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Russian President outlines his priorities

15 July 2008 13:35 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Lachin Sultanova â€“APA. One of the priorities of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to develop multilateral and bilateral cooperation with CIS countries, Regional priorities part of conception on foreign policy of Russian Federation includes this opinion. The document says that Russia will expand cooperation with CIS countries to ensure mutual security, combating international terrorism, extremism, drug turnover, transnational crimes and illegal migration. One of the main priorities of the country is neutralizing of terrorist act and drug turnover directed from Afghanistan, prevention of violation of stability in Central Asia and South Caucasus.
The concept also says that Russia will continue its â€œmediatorâ€™s and peacekeeperâ€™s roleâ€ in the conflicts on the post-Soviet space and â€œto actively facilitate peaceful resolution of conflicts based on the international law and based on respect of already reached agreements.