... representatives of European Leadership Network (ELN) had an online meeting with Pierre Vimont, Special Envoy of the President of France for the Development of Relations between the European Union and Russia, in the context of the upcoming Russian-French summit.
The French diplomat was briefed about upcoming ELN proposals on ... ... Andrey Kortunov, RIAC General
Director, spoke about the results of work of the international subgroup on the
prospects of Russia-NATO relations.
... about creating a separate ad hoc group in NATO to conduct talks with Russia on the INF Treaty. This group could probably include members of the Alliance that are also members of the “Nuclear Club”, namely the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Perhaps countries that accommodate elements of the US European missile defence system (Romania and Poland) might also be included. When the NATO–Russia Council gains its full institutional capacity, the ad hoc group could be seamlessly integrated into its work.
Another interim solution might be to create such an INF Treaty group outside NATO confines, similar to the European tripartite group of ...
... exclusion from such a system of postwar relations.
The double enlargement, i.e. of the NATO and the EU, as well as incomplete, in terms of Chapter VIII of the UN Charter,... ..., to the African Union) have proved to be expressions of so short-sighted a policy. Russia has been invited to neither of them. In the case of NATO for the reason of her... ... cultural diversity, where development of all would ensure development of each nation.
France convened the Paris Peace Forum last year to mark the end of World War One. So...
On April 14, 2016 France’s Ambassador in Russia Jean-Maurice Ripert held a meeting at the French Embassy with RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and leading Russian international journalists Andrey Soldatov and Pavel Felgenhauer.
The discussion focused on the relations between Russia and NATO in the context of the upcoming NATO Warsaw Summit in July 2016, the prospects for recovery of the NATO-Russia Council activity ...