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Author : A. Zmeyevskiy
Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Organizations in Vienna,
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary This interview was previously published by Novyy
Vensky zhurnal (New Viennese Journal)
The international organizations in Vienna have significant
expert potential and experience in implementing large in-
novative projects in the most diverse areas. They can also
contribute to solving Russia's modernization tasks in the
interests of our country's long-term development. Let us
take, for example, atomic energy development programs,
which constitute a separate vector within the framework
of the modernization project. Progress in this area is im-
possible without extensive international cooperation, a
perceptible role in which is played by the IAEA.
A verification regime of unprecedented scope is currently being created for ensuring implementation
of the treaty, which will include on-site inspections and comprise 337 facilities of the International
Monitoring System (IMS) worldwide. It is designed to discover possible non-compliance with the
basic obligations of the Treaty.
The information received from IMS facilities can also have the so-called dual use, that is, it can be
used not only in the interests of the treaty, but also for the most diverse scientific and civilian pur-
poses, including helping to resolve certain global problems.
Russia has become a sponsor of the Organization and now contributes $2.6 million every year to
UNIDO's activity. This money is used to implement high-tech and innovative projects. Our sponsor
activity is concentrated in Russia's near abroad. So three out of four projects funded by Russia are
implemented in the CIS and EurAsEC countries. They are aimed at assisting the industrial develop-
ment of neighboring states and developing integration processes throughout the post-Soviet expanse.
I think that UNIDO's rich expert potential could be useful for solving our country's comprehensive
modernization tasks and promoting its technological breakthrough. Using UNIDO's services to de-
velop the so-called green industry based on investments in resource-efficient and eco-friendly pro-
duction looks promising. The Organization's experts think that this type of innovation will be a
long-term development imperative and will help to eliminate the direct dependence between eco-
nomic growth and its detrimental impact on the environment.
In general, without global efforts to oppose the crime threats, we can hardly count on creating fa-
vorable conditions for modernization and development, particularly in states like Russia that are lo-
cated at the crossroads between the West and the East.
Business and civil society are called upon to make an important contribution to the development of
global anti-crime partnership under the UN aegis, particularly in such areas as combating terrorism,
fighting corruption, trafficking in humans, preventing and treating drug dependence, combating the
leak of drug precursors, laundering criminal money, and so on.
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Russia and the International Organizations in Vienna