The level of our political trust [with China] is also very high. We have similar positions on major international issues or even, as diplomats say, our views are identical. We often have shared positions on key issues of the modern international agenda.

I consider the decision of my colleagues and friends to be the best birthday present.

If someone wants to open this Pandora's box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.

Presidents come and go, and even parties come to and away from power. But the main policy tack does not change.

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

I assume that our colleagues from both the United States and the European Union will proceed from current humanitarian law and ensure political freedoms and rights of all people, including those who are living in the territory of Baltic states after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.