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Д.Медведев.Встреча с активом ЛДПР России.28.05.09.Part 2

Meeting with Members of Liberal Democratic Party of Russia.Part 2
May 28, 2009
Barvikha, Moscow Region

Встреча с активом Либерально-демократической партии России.
28 мая 2009 года
Московская область, Барвиха

I agree that with respect to the various security concerns it is necessary and imperative that we engage with these and that we do it actively. As you know, we have been involved in making the energy sector more secure and have recently put forward a number of suggestions. There are other areas where it may be a little easier to make progress: for example, in food security we could trade more actively with the CIS countries. That said, this applies less during a period of crisis, because now more than ever we need to help our own producers. Nevertheless, even in a period of crisis it is better to supply markets that need help with products from the CIS countries. At the request of some of my colleagues we have recently started to check and have realised the following: they often do put meat in storage, and not only meat, from abroad. And Im not talking now about its quality, although I am sure that it is certainly no better, and for this reason our closest partners are shut out. The reasons are clear: somebody just gives someone some money and the opportunity to supply products or food from abroad, from non-CIS countries, which products are perhaps no better than what we would get from our neighbours.

Lets talk about water security. Of course this issue is much more complicated, every state has its own position here, its a very sensitive issue. You know how hard it is to get our partners to agree on this issue. All I want to say is that we are ready to help them work out an agreement on this issue, because they are feeling aggrieved and there has been a very serious misunderstanding. But the challenge is to create some sort of framework for an accord, because we are just as interested in a dependable water supply to Central Asia as our partners are. Especially because part of their water comes from the Russian Federation.

There are other important topics on which we have to make some progress but which now of course are perhaps more difficult to deal with, in particular the question of a single currency. I have spoken about this on a number of occasions. We will continue our efforts in this regard without fail. And I think that we are now closer to establishing a larger number of regional reserve currencies than ever before. What do I mean by that? Before the crisis, the idea that more or less prevailed was that we needed three or four global currencies to ensure the overall financial and economic balance, namely the dollar, the euro, the pound sterling, the yen, and that was it.

Now it is clear that even these four currencies are not up to the task, that we need regional reserves. The ruble is an absolutely perfect candidate for this purpose. Of course the question is how attractive the ruble would be to people. Its not a question of imposing the ruble on our partners. They have to say: You know, we would like to trade in rubles. And by the way this is already happening. Our partners such as Belarus and Kazakhstan and some other countries are saying: Yes, we would like to carry out a significant part of these transactions in rubles, which is in fact what has happened. The stronger the ruble gets, the sooner we can start to trade energy resources in rubles and not in dollars or some other foreign currency, and the easier it will be to move on the idea of the ruble as a reserve currency. We will continue these consultations with our closest partners without fail.

As to the work being done by the Government Cabinet on the CIS. I agree that we havent done enough. And this is a long-standing problem, it hasnt just come up recently. Some time ago at my initiative we created a special agency to deal with CIS affairs [the Federal Agency for CIS Affairs, Compatriots Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation], and it is only now getting up to speed. I wont say how I think its doing, but in any event it seems to me that such a coordinating body is needed.

And I agree wholeheartedly that working for the CIS countries should be prestigious and profitable, because otherwise we will not be able to hire enough diplomatic officers and personnel for the embassies from among those qualified. I'm not sure that we can agree to the proposal that you made, that we should pay them more than those who work in, say, Europe. For what reason? In Europe the cost of living is much higher. We know that to live a normal life a Russian diplomat needs more there than, for example, in the countries of Central Asia. But I agree 100 percent with the suggestion that in their terms of service they must be treated equally in other ways, including certain benefits.

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