Gazprom Gazprom continues talks with CNPC over natural gas deliveries (repeat) Gazprom may speed up Sakhalin-3 project ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full Text Articles Basic Political Developments March 17, 2011 12:30 First inspection under START possible next month - Foreign Ministry MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - The first inspection under the New START may take place in April, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told reporters on Thursday. "The first inspection may take place two months after the signing of the START, as it is said in the treaty protocol," he said in comment on a statement by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. "The inspection is possible in no less than two months after February 5," he said. "It is not necessarily to start the inspection on the 60th day of the treaty validity. The sides will reach an agreement, and there will be no parity in the inspections. Everything depends on the priorities, interests and abilities of the sides to send their inspectors on a particular date," he said. "These are purely technical issues, which will be resolved at the bilateral consultative commission. It will coordinate plans, which will satisfy everyone, in the performance of inspections and other activities envisaged by the protocol. The commission will get down to business soon," Ryabkov said. 12:27 Lavrov, Clinton could meet in May - Russian ministry
coast. Dosimeter readings for the Far East are available on line in order to prevent panic. March 17, 2011 12:13 No need for urgent evacuation of Russians from Tokyo so far – ambassador , MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - The Russian embassy in Japan has an action plan in the case of emergency situations but is not implementing it so far, Ambassador Mikhail Bely told the Ekho Moskvy radio on Thursday. "If a crisis begins - and the situation is already rather complicated, contradictory and hard to predict - we will naturally use this plan," he said. He described the departure of families of Russian mission employees from Japan as "a forced leave." "The radiation level in Tokyo does not create a problem as yet. If the situation worsens, the Emergency Situations Ministry will provide the evacuation," the ambassador said. From 6,000 to 7,000 Russian citizens are staying in Japan, he said. "All the Russian citizens who think they must go can do that. We are ready to give them full assistance," the ambassador said. The evacuation is possible on several routes, he added. The ambassador said his wife preferred to stay in Tokyo together with him. "Like a Decembrist woman, she wants to stay together with me. I think that is right," he said. Russian embassy in Tokyo doen't see reasons for evacuation 17.03.2011, 06.48
Kazakhstan currently holds the rotating chair of the SCO. ASTANA, March 17 (RIA Novosti) SCO defence ministers approve 2012-2013 cooperation plan 17.03.2011, 10.49 ASTANA, March 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation /SOC/ adopted a plan for cooperation over 2012-2013, Kazakhstan’s Defence Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov said following their meeting on Thursday. “We have discussed some important issues, exchanged views on the current problems in the international and regional security, signed a communiqu· and a plan for cooperation over 2012-2013,” he told reporters. “We are truly confident that this close cooperation and interaction will let us strengthen security and stability both in the region and in the world.” “The purpose of all the efforts is to raise trust in security matters and in SOC’s opportunities in fighting terrorism.” China’s Defence Minister Liang Guanglie said that the documents the sides had signed over the meeting follow the Shanghai agreements and they are based on the major principle of mutual respect, mutual benefit, equality, ongoing consultations and on the aspiration for further development. “We /the SOC member countries/ will apply every effort to raise our cooperation to a new level,” he said. Defence ministers confirmed the high level of mutual understanding, gained over the decade of the SOC’s activities. Deepening of communications between defence ministries complies with the fundamental principle of the SOC’s openness and its against any state or international union. Once again participants in the meeting highlighted the fact that the purpose of the cooperation is to strengthen measures of trust in the military sphere, as well as strengthening stability, safety and peace in the region, improvement of counter-terrorist opportunities. “Providing security in the territory of the organisation is a priority of the organisation’s activities,” the SOC’s Secretary General Murtabek Imanaliyev said following the meeting. “Today’s discussion, I believe, is another proof of further improvement of cooperation between the military of the SOC countries.”
ministry, such an agreement was reached at a meeting of Kazakh Defence Minister Adilbek Dzhaksybekov with Kyrgyz Defence Minister Abibilla Kudaiberdiyev in Astana. “During the meeting, the heads of the defence departments signed an agreement between the government of Kyrgyzstan and the government of Kazakhstan on rendering gratuitous military aid,” a representative of the press service said. The document envisages the transfer of nine GAZ-66 cars, eleven ZIL-131 cars, five armoured personnel carriers and thirty PM-120 mortars. Kudaiberdiyev expressed gratitude to his colleague and noted that Kyrgyzstan’s assistance in the field of training military cadres at military educational establishments of Kazakhstan is one of the priority directions of the two republics’ military and technical cooperation. “Some 70 Kyrgyz servicemen concluded training at institutes of higher education of the Kazakh Defence Ministry on a gratuitous basis within the framework of the bilateral agreement on training military cadres for CSTO member-state from 1998 to 2010,” the representative of the press service stressed. “At the given moment, more than 110 Kyrgyz servicemen continue studying at military educational establishments of the neighbouring country. Natalia Yacheistova: Kyrgyzstan is the main contender for recipient status within Russian international programs 17/03-2011 11:31, Bishkek – 24.kg news agency , by Tolgonai OSMONGAZIEVA “Kyrgyzstan is the main contender for recipient status within Russian international programs,” Natalia Yacheistova, Deputy Chief of Department for CIS Development Assistance Rossotrudnichestvo, said at 5th session of Kyrgyz-Russian working group on intergovernmental agreement for migrants protection. According to her, the programs were developed at three areas: technical education, meals for students, and advancement of school education. “Nowadays, the programs are at the coordination stage in different agencies of Russia. We are going to cooperate with the Kyrgyz Republic in all areas,” said Natalia Yacheistova. URL: http://eng.24.kg/community/2011/03/17/16937.html