Major package of documents to be signed at RF-German consultations

HANOVER, July 19 (Itar-Tass) - A major package of a dozen of documents
is prepared for the signing at the 13th round of Russian-German interstate
consultations with participation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian president's aide Sergei Prikhodko
told Tass.
According to him, the signing of a package of documents will be "a
tangible result of a large-scale preparatory work for the interstate
consultations in Hanover."
"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.
A joint statement on broader cooperation in law within the framework
of Partnership for Modernization and an intergovernmental protocol for the
procedure to enforce the Russian-EU readmission agreement of May 25, 2006
are among other documents to be signed.
Besides, the two countries have coordinated 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.