Putin's security policy speech

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes that in a speech on security policy Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin formulated President Dmitry Medvedev's proposals for a European security agreement in more concrete terms: "Russia's foreign and security policy generally falls in the domain of the president. ... In a speech that was remarkable in this context, Putin took up the proposals of President Medvedev for a new European security agreement and for the first time named the concrete principles for such an agreement. ... However his rhetoric, which adhered to the general lines of the country's present foreign policy, is unlikely to dissuade Washington from implementing its missile defence plans. But this did not stop Medvedev from expressing the hope that the new American administration would desist from its plans during his Latin America trip last weekend."

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