From Vladimir Putin's address to foreign ambassadors

...The consistent implementation of internal transformations is enabling Russia to pursue increasingly ambitious foreign policy goals. We will use this potential to facilitate the formation of a constructive international relations agenda and to take a more active and full part in global processes.  

This is reflected in the priorities for our presidency this year of the G8. I am referring here to energy security, combating epidemics and raising education standards.

We are consistently committed to using diplomatic and political means and methods and to a search for compromise and consensus in the resolution of all, even the most serious issues in world affairs.

It is precisely in this spirit that we recently put forward the proposal to create multilateral centres that would provide nuclear fuel cycle services. The aim of these centres is to give all interested countries equal and non-discriminatory access to modern nuclear energy development work. At the same time, our position is firmly founded on the need for strict compliance with the nuclear weapons non-proliferation regime and we are open to broad-based international cooperation.

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