- deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in Central Europe could trigger a new spiral of the arms race
- the U.S. ignores the basic principles of international law and is striving to impose its own rules on other countries
- Russia's response to U.S. plans will be asymmetric
- Russia and the U.S. will never be enemies
- Russia is committed to its obligations on the reduction of nuclear warheads by 2012
- NATO's eastward expansion is affecting Russia's relationship with the North Atlantic alliance and has nothing to do with countering global threats, specifically terrorism
- the use of military force in international relations may only be justified on the basis of principles enshrined in the UN Charter
- Russia has not passed missile technology to Iran, but other countries, including European, did
- Russia is already cooperating with European countries on the basis of principles recorded in the Energy Charter, but still does not want to ratify it
- Russia will only support a solution to the Kosovo problem that is suitable to all parties involved
* The participants of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear problem in Beijing agreed that the nuclear reactor at which the DPRK produces weapons-grade plutonium will be shut down and sealed in two months' time, but failed to coordinate the volumes of energy assistance Pyongyang will receive in exchange
* Law enforcement agencies said they are investigating an attack on a Newsweek Russia correspondent in the Moscow metro
* Ukraine will strive to integrate into the European Union and NATO as soon as possible, the country's president said
