Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin bercakap pada sidang akhbar tahunannya di Moscow pada 18 Disember 2014 (Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on December 18, 2014 (AFP Photo/Kirill Kudryavtsev)
iLMu2lautan – Rusia melindungi kepentingan negara, tetapi ia tidak menyerang mana-mana negara Barat dari segi politik, kata Presiden Rusia Vladimir Puitn.
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Putin berkata bahawa sumbangan Rusia hanya dibuat terhadap tempoh semasa ketegangan "adalah satu pendirian yang semakin kukuh dalam mempertahankan kepentingan negara."
"Kami tidak menyerang sesiapa sahaja dalam erti kata politik," katanya. "Kami hanya mempertahankan kepentingan kami . . . ini yang tidak berpuas hati rakan-rakan Barat, terutamanya Amerika, datang dari ini."
Tindakan Rusia, yang digambarkan sebagai agresif di Barat, adalah tindak balas kepada apa yang negara-negara Barat lakukan, kata Putin.
"Rusia pada tahun 1990-an berhenti sepenuhnya penerbangan pengebom jarak jauh bahawa Kesatuan Soviet yang digunakan untuk membawa keluar," katanya. "Tetapi pengebom strategik Amerika dengan senjata nuklear masih terbang.
Mengapa?
Terhadap siapa?
Siapa yang diancam siapa? "
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RUSSIA Not ATTACKING West, JUST Defending ITS
Interests - PUTIN . . .
Russia is protecting its national interests, but it not attacking any western nations politically, Russian President Vladimir Puitn said.
Putin said that the only contribution Russia made toward the current period of tension “is an increasingly strong stance in defending its national interests.”
“We are not attacking anyone in the political sense,” he said. “We are only defending our interests… The displeasure of our Western partners, particularly the Americans, comes from that.”
Russia’s actions, described as aggressive in the West, are a response to what Western nations are doing, Putin said.
“Russia in the 1990s completely stopped the long-range bomber flights that the Soviet Union used to carry out,” he said. “But American strategic bombers with nuclear weapons still flew. Why? Against whom? Who was being threatened?”
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Komen Putin datang sebagai tindak balas kpd soalan veteran editor berita DUNIA BBC, John Simpson, yang bertanya sama ada Putin krisis semasa dalam hubungan antara Rusia dan Barat adalah hasil daripada pencerobohan Rusia.
Simpson memetik peningkatan rondaan Tentera Udara Rusia di ruang udara antarabangsa sebagai contoh pencerobohan itu. Pertukaran ini berlaku di Putin Q & A tahunan sesi di Moscow.
Putin’s comments came in response to a question from the BBC’s veteran world news editor, John Simpson, who asked Putin whether the current crisis in relations between Russia and the West was a result of Russia’s aggression. Simpson cited the increased patrols of the Russian Air Force in international airspace as an example of such aggression. The exchange happened at Putin’s annual Q&A session in Moscow.
Amerika telah lama mengabaikan kepentingan Rusia walaupun mengadu Moscow kira-kira banyak kali ini, kata Presiden.
"Ambil sistem peluru berpandu anti-balistik. Yang secara unilateral menarik diri dpd Perjanjian ABM, adalah satu asas yang penting dalam sistem keselamatan antarabangsa?
Adakah bahawa kami?
Tidakkah, Amerika Syarikat yang melakukannya.
Mereka secara unilateral menarik diri dan mewujudkan ancaman kepada kita, "kata Putin.
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Tidak seperti Amerika Syarikat, yg mempunyai berpuluh-puluh pangkalan tentera di seluruh DUNIA, Rusia hanya ada 2, kata Putin.
Dan orang-orang berada di tempat-tempat di mana keselamatan negara Rusia secara langsung mengancam, di Kyrgyzstan dan Tajikistan, kata Presiden.
The US has been ignoring Russian interests despite Moscow’s complaining about this many times, the president said.
“Take the anti-ballistic missile system. Who unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty, which was a cornerstone of the international security system? Was that us? No, the US did it. They unilaterally withdrew and are creating threats toward us,” Putin said.
Unlike the United States, which has dozens of military bases around the world, Russia has only two, Putin said. And those are in places where Russia’s national security is directly threatened, in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the president said.
Tentera Amerika Syarikat berdiri di sebelah Patriot permukaan-ke-udara bateri peluru berpandu di pangkalan tentera di Morag, Poland (U.S. soldiers stand next to a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery at an army base in Morag, Poland (Reuters)
"Dan kami orang2 sekarang bahawa kita mempunyai dasar yg agresif? Adakah anda mempunyai akal?
Adakah kita meletakkan tentera kita di sempadan Amerika Syarikat?
Siapakah yang meletakkan tentera NATO, infrastruktur tentera hampir kepada kita?
Adakah sesiapa yg mendengar kepada kita, bercakap kepada kita tentang hal itu?
Tidak, apa-apa. Sentiasa ada jawapan yang sama: ia bukan perniagaan anda, "kata Putin.
Putin berkata, Rusia hanya mahu dianggap sebagai rakan kongsi yang setaraf oleh Barat.
"Kami mahu membangunkan hubungan normal pada keselamatan, anti keganasan. Kami akan bekerjasama dalam pengawalan senjata nuklear.
Kami akan bekerja pada ancaman seperti dadah, jenayah terancang, penyakit berjangkit berbahaya, termasuk Ebola.
Kami akan melakukan semua bersama-sama seperti yang kita akan bekerjasama dalam ekonomi, selagi rakan kongsi kami mahu, "kata Putin.
“And you are telling now that we have an aggressive policy? Do you have common sense? Do we place our troops at US borders? Who is placing NATO troops, military infrastructure closer to us? Does anyone listen to us, talk to us about it? No, nothing. There is always the same response: it’s not your business,” Putin said.
Putin added that Russia simply wants to be treated as equal partners by the West.
“We want to develop normal relations on security, counterterrorism. We will work together on nuclear non-proliferation. We will work on threats like illegal drugs, organized crime, dangerous infectious diseases, including Ebola. We will do it all together as we will cooperate on the economy, as long as our partners want that,” Putin said.
