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Ladies and gentlemen,

We held the second meeting of the Joint Strategic Planning Group. This mechanism headed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was created following the decision of the High Level Cooperation Council. The Russian-Turkish strategic dialogue in the framework of the group under the co-chairmanship of the Foreign Affaires Ministers was dedicated to elaboration of approaches based on convergence of positions in order to determine perspectives of our cooperation.

Since the previous meeting in Istanbul 2011 under the aegis of the Joint Strategic Planning Group, there have been more than twenty meetings and consultations. Today we examined the results of our work and approved the joint statement covering all aspects of bilateral interaction. We consider this statement to be the foreign services’ contribution to the preparation of the third meeting of the High Level Cooperation Council scheduled for the second half of 2012. The Mixed Intergovernmental Russian-Turkish Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Social Forum definitely have to make their contribution. Their meetings are also to be held this year prior to the leaders’ meeting.  Full story
 

Dear friends,

It is a great pleasure for me to see so many people, who accepted our invitation to come here today to the presentation of the book by V. Posuvalyuk, prominent Soviet and Russian diplomat and our friend. The book consists of his memoirs and diaries and includes a series of literary sketches of his friends and colleagues who worked with him in the diplomatic service.

Mr. Posuvalyuk was a great man and diplomat of the highest professional qualities and talent, who managed to learn all the ins and outs of our profession. He worked in a selfless, meticulous and creative way. Having started his working career as an interpreter for those who were constructing a seaport in Yemen, he became an honorable talking partner for kings, presidents and ministers.

We appreciate the presence at our today’s meeting of the Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority M. Abbas who worked closely with Mr. Posuvalyuk, including in the framework of the Russian-Palestinian Working Committee on the Middle East.  Full story
 

Remarks and Response to Questions by Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov at Press Conference on 2011 Foreign Policy Outcomes at MFA, January 18, 2012

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