Russia Mr. Alexander Losyukov, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs 1. As a member of Russia’s delegation to the former Sixty-Party talks, you are a highly experienced diplomat. You have served in Afghanistan, the U.S. and the Phillippines, New Zealand, Japan and your lengthy diplomatic career is briefly described here: 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Losyukov 3. Now your main concern is nanotechnology which is manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale. 4. You are very focused on Nanoscience and nanotechnology which are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all the other science fields, such as chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering. 5. In a recent speech before the Japanese Business Club you pointed out that: “Russian scientists have succeeded in a number of fields. However, and this does not only concern Russia, breakthrough in the sphere of nano-technologies is impossible without the cooperation of other leading industrial nations. We have already started active collaboration with the USA, Israel, China, South Korea, Germany, Great Britain and other countries leading the way in nanotechnology, and we would like to establish a joint operation in this region with Japan as well.”