ITAR-TASS overnight news cycle for June 26 - 3.

.Medvedev to arrive in Angola for one-day official visit.
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MOSCOW, June 26 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
arrives in Angola this Friday for a one-day official visit. It will be the
last stop on his African trip. The Russian president this week has visited
Egypt, Nigeria and Namibia. It was the first visit by a Russian leader to
Nigeria and Namibia in the history of bilateral relations.
The main themes of the talks in Angola with President Jose Eduardo Dos
Santos will be promotion of major joint projects, including in the field
of high technologies, the Russian leader's aide Sergei Prikhodko said.
Russian companies are expected to participate in the creation of
Angola's national satellite communication system ANGOSAT.
One of the economic cooperation areas is diamond mining in Angola. The
mining companies Catoca and Luo with the Russian company ALROSA's
participation successfully operate in the country, and joint geological
prospecting on the Cacolu field in under way.
Another promising area of Russian-Angolan business cooperation is
exploration of hydrocarbon reserves, Prikhodko said.
Aside from ALROSA, which has received the right for geological
prospecting for oil in the basins of the Cuanza and Congo Rivers, a number
of other Russian companies take steps to enter the Angolan raw material
market. Ties are being established between Zarubezhneft and Angola's
state-run oil company Sonangol.
There are good prospects for development of cooperation in electricity
power engineering, the aide noted. The HydroChicapa joint company with
ALROSA's participation completed hydroelectric station construction on the
Chicapa River in 2008. Tekhnopromexport participated in the construction
of Angola's largest Capanda hydroelectric plant. Under consideration now
is joining of Tekhnopromexport to the construction of two large stations
on the Cuanza River.
Military technical cooperation is unlikely to be discussed in detail
during the visit. It is more important to maintain weaponry and train
personnel than to supply arms, a presidential administration source said.
Besides, systems of remote examination and control, such as a
satellite network, are more important for Angolan partners at present. So,
military technical cooperation is not viewed as a priority direction, a
Kremlin source noted.
Particular attention will be paid to international issues for further
consolidation of foreign policy cooperation between Russia and Angola,
Prikhodko said.
A deep exchange of views is planned for the visit on dealing with
global financial and economic crisis consequences and creation of a more
effective and just international system to control economic processes and
ensure international energy security, the situation in Africa and
development of integration processes on the continent.
The talks will result in a joint communique and singing of a number of
agreements between the governments, departments and companies of the two
countries.
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