Kommersant.com
October 8, 2008
Medvedev Says They're Paranoid in DC
Part of the U.S. administration is paranoid, Russian president Dmitry
Medvedev said at the
World Policy Conference in Evian, France.
"Sovietology, like paranoia, is a serious illness and it is a shame that
part of the U.S.
administration suffers from it still," Medvedev said. "They need to
study the new Russia, not
resurrect phantoms of the Soviet Union."
Russia is not confrontational, Medvedev stated. It favors transparent
and equitable international
relations and is open to dialog. "People strive for peace and
agreement," Medvedev noted, moving
on to the topic of Georgia. He acknowledged France's positive role in
settling the conflict
but noted that "an exchange of courtesies" does not hold promise and
"does nothing for getting
out of this crisis." He urged at the same time "calming and giving up
confrontational rhetoric."
It is clear now to Moscow who is its friend and who is not, Medvedev
continued. "Today's
situation is the critical phase of the continuing crisis in
Euro-Atlantic policy caused by a
unipolar world," he said, still referring to the Caucasus. He said that
the "irresponsible, at
times adventurists actions of the ruling regime of a small country, and
I mean Georgia in this
case, is able to destabilize the world situation." That, he concluded,
"is clear
evidence that an international security system based on unipolarity is
unfit." Medvedev added
that Russia sees NATO's approach toward its borders as an action
directed against it.
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