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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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