Russia always felt itself as an eurasian country.
[ Epoch-making, grandiose, revolutionary acknowledgement which changes just about everything. Major signs of the world secret history in person. The prophecy of Jean Parvulesco has come true. You listen to the voice of The One who comes.]
We never forgot that the main part of the Russian territory is in Asia. True, we must honestly say that not always we have made use of this privilege. I think the time has come for us, together with the countries which are included in the Asian-Pacific Region [APR], to pass from words to facts - to strengthen our economic, political and other kinds of ties.
[ The “economic ties” are clear, our interest goes to “political and other kinds”. These are very intriguing ties. About their character a separate essay is being written now.]
All chances for achieving this purpose do exist in today's Russia.
[ First of all: iron will of the government to realize the eurasian project.]
In a short time regional countries - first of all Japan, China, the ASEAN countries - will undergo enormous changes. Russia, of course, does not remain away from the processes taking place here.
[ What processes does that mean? Just economic growth? There are more interesting processes yet – the aspiration of the countries of the Pacific region to put forward their own geopolitical decision for restructuring their space.]
The strong involvement of Russia in the economic interaction of the Asian-Pacific space is obvious and inevitable. You see, Russia is a sort of integrating centre, linking Asia, Europe and America.
[“America” was inserted with trembling hand by the hastening Chubays. He is panting, you can feel in the text.]
Preparing to travel to Brunei, to the forum of Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation, we think, first of all, about what concrete projects can Russia offer to the economic partners in APR.
Today before us a whole spectrum of opportunities is open: from cooperation in power engineering to ecological issues, from exploitation of the sea-shelf to transport development linked to the realization of the concrete economic and investment projects.
[ Transport links – this is very interesting. Details were announced by P.P.Borodin in S.Petersburg and by the President during the Japan summit.]
For example, it is possible to find not few good reasons for the use by APR countries of the Russian transport arteries. They are much shorter and not less reliable than the way around on the sea - for instance, from Yokohama to Rotterdam. For sea containers shipped through the Transiberian mainline the “road” to Europe can be more than halved.
[Here is the expansion.]
I know, many are worried by the state of our terminals in the Far East or by “bottlenecks” in St.Petersburg. We are actively working at their reconstruction. We work autonomously for the time being, but we are also ready to realize these projects with the involvement of foreign investors.
[And such investors do exist.]
We have favourable conditions for the accomplishment of a world communication breakthrough, which will considerably pull together Euro-Atlantic and Asian-Pacific regions.
[ Euroasian project of continental integration : Berlin-Moscow-Tokyo axis.]
Not everyone knows that for many Asian countries the shortest air path to Northern America runs through the Russian air space and further over the North Pole.
[ In this phrase there are two layers: again Chubays takes a breath, but besides that, comes into one’s head a secret services map, with preventive flight trajectories through the extreme North of strategic aircraft with a little bit different cargo, rather than well-fed big-sided Asian businessmen.]
Time saving for such trip is about 2-3 hours. It is a huge reserve for increasing air service efficiency.
Our air corridors and even the Northern Sea path also considerably reduce space intervals between countries of the Asian-Pacific Region and Europe. Today a significant part of an electronics engineering produced in Asia reaches Russia through Europe. What this does mean in terms of fixed costs and time expenses for customs registration of cargoes, the producers very well know.
It is possible that the path through Siberia on our railroads will force many to remember our country’s very rich natural resources of. And you see, its richest natural stocks lay on its edges. Russia is only beginning its assimilation on a massive scale. And we invite our neighbours of APR to active cooperation. Already now Russian steel producers have in mind new commodity markets, and mining companies plan to raise the efficiency of the already exploited fields.
[ Same transport Euroasian project.]
The evidence of all this is the elaboration of grandiose plans like the creation of an energy bridge from Russia to Japan through the Sakhalins, of gas pipelines from the Tomsk area to Western China and from Irkutsk to Eastern China and further to Northern and Southern Korea.
[ Can you make yourselves a picture of what it means for the US the fact of such expression about the “energy bridge”? Can you imagine the implications?]
I consider it indispensable especially to remark that already today Russia is a supplier not only of raw materials, but also of modern technology to the region. In Vietnam the russian-vietnamese joint company "Vyetsovpetro" constantly increases its oil extraction. There a large oil refining factory is also being built with Russian know-how.
Russian oil specialists together with the Caltex Pacific Indonesia company have realized a pilot-project allowing to substantially increase extraction productivity of Sumatra oil-fields, then this technology was recommended for use on all fields in the “country of thousand islands”. I think this is a good example for those who in conditions of oil deficit address to technologies allowing to substantially increase productivity levels.
Is important also that in February this year with the help of a russian vector rocket the Indonesian artificial satellite "Garuda-1" was launched into orbit.
[ Garuda - the title of a tantrist initiatic publication dedicated to Dsog-chen, which is issued by Dondoron’s disciple Montlevic (eurasist and patriot). If you take into account that Montlevic lives in S.Petersburg, and Vladimir Vladimirovic (Putin)…etc.]
Now our relations, the basis of which were laid in the beginning of century, reach a new technological level. The business community of Indonesia became interested also in our works in the field of utilization of non-conventional sources of energy, in medicine, information science and lot of different branches.
[ Non-conventional sources of energy - prana, tsi - are already absolutely good.]
These are only various examples of the effective utilization by APEC countries of technological experience accumulated by Russia. We are ready to grant the states of the region services for starting space vehicles and for using Russian space data of earth remote sensing for the solution of problems concerning natural resources, meteorology, ecology and more.
Russia has a solid experience and an indispensable base in the area of warning natural disasters and eliminating their consequences of. The reserves of our satellites and link channels can be used for developing within APEC a modern informational exchange.
Three years ago Russia became member of the APEC. This has given impulse to our cooperation. This region will always need Russia - in the issue of preserving stability and security, as in ensuring the balance of interests of all parts.
[ In practice, it means admitting that Russia has interests across the globe.]
We are ready to cooperate with both large and small states of region. With the economically advanced ones, and with those who for the moment only aspire to reach this level.
[Correctly, a world power should be concerned with everything.]
Russia’s entry in APEC answered to our aspiration to a more active involvement in Asian-Pacific cooperation. In many Asian countries we are known as a reliable economic partner. And we aim to expand the circle of these countries.
Fully connected to APEC member states is the Russian initiative, announced at the millennium summit of the United Nations, about joint engineering in innovative reactors technology and environment-safe nuclear cycles. These issues will be of interest not only for those states for which the problem of the utilization of nuclear energy already is on the agenda, but also for those who plan to reinforce their economic potential, using cheap electrical power.
Russia offers modern technology, but excluding the use of energy from enriched uranium and pure plutonium for civil purposes. This is especially important, given the threat of atomic weapon proliferation.
Many APR countries are included into the number of world leaders as to their pace of economic growth. This year Russia, according to the indexes, was included in such number. Our rate of increase of gross domestic product is forecast at
more than 6%. Surely further economic growth in APR countries, and also further economic growth in Russia will accelerate the development of our mutually advantageous cooperation. We are going to actively encourage the advance and operation of Russian companies in the regional markets.
[We need a united common eurasian market.]
The present visit will be for me the second trip to the APEC forum. As the head of the Russian government I already participated to last year’s summit. A factive and constructive atmosphere, the availability to carry on the agreed decisions and to collectively plan our common future made a strong impression on me. The program of the meeting ahead and the schedule of my bilateral contacts in Brunei represent the continuation of such constructive dialogue.
As you know, this time the issues of the forum agenda for a significant part are an echo?of the themes which were debated at the “summit of the Eight” in Okinawa in July. There, too, the problems of international trade and informational - communication technologies were among the most pressing. It is important that the conversation started in Japan will be continued in a much wider format. It is our wish that the July agreements will find their development in the course of the Brunei summit.
We do not have “hidden agendas” in APEC.
[ Nobody doubts about it. For us everything is transparent, democratic and open. No parallel ideas, no separate geopolitical arrangements and consultations. Nothing.]
The stated purposes of Russian policies in the region are extremely explicit. Our country – which is going through a stage of deep internal transformations - is interested in the common environmental health of regional conditions, in preserving in Asia and Pacific a stable, predictable situation.
[Exactly.]
Unfortunately, the Asian-Pacific region still saves a lot of "fuel" material for regional conflicts. On the threshold of the third millennium here have found a nutritious environment terrorism, religious extremism and separatism, transnational criminality. Mutual distrust generated by many years of isolation has not been overcome to the end. On these questions we persistently search for mutually acceptable solutions at every level and in all organizations created for these purposes, first of all in the United Nations.
In the last year in the Russian external policies there has been a decisive turn on the side of APR.
[Guess why?]
The continuity of this line will be saved.
[Bravo!]
About the seriousness of our intents to maintain an active presence in the region speaks not only the tight schedule of my meetings with the leaders of APR countries. In half-year I managed to pay official visits to China, Democratic Republic of North Korea, Japan, to conduct a number of relevant meetings with the leaders of the regional states at the millennium summit in New York. In these days there will be my visit to Mongolia. We highly appreciate that the Mongolian government attaches prioritary meaning to the activation of multi-level connections and mutually advantageous cooperation with Russia, including in international affairs. I am not talking, however, as much about frequency of contacts at the government level, how much about significant qualitative changes that took place in the last years concerning the Russian relations with APR countries.
[ These qualitative changes bear in themselves an enormous geopolitical load.]
Judge yourself. Russia and China confidently maintain a policy of building joint and trustful partnership, which became a powerful factor in preserving global stability.
[Multipolarity = active opposition to unipolar and atlantist hegemony = eurasism. N'est-ce pas?]
There is a successful process of building partnership relations with Japan. We are going towards serious arrangements in the sphere of economic cooperation - towards global projects in the field of transport and power engineering.
[Bravissimo! Moscow-Tokyo. See "Fundaments of Geopolitics"- Here.]
In the last years in the autonomous orientations of Russian foreing policy were outlined the relations with the Association of the States of Southeast Asia (ASEAN), consolidating all country of this vast sub-region of APR. We have historically close relations with Vietnam, thousand citizens of Cambodia and Lao were trained in our high schools, we attentively analyze the experience of economic development in Malaysia, Thailand, and other Southeast Asian countries, and are ready to develop mutually advantageous cooperation with them in every area.
Russia, as an accountable partner, is not going to move away also from involvement in untying complex regional “knots”. A very evident example – the situation in the Korean peninsula, concerning which Russia stands on a position of help and assistance to national conciliation of North and South, their advance to peace, an autonomous integration. Russia’s priorities in this region are peace and stability, without which social and economic progress and development of all states of North-East Asia are inconceivable.
[United Korea under anti-american flag. What was not possible by the military way, we should achieve by peace. The eurasian humanism.]
Today, at the border of millennia, the vast Asian-Pacific Region experiences a stage of development from every point of view: economic, political, military, social, cultural-civilizational.
[ It is interesting the political, military, social and civilizational-cultural points of view. In other words, the President wants to say that APR is about to become a fully valuable geopolitical subject, to defend its civilisation identity at all levels, and that our country - Russia - very much sympathizes with this and is ready to participate.]
We look with optimism to the future, and we are sure that the next millennium will be a time of new opportunities for APR.
[This will be the millenium of Eurasia.]
And for Russia new eastern perspectives are opening, which we shall undoubtedly develop to actively participate to the transformation of this region in our “common house”.
[The Eurasian Common House. It probably could not have been expressed in a better, more clear, complete and bright way. It is quite possible to call all the above said as a triumph of the eurasist worldview. And this international speech follows the signing of a treaty about the creation of the “Eurasian economic community” in Astan! And it is also accompanied by criminal prosecutions of the pro-atlantist oligarchs. It was impossible to expect anything greater, even in the most iridescent dreams. All this is so healthy, that is seems unreal. Bevor Putin kam.]
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