Canada intends to increase beef supplies in Russia.

MOSCOW, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - Canada intends to increase beef supplies
to the Russian market, Canadian Minister of International Trade Stockwell
Day said on Tuesday at talks with Russian Minister for Agriculture Yelena
Skrynnik.

In particular, the minister expressed interest in supplies in Russia
of bone-in beef. He said there were no serious obstacles for that, and the
two countries must coordinate a veterinary certificate.
According to the Russian Rosselkhoznadzor agricultural watchdog, in
2007 the veterinary services of Russia and Canada initialled a veterinary
certificate for supplies of boneless beef and raw beef products from
Canada. At the present moment 116 Canadian enterprises producing pork,
beef and poultry have the right to export their products in Russia.
In connection with the spread of the H1N1 flu, exports of swine, pork
and pork products without heat treating from the Canadian provinces
Ontario and Quebec are banned. Earlier imposed by Rosselkhoznadzor
restrictions on imports from Alberta, British Columbia and New Scotland
have been lifted.
Thus the principle of regionalization has made it possible to visibly
minimize potential risks and a damage to trade, Rosselkhoznadzor head
Servei Dankvert stressed.
On the initiative of Yelena Skrynnik, next week veterinaries of the
two countries will discuss in a video conference necessary measures and
terms for the resumption of supplies of Canadian pork.
According to the Russian minister, at the present day livestock
breeding is one of priority directions of Russian-Canadian cooperation in
the agro-industrial sector. Canada is one of the major supplies of
livestock and embryos in Russia.
Skrynnik also said Russia and Canada have reached positive results in
cooperation in the agricultural machinery industry sector. For example,
Russia's Rostselmash Company launches the production of Canadian Versatile
tractors.

.Fifty-seven states take part in session of secret services.

IRKUTSK, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - Delegations from 83 secret services and
law enforcement agencies of 57 states take part in a session, which opened
in Irkutsk on Wednesday, Russian FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said.
The eighth session of heads of secret services and law enforcement
agencies discusses fight against terrorism, including in internet web
space.
"Partners from Brazil, Vietnam, India and the Philippines have joined
us for the first time this year," Bortnikov said. "The executive director
of the U.N. Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive
Directorate, Mike Smith, as well as the chairmen of two committees of the
U.N. Security Council also participate," he added.
He stressed that the session starts coming down from developing common
positions and approaches in anti-terrorist fight to discussing concrete
issues of anti-terrorist cooperation. For example, a scheme was worked out
to coordinate cooperation of secret services in ensuring major
international events against terrorist threats, he said.
According to Bortnikov, this scheme was already efficiently used
during the summer Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and the 2008 European
Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland.
"We expect this mechanism will be also used during the 21st Winter
Olympic Games in Vancouver and the 19th World Cup Football Championship in
South Africa," the FSB director stressed.
He expressed confidence that "decisions and recommendations of the
session will contribute to expanding a dialogue of all interested parties
in fight against terrorism and extremism, increasing the efficiency of
their cooperation".
The session will also discuss measures against radicalisation of the
population and threats in internet web space. "At the present moment these
issues are pressing for the security of all states," a source from the FSB'
s public relations centre told Tass earlier.

.International conference on women's rights opens in Makhachkala.

MAKHACHKALA, June 24 (Itar-Tass) - An international conference on
women's rights opens in Dagestan's capital Makhachkala on Wednesday.
"The conference is held for all women, irrespective of their faith or
nationality," the director of the Dagestani Centre for Gender Studies,
Khatima Omarova, told Tass.
Representatives from Azerbaijan, Great Britain, Germany, India,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and
15 Russian regions will participate.
The conference will run till June 26. The main aim of the forum is to
develop common approaches and strategies for women's rights in
polycultural, polyethnic and polyconfessional regions, as well as to
contribute to the strengthening of traditions and a dialogue among
organizations working in the sphere of the protection of women's interests.
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