Egyptian - Russian diplomatic talks
Egypt-Russia, Politics, 10/26/1999

Following his meeting with the Egyptian assistant foreign minister for multilateral international relations, Sayed Kassem El-Masry, the Russian ambassador to Cairo, Vladimir Godiev said he conveyed the contents of the paper which Russia presented to the United Nations about the world's concept during in the 21st century, which contains the Russian vision for the basic principles on which the world should depend in the new century.

Moreover, he said the new world should be free from disputes and wars as well as based on respect of countries' sovereignty and human rights, saying that his country hopes to discuss this paper in the international summit of the UN General Assembly in September 2000 aiming at ratifying it.

He added that Egypt side has expressed its support for the idea of presenting the Russian paper, and they promised to study its contents and present suggestions about it.

He added that he explained to the Egyptian official the US efforts which aim at reconsidering the nuclear ban treaty to allow for establishing anti missile systems that target long ranged missiles.

He added that the USA established an actual system that is regarded as a violation of the treaty Russia signed with the USA and which threatens the balance of strategic weapons as a whole and not only forms a strike against this treaty but also against the non-proliferation treaty.

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