Ivanov for US-Russia naval exercises

The News International ^ | June 14 2003

[knighthawk]

MOSCOW: Russia wants to stage joint Pacific Ocean naval exercises with the United States, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov told his US counterpart Donald Rumsfeld in Brussels, media reports said on Friday.

Ivanov met Rumsfeld immediately upon his arrival in Brussels on Thursday, ahead of Friday's meeting of the year-old Russia-NATO Council that was built to ease Moscow's concerns about its former Soviet-era foe's expansion towards Russia's borders.

Russian media reports said that Ivanov told Rumsfeld that the two sides had no serious disagreements about world affairs despite Moscow's earlier misgivings about the US-led war in Iraq. He added that Russia planned to stage major naval exercises in the Pacific Ocean in August, and in clear sign that Moscow wanted to smooth over its post-Iraq ties with Washington, Ivanov offered the US navy a chance to take part in the war games.

"I also informed Mr. Rumsfeld about our plans to stage military exercises in the Pacific Ocean at the end of August," Ivanov said in remarks carried by Russia's Channel One television Friday.

"We will soon official inform the Pentagon (about the maneuvers), and I have suggested the US armed forces take the most active part in these exercises not only as observers, but also as participants," Ivanov said.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[xrp]

Hopefully Russia will realize soon that America has no invasion plans _ever_ for Russia. Siberia is teaming with natural resources...America would love to buy those resources, PLUS, America doesn't share a land border with Russia. Russia should be much more concerned with the Dragon, which shares a LOOOONG land border with SIBERIA and really doesn't want to pay for the natural resources.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Okay, this has little to do with the subject, but is not the People's Liberation Army Navy the dumbest name they could come up with?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And they should do the exercise right off the Korean Coast line!

[xrp]

Maybe something is lost in the translation.

[gcruse]

No more strange sounding than the Post WWII United States Army Air Force, is it?

[klpt]