В.Путин.Выступление в бундестаге ФРГ. 1

Speech in the Bundestag of the Federal Republic of Germany September 25, 2001 Part 1 Berlin Выступление в бундестаге ФРГ 25 сентября 2001 года Берлин PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: Distinguished Mr President, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I am sincerely grateful for this opportunity to speak in the Bundestag. This is the first such opportunity for a Russian head of state in the entire history of Russian-German relations. And this honor granted to me today only reaffirms the mutual interest of Russia and Germany in dialogue. I am moved by this chance to discuss Russian-German relations, the development of ties between my country and united Europe and international security problems here, in Berlin, a city with a difficult fate, a city which happened to become the focus of confrontation with almost the entire world on more than one occasion in the modern history of humanity, but also a city in which never, even in the darkest periods, did anyone succeed in stifl