We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare thing in today's world, even in its most liberal parts.

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.