Press Conference Following the G8 Summit.Part 3
July 11, 2009
LAquila, Italy
Пресс-конференция по итогам работы саммита «Группы восьми».
10 июля 2009 года
Италия, Аквила
Ultimately, what we agreed upon in the expanded format of our meeting on global food security which included the G8, the G5, Egypt, and a number of other countries, including African nations, as well as several international organisations is to provide a total of around 20 billion USD in support. Initially, we had committed 15 billion USD, but finally agreed on 20 billion USD, as was suggested by all participating countries.
Naturally, we also discussed current political issues. We talked about nuclear non-proliferation, which is a very important topic, especially given that we just addressed this matter in Moscow with the President of the United States. We talked about fulfilling United Nations decisions and about violations of UN Security Council resolutions, which have been permitted in several countries, particularly North Korea and Iran. We feel that problems of this kind need to be resolved politically and diplomatically, while adhering to the founding principles of international law and the resolutions that were reached on these issues.
We affirmed our commitment to many of our long-standing engagements, such as the fight against terrorism, international organised crime, and piracy, and we spoke seriously and in quite a bit of detail about the Middle East peace process and resolving problems in that region on the basis of the establishment and co-existence of two states, Israel and Palestine.
I hope that this topic can be built upon and developed at the Middle East conference that will be held in Moscow. Naturally, we analysed other issues as well, including reconciliation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and conflict regions in Africa.
We are also happy with the decision made jointly with the United States and France as co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on settling the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. We made a corresponding statement, calling on the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan to make additional efforts in this process. I hope that in just a few days, I will be able to welcome both presidents to the Russian Federation, where we will continue discussing this matter.
And finally, the last thing I would like to say is that, as always, many meetings and encounters took place on the sidelines of the summit. Some of them were officially organised, while others were informal, but no less productive. Thus, I was able to have talks with quite a large number of my partners, and I am grateful to them for it.
I think thats about all that I wanted to share. I will now take your questions.
QUESTION: Mr President,
Just before you came to Italy you held talks in Moscow with the President of the United States and, according to you, made genuine contact with Barack Obama. Have you been able to build on those good relations here in Italy, and in what way (if any) have your your talks with the President of the United States affected discussions in LAquila?
If you don't mind, one short additional question: how do you feel about the Italian proposal to hold another summit here in LAquila?
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: It was actually good that we were able to get to know the President of the United States better. We have really forged a good personal relationship, I like to chat with Barack Obama. I hope that he has the same positive feelings about these exchanges.
At one point in the past we were both engaged in common basically, scholarly research, as I said to him at our first meeting. He once headed the editorial board of a legal journal, and at that time I was studying English in graduate school and reading that very journal. That is a curious coincidence, to say the least. Although it's not the main thing, our personal relationship is indeed something that will facilitate the development of relations between our two countries.
We have gone on talking here, and repeatedly returned to what we were discussing in Moscow, and even recalled some personal moments from our conversations that took place during the informal dinner in my residence in Gorki.
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