The Russian president is right - the USA must mind its own business and should not stick its nose into every hole it can find.....

Thu, 03 Jul 2008


Moscow scoffs at a US call on the G8 to exclude Russia for its different democratic values from those of the group's other seven members.

"It's totally obvious that any notion of excluding Russia or putting pressure on Russia appears simply not serious," Russian president Dmitry Medvedev was quoted by AFP as saying on Thursday.

In October 2007, US Republican presidential candidate John McCain said that if elected he would push to exclude Russia from the Group of Eight to punish Moscow for rolling back political freedoms.
Speaking to journalists, Medvedev earlier said the US in 'essentially a depression' is in no position to advise other countries on their affairs.
He added that a revived Russia had a right to assume a larger role in a world economic system that should no longer be dominated by the United States

Medvedev argued that the question of democracy was irrelevant to the G8 and, that the United States had more pressing matters to attend to.
“The Group of Eight exists not because someone likes or dislikes it, but because objectively, they are the biggest world economies and the most serious players from the foreign policy point of view,” the Russian president stressed.

Medvedev also warned against any attempts to put restrictions on his country for it would 'damage the entire world order'.

"I am sure that any administration of the United States of America, if it wishes to succeed, among other things, in overcoming essentially a depression that exists in the American economic market, must conduct a pragmatic policy inside the country and abroad," he added.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?i...onid=351020602

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McCain would exclude Russia from G8 nations

Mon Oct 15, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Monday if elected he would push to exclude Russia from the Group of Eight conclave of major industrial nations to punish Moscow for rolling back political freedoms.

"We need a new Western approach to this revanchist Russia," McCain wrote in a Foreign Affairs magazine article outlining his views on foreign policy looking ahead to the November 2008 election. The Group of Eight, known as the G8, includes the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Japan and Russia. Their leaders gather each year in one of their countries to discuss major economic and political challenges facing the globe.
Russia is a fairly recent entry into the group, joining the Group of Seven in 1997, and President Vladimir Putin played host to the annual G8 summit in St. Petersburg in 2006.

READ MORE - http://www.reuters.com/article/polit...rpc=22&sp=true




I have a message for Mr.McCain - Hey, John McCain, shut the f*ck up!




July 6, 2008

Sunday


The G8 summit will be held on July 7–9 in Toyako, island of Hokkaido.

http://kremlin.ru/eng/sdocs/themes.shtml#203707


Russia's Medvedev arrives for G8 summit in Japan

17:42 | 06/ 07/ 2008

TOYAKO (Japan), July 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived on Sunday in Japan's northernmost Island of Hokkaido for a summit of the G8 group of industrialized nations.

The annual summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations - the U.S., the U.K., Italy, Canada, Russia, France, Germany and Japan will be held on July 7-9 to discuss the world economy, environmental concerns, African development and other pressing issues.

As part of the G8 summit, Medvedev is to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

At a meeting with his U.S. counterpart, Medvedev is expected to discuss security, U.S. missile shield plans for Europe, trade and energy issues, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said on the eve of the summit.

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It seems like this administration (and McCain it appears) is hell-bent on pissing other countries off...

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Yeah, well good thing McCain isn't going to get elected.

I have always heard most all Cubans vote Republican.

Has that changed?

It's changing with the younger people in the community, the older people are still going to go republican though.

Well, The Rubix Cuban, Bush is known in Europe and the rest of the world as goofy clown.
John McCain (if elected) will be known as angry clown. In fact, DMITRY MEDVEDEV is already laughing at him saying that It is very clear that the idea of excluding Russia or putting pressure on Russia simply cannot be taken seriously.

Source:

Interview with journalists from the G8 countries

July 3, 2008
Recorded on July 1 in Moscow


CLIFFORD J. LEVY: Mr President, I want to ask a question about John McCain. You know that McCain proposed excluding Russia from the G8. Do you think that if McCain wins the election it will be difficult to establish good relations between Russia and the USA?


DMITRY MEDVEDEV: I think that the American economy’s ability to resist crises, and this is something the treasury secretary, Mr Paulson, spoke eloquently about yesterday, is linked to the fact that overall, the United States tries to follow a balanced policy. This policy should not depend on who stands at the helm. I do not want to comment therefore on individual statements related to the election campaign. As far as I know, no one has said anything specifically about this lately. It is very clear that the idea of excluding Russia or putting pressure on Russia simply cannot be taken seriously. The G8 does not exist because of someone’s likes or dislikes, but because these are objectively the biggest economies and biggest players in terms of foreign policy influence. Attempts to restrict anyone in this capacity would at the very least be damaging to the entire world order.

I think there is nothing more I can really say on this subject. I am sure that any administration in the United States, if it wants to achieve success, including in overcoming what is essentially a depression on its economic market today, will have to follow a pragmatic line both at home and abroad.

http://kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2008/...6_203509.shtml

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After the end of the Second World War (WWII) Russia (as USSR back then) didn't sign a peace treaty with Japan. So technically speaking, Russia and Japan are still at war with each other....


July 8, 2008 13:00
Tuesday


July 8, 2008

TOYAKO ONSEN, HOKKAIDO, JAPAN. Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.

The Russian head of state confirmed the conviction in Russia that patient and peaceful dialogue with Japan would resolve the territorial problem. On the Russian side, it was stressed that an atmosphere of trust between Russia and Japan is crucial for resolving such a difficult problem. Such trust can be established by the expansion of economic, regional and other ties.

A significant part of the conversation was devoted to cooperation in investment. The Russian side welcomed the decision of the Japanese Lending Bank to allocate resources to finance the second stage of the Sakhalin-2 project. Dmitry Medvedev welcomed the Japanese side's plans to get involved in the programme for development of the Russian Far East and Eastern Siberia. Dmitry Medvedev and Yasuo Fukuda were in favour of extending programmes for cooperation in adjacent areas of Russia and Japan.
The Prime Minister of Japan raised the issue of green investment, investments in environmentally safe production and the usefulness of Japanese experience in this field.
There was also a discussion of transport routes and the use of Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway.

Dmitry Medvedev and Jasuo Fukuda agreed to meet in the context of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, which will be held in November in Peru.
Dmitry Medvedev thanked Yasuo Fukuda for the assistance that Japanese doctors are currently providing a Russian boy from Sakhalin. Vladimir Novikov suffered severe burns as a result of a fire a few days ago and was taken to a burn center on the island of Hokkaido for an operation.

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Presidential Candidate John McCain: "We need a new Western approach to this revanchist Russia"

READ MORE - McCain would exclude Russia from G8 nations http://www.reuters.com/article/polit...rpc=22&sp=true

http://www.johnmccain.com

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