:52:14
involves a legal ban on Nazi propaganda
1:52:20
strange as it may sound we managed to find Common Ground here too just as we
1:52:27
managed to find common ground with a view to finding a peaceful resolution to
1:52:32
this crisis situation and if the head of the
1:52:39
negotiating team from
1:52:45
Ukraine you know he he put his signature to the agreement he initialed the doent
1:52:53
and that probably means that Ukraine on the whole was okay with that draft
1:53:00
agreement and if we gave our consent to that that meant that we were okay with
1:53:07
that agreement as well I would hate to put you on the spot but a rhetorical
1:53:12
question nonetheless why did Mr Johnson come to
1:53:18
KF why did he recommend throwing that draft agreement to the dust bin why did
1:53:27
he put the go before the Ukrainian counterparts to seek a victory in the
1:53:35
battlefield to seek a strategic defeat of Russia Ukraine and its officials have
1:53:41
publicly stated that had they signed the
1:53:46
agreement the war would have been over at the end of 2022 it’s not we who are
1:53:51
saying that that it’s the words of the Ukrainian officials in KF and they say
1:53:58
that publicly so a rhetorical question why did someone need to prevent
1:54:05
us from signing this peace treaty with Ukraine I can only
1:54:12
speculate someone wanted to secure some
1:54:17
additional objectives they set forth for themselves on their
1:54:23
Russian foreign policy track they wanted to push Russia towards collapse they
1:54:29
wanted to secure Russia’s strategic defeat no matter the price so you ask
1:54:36
the question I do hope that I’ve given you a comprehensive
1:54:41
answer and when you have the opportunity to talk to the leadership with your country do ask them this question why
1:54:49
did you prevent the peace treaty between Russia and
1:54:55
Ukraine from being signed I’ve only shared my speculations with you maybe
1:55:01
there’s another answer may maybe there is an official comprehensive answer to that
1:55:06
question I cannot speak for my colleagues in the
1:55:13
UK or the us but Mr Johnson did come and
1:55:18
maybe he did come not just of his own valtion he did that with the support of
1:55:24
the US Administration and I do not doubt that this is what happened thank you Mr President with
1:55:30
your permission may I ask a very brief other question away from Ukraine
1:55:35
regarding uh the American reporter Evan gersich who’s been in custody for more than a year now uh there’s been no
1:55:43
evidence made public about uh what crimes he may have committed can you
1:55:48
give us the latest on any talks that might be happening uh with the us as regards his release and when we might
1:55:54
expect to see
1:56:00
him you know he you think he is um not guil guilty of anything the Russian law
1:56:07
enforcement agencies and the Russian special services believe that he
1:56:12
committed an illegal act of Espionage I’m not going to go into detail right
1:56:18
now I’m aware that the US Administration is truly
1:56:26
undertaking energetic steps to secure his Liberation but these
1:56:33
matters are not addressed through the media
1:56:40
Outlets they prefer to be addressed in a very calm professional manner through
1:56:46
the dialogue between the special services and of course they have to be
1:56:51
addressed on the basis of reciprocity inclusively and the competent bodies of Russia and
1:56:57
the US are in contact on this
1:57:02
matter thank you Mr Jordan and next over to Turkey deputy director General Editor
1:57:10
in Chief of and news agency Yousef Osan over to you Mr Osan your your question
1:57:16
thank you so much for having us today here Mr President actually I’d like to ask a question if all of
1:57:22
question on uh the question that I paed three years ago again during the
1:57:28
anniversary of the uh economic Forum it was over Zoom it’s happy to see you in
1:57:33
face to face uh it is about the Gaza war in Gaza right now um millions of people
1:57:41
around the world are opposing the attacks against the Gaza people which is
1:57:47
amount to the level of genocide right now and um
1:57:53
what Russia uh has uh or is intend to play a role in the solution of the
1:58:01
situation uh right now in Gaza and do you have any intention to also get the
1:58:06
security Council in motion uh because the people not only the gazan people but
1:58:12
the Palestinian people in general and the people of uh different Origins religion
1:58:19
ethnicity free from any identity uh U backgrounds the the people of world are
1:58:27
actually asking for the big powers to uh finish what is happening right now on
1:58:33
the ground in Gaza thank
1:58:41
you the first thing I would like to point out is
1:58:46
that we are certainly against terrorism and all its forms any manifestations we
1:58:53
are against attacks against civilians whenever and wherever that happens in any no matter what country it
1:59:02
happens but what’s currently happening in Gaza in response to the terrorist
1:59:08
attack in Israel well it doesn’t resemble a war very much it’s total
1:59:14
extermination of Civilian population I can only reiterate Russia’s
1:59:21
official position on this issue we believe this is the outcome of the US
1:59:32
policy because the US has monopolized the Israeli Palestinian
1:59:37
settlement pushing all the previously established
1:59:43
mechanisms aside discarding those mechanisms
1:59:50
Collective mechanisms which were set are precisely for the purpose of finding a solution to this issue maybe some in the
1:59:57
administration believed that the fewer opinions were put forth the quicker it’s
2:00:03
going to be to secure an agreement but the practice has disproved that point
2:00:10
secondly addressing this matter through some uh material
2:00:16
handouts is not going to yield the result that’s required
2:00:22
we’ve spoken about that we doubt that the resolution of political issues
2:00:31
related to the future of a Palestinian Nation can be replaced by economic
2:00:41
benefits there should be the right conditions in order to solve certain
2:00:46
issues still they need to be solved in their essence you need to solve the political
2:00:52
matters what is the main one of them is that creation of the two states as
2:00:57
stipulated initially when the
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UN decided to to create two states on that territory the Palestine State and
2:01:10
the state of Israel therefore without solving the key
2:01:16
issues as it seems to me it would be impossible the matter in
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the in its Ence it would be hardly possible I have to say that the Russian
2:01:30
position is a principled one in this regard it does not change with time or
2:01:36
the situation we have long recognized the Palestine State as such during the
2:01:43
Soviet times in this sense um our position remains unchanged we know that president
2:01:49
erdogan is very active in order to find a solution to this
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longstanding issue a very pressing issue and
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considering the standing of President Eran in the region in the world and in
2:02:07
in the Islamic world we truly hope that he would make a significant contribution
2:02:13
as for us we prepared to do everything now with power in order to solve this
2:02:19
situation by that I mean our relations that we’ve built with the state of
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Israel throughout the past
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decades Mr oan do you have a second question oh while you have the the
2:02:36
chance yeah I can follow up on that I mean thanks for your answer sorry also
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another question would be regarding the turkey and Russia relations um you’ve been uh in in
2:02:50
negotiations or over the course of 10 last 10 years uh and uh the one of the
2:02:56
mega projects that turkey and Russia have uh achieved together was the
2:03:01
building of the nuclear power plant in Aku so for the future uh now uh is there
2:03:08
any development on Russian side regarding the U uh regarding
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the production or the construction project of the gas Center that was being
2:03:22
discussed in the recent years is there any news from the Russian side about that or are there any other uh future
2:03:31
project that is being discussed between the two countries thank
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you as for auyu everything is going going according to the plan it’s all
2:03:41
going according to the timeline we seen the deadlines executed
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a lot of people are working and the the the constr construction the workers are
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being engaged from Turkey because there is a lot of construction work being done our
2:03:59
specialist are working in Turkey we’re thankful to the Turkish government for
2:04:05
the conditions that were provided for this work the first unit is being
2:04:10
finalized however it’s all going according to the plan on all units as
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for hydrocarbons and I’m I can repeat actually instead L
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we’re not just building the station the the power plant we’re also building
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Talent we’re prepared to take over the spent fuel we creating the whole
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system it’s a new sphere of economy and energy of of turkey and president erogan
2:04:42
has made a strategic choice and I think it’s quite a right one it helps uh get
2:04:47
rid of the hydrocarbon dependency as well
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we have a reliable partnership we doing now we work as for the gas Hub the gas Center
2:05:00
yes we’re working on it we’re thinking about it with gas prom with bodas and with
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other partners but I’ll try to explain it’s not just a gas um storage gas
2:05:15
holder it’s a platform it’s an operator to trade in gas for Europe primarily but
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I wanted to point the following thing out we’ve seen
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well we’re guarding blue stream that leads to um turkey through the Black Sea
2:05:33
and that provides turkey with gas as well as Turk
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stream that provides gas to Europe as well but we have to guard all of this
2:05:45
both of these pipelines that go down the bottom of the Black Sea because the
2:05:51
Ukrainian armed forces and making attempts to strike them and to destroy them at least the ships that are
2:05:58
guarding them have been constantly attacked and quite recently the latest
2:06:05
thing that happened I think seven or eight days
2:06:12
ago Ukrainian drones made an attempt to attack
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at a gas pumping station situated on the shore of the Black Sea that is pumping
2:06:27
gas to Turkey incidentally we’d like to point
2:06:32
it out to you we have turkey has some cooperation with Ukraine at the same time ukraini is
2:06:39
trying to strike the gas pipelines providing gas to Turkey this is not a joke not an exaggeration two drones were
2:06:47
jammed by the uh Russian electronic Warfare um troops and
2:06:53
they were trying to strike the gas pumping station on the black Shore um
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I’m not inventing something here that’s what happened please inform our friend president erdogan that
2:07:07
what’s happening in reality and the ships that are guarding this gas
2:07:12
transportation system that is at the bottom of the
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Black Sea are constantly attacked by the
2:07:23
drones by the um water drones that are procured by the European
2:07:31
countries to Ukraine incidentally and they’re attacking our boats that are
2:07:36
guarding these two pipeline systems I think we need to speak to be
2:07:44
more vocal about it and to be more clear but as for propaganda that our um
2:07:49
Spanish friend complained so much about we’re not always succeeding that but that’s what really happening all the
2:07:59
time but bilaterally relations are developing rather successfully and our trade is
2:08:06
growing however I’m taking look at what what’s
2:08:14
happening and it seems to me that the economic part of the government of
2:08:20
Turkey recently have been focusing in receiving Investments and
2:08:27
Loans receiving
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grants from the Western financial institutions possibly it’s um it’s all
2:08:40
right maybe all right but if it had if it will have um
2:08:46
limit limitations on trade and economic ties with Russia then I think that the loss for
2:08:53
the uh Turkish economy will be greater than the gain and I think there is such
2:08:58
a a possibility but it’s a um a sensitive matter maybe it requires a
2:09:06
separate uh discussion we’re just simply looking at the figures at the macroeconomic
2:09:17
indicators they require special attention from the Turkish government right now but I don’t want to go into
2:09:23
detail on that though I know them very well I’m very well read on that I know
2:09:30
what’s happening there thank you very much Mr
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aan President Putin you’ve traveled for three days to usbekistan and you’ve mentioned that this visit was a very
2:09:42
fruitful one a very successful one and now you have a guest from TSH Kant who
2:09:48
came here Mr Kimo director of the national news agency usbekistan
2:09:54
Mr Kima you have the floor thank you Mr Putin during the recent negotiations in
2:10:01
Tash count you with um Mr MV you have exchanged opinions on the relevant
2:10:08
international issues for us in usbekistan it’s very important that we have peace and
2:10:15
stability in the neighboring country of Afghanistan unfortunately we see the
2:10:21
matters of Ukraine have completely substituted Afghanistan though it’s not
2:10:27
less pressing though there is an objective need to build interaction with the new
2:10:34
authorities of Afghanistan and to help solve them social and economic issues of
2:10:39
the longsuffering Afghan Nation moreover we
2:10:45
can see the strive of the new authorities that is Taliban to establish
2:10:50
peace in their country and to constructively cooperate with all
2:10:56
states therefore um here comes my question how important it is for the
2:11:01
Russian Federation to support ties with Afghanistan is the
2:11:07
Afghanistan playing an important role in Russian politics and policy and what’s your um
2:11:14
take on the situation in that country first I’d like to confirm that my visit
2:11:20
to usbekistan was indeed very thoroughly prepared and
2:11:26
very successful and effective yielded great results and I don’t think that it
2:11:31
has been paralleled yet upon the initiative of President mov
2:11:37
where we did not only travel to usbekistan upon the
2:11:43
invitation of the president with a great governmental delegation but we were also
2:11:50
simultaneously holding a meeting of the heads of regions it just happened so that half of
2:11:56
the Russian government traveled out to Tashan and a tremendous number of heads
2:12:01
of regions of the Russian Federation as well some leaders of the Russian regions
2:12:09
were happy to talk to the uh to the new members of the government of the Russian
2:12:15
Federation in Tash Kant as well they were working together
2:12:22
in wonderful lock tap and it was quite a surprise for me as well we were discussing the matters of
2:12:29
the issue of Ukraine and naturally president mizio is very actively promoting a peaceful settlement of the
2:12:35
Ukrainian crisis he spoke multiple times about the
2:12:41
concerns of usbekistan due to what’s happening in
2:12:46
Ukraine we’re thankful to the president
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for the fact that the usbekistan policy is a very neutral in its nature very
2:12:58
well balanced as for Afghan Afghanistan we also spoke about
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that the issue that usbekistan is facing is the matter of um finding an entry to
2:13:16
the global o to to the world ocean to the Sea so it’s a matter of logistics
2:13:21
through the territory of Afghanistan as well um pipeline Transportation railroad
2:13:26
Transportation car um transportation
2:13:31
providing energy and and electric power and so
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on naturally for usbekistan and for us it’s very important that there is
2:13:43
stability in Afghanistan we have always believed that
2:13:49
we need to follow the
2:13:56
reality Taliban control the power are in power in Afghanistan
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and naturally we need to strive to achieve
2:14:09
all agreements at the level of the United Nations to be implemented so there will
2:14:15
be inclusive power including all ethnic groups of Afghanistan it’s it’s a very
2:14:21
delicate matter very important one but we need to build relations with with the government
2:14:28
of Taliban in general we have contacts and I know
2:14:34
that usbekistan is doing it as well well we have to move forward we need to build
2:14:39
relations with the neighboring country especially since usbekistan has a very lengthy border with that country and you
2:14:46
need to ensure security as well and to develop Logistics we have agreed that we’ll work on that
2:14:53
together and we’ll study the opportunities there thank you very much thank you Mr
2:14:59
Kimo and our Far Eastern neighbor executive director of Kyoto
2:15:05
news agency doitsu saai Mr saai is a very seasoned International journalist
2:15:14
with great experience throughout his time he worked as a correspondent in different parts of the world for example
2:15:19
in Kenya Thailand Pakistan the US Mr saai please you have the
2:15:33
floor thank you so much Mr President that you have given me a valuable
2:15:38
opportunity to ask you a
2:15:44
question right now in the Far Eastern region there are many matters
2:15:51
that are of concern for Japan first and foremost that’s the territorial dispute
2:15:57
with Russia second military cooperation between Russia and the North Korea that
2:16:03
is being strengthened right now these two issues that we’re facing in Japan as
2:16:09
for territorial disputes and the territorial issues my question is the following in
2:16:17
karov this year you said that you will
2:16:24
absolutely travel to these four disputed curial Islands do you have any specific
2:16:30
plans um um a timeline for that
2:16:38
visit what do you think the situation right now is that
2:16:44
the negotiations are put on hold and if you visit these territories then our
2:16:51
bilateral relations um will be harmed yet
2:16:58
again if you could please share uh what what are your plans in that
2:17:06
regard as for Russian Japanese talks and their
2:17:13
reestablishment during the time of of the special military operation in
2:17:19
Ukraine these negoti were
2:17:25
discontinued and since then the descendants of the former C citizens of
2:17:32
that of those islands cannot go back uh to visit the graves of their
2:17:42
forefathers our relations with Japan were developing rather sustained manner
2:17:51
of course there were many issues especially the ones that regarded
2:17:59
the key issue in our relations that is the peace
2:18:07
treaty understandably this peace treaty could not have been achieved
2:18:14
without solving the issues that had to do with a kural island
2:18:21
we were fully aware of that back in the 50s and you and I know it very well that
2:18:26
the Soviet government made a decision I think it was done in 1956 a declaration was signed that the Soviet Union is
2:18:34
prepared to transfer two out of these Isles out of the chain of
2:18:41
islands but uh the Bas the basis for that wasn’t mentioned the reasoning for
2:18:48
that and U the sovereignty was also not mentioned and some other conditions um
2:18:56
possibly the payments were not mentioned however the very idea of a transfer was stipulated in that
2:19:03
declaration moreover it was ratified by the Supreme Council of the
2:19:13
USSR for some reason the Japanese side refused to implement these
2:19:19
agreements hence the Soviet Union also uh der ratified
2:19:26
that per request of the Japanese side we went back to the review of of these
2:19:31
matters it was a complex dialogue but still it took
2:19:41
place now you mentioned several issues visiting the
2:19:47
aisles the Russian Federation believes that this is is a part of the Sovereign territory of
2:19:53
Russia therefore I don’t see why I should sh shy away from visiting one of the territories of the Russian
2:20:01
Federation number one so second why do we believe that because
2:20:06
there were relevant documents that were signed um in the in the United States as
2:20:14
well by two delegations of the two countries it was one of the results of the second World War
2:20:22
and the results of the second world war are not to be revised it doesn’t mean that they were
2:20:28
no opportunities to agree this is a very delicate
2:20:36
matter however it’s not a black and white issue it’s much more
2:20:43
complex but we’re not shy to engage in a dialogue on this matter so first I I see
2:20:51
no grounds for me that would prevent me from visiting the a but to be honest so far I have not had that in my plans
2:20:59
because currently I’m looking into other matters but you have
2:21:05
just said that my visit there would
2:21:12
entail difficulties in drafting a peace
2:21:19
treaty sir what about Japan’s declaration that it is
2:21:28
joining the attempts at securing Russia’s
2:21:36
strategic defeat what of it does it constitute a barrier in the way of
2:21:43
negotiations on a peace treaty Japan has joined the calls to
2:21:52
to carry out a strategic defeat against Russia do you think that is a good
2:21:58
strategy to pursue when striving for a peace
2:22:03
treaty do you think my hypothetical intention to visit the
2:22:11
aisles is more serious than Japan’s the Japanese
2:22:18
government’s declaration of its intent to secure Russia strategic defeat in the battlefield I do
2:22:25
understand that this is not your personal question it’s been dictated by the editorial policy of your news agency
2:22:32
but I think you should ask your leadership that
2:22:38
question moreover we see that Japan is biased as far as the
2:22:45
Ukrainian crisis is concerned as of now currently there are no conditions in
2:22:51
place for Russia and Japan to continue their Dialogue on a peace treaty we do
2:22:56
not refuse to engage and such a dialogue but only once the requisite conditions
2:23:02
have been created especially from the Japanese side we’re not doing anything
2:23:08
in our bilateral relations that would complicate our dialogue with Japan not a
2:23:13
single thing everything that has been done has been done by Japan now moving on to
2:23:21
Russia’s relations with the
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uh uh with North Korea with the dprk there can be different views in
2:23:35
that regard I think the dprk has on multiple occasions demonstrated its
2:23:40
willingness to achieve an agreement in particular
2:23:45
with the US and I think it’s precisely this willingness that
2:23:51
served as the impetus for the meeting between former US president Donald Trump
2:23:56
and uh uh Kim J moreover the Americans and
2:24:03
the North Koreans agreed that the latter were not going to carry out
2:24:11
nuclear tests U there was an agreement on shutting down the nuclear testing
2:24:18
site and that had to be reciprocated by some steps by the US in the banking
2:24:23
sector but it was not just an agreement this agreement was implemented but what it happened as a result the US
2:24:31
unilaterally violated these agreements doing that
2:24:36
directly we and
2:24:43
overtly so what would prevent us from developing relations with a country with
2:24:49
which we we have a contigous Buddha you know there are some things
2:24:58
that make me ask questions in the past we
2:25:03
supported some measures with regard to North Korea in particular and the field
2:25:09
of Labor migration you know you all work in the information field you are
2:25:15
immersed in this material as it were well versed in this field so why did we
2:25:21
support those measures what about Labor migrants what kind of a threat do they
2:25:29
pose we allegedly care about the environment some birds some sea
2:25:36
animals and what about people dying of hunger not because they are Bellos or
2:25:43
belligan it’s civilians peaceful citizens of the country we’re talking
2:25:49
about but we prevent them from getting a job limit
2:25:55
their opportunities in terms of securing a job to uh feed their families that’s just
2:26:03
bizarre well I’m just currently speaking in an
2:26:11
abstract fashion not in any relation to what is currently happening I think this is
2:26:17
what’s going to keep happening across the world if any one is threatened someone is threatened and they have to
2:26:23
respond had there been no threat in the first place then uh the difficulties
2:26:29
wouldn’t simply not arise I think the nuclear issue is a response to these
2:26:37
constant threats now as for our relations with North Korea I can tell
2:26:42
you that we will pursue this relationship because they are our neighbors whether others like that or
2:26:50
not thank you Mr
2:26:56
President uh Samy a from Reuters asks uh uh for the floor yes hi I have a I have
2:27:02
two questions I have a followup question on Gaza you know the war has been going on for eight months uh prime minister
2:27:09
Netanyahu said he won’t stop until he eradicates Hamas uh yet you know it’s still there so how do you see the
2:27:15
scenario how do you see this conflict unfolding and given your diplom IC you
2:27:21
know relations and cloud with the Palestinian Authority with Hamas even with the Israeli I know now it’s a bit
2:27:28
train but with Gulf Arab countries do you think of playing a leading role in
2:27:34
uh in uh mediating an end to the conflict uh based on a two State solution as the Madrid conference and we
2:27:41
really believe that there is hope for a Palestinian State this is one and then I’ll follow
2:27:47
thank [Music] I think there is
2:27:56
hope in particular due to the fact that both in the US and in Israel there are
2:28:03
people who Advocate a two-state solution there are people there who
2:28:11
believe this is precisely the path to pursue namely to set up two sovereign
2:28:18
states and there are people who believe that this path is going to lead us to
2:28:23
peace this is what will allow finding the peace
2:28:29
formula as for Russia playing a legion role I don’t think we we we need to do
2:28:34
that because there are many players who are involved in that conflict and who have a great deal of influence with the
2:28:42
uh developments but making a contribution to finding a solution is
2:28:49
something with could do given the relationships we have fostered over the
2:28:54
recent decades with Israel and also given the relations we have traditionally had
2:29:02
with the Islamic world with the Arab world these relations are based on trust but I think the main contribution needs
2:29:08
to come from the countries of the region and also the regional organizations such
2:29:13
as the organization for Islamic cooperation the Arab League the
2:29:20
neighboring countries such as Egypt Saudi Arabia the gulf countries
2:29:28
turkey as one of the leading players in the Islamic world and certainly the
2:29:37
us we are not holding on to some extremist position According to which
2:29:44
the US has to be excluded from the settlement that’s just impossible and Israel has to play a role as well
2:29:51
but the golden mean needs to be found and I reiterate this can be done
2:29:58
given the sentiments in the American society in Israeli
2:30:04
society and given the sentiment in the Arab world and in the Islamic
2:30:12
world we are trying to do what we can providing in particular humanitarian
2:30:19
assist as you’re aware we played a certain role in securing the release of several
2:30:25
hostages with Russian of Russian Origins and we continue to work pursuing this
2:30:31
Avenue working with our partners you are apt and saying that we’ve got good relations uh based on trust and we’ve
2:30:38
been fering those relations for decades but we need to work together rather than trying to monopolize the peace process
2:30:45
that would be harmful because monopolizing could be a good thing if uh the one
2:30:53
monopolize doing the monopolizing stuck to a neutral position but the
2:30:58
monopolizer is incapable of pursuing the neutral position sooner or later it
2:31:05
sides with one of the sides and it all falls apart resulting in the traged is like the one we are currently
2:31:12
witnessing that’s it so about the scenario how do you see
2:31:17
this conflict now the war in Gaza unfolding and one last
2:31:24
question sure we have come up with a number of initiatives of the UN Security Council
2:31:31
calling for a ceasefire the US has blocked that vetoing those
2:31:38
initiatives had we been working in solidarity trying to secure an agreement
2:31:43
that would be the positive scenario but so far it has not succeeded we directly call for ceasefire
2:31:52
this initiative and that initiative you know if we had not been involved in
2:32:00
reciprocal vetos uh rather trying to find a solution working together then
2:32:06
that would probably be the path towards finding a solution to this problem and another question you wanted to ask uh
2:32:13
just my question is that going back to Ukraine what would trigger a nuclear war and how close are we to that risk
2:32:24
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2:32:30
you know there are always accusations uh flung at us that we are uh nuclear cyber
2:32:38
redling but am I the one asking the question about the possible nuclear war you were the one to ask the question you
2:32:44
are pushing me towards this question and then you’ll say that I’ve been you know brandishing the nuclear
2:32:56
Tron you know this is a very grave
2:33:02
subject the US is the only country to have used nuclear weapons during the
2:33:08
second world war Hiroshima Nagasaki 20
2:33:14
kilotons our tactical nuclear weapons is 70 75
2:33:21
kilotons just the nuclear the tactical nuclear weapons so let’s not push the
2:33:28
situation towards the point when even a threat is involved let alone the use of
2:33:35
nuclear weapons for some reason the West believes that Russia is never going to resort to that but we’ve got the nuclear
2:33:42
Doctrine in place have a look at it what does it say it says that someone else’s
2:33:50
actions threaten our sovereignty or territorial Integrity then we believe we
2:33:56
have the right to use all the uh tools at our
2:34:06
disposal and no one should take that lightly or
2:34:12
superficially there needs to be a professional view of that and I am hopeful fool that everyone
2:34:21
across the world is going to perceive
2:34:26
that in this fashion when addressing such issues thank you
2:34:32
Samir thank you madam nul uh next uh inner
2:34:37
agency um Mr NAD is asking for the opportunity to ask another question go
2:34:43
ahead please God help us it’s the third hour
2:34:51
that we are continuing our conversation in your statements you
2:34:56
spoke about sanctions you have also spoke about
2:35:02
Iran’s accession to the shanhai cooperation organization as well as to the bricks
2:35:08
association with a view to achieving a multi-polar world my question is as
2:35:14
follows what’s your view of the future world order
2:35:19
given the uh desires and will of different independent countries do you
2:35:25
think Monopoly is going to be preserved as well as a multi a unipolar
2:35:34
world you know we have spoken about that on many occasions and
2:35:40
you know that better than anyone the US the the USSR collapsed well it was
2:35:46
dissolved whether it was uh destroyed or not that’s up for speculation but it
2:35:53
happened and only one superpower remained and it thought that it could
2:36:00
rest on its Laurels at the Helm of the whole world dictating their will to
2:36:06
everyone but the world is a complex system it’s developing rapidly
2:36:13
with new power poles emerging one of the
2:36:18
western European politicians and it it was not me I want everyone to understand
2:36:25
that he said all European countries are small
2:36:30
countries but not all of them have come to realize that
2:36:36
yet look at Asia and its development China one and a half billion people
2:36:43
India has probably overtaken that in terms of population other Asian countries are
2:36:50
developing at Breakneck space in Southeast Asia and Bangladesh Pakistan
2:37:00
Indonesia the pace of development is enormous the population is
2:37:09
growing and judging by
2:37:15
that the trend points to a shift in developmental patterns towards Asia
2:37:23
currently there are several processes at food and that part of the world they are
2:37:29
catching up in terms of economic growth are also catching up in the standards of
2:37:35
leaving this will inevitably result in the shifts in the world configuration
2:37:43
right now it’s impossible to talk about any kind of Monopoly Monopoly is no longer there
2:37:51
without a doubt the world can only exist in its
2:37:58
diversity if complete Monopoly is achieved it’s going to be terrible just
2:38:03
as in nature in politics the world needs to be a diverse place I do not know whether
2:38:11
that’s a good thing for the US I mean such a monopoly that emerged after the collapse
2:38:18
of the US Sr because that required additional efforts on the part of the
2:38:25
us just have a look at the
2:38:30
statistics totally the US defense
2:38:36
expenditure is superior to that of all other countries defense
2:38:42
expenditure combined so you can sum up all the defense expenses of all countries across
2:38:49
the world it’s still going to be inferior to the defense expenditure of the US because loads of money are
2:38:57
funneled into supporting foreign bases very often I get the question how
2:39:06
can you uh support the establishment of such uh modern Weaponry such as the
2:39:12
gliding blocks of the avanguard system the thing is we are concentrating our
2:39:17
financial and administ resources in key areas whereas the US
2:39:24
needs to spend a whole load of money on supporting it’s already expansive Armed
2:39:30
Forces across the world the foreign bases you know corruption is uh flaring
2:39:37
the expenses are great I I’m not accusing anyone we’ve got a lot of corruption to your countries too but uh
2:39:44
there is also a lot of corruption in the US because a lot of money can be stolen uh when it’s allocated for supporting
2:39:52
what’s there a lot of money a lot of resources are funneled into supporting
2:39:59
the Imperial status of the US does it benefit the American citizens I don’t think
2:40:05
so on the country it pushes the us down the ladder and the
2:40:14
experts in the US know that and they say and point that out publicly I read
2:40:22
them the question is how fast that is happening how fast the us is going to be
2:40:31
dethroned if they were smart people then they would read with their experts right and they they were correct course and
2:40:39
they would have stayed on the Olympus for longer however the current leadership
2:40:45
would like to hold on to this Imperial standing at any cost and that is only
2:40:50
detrimental to themselves still the changes are taking place they’re unavoidable they’re already underway
2:40:57
there is no unipolar world
2:41:04
anymore I think that the task for all of
2:41:11
us the United States Russia Europe
2:41:16
Asia so that would have an understanding of all of it but would not come to an extreme what our colleague from the UK
2:41:23
spoke about and for us to understand that and to moderate our ambition and
2:41:30
not to um try and agree with each other and not to try and make someone abandon
2:41:35
agreements then the world will change but without the possible
2:41:42
catastrophes that are so scary for everyone sorry um
2:41:51
[Music] today well I had yet another
2:41:58
question that
2:42:03
IAA issued a document against the Islamic Republic of Iran considering that right now
2:42:14
Iran considering that the US stepped out of the nuclear deal um with five
2:42:21
participants and that deal was adopted yet
2:42:27
again and I think a certain agency or a certain body should be used that would
2:42:32
be more professional and competent to possibly use it as as a
2:42:41
weapon what do you think this situation has to do with I don’t think I quite
2:42:46
understood your question no
2:42:53
however Iran fully executed its obligations under the
2:42:59
well-known deal that you’ve just mentioned there could be no grievances
2:43:04
against Iran in this regard the United States unilaterally
2:43:09
decided to withdraw from that deal and the Europeans continue to demand that
2:43:15
Iran execute fully its obligations well please forgive me but this is some
2:43:22
um garbage and absurd the Iran did not step out well
2:43:29
former president Trump decided to withdraw from the deal and the Europeans said oh yes that’s not quite right that
2:43:35
the that the US stepped out but you Iranians You observe it all why would
2:43:41
they do that well it’s just sounds little crude in Russian but if the key
2:43:47
actor stepped out of the deal why should Iran bear such a burden of the of
2:43:54
observing the demands we um asked Iran and we try to
2:43:59
convince Iran not to take any um sudden moves not not to step out of the deal
2:44:05
not to exacerbate relations with the EU well it’s this is an Open Secret but
2:44:10
I’ll reveal it to you we we also asking the rain leadership to keep calm it will
2:44:15
be even better for you to observe the agreement but I was thinking to myself
2:44:20
why should Ron observe it if everyone is um leaving the
2:44:26
deal but in general some kind of mechan mechanism should be found that would be
2:44:35
stable it’s clear to everyone today they sign the deal tomorrow they leave it how
2:44:42
can we work with that we’re always being told that trust is so important but
2:44:47
where is the trust in here um it cannot come from nowhere one
2:44:53
Administration left and the other came in and all of the previous obligations
2:44:58
are thrown out of the window just like today everyone is is
2:45:04
thinking about their own topics and I’m thinking about mine our colleague from the United States ask about possible
2:45:11
agreements with Ukraine well yes we have come to almost to to sign an
2:45:19
agreement with Ukraine well at the beest of the US and
2:45:25
the UK it was all thrown out and how can we agree
2:45:30
today how we can negotiate today the current leadership of Ukraine decided not to be elected now it’s a it’s a big
2:45:39
question now there is article 103 of the Ukrainian Constitution and it says that
2:45:45
the president is elected for 5 years only there was article 83 of the
2:45:50
Ukrainian Constitution and it stipulates that during the martial law the Mandate of the
2:45:58
parliament is extended as for the extension of the
2:46:03
presidential mandate well nothing is sad
2:46:09
nothing there is a law that explains the
2:46:16
status of the martial law
2:46:21
and it says that the Mandate of the is
2:46:28
transferred to the Parliament and that the elections of the president during the martial law are not being
2:46:36
held the the presidential elections are not being held but it doesn’t mean that
2:46:42
the results are extended see it’s not written there what
2:46:48
written is that the elections are not held the presidential elections are not held but their mandate is not extended
2:46:57
it’s not mentioned if it’s not written on paper it doesn’t exist on the contrary there is a article 109 of the
2:47:05
penal code of the Ukraine and it stipulates that it’s called a seizure of power who do we sign an agreement
2:47:15
with nevertheless it all can be solved we can negotiate on everything if the
2:47:22
authority is being transferred to the speaker of parliament well it’s just a matter of Goodwill of signing the the
2:47:27
treaty we’ll find someone to sign it with it’s not a problem as for Iran I
2:47:32
agree with you we would need some kind of a tool it seems it needs to be
2:47:38
elaborated a new that would be IL legitimate
2:47:44
one and reliable so that all participants of this process
2:47:49
wouldn’t feel in danger of of the fact that all previous conditions will be
2:47:56
destroyed tomorrow and one of the parties of Contracting parties will bear
2:48:01
the full responsibility of not observing something that was never
2:48:11
violated yes as for the current actions of the IAA and Publishing resolution about this
2:48:19
Republic of Iran if he could please uh comment on that I haven’t seen that yet I need to take a look at it um we have
2:48:27
been sitting here for half half a day now so show it to me please and I can
2:48:33
comment I’ll try to give you an opinion I I cannot as of now I haven’t seen it
2:48:40
yet thank you Mr NRI we’re we’re talking for 3 hours now shall shall we wrap it
2:48:47
up now yes please please is there anything that you believe important that
2:48:53
we haven’t yet uh mentioned Germany please you have the
2:49:04
floor Mr President in the last hours we’ve been
2:49:10
discussing the the issues and we we’ve discussed what do you think needs to be
2:49:15
done to solve these issues minister
2:49:20
the last two times with Minister lavro while we spoke with him and during
2:49:28
the G20 meeting in Brazil this year it’s been taken over by Brazil have
2:49:34
you made a decision that you will travel to India to take part in G20
2:49:49
first and foremost I need to the demands of today as you
2:49:57
understand there are many issues um today in Russia as well
2:50:03
maybe I will travel well maybe not well we all know well what kind of world we live in um I’ll speak
2:50:13
frankly it will depend on the situation in the country in in the
2:50:19
in the Ukraine and it will depend on the situation in the world in general to travel there to listen
2:50:26
to to smearing against Russia by Partners who believe that Russia is an aggressor well though they’re such
2:50:33
themselves well it’s not so nice and to create some issues for our India and France as well well we’ve been working
2:50:40
in G20 and we’ll continue to do that do I need to appear there personally I do not know yet we’ll leave and see as we
2:50:47
say in Russia um Mr n France press two short questions
2:50:53
the first question the US peoples have an interest in in asking Will T Carlson
2:50:59
will be a moderator on Friday on the at the plenary session here in C Carlson I
2:51:04
don’t even know who will be moderating I really don’t know Mr pesov hasn’t
2:51:10
reported that to me yet who moderated there you don’t know well he’ll report separately okay
2:51:18
yeah we haven’t agreed on that with Mr Carlson second question it’s already
2:51:23
getting dark but there are free Flags behind you flag of Russia flag of the
2:51:29
Soviet Union and of the Russian Empire the flag of Russian Empire is the
2:51:34
tallest one no no no they’re all equal in
2:51:40
height which one do you like the best the official flag of the Russian
2:51:45
Federation the three-colored flag it’s a an official flag of
2:51:51
Russia and second it’s it’s not a political decision of our administration of the of
2:52:00
the authorities it’s a gas prom decision well Miller Mr Miller sad to me that he
2:52:06
intends to do that but I can retell you the whole discussion well it’s it’s an
2:52:12
Open Secret and asked why I said that we have a state flag he said well it’s all
2:52:17
a part of our history
2:52:23
Nicholas II established the Imperial
2:52:29
flag he decided it should be black um yellow and
2:52:35
white because these are the colors of the Russian code of
2:52:43
arms back in the day in the 19th century that was the reasoning Peter the Great
2:52:48
established the state flag of the three colors the flag of the Soviet Union
2:52:54
especially since the victory over Nazism is connected to it it also has the right to exist in our history and in our
2:53:02
public Consciousness so I did not stand in the way I said please you you can do that it
2:53:10
has a the logic behind it a certain reason you shouldn’t look for something that it’s not
2:53:16
there you shouldn’t look for a certain subtext or something
2:53:22
else you shouldn’t look for our Imperial ambition there are none they are
2:53:28
non-existent because the world is changing so fast listen usbekistan do
2:53:33
you know how what’s the population of usbekistan you don’t what’s the population of France
2:53:40
right now a lot okay 60 million 65 million usbekistan has 37 million
2:53:48
and now pay attention look look at the screen so to speak they add another
2:53:54
million of population every year a million growth of population in usbekistan with such raid they will
2:54:01
bypass France very soon if you get rid of the the migrants
2:54:07
well soon usbekistan will be on par with France in terms of population and I’ll
2:54:14
explain to you why if someone suspects that we have some Imperial ambition
2:54:19
please imagine we’ll bring back the Soviet Union and we’ll have
2:54:26
a prevailing Islamic population did it ever come into your
2:54:33
mind you shouldn’t invent anything um that’s that’s not
2:54:39
there we’re not against the increase in the Islamic population we’re rather happy that it happens in the Russian
2:54:45
Federation now some of our predominantly Islamic
2:54:52
republics we have a very good birth rate and we are very happy about it but
2:54:58
what’s past is past the page has been turned and we’re looking into the future
2:55:04
based on the reality of today the flags that you see right now is part of our history you should not invent
2:55:13
anything and use these contemplations to to shape your opinion about Russia you
2:55:20
should not make an enemy out of Russia you’re only harming yourself with
2:55:27
that you imagine that Russia wants to um attack NATO are you dumb who invented
2:55:34
that this is garbage nonsense and nothing
2:55:40
else but it would have been just pure garbage if they didn’t
2:55:46
try to dup their population that they should cry wolf and say that Russia um
2:55:51
is trying to attack us and we need to arm ourselves and to send all our weapons to Ukraine why is it being done
2:55:59
to maintain their own Imperial domination and
2:56:04
greatness hence the the the threats and the scary stories for um for bourjois in
2:56:12
Germany and other parts of Europe there is no such threat and it could never be
2:56:18
defending ourselves in Ukraine where are the United States over the ocean and we’re here right now imagine we would do
2:56:25
that in Canada right now what the US is doing at our threshold right here in the
2:56:31
Ukraine or in Mexico or we we could say right now the
2:56:36
United States um now well back in the day they took part of the Mexican
2:56:43
territory and right now they could fight for the return of the territory that’s what the Western countries are trying to
2:56:49
do in terms of Russian Ukrainian crisis um have you ever considered that
2:56:55
you should look at the flags you shouldn’t look into the cruxs of the matter we have no Imperial ambition
2:57:02
believe me this is nonsense just like the threat
2:57:09
of of Russia to Nato and European countries look at the potential of the
2:57:14
NATO and Russian potential did you decide that we’re um
2:57:24
crazy the palace and the flag of of The Last of The Last Emperor of of France
2:57:31
the flag of Republic of the flag of Napoleon but here please forgive me when you’re
2:57:38
here I didn’t see all three right over there there they’re well they’re just here
2:57:45
this is a private initiative Mr Miller and he has an interest in in Russian and
2:57:51
history I can repeat it to you once again it’s not connected with anything
2:57:56
except for the with history and paying our dues to the generation who lived
2:58:03
with these flags and Banners and achieved great success in
2:58:09
the development of our state thank you another short question
2:58:16
from e well we can sit here till um early hours of the morning
2:58:22
then maybe we can um speak later
2:58:27
tomorrow we need to go to Pushkin then no no no no so okay okay
2:58:35
let’s let’s take the last one I’ll be very short tomorrow we’re
2:58:42
going to celebrate the 80th anniversary of um of the dday
2:58:52
of the US um French
2:58:58
soldiers they fought together with Russian soldiers with Soviet soldiers do do you can
2:59:05
you can you rule out that right now Russians French and the US can work
2:59:11
together and be partners no we cannot rule that out
2:59:19
it’s the US and Europeans who are ruling that out we’re all for it we did not
2:59:25
introduce any sanctions against Europe we did not um discontinue providing
2:59:31
energy to Europe to Germany we are being sanctioned here you said that tomorrow
2:59:38
they’re going to celebrate 80y year anniversary of the dday of the dis
2:59:43
arment in in the in Normandy we have always held our allies
2:59:51
in greatest esteem both Americans and the British the
3:00:01
French incidentally do they know in France that it was Stalin who insisted
3:00:10
on France’s presence and not just presence but also on Fran’s signing
3:00:18
the capitulation pact with Germany both the US and the UK were against that it
3:00:26
was Stalin who insisted on France’s being there as a victory uh country when
3:00:35
the PCT on unconditional surrender was signed with Germany the French do not
3:00:40
remember maybe they do not want that or maybe they do not think mat of it but it’s a historical fact something we’ve
3:00:47
preserved in our archives we’ve always had great respect for
3:00:56
the France that was fighting in resisting despite German troops marching
3:01:01
from Paris we supported the m and also
3:01:08
the uh Normandy neon Pilots our opens our doors are
3:01:14
always open to talks to negotiations and discussions
3:01:21
you have just mentioned that but it’s as if we are not welcome at that holiday as
3:01:29
it were how many uh Americans did die uh in the second world war 50
3:01:36
60,000 and even fewer British citizens died uh the
3:01:42
number is lower than that of of those who died during the first world war you know the biggest sacrifice on the order
3:01:49
of this Victory were made by the Soviet Union according to the latest calculation around uh 27 million people
3:01:57
out of them around 70% from Russia the uh uh Russian socialist feder of Soviet
3:02:05
Republic Russia accounts for 70% of those losses you’re asking whether we
3:02:12
are willing or not willing but no one has invited us
3:02:19
the biggest contribution to defeating
3:02:24
Nazism and it’s evident you have uh all you simply have to read Churchill you
3:02:31
know the biggest contribution comes from the Soviet Union the biggest contribution to the
3:02:37
shared victory over Marxism and everyone knows that only uh the most dishonest people are trying to distort these
3:02:44
historical facts okay let them be let them celebrate without
3:02:49
us we you
3:02:55
know it’s not going to uh do as much damage but uh they’re saying that the
3:03:02
current leadership of Ukraine is going to be there right now but just listen how can you celebrate such an important
3:03:08
anniversary and the fight against Nazism together with those who are putting the
3:03:15
neo-nazis onto a pedestal making national heroes out of them the current
3:03:20
symbol of Ukrainian statehood is Bandera who was one of the major
3:03:29
henchmen of Hitler in the territory of the Eastern Europe and it was through the hands of banderites that thousands
3:03:36
of uh Russians and Po and Jews were shot dead he was the closest accomplice of
3:03:44
Hitler yes at the end of the war he sniffed on the wind that victory was
3:03:51
escaping from the clut of Hitler and he started to search
3:03:56
for new allies to the west and uh the Germans took note of that but he was the
3:04:03
main collaborationist and you know he threw a hand salute
3:04:11
welcoming the Nazis and he was directly collaborating with them
3:04:20
the then you know back then he was still legitimate and the head of uh Ukraine
3:04:29
applauded standing a NE for Nai at the Canadian
3:04:34
Parliament do you know about that of course everyone knows about that but the media of the West Europe
3:04:43
the US and Canada were trying to keep it
3:04:49
even though it was a person who fought against the allies during the second world war and everyone stood up and
3:04:56
applauded the person who as they said had fought against Russia and who did
3:05:01
fight against Russia during the second world war it was Hitler and his allies so the man who got that stand in evation
3:05:08
was a former SS Soldier and tomorrow this very same people are going to celebrate the
3:05:16
dday what are we to make of that especially given the fact that Russia is
3:05:22
the successor state of the USS that suffered such heavy losses well they’re
3:05:27
ashamed to invite that okay we’ll survive that but you know that answers
3:05:32
your question about who is interested in rebuilding relations and who is not we are all in favor okay the last question
3:05:40
if you don’t mind yes go ahead okay
3:05:48
well who else go ahead then and I’ll ask the last
3:05:56
question you spoke about Nazism you’re aware that there
3:06:03
is a party in Germany that is a source of certain
3:06:11
preoccupation among the public and other parties it’s a party that’s uncritical
3:06:19
about this period of our history and this party is called alternative for
3:06:27
Germany and many of their members many families are currently under
3:06:33
constitutional surveillance due to their rhetoric and their actions the co-chair
3:06:40
of that party visited Moscow in 2020 if my memory says me right
3:06:49
he was invited to the Russian Embassy in Berlin as far as I’m aware so what do you make
3:06:58
of afd party and what’s your relation and attitude of
3:07:06
Russia towards this party and vice versa of this party towards Russia yes you’ve mentioned him the the leader of the
3:07:13
party he has been to Moscow and I think I’ve met some of the leaders ship of the party but we do not have any systemic
3:07:21
relations with these with this party but currently what we see is that
3:07:31
any alternative to the mainstream position in Germany is viewed as
3:07:37
extremist and everyone is all of a sudden dubbed as the kremlin’s agents if
3:07:42
there is a political force that is criticizing the current leadership then in a Democratic Society I think there
3:07:49
are no grounds to all of a sudden declare that political force as an anti-
3:07:56
State Force trying to shut it down you know when Hitler was thrown into prison
3:08:04
after a failed pch in Bavaria if I remember correctly his
3:08:10
popularity sword he was on the
3:08:16
ascendant before that he had not been considered as a national politician but
3:08:21
after his arrest he turned into one but we see no signs of neo-nazism
3:08:30
and the activities of the alternative for Germany party if there is someone
3:08:37
who Advocates normal relations with our country we can only support that but it’s not up to
3:08:45
us to decide whether that political force is acting under the German
3:08:53
Constitution but let me reiterate we see no signs that would that we would be
3:09:01
concerned about if the current leadership of Germany sees a thread to
3:09:06
itself in The Stance of uh the afd
3:09:18
then you know as they say
3:09:27
it’s not a cup of tea well it’s uh it doesn’t concern us
3:09:35
as it were but let me get back to what I’ve just said aft is
3:09:40
allegedly suspected of some Neo-Nazi views
3:09:52
and what about people who
3:09:58
collaborated with the Nazi regime in Ukraine they are not viewed in the same
3:10:04
light and this is precisely what we call double standards both in internal politics and in foreign politics we’re
3:10:12
going to cooperate with anyone who wants to work with Russia
3:10:17
and we’re not given any political assessment to what’s happening inside Germany it’s up to the political
3:10:22
authorities in Germany and it’s up to the Constitutional Court of Germany to
3:10:27
pass that judgment but you know I cited the example of
3:10:36
Hitler those who resort to and political means in political fight fail in
3:10:45
achieving their political goals Mr President you’re probably aware or maybe not that the west Western uh
3:10:53
media well a very passionate about you they are painting you as a villain or oh
3:10:59
yes let them do that let them fear me what about those pictures uh does Mr
3:11:06
pesov show them to you no he does not he’s trying you know to preserve
3:11:13
my mental state and peace of mind I know that from time to time when there is a
3:11:19
flare up of tensions between countries there are attempts at
3:11:25
intimidating the rank and file citizens there’s nothing no novel about
3:11:31
that and honestly I don’t have time for
3:11:37
that I don’t have time to you know follow this
3:11:43
propaganda I prefer to work on the the substance of our
3:11:50
relations with our partners the partners of today with potential partners with
3:11:56
former partners with a view to building and fostering normal relations
3:12:03
which will help us secure the goals of our national development Mr President a
3:12:09
huge thank you for this Frank conversation on behalf of Tas agency and on behalf of our colleagues uh patience
3:12:16
to you good health and God’s help yes I would like to thank you for coming
3:12:22
here maybe you were instructed to do so or maybe there was no instruction but
3:12:28
you had the courage to come thank you for your interest and what’s happening in Russia and what’s happening in our
3:12:35
relations with other countries amid very difficult
3:12:40
conditions well we’re not going to dwell on the origins of the situation everyone
3:12:47
knows about them but still a huge thank you for your interest I would like to
3:12:54
say my words of thank you and I do hope that you will cover all of that in as
3:13:01
impartial manner as possible performing your mission your
3:13:07
duty trying to do that in a very correct
3:13:15
fashion and I do hope that our meeting today and your work in
3:13:21
future will be aimed at
3:13:28
repairing and stabilizing our bilateral relations and uh improving the situation
3:13:34
across the world so that we move towards solving the crisis rather than fueling
3:13:42
them thank you
3:14:04
thank you
3:14:17
I’m going
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