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... These bilateral negotiations NATO as an alliance, and I am speaking on behalf of NATO, does not interfere.
However, the Heads of State and government at the Riga NATO summit in October decided that, firstly, the establishment of anti-ballistic missile systems may Alliance economically and technically. Second, I have instructed the Council's work on the assessment of the missile threat and whether NATO Treaty. When complete transparency for our Russian partners. They should also be concerned about what is happening in Iran..Besides Russia, too, within a radius of a possible Iranian missiles. .And there is still a separate project, and I think that we will develop in collaboration with Russia, the ABM theatre. .It is a narrower mission, which aims to protect not our populations, and the troops.We have a draft of the complex ALTBMD acronym, but we see (and it is being done), in which parts will be able to work together with the Russians.
— How we have come in the 10 years after the Founding Act and in the five years since the Rome Declaration, and that NATO would do together with Russia in the future?
— Responding to the second part of the question, I say : many. Who would have a few years ago to imagine that the Russian ships will be working with NATO to patrol the Mediterranean Sea in Operation Active Endeavour "? .In a joint project, we train and train experts in the field of combating narcotics from Afghanistan and Central Asia, a lot of very good joint exercises, is not only military but also in responding to civil emergencies. In the past year there have been big manoeuvres in Italy, earlier in the Kaliningrad Region. At a meeting with Sergei Ivanov, in Seville when he was Minister of Defence, we discussed proposals on how Russia, in terms of logistics can help us in Afghanistan. I may add to the sharing of airspace, aerial to strengthen confidence-building measures.
All of this works very well, despite the occasional differences ... I used to say that our relationship between adults : Russia-mature nation, the world player NATO alliance mature. If there are differences, let us discuss them in the NRC. We must use it in a very practical and political sense.
— You agree with the statement that...
