The draft includes points that effectively lay the groundwork for sanctions against Iran. We will hardly be able to support this version.

Regardless of the results of the German elections on Sept. 18, relations with Russia will remain no less important than in the past decades,

Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through low energy prices.

In the spirit of commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we will strive to achieve real progress in disarmament and arms control.

I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.

You either deny terrorists any acceptance in the international life, or you make your double standard policy work the way it has been working - 'I don't like that guy in this country, so we will be calling him a dictator and topple him. This guy in another country also dictatorial, but he's our dictator.'