Annual economic forum closes in Perm.

PERM, September 18 (Itar-Tass) -- The sixth annual economic forum has
concluded its work in Perm.
It was attended by more than 700 Russian and foreign experts,
entrepreneurs, politicians and scholars.
Two agreements were signed at the forum.
Rosnano and the Perm-based Novomet company presented the biggest
project in the oil sector, in the implementation of which 18.5 billion
roubles will be invested. The Rosnano state corporation will invest around
four billion roubles in the development of the breakthrough domestic
technology for oil extraction.
The Perm territorial government and the Perm city administration and
the Vympel Communications company signed a social and economic cooperation
agreement.
Large-scale construction of a Beeline service centre has been started
in Perm. The centre with 1,130 employees will serve Beeline telephone
communication users in the Ural and Siberian regions and receive calls
from Moscow. Investments in the construction will total around one billion
roubles.


.NTV group wins Ukrainian-Russian motor rally.



KIEV, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- The winner of the St.
Petersburg-Kiev motor rally is an NTV group.
The rally started on September 13 and finished on September 18.
Rally commander Sergei Kupriyanov from Gazprom has presented the
golden cup and remembrance prizes to the leaders -- Yegor Kolyvanov,
Nikita Chalykh and Alexei Gaidamakin. The Gazprom company is the rally
organiser.
The leaders believe they won thanks to Ukrainian singer Viktor Pavlik,
who helped the Russian reporters on Saturday to speak to Ukrainian traffic
policemen who stopped the television crew.
The singer was not left without an award either. Together with his
director Igor Atamanchuk, he received the second prize.
The third were widely-known Russian Live Journal bloggers Alexander
Popov and Dmitry Yakimtsev.
The prizes were presented on the stage installed on Independence
Square in central Kiev. More than 1,000 people greeted the rally
participants. There could have been more spectators, if there have been no
heavy rain. It lasted until the award presenting ceremony.
All the rally participants were given remembrance tokens, exact copies
of those presented 100 years ago to the crews of the first motor rally for
the Emperor Nikolai II prize.
Kupriyanov, when addressing the meeting, expressed the hope that the
event would be one of many that would unite the two nations.
The Kiev city state administration's deputy head Viktor Sivets,
greeting the guests, expressed confidence that the period of worsened
relations between the two countries had passed.
Deputy Transport and Communication Minister Alexei Baranov wished
motor rallies not to be a "strike against bad roads and negligence" (a
quotation from a book), but help establish friendly relations between the
countries.
Deputy Culture and Art Minister Timofei Kokhan noted the event was
held under the banner of friendship.



.RF foreign minister to leave for New York for UN GA session.



MOSCOW, September 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov leaves for New York this Sunday to participate in the 65th session
of the United Nations General Assembly.
The minister will present Moscow's priorities and approaches in the
areas of global and European security ensuring, multilateral disarmament,
settlement of regional conflicts, including the Middle East and
Afghanistan, U.N. reforming and global climate change, a Russian Foreign
Ministry source told Itar-Tass.
Lavrov is planned to address the assembly meeting on September 24.
The minister will also participate in a special high-level plenary
meeting from September 20-22 that will assess the progress of the
international community to attain the millennium development objectives.
Lavrov is expected at the forum to reiterate Russia's commitment to
its obligations to promote the international development, including to
provide aid to poor countries of the CIS and developing states in other
regions, first of all in Africa.
At the high-level council meeting on September 23, the Russian
minister will point out the "inviolability of the charter prerogatives of
the U.N. Security Council as the main body responsible for maintaining
international peace and security". The discussion is expected to work out
ways to improve the council mechanisms for preventive diplomacy,
peacekeeping and post-conflict settlement, the ministry source said.
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