Press Conference Following Talks with U.S. President George W. Bush
July 15, 2006.Part 1
Strelna, St Petersburg
Пресс-конференция по итогам переговоров с Президентом США Джорджем Бушем
15 июля 2006 года
Санкт-Петербург, Стрельна
VLADIMIR PUTIN: Dear ladies and gentlemen!
Our meeting with the President of the United States has just ended. The Russian party is satisfied with the results of this meeting.
The meeting has once again confirmed that Russia and the United States are reliable partners with common interests.
We managed to reach a number of agreements on key questions on our bilateral and international agendas.
We adopted a Joint Statement which concerns our joint initiatives for the development of nuclear energy.
Its overall objective is to promote a steady and reliable supply of this type of energy while simultaneously decreasing the danger of the proliferation of nuclear weapons. We believe that this will be possible by creating a network of international centres to enrich uranium. And of course under strict supervision by the IAEA.
It is no less important to pay steadfast attention to the development of innovative technologies and creating new-generation nuclear power reactors. The most productive way to work is by drawing on extensive international cooperation. As a whole, such approaches will act as positive, stabilizing influences during global political and economic developments.
We also supported the American offer to engage in a global partnership in the field of nuclear energy. The Russian initiative to establish multilateral centres to perform services in the nuclear fuel cycle and a global partnership in this sphere will complement each other well. And we shall work together to associate these two things.
To achieve this it is necessary to resolve problems linked to the conditions for trading nuclear materials between Russia and the United States.
In addition, we made a Joint Statement on Combating Nuclear Terrorism. It confirms Russia and Americas shared aspirations to fight against this dangerous threat and opens new doors for common actions.
As such, our countries show their determination to take the most serious measures to prevent terrorists from purchasing, transporting or using nuclear and radioactive materials, or homemade explosives made from such materials. It is no less important to exclude the possibility of any hostile actions against nuclear installations.
We expect that our initiative will benefit from all due attention from other participants in the G8 summit and will be reflected in concrete joint decisions.
We have had productive discussions on the whole range of international issues. They include the Iranian nuclear programme, the situation in the Middle East, on the Korean peninsula, in other regions of the world and settling persistent conflicts in regions next to Russia.
Both parties confirmed that they are ready to search for solutions to all of these difficult problems by peaceful, political and diplomatic means.
We intended to increase our joint efforts to fight against new threats and challenges. Our joint initiative to hold a political conference in Vienna in the spring of 2007 on the partnership between government, civil society and business to combat terrorism is an example of this.
In general, we hope that our joint proposals and agreements will act as a good basis for a successful G8 summit and will start this respected international forum off in a constructive way.
At the meeting we discussed issues concerning our bilateral cooperation in detail and in light of the joint orders given to our ministries and departments with a view to increasing our cooperation. We are aware that we are successfully accomplishing the goals we have set out in all areas: in the economy, security, science, outer space, and in the cultural and educational spheres.
A number of orders have already been implemented and work is proceeding on the others. In our opinion, work is proceeding at quite a good rate. We agreed on new tasks that both sides will work on in the forthcoming period: as I have already said they include, nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, combating avian flu and cultural cooperation.
I shall especially note that the during our last meeting with the President of the United States we did not limit ourselves to discussing current problems. Rather we tried to look at Russian-American relations in light of the future and, of course, in the wider context of developing the system of international relations as a whole.
I wish to thank our American partners for the very well-intentioned and constructive atmosphere in which our meeting took place.
Many thanks for your attention.
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