| June 2006 |
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Responsibility for the future of the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty lies with NATO countries, the head of a Russian delegation to a Vienna conference said Friday.
President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia had no intention of annexing any territories. 
Russia's chief prosecutor was dismissed from his post Friday in what senior officials have lined up to suggest is part of a planned staff rotation bereft of political intrigue. 
Russia's Defense Ministry categorically denied Friday a media report that Russia had started construction of a naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Georgia had no control over the zone of the South Ossetia conflict, which dates back to the early 1990s, and its claims that Russia refused to recognize Georgia's territorial integrity were unfounded.



