ITAR-TASS overnight news cycle for September 21 - 3.

.FC committee to discuss resetting of RF-US parliamentary ties.

MOSCOW, September 21 (Itar-Tass) -- The resetting of Russian-U.S.
parliamentary relations will be discussed at an enlarged meeting of the
Federation Council Committee for International Affairs.

U.S. Ambassador in Moscow John Beyrle, members of the cooperation group Federation Council -
U.S. Senate, officials of the Russian Foreign Ministry and political
analysts will participate in the meeting.
"We offer to discuss the theme "Continued resetting. Russian-U.S.
parliamentary ties in new realities," committee's chairman Mikhail
Margelov told Itar-Tass. According to him, the participants will have "to
ponder over the content of the interparliamentary work in new conditions."
The adjustment of Russian-U.S. relations "is a complex process and can
proceed in various dimensions," the senator believes. He noted that "the
experience showed fruitful ties between the lawmakers of the counties even
in the period, when it seemed to some people that the second Cold War had
started."
In the dialogue "we managed to cool down the passions and inform the
executive authorities about the parliamentary point of view on "the good
and the evil", Margelov added. He believes that in Russian-U.S. relations
"there would be more confrontation without these conciliatory
interparliamentary dialogues." The senator is confident that "the
relations between the lawmakers contributed in progress to the resetting
to some extent, though the two countries have amassed many mutual claims
for the last ten years."
The senator believes that "after Washington had shelved its plans to
deploy elements of its missile defense system in Poland and the Czech
Republic it is possible to speak about the start of resetting." According
to him, this means that "Washington raises the priority of relations with
Moscow, but the problem is in the details of resetting, in what the sides
should go into mutual concessions winning in the main cause."
Margelov expressed hope that during the discussions the countries
"would manage to reset on the parliamentary level." So, each side should
begin from itself, he pointed out.

.Law enforcers from 20 states to discuss crime fight techs in Kazan.

KAZAN, September 21 (Itar-Tass) -- Specialists of the law enforcement
agencies from 20 countries will discuss methods of crime struggle by the
means of state-of-the-art technologies at a scientific practical
conference that will open here on Monday, press officer of the Tatarstan
Interior Ministry Eleonora Anikeyeva told Itar-Tass.
The forum will focus on the theme "Instrumental lie detection - 15
years for the protection of the law in Russia. The achieved results and
the prospects for development". The conference aims at developing joint
practical measures on such issues as scientific and methodological aspects
of special psychophysiological studies with the use of lie detectors. The
participants will also consider the international experience of the
training of polygraph examiners for the law enforcement agencies.

.Forum on Asia-Pacific business development to open in Vladivostok.

VLADIVOSTOK, September 21 (Itar-Tass) -- An international business
forum devoted to business development in the Asia-Pacific region will open
here on Monday. More than 600 representatives of the state authorities
from Russia, Japan, China and South Korea, international financial
organisations, investment companies from Russia and the countries of the
Asia-Pacific region, business communities, international public
organisations and embassies, top managers of enterprises and
businesspeople from Russia and the Asia-Pacific regional countries,
experts and analysts will participate in the forum.
The participants will discuss the whole scope of problems.
Specifically, on the agenda of the forum are the discussions: "Business:
experience exchange. The development and implementation of international
projects of small and medium businesses of the countries in the
Asia-Pacific region", "The work of the financial institutions of the
Asia-Pacific regional countries for the development of small and medium
business", "Social responsibility of business" and others.
The forum is organized by the all-Russian public organisation OPORA
ROSSII, the administration of the Primorsky Territory, with the support of
the Vladivostok administration and the Vladivostok State University of
Economics and Service.
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