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Russian-German top level consultations due in Munich.
MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and
Germany's Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel are expected to chair the
eleventh round of top-level Russian-German consultations opening in Munich Thursday.
The consultations are attended by Russian and German government
officials and area the key annual event in bilateral relations.
Since the first round that took place in 1998, the consultations are
held alternately in Russia and Germany.
A big number of officials representing the economic, humanitarian and
cultural sectors of government activity are taking part in this year's
round
On the Russian side, the delegation includes Finance Minister Alexei
Kudrin, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, Economic Development Minister
Elvira Nabiullina, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, Natural Resources
Minister Yuri Trutnev, and Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko.
.Russia's special envoy to hold talks with Lebanese political leaders.
BEIRUT, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President's special envoy to the
Middle East, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov is expected to
hold talks with Lebanese officials and political leaders Thursday.
The high-rank diplomat will meet with Lebanon's President Michel
Suleiman, parliament speaker Nabih Berri, and heads of main parliamentary
factions.
Also, he will have a conversation with Prime Minister Saad Hariri who
is making efforts to set up a national unity government at the moment.
Saltanov will inform his hosts on how Russia views the prospects for
the Moscow conference on the Middle East that is called upon to give a new
pulse to the Arab-Israeli peace process in all aspects.
Moscow has received support for organizing the conference from both
Lebanon and Syria, which Saltanov is going to visit Saturday.
.Endeavour space shuttle reaches orbit after takeoff from Cape
Canaveral.
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Itar-Tass) - After takeoff from Cape Canaveral in
Florida at 23:03 GMT Wednesday, the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour and its
seven-strong crew reached the designated orbit and began a flight to the
International Space Station, NASA said in a press release.
The mission will deliver the final segment to the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and a new crewmember to the
International Space Station, the press release said.
Endeavour's 16-day mission includes five spacewalks and the
installation of two platforms outside the Japanese module.
One platform is permanent and will allow experiments to be directly
exposed to space.
The other is an experiment storage pallet that will be detached and
returned with the shuttle.
During the mission, Kibo's robotic arm will transfer three
experiments from the pallet to the exposed platform. Future experiments
also can be moved to the platform from the inside of the station using the
laboratory's airlock, NASA said.
Commander Mark Polansky is joined on STS-127 by Pilot Doug Hurley and
Mission Specialists Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Dave Wolf,
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette and Tim Kopra.
Kopra will replace space station crew member Koichi Wakata, who has
been aboard the station for more than three months. Kopra will return to
Earth during the next station shuttle mission, STS-128, targeted to launch
in August 2009, the press release said.
Hurley, Cassidy Marshburn and Kopra are first-time space fliers.
.Russian-German top level consultations due in Munich.
MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and
Germany's Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel are expected to chair the
eleventh round of top-level Russian-German consultations opening in Munich
Thursday.
The consultations are attended by Russian and German government
officials and are the key annual event in bilateral relations.
Since the first round that took place in 1998, the consultations are
held alternately in Russia and Germany.
A big number of officials representing the economic, humanitarian and
cultural sectors of government activity are taking part in this year's
round
On the Russian side, the delegation includes Finance Minister Alexei
Kudrin, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, Economic Development Minister
Elvira Nabiullina, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, Natural Resources
Minister Yuri Trutnev, and Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko.
"Strategic partnership between Russia and Germany is marked by
maturity and is insusceptible to momentary shifts in the political
environment," Russian President's aide Sergei Prikhodko said.
"Given the recent critical tendencies in world politics and economy,
this partnership has won the status of a factor that helps stabilize the
Euro-Atlantic space," he said.
"This political stability relies on a multi-aspect dialogue between
the two countries that makes possible a fruitful resolution of virtually
any emerging problems," Prikhodko said.
"Without a doubt, personal contacts between President Medvedev and
Chancellor Merkel make up the backbone of this inter-state rapport," he
said. "It's the two leaders who will set the tonality to the
consultations."
As the sides draw up provisional results of the current relations,
they will give special focus to practical steps under the 'partnership
modernization concept' that was adopted at the previous round of
consultations.
"A number of important projects have been launched under its
provisions and some of these projects concern innovative cooperation,
energy saving and energy efficiency," Prikhodko said.
"As the financial and economic crisis is going on, it's extremely
important for Russia and Germany, which is Russia's leading trade partner
in the EU, to maintain a big trade turnover and large investment
projects," he said.
"Ramified economic relations between the two countries serve as the
drive engine of the entire compound of traditional bilateral
relationship," Prikhodko said.
He recalled that bilateral trade hit a record 67.2 billion U.S.
dollars at the end of 2008 versus 32.9 billion at the end of 2005.
On the face of it, officials on both sides note a substantial slowdown
in trade increase.
"In this connection, the sides will consider not only linear measures
of state support for and stimulation of trade relations, but also the
possibility of a speedier transition to new forms of interaction, the
cooperative ones, in the first place," Prikhodko said.
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Germany's Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel are expected to chair the
eleventh round of top-level Russian-German consultations opening in Munich Thursday.
The consultations are attended by Russian and German government
officials and area the key annual event in bilateral relations.
Since the first round that took place in 1998, the consultations are
held alternately in Russia and Germany.
A big number of officials representing the economic, humanitarian and
cultural sectors of government activity are taking part in this year's
round
On the Russian side, the delegation includes Finance Minister Alexei
Kudrin, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, Economic Development Minister
Elvira Nabiullina, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, Natural Resources
Minister Yuri Trutnev, and Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko.
.Russia's special envoy to hold talks with Lebanese political leaders.
BEIRUT, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President's special envoy to the
Middle East, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov is expected to
hold talks with Lebanese officials and political leaders Thursday.
The high-rank diplomat will meet with Lebanon's President Michel
Suleiman, parliament speaker Nabih Berri, and heads of main parliamentary
factions.
Also, he will have a conversation with Prime Minister Saad Hariri who
is making efforts to set up a national unity government at the moment.
Saltanov will inform his hosts on how Russia views the prospects for
the Moscow conference on the Middle East that is called upon to give a new
pulse to the Arab-Israeli peace process in all aspects.
Moscow has received support for organizing the conference from both
Lebanon and Syria, which Saltanov is going to visit Saturday.
.Endeavour space shuttle reaches orbit after takeoff from Cape
Canaveral.
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Itar-Tass) - After takeoff from Cape Canaveral in
Florida at 23:03 GMT Wednesday, the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour and its
seven-strong crew reached the designated orbit and began a flight to the
International Space Station, NASA said in a press release.
The mission will deliver the final segment to the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory and a new crewmember to the
International Space Station, the press release said.
Endeavour's 16-day mission includes five spacewalks and the
installation of two platforms outside the Japanese module.
One platform is permanent and will allow experiments to be directly
exposed to space.
The other is an experiment storage pallet that will be detached and
returned with the shuttle.
During the mission, Kibo's robotic arm will transfer three
experiments from the pallet to the exposed platform. Future experiments
also can be moved to the platform from the inside of the station using the
laboratory's airlock, NASA said.
Commander Mark Polansky is joined on STS-127 by Pilot Doug Hurley and
Mission Specialists Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Dave Wolf,
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Julie Payette and Tim Kopra.
Kopra will replace space station crew member Koichi Wakata, who has
been aboard the station for more than three months. Kopra will return to
Earth during the next station shuttle mission, STS-128, targeted to launch
in August 2009, the press release said.
Hurley, Cassidy Marshburn and Kopra are first-time space fliers.
.Russian-German top level consultations due in Munich.
MOSCOW, July 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and
Germany's Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel are expected to chair the
eleventh round of top-level Russian-German consultations opening in Munich
Thursday.
The consultations are attended by Russian and German government
officials and are the key annual event in bilateral relations.
Since the first round that took place in 1998, the consultations are
held alternately in Russia and Germany.
A big number of officials representing the economic, humanitarian and
cultural sectors of government activity are taking part in this year's
round
On the Russian side, the delegation includes Finance Minister Alexei
Kudrin, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, Economic Development Minister
Elvira Nabiullina, Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, Natural Resources
Minister Yuri Trutnev, and Education and Science Minister Andrei Fursenko.
"Strategic partnership between Russia and Germany is marked by
maturity and is insusceptible to momentary shifts in the political
environment," Russian President's aide Sergei Prikhodko said.
"Given the recent critical tendencies in world politics and economy,
this partnership has won the status of a factor that helps stabilize the
Euro-Atlantic space," he said.
"This political stability relies on a multi-aspect dialogue between
the two countries that makes possible a fruitful resolution of virtually
any emerging problems," Prikhodko said.
"Without a doubt, personal contacts between President Medvedev and
Chancellor Merkel make up the backbone of this inter-state rapport," he
said. "It's the two leaders who will set the tonality to the
consultations."
As the sides draw up provisional results of the current relations,
they will give special focus to practical steps under the 'partnership
modernization concept' that was adopted at the previous round of
consultations.
"A number of important projects have been launched under its
provisions and some of these projects concern innovative cooperation,
energy saving and energy efficiency," Prikhodko said.
"As the financial and economic crisis is going on, it's extremely
important for Russia and Germany, which is Russia's leading trade partner
in the EU, to maintain a big trade turnover and large investment
projects," he said.
"Ramified economic relations between the two countries serve as the
drive engine of the entire compound of traditional bilateral
relationship," Prikhodko said.
He recalled that bilateral trade hit a record 67.2 billion U.S.
dollars at the end of 2008 versus 32.9 billion at the end of 2005.
On the face of it, officials on both sides note a substantial slowdown
in trade increase.
"In this connection, the sides will consider not only linear measures
of state support for and stimulation of trade relations, but also the
possibility of a speedier transition to new forms of interaction, the
cooperative ones, in the first place," Prikhodko said.
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