Today terrorism is threat number one, he stressed. Both Russia and Great Britain faced terrorism, the ambassador noted.
Another danger is terrorists' seizure of weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Brenton also focused on the problem of democracy building in certain countries. Regimes in Iran, Zimbabwe and Belarus have hangovers of the past, he said.
Moreover, the British ambassador enumerated 10 priorities of the United Kingdom which is to preside in G8. Among them are the speeding-up of globalization, the struggle against poverty in Africa and fundamentalism, environmental protection, the settlement of the Mideastern and Indian-Pakistani conflicts, cooperation with China, the fight against international terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the increase of the efficiency of the UN Security Council and the United Nations on the whole.
