49 Quotes by Sergei Ivanov

We are also ready for an immediate start to official talks with the United States on SALT 3.

Lowering the threshold for use of atomic weapons is in itself dangerous,

less worried now, than at the beginning of the year, that either side could take measures of some sort liable to endanger security.

Many terrorists who have committed terrible crimes in the past and who operated in Chechnya are staying in Georgia now and of course they are full of new plans for terrorist operations. All that is taking place just 10 to 20 kilometers from the Russia state border, so we can't sit and watch those activities indifferently.

Six of the criminals were eliminated, ... From the reports on the ground, all of the hostages were released.

Neither Peace Mission-2005 nor Indra-2005 posed a threat to any third countries. They did not demonstrate any plans to form a new international military-political bloc in the region either. Their main goal was to practice joint anti-terror operations,

If the ABM Treaty is maintained, Russia is ready for radical cuts with the United States of strategic offensive weapons to as low as 1,500 and even lower than this level,

If such proposals come -- we have not yet received them -- I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

There is no better advertisement for our arms and military hardware than a real demonstration of their capabilities in the course of practical exercises,