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On 27 January 2012 a traditional ceremony at the Soviet War Memorial near the Imperial War Museum marked the International Holocaust Remembrance Day – anniversary of liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Red Army. The event was attended by local authorities and NGO’s, Embassies of CIS countries and WW2 veterans. Read Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko’s speech: http://rusemb.org.uk/article/136 On 27 January 2012, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov held political consultations with Anna Azari, Deputy Director General, Director of the Europe and Asia Department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. Speaking in Moscow Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin called on the US to drop its missile defence plans or face a Russian military-technical response, of the kind that has been outlined by President Dmitry Medvedev. He stressed that it referred to the US plans to deploy interceptor rockets in Poland in 2018 and send missile defence ships to the Baltic, the Barents and the Norwegian Seas. He also renewed Russia’s proposal to the US and NATO to develop a joint air and missile defence system for Europe. Moscow does not intend to propose any initiatives on missile defense, which the U.S. could interpret as concessions. This was stated by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, speaking on Ekho Moskvy radio station on 26 January 2012. Moscow sees it impossible to vote on the West’s draft resolution on Syria, at the UN Security Council, the Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov stated. Presiding over the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will make it possible for Russia to display its intellectual, technological and mineral resource potential, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Moscow-based Izvestia daily in an interview.
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