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Medwedew: Russland wird weiterhin Weg der nuklearen Abrüstung gehen

Rede des russischen Präsidenten vor der UN-Generalversammlung (Zusammenfassungen in deutsch und englisch)

Russland wird weiterhin den Weg der Reduzierung von Kernwaffen gehen. Das versicherte Präsident Dmitri Medwedew von der Tribüne der UN-Vollversammlung.

„Russland wird unbeirrt den Weg der verifizierbaren und unumkehrbaren Reduzierungen von Kernwaffen gehen", sagte er. Dies sei „ein überaus wichtiges Element des ‚Neubeginns' unserer Beziehungen mit den USA. Im Juli haben U-Präsident und ich ein entsprechendes Dokument unterzeichnet", sagte Medwedew im Rahmen der politischen Diskussion auf der Tagung der UNO-Vollversammlung.

Verhandelt werde über einen juristisch verbindlichen Vertrag, der den jetzigen Vertrag über die Reduzierung und Begrenzung der strategischen Offensivwaffen ablösen soll, welcher im Dezember dieses Jahres abläuft. Bei ihren Verhandlungen im Juli in Moskau bekundeten die Präsidenten beider Länder die Absicht, die Anzahl der nuklearen Gefechtsköpfe jeweils auf 1500 bis 1675 und die Zahl der Träger auf jeweils 500 bis 1100 zu reduzieren.

Medwedew verwies dabei auf den „objektiven Zusammenhang zwischen den strategischen Offensiv- und den Defensivwaffen".

In diesem Zusammenhang bekundete er Moskaus Bereitschaft zu einer eingehenden Erörterung der amerikanischen Vorschläge und der russischen Initiativen im Bereich der Zusammenarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Raketenabwehr im Interesse gegenseitig annehmbarer Vereinbarungen. Als einen „konstruktiven Schritt in die richtige Richtung" bezeichnete er die letzte Woche bekannt gegebenen Änderungen der U-Pläne, laut denen Washington beschlossen hat, eine Stationierung von Teilen des Raketenabwehrsystems in Polen und Tschechien zu verschieben.

„Ohne Lösung der prinzipiellen Probleme wie das Raketenabwehrsystem oder die Schaffung eines nichtnuklearen Potentials der strategischen Offensivwaffen ist es nicht möglich, reale Fortschritte bei der nuklearen Abrüstung zu erzielen", sagte Medwedew.

„Ich rechne damit, dass die Arbeit an einem neuen Vertrag die entsprechenden Bestimmungen des von mir und dem US-Präsidenten beim Treffen in Moskau gebilligten gemeinsamen Dokuments berücksichtigen wird", so Russlands Staatschef.

Er forderte die anderen Kernwaffen besitzenden Staaten, sich den Abrüstungsbemühungen Russlands und der USA anzuschließen. „Man muss dabei nicht weitere Fortschritte beim russisch-amerikanischen Abrüstungsprozess abwarten. Man kann schon im Voraus mit der Abstimmung annehmbarer und praktischer Schemen beginnen, die die Unterschiede im Umfang der Potentiale berücksichtigen würden."

* Aus: Russische Nachrichtenagentur RIA Novosti, 25. September 2009; http://de.rian.ru

Hier geht es zur ganzen Rede von Medwedjew:
"The creation of the UN has become one of the main achievements of the world community in the 20th century"
ADDRESS by H. E. Dmitry A. Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, at the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly / Rede des russischen Präsidenten Medwedjew auf der UN-Generalversammlung (pdf-Datei)


Statement Summary

DMITRY MEDVEDEV, President of the Russian Federation, said the current session was taking place at a very crucial and uneasy point in time, with an economic crisis, regional conflicts, food shortages and climate change. The agenda had been dictated by life itself, and that, in turn, dictated the growing demand for the United Nations as a tried and tested mechanism for the harmonization of various countries’ interests. As never before, the international community was feeling the need for informal collective leadership, increased role of such formats as the G-8 and more recently the G-20, as well as other negotiation and mediation fora.

Another distinctive feature of modern times related to an increasing role of regional entities, he said. That trend was entirely consistent with the principles of the United Nations Charter. His country, for its part, would continue to strengthen the mechanisms of regional interaction together with its partners across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and in the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRIC ( Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China). Those mechanisms helped their members to respond collectively to common threats, mitigate the consequences of crises and increase the sustainability of their national economies.

Among the problems that could not be effectively resolved without the United Nations, he mentioned the imbalance of existing world economy governance mechanisms, the inadequacy of their “rules of the game”, and the chasm between financial markets and real economy. With the Millennium Development Goals under a threat of disruption, donor assistance to the countries in need could not be put off until later. The arrangements made at the G-20 summits and the United Nations conference on the world financial and economic crisis must be implemented within the deadlines that Member States had set. It was also important to address the issues of global energy security. His country had recently solidified the principles of a new legal framework for cooperation that had been formulated at the Saint Petersburg G-8 Summit three years ago, and was now inviting everyone to engage in further constructive discussions in that regard. Those discussions should be conducted with an active involvement of specialized multilateral institutions, including the agencies of the United Nations system.

His country also deemed it important to strengthen the United Nations itself, he continued. The Organization must adapt to the new world realities, strengthen its influence and preserve its multinational nature, as well as the integrity of the Charter provisions. The reform of the Security Council was an essential component of that revitalization. The time had come to step up the search for a compromise formula of its expansion and increased efficiency.

Turning to disarmament, he mentioned a Russian-Chinese initiative regarding a treaty on the prevention of the deployment of weapons in outer space, as well as the proposal to universalise the Russia-United States Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Missiles. The Russian Federation was steadily following the path of verifiable and irreversible reductions in nuclear weapons as an essential element of “a new start” in its relations with the United States. Presidents Obama and Medvedev had signed a relevant document in Moscow last July, and a mandate for further negotiations had been agreed upon -- to elaborate a legally binding treaty, which should replace the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, which would expire in December. The recently announced adjustments to the United States plans for a missile defence system -- a subject of his meeting with President Obama today -- represented a constructive step in the right direction. His country was prepared to engage in a thorough discussion of the United States proposals and relevant Russian initiatives regarding cooperation in that area.

Real progress in nuclear disarmament was impossible without addressing national missile defence and non-nuclear strategic offensive arms potential. He expected work on a new treaty to fully take into account relevant provisions of the joint document endorsed by the Presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation during their meeting in Moscow. Other nuclear States should join the disarmament efforts. There was no need to wait for further progress in Russia-United States disarmament. It was possible to start elaborating acceptable and practical arrangements, taking into account the difference in the size of potentials. The 2010 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Review Conference would focus on the issues of nuclear disarmament, strengthening of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and a peaceful atom. A global summit on nuclear security next April would also present a good opportunity to continue those discussions. The Russian Federation had agreed with the United States Administration on joint steps for further progress in such aspects of nuclear security as prevention of nuclear terrorism and expanding access for all members implementing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in good faith to the achievements of a peaceful atom. He called for collective cooperation on those matters.

As a member of the Quartet, Russia supported the efforts aimed at strengthening the nuclear-non-proliferation regime in the Middle East, he said. His country had made specific proposals in the framework of the NPT Review in that regard. Russia had also made proposals within the framework of the six-party talks in connection with the mechanism to ensure peace and security in North-East Asia.

Turning to regional conflicts and security, he recalled “a reckless attempt of Georgia’s authorities to resolve the problem in its relations with South Ossetia by military means”. To avoid the repetition of the events of August 2008, it was necessary to have clear and effective mechanisms to implement the principle of the indivisibility of security. Without that, it would be impossible to overcome the legacy of the past, its instincts and prejudices. Moreover, irresponsible regimes should not have any opportunity whatsoever to cause disputes among other countries. The role and place of modern nations in ensuring global security was one of the most relevant topics. Such issues had been the focus of discussion at an international conference in the Russian city of Yaroslavl. The outcome of that discussion was that the future belonged to “smart politics”. The current global crisis was not only the crisis of economy, but also a crisis of ideas. It accumulated “a critical mass” of outdated policies and development models.

The Russian Federation had introduced an initiative to sign a European security treaty and proposed a fresh look at that problem, he said. The initiative concerned the Euro-Atlantic space, but its key provision on indivisibility of security was a universal principle applicable to all regions of the world that was fully consistent with the Charter of the United Nations.

Referring to the growing nationalist moods, numerous manifestations of religious intolerance and animosity, he said it would be extremely useful to establish a high-level group on interreligious dialogue under the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General. That was especially relevant on the eve of the year for Rapprochement of Cultures in 2010.

He added that, on the eve of the sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War next year, Russia had made a proposal to adopt a General Assembly resolution on the matter and hold a special session to commemorate all victims of that war next May. Attempts were being made to whitewash Nazism, deny the Holocaust and revise the decisions of the Nuremburg Tribunal. Firm and joint resistance to the manifestations of neo-Nazism and attempts to revise the outcome of the Second World War should remain a priority task for the United Nations.

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"The creation of the UN has become one of the main achievements of the world community in the 20th century"
ADDRESS by H. E. Dmitry A. Medvedev, President of the Russian Federation, at the 64th Session of the UN General Assembly


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