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G-8 summit assumes Russian agenda
by Nikolai Ulyanov, Strana.ru
issued on 28 June 2002 MCK
The G-8 Kananaskis Summit has brought Russia surprisingly favorable and promising results. Both the allocation by the leading world countries of $20 billion for the elimination of Soviet weapons of mass destruction and the decision to hold the G-8 2006 summit in Russia were quite unexpected, because they actually made the meeting assume a "Russian" agenda instead of the planned "African" one.
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(Russia should) make itself a leader in building up the G-8, as a way of enhancing its role in the world
by Ira Strauss
issued on 27 June 2002 MCK
Now that Russia has had a major success in the G-8, winning a full role in the group and slated to host a Summit in 2006, it can move on to something even more important for its interests: building up the G-8 as an institution, as a way of building up Russia's own role in the world. This should be the focus in the next stage of Russia's policy on the G-8.
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Yasser Arafat: "I see George W. Bush's peace plan as a basis for further talks on a Middle East settlement"
by Gennady Charodeyev, Maxim Yusin, Izvestiya
issued on 27 June 2002 MCK
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has told Izvestia he regards George W. Bush's peace plan as a basis for further talks on a Middle East settlement. "On the whole, we welcome Bush's statement on a MidEast settlement. I can even say that I liked some of the points he made very much, such as the need to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, and the construction of Jewish settlements in our territory."
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The need for Western realism on the "near abroad", the prospect for a symbiotic Russia-West partnership
by Ira Strauss
issued on 27 June 2002 MCK
It was an historic moment. Putin told Lukashenko that Belarus could not be an equal partner of Russia in a union state. Of course, it could be the 90th province of the Russian Federation. Or it could cooperate with Russia in a looser structure that would not undermine the capacity of the Russian state to act on its own. But either way, Belarus would not matter very much. It was the West that Russia needed to work with in order to modernize; Belarus would not be allowed to get in the way.
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Annual field training catches the imagination of participants
by Victoria Whall
issued on 26 June 2002 MCK
A NATO and Partner Nations training exercise designed to foster understanding and interoperability between soldiers from 15 different countries got out of hand in Tibilisi on Tuesday.
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"Foreign states" challenged over citizens' rights to travel
by Michael Stedman
issued on 26 June 2002 MCK
Exchanges between delegates to the Council of Europe brought new proof yesterday (Tuesday) of the divide that confronts Russia, Poland and Lithuania over the troubled future of the Kaliningrad Baltic region enclave.
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Kaliningrad as a hotspot of European democracy
by Sergei Shishkaryov, Deputy Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, State Duma
issued on 24 June 2002 MCK
By Sergei Shishkaryov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs; as reported by Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Self-determination by democratic Russia in the international community is proving to be a thorny path. All leading democracies have thrown to the winds their humanitarian rhetoric, and are not giving any sign of extending democratic rules to international life - particularly to that part of it, where Russia operates or where its state interests reach.
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That's what Putin intends to suggest to his colleagues at the G-8 Summit
by Yelena Yevstigneeva, Vedemosti
issued on 24 June 2002 MCK
At the G-8 Summit scheduled to be held in the Canadian town of Kananaskis, President Vladimir Putin intends to remind the allies in the antiterrorist coalition that it is worthwhile being friends with Russia not only on the battlefield but in the economic sphere as well. He also intends to urge his colleagues to buy more oil from Russia.
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The Belarus president was especially irked by the Russian proposal to build the Union on the principles of a federation
by Natalia Grib, Boris Volkhonsky, Kommersant
issued on 20 June 2002 MCK
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday, June 19, used very biting words in reply to President Vladimir Putin's recent statement criticizing the Belarus stand on the principles of building bodies of power of the Russia-Belarus Union. Declared Lukashenko: "Belarus will never become the ninetieth province of the Russian Federation. (At the moment, the Russian Federation is made up of 89 autonomous republics, territories, and regions).
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EU team charting legal and practical issues of looming enclave isolation
by Michael Stedman
issued on 18 June 2002 MCK
Steps to settle the impasse between Moscow and the European Union (EU) over the troubled future of Russia's Kaliningrad enclave geared up suddenly on Monday, powered by decisions at the EU-Russia summit late last month.
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