Berlusconi, Putin to sign cooperation deals.

ROME, April 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
will meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in his private
residences outside Milan to discuss a wide range of issues of bilateral
economic cooperation, the Italian governmental press service said on
Saturday.
According to the press service, the two prime ministers will hold an
unofficial meeting at the Arcore villa Sunday evening. On Monday,
Berlusconi and Putin will move to Villa Gernetto in the town of Lesmo,
where they are expected to sign a number of documents, including an
agreement on cooperation for the reconstruction of two architectural
monuments in the city L'Aquila, which suffered from a devastating
earthquake last year - the palace Ardingelli and the Church of St. Gregory
the Great, and a protocol of intent for the creation of a fusion reactor
in Russia. Italy attaches great importance to cooperation in the nuclear
sector after the Berlusconi government decided to go back to nuclear power
engineering.
The agenda also includes issues of cooperation between Italian and
Russia companies active in the energy sector (ENI of Italy and Gazprom of
Russia - chief partners in the South Stream gas pipeline project), in the
automotive industry (Sollers of Russia and Fiat of Italy), and in the area
of air transport (Italy's Alitalia and Russia's Aeroflot airlines).
According to local observers, during the "private" visit by the
Russian prime minister, Berlusconi will present his new "house of
receptions" - Villa Gernetto, an 18th-century palace boasting 36 hectares
of woods and a terrace overlooking the valley of the Lambro north of Milan
which he plans to convert into his planned "university of liberal
studies", but where he will retain a wing for his own use.
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