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" NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO. "

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" We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force. "

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" If you look at U.S. Congress, 80 percent of them have never left the U.S.A., so I'm not surprised about Russophobia in Congress. "

" Iran will be the most checked and inspected country if the principles agreed in Lausanne are transferred into the language of practical agreements. "

" The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite position, rejecting the democratic principle of the sovereign right of states enshrined in the U.N. Charter and trying to decide for others what is good and what is bad. "

" We are convinced that the only way to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is through negotiations. "

" Do not form your judgment about our military doctrine from the assessments given by NATO representatives. "

" You cannot defeat Islamic State with airstrikes only. It's necessary to cooperate with ground troops, and the Syrian army is the most efficient and powerful ground force to fight the Islamic State. "

" When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get. "

" We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population. "

" When Colonel Gadhafi started using his air force against civilians on the ground, we did not hesitate. Then we supported the resolution of the Security Council, which introduced arms embargo for Libya. "

" When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms. "

" Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and Kurds. "

" When you buy a company at an auction, and you are committing yourself to pay some $300 million to the state because it was a privatization deal, and you don't pay it, is it OK? Isn't it something that deserves court procedures? "

" Even the state TV channels are not monolithic in their pro-government line, and the views they express are quite pluralistic. "

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" If it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right? "

" I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does. "

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" All our security now depends on the wise decisions and cooperation of our leaders. "

" There is nothing in this world which could be not described as requiring more. "

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" The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia. "

" We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies. "

" We are not wedded to anyone in Syria. We are not concerned with any personality. We are concerned with keeping Syria in one piece, territorially integral, sovereign, independent and secular, where the rights of all groups, ethnic and others, are fully respected. "

" I don't want to say that sanctions are ridiculous and that we couldn't care less; these are not pleasant things... We find little joy in that, but there are no painful sensations. We have lived through tougher times. "

" The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all. "

" Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international law sense but was part of Ukraine, a state which doesn't possess nuclear arms. "

" I can only say that I have good personal relations with all secretaries of state with whom I have a chance to work. "

" Russia is doing all it can to promote early stabilisation in Ukraine. "

" I hope that the United States would cooperate with the partners to reduce its debt. The debt is a problem. The debt is with you, but unfortunately, the debt is not only with you but with us and with the rest of the world because we all, one way or another, are dependent on the dollar. "

" We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria. "

" For years, we have been asking the E.U. to create something similar to the Russia-NATO council. Not in order to simply exchange opinions and work out recommendations, but to make decisions. "

" Russia would not support anything which would be actually imposed on Syrians. "