and responsibility for another decision making but if we have put forward. setting up this so-called sectoral at the time he is a subject to me separately analyzed today i don't insist on. providing a prompt answer to us on this one understand with regards to sharing responsibility in the european summit a.b.m. your various arguments that could be put forward by various stances could be taken in a million different countries in the we nevertheless if you want to implement this idea then we can see the reason for us to take part in this whole concept and then we get a sense of responsibility on this investor upon ourselves and it will be ready for a full fledged come for a deal for your interaction with alcohol and we have agreed national both with our partners in nato. and i have separately discussed this subject matter and immediately the leaders of several european countries france germany. u.k.

president obama several times on a bulletin to the effect this will further pursue dialogue on all issues related to european a.b.m. so the door is still open i could lead you the door is open for discussion but the outcome of this discussion should be understandable and acceptable to us because it therefore we shall necessarily pursue this discussion further. down in the third row please introduce yourself. president in training from the guardian. president obama of course has been speaking of resetting relations between america and russia and this meeting today with being seen as also a reset in relations between nato and russia and you have been saying that you're very optimistic about this. could you tell us please what you think will happen to that reese at if the american president is unable to get the start the new start

treaty ratified in washington thank you. at the moment that would be a. very with them pleasant. because the work of many people came to the general the better like station of tension. on resetting relations both between russia and the us and also. between russia and nato all of that would be in vain in this case and i hope another that legislate hosts of the united states of america. would demonstrate a responsible approach on top of that the. start treaty.

is of interest both to the russian federation not to a lesser degree it's of interest to the united states of america. not to a lesser degree it's of interest to all other countries. i will not hide it from you just forty minutes ago when i talked about it with the president obama of them he told me that he intends to the grisly work on it with the congress. and i hope that this work will. be crowned with success if we fail to move this question forward for no reason that the world will not become safer in the end but at the end of the day i'm sure that the common sense will prevail and the relevant decisions will be adopted who will act. symmetrically to what will occur in the united states of america and from day one i have been told

telling president obama that the russian parliament. will act in accordance. with the decisions which will have been adopted by the us congress because this is our common interest and we are interested in making of a surprise a sort of occasion symmetrical with regard to the start treaty. police there in this country. stephen fidler from the wall street journal. does the agreement today. the two signed with nato mean that russians now trust nato. and the fact that you signed onto a copper asian agreement on missile defense with nato does that signify that you should the concerns of some western countries about the threat posed by iran

missile and nuclear programs. i have mentioned the fact. that the council and the major summit don't is a historian if you give them to because very important decisions were made after their first and foremost in their interest of not itself of nato itself that's indorsement of this to start egypt concept of nato is a very important component of the development of the north atlantic alliance and i will not hide it from you you might mean we have quite attentively studied the. approach is taken for this strategic concept there are some elements which are puzzled us a little bit to be surprised us then. there are also optimistic components to us

and. ultimately certainly this is an internal question to nato but we cannot be impartial and the final version of the concept i believe reflects the desire of the nato states to be constructive relations with the russian federation to move in direction of full fledged partnership with them which is good by and therefore we believe war the problem that regarding development of the relations with nato we have put this question forward even if we have differences and different or n.c. is ahead of us too now while talking about assessment of challenges and threats existing today we have a survey that lists the threads which potentially are there including with. your friend some of. them with a. proliferation of mass destruction weapons their spread in the world the threats

of the missile launch is something you might and we have for google. been prepared to very attentively to work with anita in this direction too. and i will do so including it with regard to the nuclear programs of several countries not so long ago. i had a meeting with the president of iran. and some of the we discussed bilateral russia iran relations which of late some have not been very easy for unknown reasons but i mentioned it once again while talking with with my colleague that iran must exercise good will with understanding of the fact that iran is a server and independent state with a long history. and desire to develop. its own

strength and economy iran's a problem i mean having a right for peaceful use of that time should prove to everybody that the rance programs of the development of atomic industry peaceful and that iran is. ready to cooperate with the international structure of first and foremost with a.b.a. therefore assessing the various problems that show it will do so. along the lines i've mentioned here with the nato countries so we'll most attentively take a look at the development of the various programs existing in other countries even though we're not impartial to who is developing and how how the nuclear potential looks in the world. who is an actor of the nuclear club and who seeks to do we want to lead and who would like to legitimize themselves as being the part of this club saying that they are in ownership of the weapons of the

senator all those who hide that and there are other tricks we'll pursue to cooperate in this area. ok. this is them it's not commerce and there's a paper dimitri and i told him i see the relations between nato and russia have never been very smooth so to say from our. confrontation a very cautious partnership sometimes today judging by a statement you want to make peace what are the specific outcomes that you would like to achieve after this new round of friendship talks while i wouldn't like to regard this as just around of talks which would end in a confrontation that would be bad for a russian and a nato for known reasons that were so interlinked and closely connected that any change of positions of any side will immediately tell on the position of the other

side i've just mentioned the fact that let's say if we fail to agree on the asian issue here that ultimately in ten days ten years earlier that could be somewhere new. i'm sorry. coming our way and we believe so and we think what we. need to believe so as well talking about the current state is there not that we have moved forward we are talking about partnership today and in the remarks of my colleagues are various assessments were expressed by generally speaking all of them said that it's necessary to develop partnership relationships to develop alliance of. people who are even talking about this things like a union and that's of course is emotional not on paper but that reflects the tenor of the discussion even. if you want differences and comfort actions what we expect from this not only we expect normal full fledged relations with nato countries and

we expect that day in the outcome of these relations will have conditions by development of our state will be possible and we don't want to waste money on an arms race we've done that before she got a few and the percussion were not very good for the soviet union too as you noted soon and therefore we take interest in seeing to aid to that idea of our defense strategy but it's going to be predictable which of them will. bring in mind how we build our relations with nato as a major military. political bloc there and leave these relations are predictable transparent understandable to us and you might if we can understand where we cooperate and if you know the problem we're jointly tackling the problems like this european a.b.m. it will be easier for us to build our economic strategy and to. therefore the relations between nato and russia these relations have anything on the quality of

life for all of russian citizens at the end of the day also on the quality of life of europeans for that matter a lot has been said now while discussing. the question of how my shirt will it cost with regards to european a.b.m. and europe crisis still with us nobody has excessive money to spare and we're talking big money here. while we agree on that. while we do that and nato has decided to do it if we're thinking about what we should know and want to we will be the cost of that there for. the good relations between nato and russian federation has a. bearing to the temples of economic development of our country and. we should not be distracted by setting up excessive defensive programs we should think about the future we should think about those. people who are building new life

today about the younger generation and about educational programs and we think and we should think about helping at least developed countries africa movement all that can be done if we understand about only what will be the cost of the defensive program and this is why i believe the development of our relations with nato will affect. the good climate in the world and the wellbeing of a very many people living there. now the third row please. join me then if you know some again stone through because you know console is something i. could have received a phone. call on afghanistan. on something first on this may on the south in france want your money i mean. now is a very silly. comment on the road and the.

plan to withdraw from afghanistan with troops by year two thousand fourteen do you think it's a realistic plan. thank you. i have said already have been working actually with the nato countries on afghanistan we have our own experience a dramatic experience of presence in that country and we are not impartial to what they're going to stand it will look like we wanted to be a free modern if fish and independent state were of the historic divisions against elude respected but which will be speaking the same language with the international community i just mentioned that while talking with president hamid karzai i told him that we'll continue to help of any stand in all direction and soon will be in doing so. in

a serious way we're doing it in my literally and multilaterally helping i say if i can feel. what we discussed today. we certainly discussed the fact that we will continue cooperating in transit which is an important direction of interaction everybody appreciates that we also prepared to deal with civil and military transit on non-lethal. equipment and hardware we have agreed. and made new agreements on the subsequent withdrawal of such hardware of get us down to the territory of third countries. and we'll continue copper ation in countering even drugs trafficking which is a very important subject for the russian federation because regrettably so all heroin in and produced in afghanistan first and foremost find its way to our

territory then via our territory through europe the whole believe we didn't bail off attention to earlier we've started to pay more attention to we've been working it we are involved in their joint operations we the nato states. basically we're satisfied if we the outcomes of these operations we'd like. to further coordinate our activities there naturally jointly with the ever gani government. and so far so good and will continue to help afghanistan in protecting their national interests including by literally says to us we're prepared to supply various equipment and weapons if necessary will be doing so and we are prepared to work with them along the lines of economic interaction and i hope that. they said track of cooperation will be especially bolstered during the upcoming visit of the president of ghana is down to the rest of the ration next here and therefore virtually. everyone.

around the movement has been good and a good in understanding with the nato countries has been achieved we have achieved a lot of their believe over the past year in this area and last thing are a good year two thousand and eleven and further on while it's difficult for me to assess. if these plans are realistic i believe that the current situation in afghanistan let me say far from being. quiet even if the work of the president is going to govern has been quite substantial there is a polarity going society it's quite high the terrorist threat. from his time is also high and therefore whether it's feasible in the forthcoming future i don't know i have some doubts that but at the end of the day these decisions will have to be made by those who have. decided to help afghanistan i would like to see to that . in the wake of for the president's all the corresponding troops going to stand be

in position to develop independently as an efficient state will work in the direction ourselves to our distinguished colleagues i think it will be the last question of the press conference. by a mess media of portugal. i just. thought it. was on. the start of this is it. because they have. this meeting is a story meeting that marks a new step in the relations in relations that were not easy always between the russian federation and the. new framework and do it within the new strategic concept. when we power when we speak about partnerships and management the risks

and threats can we think that one day the russian federation will be part. and atlantic alliance which is not the same as in the past the as you say. is closer and closer to. western countries with a new spirit and a new understanding where some people talk some people listen thank you very much. well you know going to. the store like to thank the portuguese presidency for excellent conditions i have told them about this told this to the prime minister of portugal. that miss fear in this situation is quite democratic. it's quite open and without any. problems in communication in the region that we wanted to tell but used to be

afraid to do so has been said today in which instills optimism as far as i can see it and i at the same time i've written has been rather constructive quite constructive as far as future is concerned future is and. saying i'm going to present i can see what i think i know circumstances. troy in the north atlantic treaty organization about the relation trains as an a from a to changes that. crucial and dramatically that. is there arises a question about our closer cooperation with this organization i believe. it will be a topic open to debate it varies code will. be part of this were ready to discuss such ratios as of today the belief our relations have become

much closer. but as the russian and much small transparent and with predictable which suggests bethought that the potential our relations has not been exhausted by no means and i hope the form of that. is on all the issues will continue and off to this summit and i used to be full thank you very much cold igs. there from lisbon as promised here in r.t. president dmitri medvedev of dressing the nato russia summit. let me try and wrap up what was said if you just joined this and you missed some of the big headline that's really come out in the last hour of. russia's decision to agree to cooperate with nato on the pan european missile defense system. looking the more

general picture president medvedev there in the last few minutes says that russian nato relations have come a long way since the one nine hundred ninety s. he went on to talk about the difficulties that russia had in dealing with nato and vice versa over the events of august two thousand and eight but he did point out that despite all the differences of opinion that happened then with the caucuses problem as he put it the dialogue still continued on many color issues because there are still many core issues which they agreed on russia and nato he went on to list he talked about. trying to counter terrorism one of the main problems in the world at the moment he also talked about the threat of weapons of mass destruction and he talked about that in the system that i've mentioned just now and the fact that russia has agreed to get on board of that interesting question from the portuguese press just talked about the journalist asked about what future relations

could be i think as we lost the first part of the question but judging by the answer it was would russia ever consider joining nato president medvedev saying we're not ruling anything out and saying that nothing is never a possibility but not at the moment and saying that we have to be quite a bit of change before that also finally talking about that start treaty the new start treaty he said it would be pretty unpleasant if things couldn't be worked out but it spoken to president obama just a couple of minutes before that speech and said he would work vigorously on that before january to get it through got much more detail of what's been said in the last half hour with our correspondent shortly you're watching r.t. it's now twenty two minutes past nine let's get across the business tonight you'll hear. hello and a very warm welcome to the business news like many other governments around the

world russia has taken steps toward here says budget deficit but with parliamentary and presidential elections approaching its steering clear of unpopular austerity measures instead texas off to be raised particularly on business and make pool reports. taxes in russia are going up from the beginning of two thousand and eleven the increase would be the equivalent of two percent of g.d.p. to reduce the budget deficit which is expected to be a little below five percent but these will not be temporary measures. there is a difficult period ahead and there will be a new trend for taxes which will not be temporary taxes are going to increase many countries have accepted such measures but priority should be first given to ending tax breaks and creating neutrality in the tax system which applies equally to all companies that he would measure which is cause most concern among more makers is the decision to increase insurance payments for companies to thirty four percent from fourteen percent although this will have little impact on nonresident

companies operating in russia the increased insurance premiums on payroll funds will apply to the first four hundred fifty thousand dollars of foreign companies pay higher than those traditional small businesses will be exactly fifty four percent which is a dramatic increase compared to what's happening today for nonresidents i for the companies that trade is russia rather than operate in a country it's completely irrelevant there are fears the cancellation of tax breaks could be a deterrent to those wishing to invest in russia but the head of ernst and young's tax and legal practice and c.i.s. people treatment of says that's unlikely we as a country will not be able to attract investment by simply reducing taxes even by evolution completely you really need to create the stimulus. that would. it will. incentivize them to invest in russia the finance ministry is trying to have its cake and eat it by reducing the budget deficit scaring business and for the most part the experts believe this will be possible as even off to the tanks when it's

the government will be taking a small series that in almost any other developed country whose business. a look at the markets now play russian equity markets closed to positive on friday for a six two hundred point benchmark finishing just a tenth of a percent up my six had an up and down session and ended just a little time. looking back at the last week there were russian markets were pulled in both directions with virtually all fools upbeat economic data from the us encouraged the bulls why don't play should wars in china feel the best. the markets and that of the week. down but largely unchanged the past week has seen. the continuation of the tug of war between the blues and the bears you know there are people who are seeing a lot of beat economic data coming out of the u.s. coming out of asia a lot of quality a.p.

always a big general motors which is very well received a lot of good news in the market and good developments but the biggest fear now is inflation is special in china where the central bank had to act to stop the rapid increases in prices there's also told that both china and hong kong can take measures to arrest the rest of the growth in real estate prices to prevent the bubble and the soul but between these two kind of a big positive over improving global economics and certain positive corporate developments and the fear of rising inflation in china and therefore maybe elsewhere in the world these two opposing factors have resulted in the share prices and in the week slightly down but essentially flat. russia is creating a special zone to boast industrial innovation a so-called titanic valet will be set up in central russia by the end of the here

and out to help as expected to tract national and pouring invest us in the hope of a shift from producing raw materials to a more advanced output are chased him with a cross reports. the russian government is an enthusiastic for special economic zones gambling ports and high tech have either got one or it's under development so why not do the same for titanium the best the business it will give enterprises the opportunity to develop who could use funny ideas called us and also bring our partners here with the technology and cruelty tradition of titanium valley wants to church building power plants engineering pecial chemistry medicine and nuclear engineering will be located in the ural mountains next to the world's biggest titanium producer this imperial of the smart people which it can use first of all we are inviting our partners and our buyers these are the companies like boeing or airbus get three hundred was royce is fully corresponds with their games to cut

costs we are ready to invest some two hundred fifty million dollars into two teams ali even though the decree to set up the economic zone will not be signed for another couple of weeks companies are already showing an interest of the acim p.o.v. sma has spent seven hundred million dollars in preparation and it's not the only one its neighbor russia's leading pipe producer chel pipe is also actively modernizing for six hundred thirty million dollars. let's build. this. part. of. this. however the creation of the titanium value will not be swift but in four years could be needed to create the infrastructure to figure out a super business r.t. girls. that's all we have time for now but you can always get more stories from our website r.t. dot com slash business.