Sergei Ivanov Quotes (33 Quotes)

I believe it is total rubbish...without using the proper American word starting with 'bull'.

There should be no doubt that the government will officially approve of the defense contract in December,

We have a history of knowing what Afghanistan is.

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.

The level of preparedness at the present time has allowed making several successful launches from positional areas, air and sea missile carriers. Early warning systems have timely detected all launches of Russian and foreign inter-continental ballistic missiles and carrier rockets,

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

The cornerstone of strategic stability is the 1972 ABM Treaty, ... The treaty created the possibility for predictability in the nuclear sphere and progress on the way towards nuclear disarmament not only for the USSR and the United States, but also the whole world.

At the current time, we have an organized pursuit to find the remaining criminals,

It is a different kind of war, where you cannot see your enemy and where there is no front line, but nonetheless this is an entirely real threat, ... Russia is not the only country that faces this new threat.

All the short-term plans have been coordinated. Since 2004, the ministry has been allowed to conclude long-term three-year contracts with defense industry enterprises.

We have effective nuclear weapons, and we are not trying to increase their number but rather to improve their quality and effectiveness, to make them hard to intercept.

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,

India and China are our strategic partners and we cooperate with them on a very wide range of questions, ... Three-sided exercises are possible in principle but then we should have to then move to the SCO.

The Northern Alliance still has a great number of Pakistani prisoners-of-war, ... the Pakistani administration decided to change its attitude towards helping the Taliban.

This means that about 35,000 men of the non-combat personnel will be laid off within the next five years, including some staff members of military chairs and other dual-purpose structures. It is also planned to do away with three hundred high-rank command posts, after which the number of generals and admirals in the Armed Forces will not top 1,100 men, meaning their reduction to the optimal proportion of one per thousand servicemen,

no data or information that would suggest the governments of those three countries support terrorism.

A scrupulous investigation into the accident has been conducted within a month's time, as was promised. It was established that outrageous violation of the instructions by senior officials of the Russian Pacific Fleet was the main cause of wrong 'swimming

Against the background of the conflict, Pakistan's testing of nuclear rockets was a provocative gesture,

The situation in North Korea is the obvious example because the situation a year ago seemed much worse than today.

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,

We believe Europeans' striving to have their own forces to ensure their security and to eliminate crisis situations is well founded, and are prepared to act together with them in these matters,

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

The transfer of a Russian aircraft group to Sudan to join the peacekeeping operation under the auspices of the UN will begin in three days.

Around the end of January 2006 we shall send a group of ships from our Black Sea fleet to take part,

I'd really like to do it. I've heard a lot of good stories from my team-mates.

The agreement on the Black Sea fleet base is one part of a bilateral treaty, the second part of which contains recognition of mutual borders. Trying to revise the treaty would be fatal.

A final decision will also depend on the extent to which international standards are upheld in Iraq, ... taking a dangerous turn, which worries Russia.

Such plans do not limit, but in fact promote efforts by others to develop (nuclear weapons),

Restraining the so-called rogue nations -- to use the American terminology -- may be carried out more effectively from the point of view of both expense and consequences by means of common political effort,

Nothing terrible happened, we all saw that and we all had sufficient time to react. Thank God we are not blind.

We should reduce the number of generals and admirals to maintain the ratio of one senior officer per thousand servicemen.

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

India has accepted our proposal to hold exercises next year, this time in Russia and in a broader format that involves several other countries, including NATO members the United States , Britain and France,