“Naturally, such methods are futile in Russia,” the Russian leader said at a meeting of the Russian Security Council.
“Our people, citizens of Russia, will never let it happen and will never accept it,” he stressed, alluding to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The February coup in Kiev and the general turmoil across Ukraine are largely blamed on outsider forces trying to drive a wedge between the two ex- Soviet allies.
The Russian president also cautioned the United States and European Union against the “language of sanctions,” which the West believes to be an adequate response to Moscow’s alleged role in the Ukrainian crisis.
“We hope that our legitimate national interests will be respected and the disputed issues that occur all the time, will be solved diplomatically, through negotiations and nobody will interfere in our affairs,” Putin stressed in a statement on the country’s territorial integrity.
He pointed to the ongoing campaign against countries that refuse to fall in line with the majority opinion, which is as often as not inspired by a handful of nations.
- “Countries conducting independent politics, or those who get in the way of someone’s interests, are destabilized,” the Russian leader said adding that the so-called “color revolutions” are used toward this end.
http://en.ria.ru/politics/20140722/191113761/Putin-Warns-Against-Attempts-to-Destabilize-Russia-From-Within.html
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there is “no military threat, no threat to sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country as of today.”...
ReplyDelete“The strategic balance of forces in the world guarantees this,” Putin said addressing a session of the Russian Security Council on Tuesday.
The president said Russia “strictly abides by the norms of the international law and obligations given to its partners.”
Putin also said he hoped that other countries would be taking Russia’s national interests into account, while disputable issues would be solved legally................http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/741794
Le scénario actuel d'évolution des événements en Ukraine est contreproductif, il déstabilise la situation dans le monde, a déclaré mardi à Moscou le président russe Vladimir Poutine lors d'une réunion du Conseil de sécurité de Russie....
ReplyDelete"Si on revient aux scénarios de ce type, c'est absolument inadmissible et contreproductif. Cela sape la paix et l'ordre mondial moderne. L'application de ces méthodes à l'égard de la Russie ne donnera pas de résultats", a indiqué M.Poutine.
"Les citoyens russes ne l'admettront pas. Ils ne l'accepteront pas", a-t-il ajouté.
Lire la suite: http://french.ruvr.ru/news/2014_07_22/Ukraine-situation-le-scenario-actuel-est-contreproductif-Poutine-8844/
Security Council meeting....Vladimir Putin chaired a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin....
ReplyDeleteThe discussion focussed on the maintenance of Russia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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Opening remarks at the Security Council meeting
VLADIMIR PUTIN: Good afternoon, colleagues.
Today we will consider the fundamental issues of maintaining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of this country. We all understand how many political, ethnic, legal, social, economic and other aspects this topic encompasses.
Sovereignty and territorial integrity are fundamental values, as I have already said. We are referring to the maintenance of the independence and unity of our state, to the reliable protection of our territory, our constitutional system and to the timely neutralisation of internal and external threats, of which there are quite a few in the world today. I should make it clear from the start that, obviously, there is no direct military threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of this country. Primarily, the strategic balance of forces in the world guarantees this.
We, on our part, strictly comply with the norms of international law and with our commitments to our partners, and we expect other countries, unions of states and military-political alliances to do the same, while Russia is fortunately not a member of any alliance. This is also a guarantee of our sovereignty.
Any nation that is part of an alliance gives up part of its sovereignty. This does not always meet the national interests of a given country, but this is their sovereign decision. We expect our national legal interests to be respected, while any controversies that always exist, to be resolved only through diplomatic efforts, by means of negotiations. Nobody should interfere in our internal affairs.
However, ever more frequently today we hear of ultimatums and sanctions. The very notion of state sovereignty is being washed out. Undesirable regimes, countries that conduct an independent policy or that simply stand in the way of somebody’s interests get destabilised. Tools used for this purpose are the so-called colour revolutions, or, in simple terms – takeovers instigated and financed from the outside....................http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/22714