Russia, Germany to sign more than 10 documents at summit

MOSCOW July 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia and Germany will sign a
substantial package of more than ten documents at a 13th round interstate
consultations, which Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel will chair, Russian presidential aide Sergei
Prikhodko told Itar-Tass on the eve of Medvedev's visit to Germany on
Monday.
The signing of a package of documents will be "a tangible result of a
large-scale preparatory work for the interstate consultations in
Hannover." "A joint statement to hold the Russia-Germany Cross Year in
2012-2013 is among the agreements to be signed," he noted. "Our partners
and we believe that its agenda will be complex, and not only the cultural
part of the agenda will be prioritized, but also the presentations of
achievements and potentials of the countries in economy, science and
technologies, innovations, public and political and youth cooperation,"
Prikhodko said.
Among other documents to be signed are a joint statement for a broader
cooperation in law under the Partnership for Modernization initiative, an
intergovernmental protocol for the procedure to enforce the Russian-EU
readmission agreement signed on May 25, 2006. Meanwhile, the countries
have negotiated a joint statement of the foreign ministries to establish a
German House of Science and Innovations in Moscow, a joint statement of
the finance ministries on cooperation in developing Russian-German
financial cooperation.
The countries agreed to sign an agreement on cooperation in creating a
joint fund to support high-technological, innovation and energy-efficient
projects of small and medium business, the memoranda on mutual
understanding between the transport ministries and between the Kaluga
Region and German partners for the intentions to build a car tire
producing plant in the region.