TheMajorForeignPolicyEventsof2010(俄罗斯).docVIP

The Major Foreign Policy Events of 2010 1. 2010 saw international relations continue to be transformed, changing from a confrontation and conflict paradigm to that based on cooperation. The central task of Russian foreign policy, as President Dmitry Medvedev repeatedly emphasized, inter alia in his remarks at the Meeting of Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives of the Russian Federation and in the annual State-of-the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly on November 30, was to achieve concrete, intelligible results and to establish favorable external conditions for the comprehensive internal development of the country and qualitative modernization of its economy. The focus remained on the key issues of strengthening peace and stability, and improving the global and regional security systems in conditions of growing risks in an increasingly less predictable world. 2. As part of the general updating of the Russian basic documents in the realm of national security and foreign policy, on Feb. 5 President Dmitry Medvedev approved a new Russian Military Doctrine, actualized with regard for the provisions of the earlier endorsed National Security Strategy and Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation. The content of the document was brought into conformity with the present-day realities of the transitional stage of world development in the process of the formation of a new, polycentric international system and is fully consistent with the basic principles of Russian foreign policy and with our line on reinforcing the collective and legal elements in world affairs. 3. September’s general debate of the 65th session of the UN General Assembly has confirmed the ever-greater awareness of the inevitability of collective approaches to addressing key global and regional issues, and the UN’s increasing relevance as a unique mechanism for aligning the interests of states and their associations. Of great significance in the work to unite world community efforts aimed a