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SINGAPORE, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia is closely watching
developments in the uncontrolled territories in the Asia-Pacific region,
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Sunday at the 9th IISS
Asia security summit "The Shangri-La Dialogue."
"The resolution of the 64-th Session of the UN General Assembly on
cooperation between the UN and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
and the Joint Declaration between the secretariats of the two
organisations have opened good prospects for their interaction in
promoting security and stability in Central Asia, including combating
challenges and threats emanating from Afghanistan," he said.
According to the Russian deputy prime minister, Russia's concern over
peacekeeping efforts in uncontrolled territories stems from the situation
in the former Soviet republics.
"Russia was actively involved in facilitating the settlement of
conflicts in the South Caucasus," he noted. "Russian peacekeepers in
Abkhazia and South Ossetia have made it possible to maintain peace,
stability and to ensure decent living conditions for the population of the
territories uncontrolled by official authorities."
In his words, Abkhazia's and South Ossetia's independence in August
2008 proved inadmissibility of employing radical military solutions to
conflict settlement and demonstrated the importance of a dialogue in
finding a solution that would be acceptable to all parties.
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