RUSSIA: FIRST MEETING OF NATO RUSSIA COUNCIL OPENS IN MOSCOW TO DISCUSS GLOBAL SECURITY

Record ID: 646580

  • Title: RUSSIA: FIRST MEETING OF NATO RUSSIA COUNCIL OPENS IN MOSCOW TO DISCUSS GLOBAL SECURITY
  • Date: 13th May 2003
  • Summary: (U3) MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MAY 13, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SMV NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL GEORGE ROBERTSON ENTERING ROOM, GREETING RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IGOR IVANOV AND SHAKING HANDS 0.09 2. WIDE OF IVANOV AND ROBERTSON POSING FOR MEDIA 0.15 3. SLV MEDIA 0.20 4. WIDE OF ROBERTSON, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IGOR IVANOV AND RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTER SERGEI IVANOV AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE NATO-RUSSIA COUNCIL ENTERING HALL 0.38 5. SMV MEMBERS OF THE NATO-RUSSIA COUNCIL TALKING TO EACH OTHER 0.42 6. WIDE OF ROUND TABLE TALKS 0.52 7. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL GEORGE ROBERTSON SAYING: "To those who ask whether there is any meat on the bones of the NATO-Russia council? I say this: find another single international institution that has accomplished so much before its first birthday. So, ministers, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, the creation of the NATO-Russia council was in itself a historic step and it was a step taken not over charity or political gamesmanship, but over the sense of need and of urgency" 1.28 8. WIDE OF THE MEETING 1.34 9. WIDE OF IGOR IVANOV, ROBERTSON AND SERGEI IVANOV AT A MEETING 1.41 10. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IGOR IVANOV SAYING: "We find this meeting extremely important. This is the first time when all the twenty members have gathered in Moscow. And to us it proves once again our common desire to work jointly on the solution of the security problems in the Euro-Atlantic region. This task is especially important in the conditions when there is a great need for consolidated efforts of all the countries to form the new architecture of security, which would ensure peace and stability in the face of new threats." 2.22 11. SMV ROBERTSON AND SERGEI IVANOV LISTENING TO ANOTHER SPEAKER 2.28 12. SMV MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL LISTENING TO SPEAKER 2.33 13. WIDE OF THE MEETING 2.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7T3ZMM97WNICKVMXQJF5CYK6J
  • Story Text: A meeting of the NATO-Russia council has opened in
    Moscow, the first such gathering of the body set up in May
    last year to implement closer global security co-operation
    between the West's top defence organisation and Russia.



    NATO Secretary-General George Robertson and ambassadors
    of all 19 member states were in Moscow on Tuesday (May 13) for
    the first meeting of the NATO-Russia Council.

    Before the opening of the one-day meeting of the Council,
    Robertson met Russia's Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and
    Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov.

    Addressing the opening session of the NATO-Russia council
    Robertson said the body had managed to achieve a great deal
    before in its first year.

    "To those who ask whether there is any meat on the bones
    of the NATO-Russia council I say this: find another single
    international institution that has accomplished so much before
    its first birthday," said Robertson.

    The body was set up last May, with the aim of building
    stronger and closer co-operation between NATO and Russia in
    areas of international security and the global fight against
    terrorism.

    Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said his country
    viewed its new relationship with NATO as "extremely
    important".

    "We find this meeting extremely important. This is the
    first time when all the twenty members have gathered in
    Moscow. And to us it proves once again our common desire to
    work jointly on the solution of the security problems in the
    Euro-Atlantic region. This task is especially important in the
    conditions when there is a great need for consolidated efforts
    of all the countries to form the new architecture of security,
    which would ensure peace and stability in the face of new
    threats," said Igor Ivanov.

    The NATO Secretary-General is due to hold a separate
    meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later in the
    day.


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