ComTrans exhibition to open in Moscow Tuesday.

MOSCOW, April 20 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's major international Commercial
Motor Transport exhibition opens h at the Crocus Expo exhibition center
here on Tuesday.
On view will be the most up-to-date and interesting specimens of
utility vehicles -- buses, trucks, trailers, vans, and special -purpose
machinery made by producers from Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent
States, Europe, China, Korea, Japan, and the United States.
The Kama autoworks (KAMAZ) is to introduce new modifications of
trucks. Oleg Afanasyev, director of the department for information
policy, told an Itar-Tass correspondent in Kazan that displayed at the
exhibition will be the popular anti-crisis tip trucks that are in
heightened demand with builders, oil- and gas-industry workers -- the
KAMAZ-65222 and KAMAZ-65115. The latter truck with a carrying capacity of
14.5 tonnes is provided with the environment-friendly engine Euro-3 and
has a body with heating that enables the truck to operate in any climatic
conditions.
On view will be also the KAMAZ-5460-64 truck tractor which can carry
freight weighing up to 40 tonnes (just as a railway car does), and the
KAMAZ_65117 truck carrying 24 tonnes. Improved cabins for operators are
the peculiarity of the newly introduced vehicles.
A joint venture (JV) of the KAMAZ and the German Daimler Trucks
Company -- Fuso KAMAZ Trucks Rus -- will be presented at the exhibition.
The JV will turn out trucks based on KAMAZ. The first such truck --
Canter -- will be shown at the exhibition.
Six models of vehicles will be displayed by the Taganrog autoworks
(TAGAZ). An official in the TAGAZ press service told an Itar-Tass
correspondent in Rostov-on-Don that the five of the vehicle models are
made directly at TAGAZ while the sixth one is manufactured at the Rostov
autoworks. On view will be low-tonnage truck TAGAZ LC-100 Master and the
truck-based 14-seat minibus LC-100 BUS, as well as two Hyundai County and
County Long buses and the school bus version County. Rostov autoworks is
to feature low-floor urban bus RoAZ 5236.
Also displayed will be motor vehicles, made by the GAZ Group, among
them the GAZel-Business bi-fuel modification with gas cylinder equipment.
The Avia Ashok Leyland Motors Company (Czech Rep) will show new
medium-class trucks. Volvo will mark the 35-year jubilee of its operation
in Russia by parading a full model range of Volvo vehicles.

.Medvedev, Sargsyan to discuss Karabakh, int'l agenda.

MOSCOW, April 20 (Itar-Tass) - The Nagorno-Karabakh peace process and
the international agenda will be discussed here on Tuesday by Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev and his Armenian counterpart Serge Sargsyan who
arrived in Moscow at Medvedev's invitation for a brief working visit.
A presidential administration source told Itar-Tass that the leaders
of the two countries would hold talks in a one-on-one format to consider a
number of matters of current importance concerning Russo-Armenian allied
partnership.
"Much attention at the meeting will be devoted to matters that are on
the international and regional agendas. Russia and Armenia have
established an effective foreign-political coordination both in a
bilateral format and within the scope of common integrational
associations, such as, primarily, the Collective Security Treaty
Organization," the source pointed out. He said Russia takes a positive
view of the process of normalizing Armenian-Turkish relations, expecting
that the establishment of goodneighbourly contacts between Armenia and
Turkey will objectively contribute to normalizing the situation in the
region, the source added.
Neither will Medvedev and Sargsyan, traditionally, bypass the
Nagorno-Karabakh issue. "The Russian side, taking into consideration its
status of Co-Chairman of the Minsk Group of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe, goes ahead with active mediatory efforts due to
which, in many respects, a certain headway has been made in coordinating
the main principles for a settlement of the conflict. Russia intends to
continue to render necessary assistance to Yerevan and Baku in the search
for mutually acceptable solutions and is ready to support an option that
would suit all the sides involved for a way out of the conflict, and, if a
compromise accord is achieved, to act as guarantor of the settlement (of
the conflict)," the source said.
The two presidents will also discuss Russia-Armenia economic
cooperation, in which interaction in the field of energy remains the chief
one.
"Russian companies fully ensure on a stable basis Armenia's
requirements for the supply of natural gas and nuclear fuel. The
implementation of large-scale joint projects in the gas industry and
nuclear power engineering," the source emphasized.
The energy, banking, telecommunications, mining-and-metallurgical and
building sectors are the main branches in which Russian capital is
invested. A state credit to the tune of $500 million was granted to
Armenia at the peak of global economic downturn in June 2009, and the
rendering of Russian humanitarian aid to the population of Armenia is
currently continued.
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