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RF govt to make coop with foreign investors more transparent-Putin
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MOSCOW, October 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
on Wednesday urged the government to improve mechanisms of cooperation
with foreign investors by cancelling for them excessive bureaucratic
procedures. "There is a reason to think about the improvement of
cooperation mechanisms, interaction with foreign investors, and it is
obvious that the its should be about more transparency and getting rid of
red tape in the procedures," Putin stated at a meeting of the government
commission on control over foreign investments. The opening statement of
the RF prime minister is published on the RF government's website.
Putin believes that new, improved mechanisms of cooperation with
foreign investors "would be in demand - considering a special situation in
the world economy and also the experience accumulated in the interaction
with our partners in previous years." The prime minister noted that the
importance of the task of attracting foreign investments is obvious - "we
must make the stage of the post-crisis restoration of the national economy
be accompanied by the qualitative renovation of its industrial base and
infrastructure, first of all by means of increase in labour productivity
and introduction of modern technologies."
The RF government heads also noted that the Federal Antimonopoly
Service on his instruction should have prepared proposals on "making the
control mechanisms (over foreign investments) more transparent and
efficient, as well as on cancelling excessive bureaucratic procedures for
investors."
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.Medvedev to talks RF Euro security initiative with RF-France Council.
MOSCOW, October 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's initiative on a new European
security treaty will be one of the central items on the agenda of a
meeting of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday with the
participants in the VIII session of the Russia-France Cooperation Council
on security issues - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence
Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and their French colleagues Bernard Kouchner
and Herve Morin, a source in the Kremlin administration told Itar-Tass.
"Taking into account multidimensional cooperation between Russia and
France within the framework of the main European organisations, as well as
the weighty contribution of our countries to ensuring stability on the
continent, at the conversation the parties will consider problems of
European security with placing emphasis on the Russian initiative to work
out the European security treaty," the source said.
"It is also planned to discuss the state of and prospects for the
partnership interaction of Russia with the European Union, in particular,
in light of the formation of the common space of external security, as
well as with NATO, including with taking into account the resumption of
the political dialogue within the framework of Russia-NATO Council and
development of a new strategic concept of the alliance," the Kremlin
official noted.
According to him, "During the discussion on the European security
architecture and control over arms, the sides will touch upon the issue of
the situation around the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
(CFE)."
"The talks' issues include - in the context of the preparation of the
Review Conference on the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(NPT) in 2010 - issues of non-proliferation, including the Iranian nuclear
programme and the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula," he said.
Kremlin officials call the Council "a unique mechanism of interaction
of Russia and France on foreign policy and security policy within the
framework of which the discussion and coordination of positions on the
most important issues of the international agenda, as well as bilateral
cooperation is held."
The decision on the establishment of the Council was made by the
Russian and French presidents in 2002. According to it, the sides signed
in Moscow on July 8, 2002 a Joint Statement of the RF and French foreign
ministers on the creation of the Council determining the order of its
work, and its first meeting was held in Paris in November of the same
year. Meetings of the Council are held in Moscow and Paris by rotation.
The latest meeting was held in Paris in March 2008. French President
Nicolas Sarkozy received its participants.
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.Russia, France FMs, DMs to discuss European security matters.
MOSCOW, October 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's initiative in the sphere of
European security will be discussed in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign
and Defence Ministers of Russia and France - Sergei Lavrov, Anatoly
Serdyukov and their French colleagues Bernard Kouchner and Herve Morin
will take part in the eighth meeting of the Russia-France Cooperation
Council on security and then will meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Lavrov said earlier that "with the French colleagues we will discuss
all issues that fall under the definition of cooperation in the sphere of
security - it is, certainly, European security."
"We hope that following the known positive statements of French
President Nicolas Sarkozy on the initiative of Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev on the conclusion of a new treaty on European security with
taking into account the discussions held lately we will be able to discuss
in more detail the ways of advancing this initiative," the RF foreign
minister stressed.
"France sees the need for such discussions to be continued," he said.
"And they have already reached a high degree of specification. We plan in
the foreseeable future to submit to various European structures for
consideration a draft of the European security treaty," Lavrov noted.
Among other themes of the consultations the minister named "military-
political mechanisms that are used within the framework of the OSCE,
Russia-NATO Council and Russia's relations with the European Union." "And,
of course, regional conflicts in the settlement of which Russia and France
interact in one way or another, or Russia and the European Union, will
also be a subject for consideration," Lavrov added. In particular, the
point at issue is the situation around the Iranian nuclear programme, the
Middle East settlement and Afghan problems, Lavrov explained. "So the
agenda will be busy," he noted.
The Franco-Russian Cooperation Council for Security Issues meets once
in six months on an alternative basis - in Moscow and in Paris. The head
of state traditionally receives the participants in the session. The
Council was created on the initiative of the former Presidents of Russia
and France, Vladimir Putin and Jacques Chirac. Its main task is confidence
building and cooperation strengthening in security matters. At the
consultations the sides determine common approaches and decisions on
important bilateral cooperation questions and coordinate positions on
international problems, in particular, non-proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction, combating terrorism, crime, corruption, drug trafficking
and on interaction in international organisations. Nine expert groups work
within the Council's framework.
-0-ezh
MOSCOW, October 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
on Wednesday urged the government to improve mechanisms of cooperation
with foreign investors by cancelling for them excessive bureaucratic
procedures. "There is a reason to think about the improvement of
cooperation mechanisms, interaction with foreign investors, and it is
obvious that the its should be about more transparency and getting rid of
red tape in the procedures," Putin stated at a meeting of the government
commission on control over foreign investments. The opening statement of
the RF prime minister is published on the RF government's website.
Putin believes that new, improved mechanisms of cooperation with
foreign investors "would be in demand - considering a special situation in
the world economy and also the experience accumulated in the interaction
with our partners in previous years." The prime minister noted that the
importance of the task of attracting foreign investments is obvious - "we
must make the stage of the post-crisis restoration of the national economy
be accompanied by the qualitative renovation of its industrial base and
infrastructure, first of all by means of increase in labour productivity
and introduction of modern technologies."
The RF government heads also noted that the Federal Antimonopoly
Service on his instruction should have prepared proposals on "making the
control mechanisms (over foreign investments) more transparent and
efficient, as well as on cancelling excessive bureaucratic procedures for
investors."
-0-
.Medvedev to talks RF Euro security initiative with RF-France Council.
MOSCOW, October 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's initiative on a new European
security treaty will be one of the central items on the agenda of a
meeting of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday with the
participants in the VIII session of the Russia-France Cooperation Council
on security issues - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defence
Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and their French colleagues Bernard Kouchner
and Herve Morin, a source in the Kremlin administration told Itar-Tass.
"Taking into account multidimensional cooperation between Russia and
France within the framework of the main European organisations, as well as
the weighty contribution of our countries to ensuring stability on the
continent, at the conversation the parties will consider problems of
European security with placing emphasis on the Russian initiative to work
out the European security treaty," the source said.
"It is also planned to discuss the state of and prospects for the
partnership interaction of Russia with the European Union, in particular,
in light of the formation of the common space of external security, as
well as with NATO, including with taking into account the resumption of
the political dialogue within the framework of Russia-NATO Council and
development of a new strategic concept of the alliance," the Kremlin
official noted.
According to him, "During the discussion on the European security
architecture and control over arms, the sides will touch upon the issue of
the situation around the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
(CFE)."
"The talks' issues include - in the context of the preparation of the
Review Conference on the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(NPT) in 2010 - issues of non-proliferation, including the Iranian nuclear
programme and the nuclear problem of the Korean Peninsula," he said.
Kremlin officials call the Council "a unique mechanism of interaction
of Russia and France on foreign policy and security policy within the
framework of which the discussion and coordination of positions on the
most important issues of the international agenda, as well as bilateral
cooperation is held."
The decision on the establishment of the Council was made by the
Russian and French presidents in 2002. According to it, the sides signed
in Moscow on July 8, 2002 a Joint Statement of the RF and French foreign
ministers on the creation of the Council determining the order of its
work, and its first meeting was held in Paris in November of the same
year. Meetings of the Council are held in Moscow and Paris by rotation.
The latest meeting was held in Paris in March 2008. French President
Nicolas Sarkozy received its participants.
-0-
.Russia, France FMs, DMs to discuss European security matters.
MOSCOW, October 1 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's initiative in the sphere of
European security will be discussed in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign
and Defence Ministers of Russia and France - Sergei Lavrov, Anatoly
Serdyukov and their French colleagues Bernard Kouchner and Herve Morin
will take part in the eighth meeting of the Russia-France Cooperation
Council on security and then will meet Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Lavrov said earlier that "with the French colleagues we will discuss
all issues that fall under the definition of cooperation in the sphere of
security - it is, certainly, European security."
"We hope that following the known positive statements of French
President Nicolas Sarkozy on the initiative of Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev on the conclusion of a new treaty on European security with
taking into account the discussions held lately we will be able to discuss
in more detail the ways of advancing this initiative," the RF foreign
minister stressed.
"France sees the need for such discussions to be continued," he said.
"And they have already reached a high degree of specification. We plan in
the foreseeable future to submit to various European structures for
consideration a draft of the European security treaty," Lavrov noted.
Among other themes of the consultations the minister named "military-
political mechanisms that are used within the framework of the OSCE,
Russia-NATO Council and Russia's relations with the European Union." "And,
of course, regional conflicts in the settlement of which Russia and France
interact in one way or another, or Russia and the European Union, will
also be a subject for consideration," Lavrov added. In particular, the
point at issue is the situation around the Iranian nuclear programme, the
Middle East settlement and Afghan problems, Lavrov explained. "So the
agenda will be busy," he noted.
The Franco-Russian Cooperation Council for Security Issues meets once
in six months on an alternative basis - in Moscow and in Paris. The head
of state traditionally receives the participants in the session. The
Council was created on the initiative of the former Presidents of Russia
and France, Vladimir Putin and Jacques Chirac. Its main task is confidence
building and cooperation strengthening in security matters. At the
consultations the sides determine common approaches and decisions on
important bilateral cooperation questions and coordinate positions on
international problems, in particular, non-proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction, combating terrorism, crime, corruption, drug trafficking
and on interaction in international organisations. Nine expert groups work
within the Council's framework.
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