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    DO THE USA AND RUSSIA HAVE FURTHER COOPERATION OPPORTUNITIES?

    Aysor.am
    Tuesday, October 13

    James Collins, U.S. ambassador to Russia from 1997-2001, and now
    an analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in
    Washington, in the interview given to the Russian department of the
    "Voice of America" spoke about the visit of US Secretary of State
    Hillary Clinton to Russia calling it a witness of changing relations
    between RF and USA, but the prospective of the relations keeps
    staying fragile.

    Today the USA Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on a working visit
    has arrived to Moscow, the capital of Russia.

    "I don't think there's any question that Iran will be on the
    agenda. I think we have made substantial progress in looking for
    common approaches to Iran", - assured the former ambassador.

    "Where we seem to part company often, or where the debate gets
    difficult, is in what do you do if the Iranian side refuses to
    cooperate and this gets into sanctions debates and so forth. I believe
    the Russians see sanctions differently from us. They have very great
    doubts that they will be effective. As we saw in New York, President
    Medvedev said he doubted their effectiveness, but that maybe they would
    be inevitable. I'm not quite sure what to make of that statement. I
    believe we should not overestimate how far it carries the Russians
    in our direction".

    To the question of the journalist "What does the US Secretary of
    State Hillary Clinton to Russia? Are there opportunities for further
    cooperation? And continuing tension?" the ambassador answered:
    "We have a lot of unfinished business, I would say, in the sense of
    developing a more stable set of future relations, both between us and
    more broadly in the region, regarding, in essence, the post-Soviet
    space. The aftermath of the Georgian war is still with us. There
    are disagreements that are very sharp about Russia's action in
    recognizing these two territories that we recognize as a part of
    Georgia. So we have that issue, there are the other unr in the region
    like Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria, and there is broadly-speaking,
    an unresolved set of issues which are very complex and very large over
    the future of what kinds of arrangements will exist going forward to
    set-up the future European security system".
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