DPRK ready for multilateral talks, incl' six-country ones

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BEIJING, October 6 (Itar-Tass) - The Democratic People's Republic of
Korea (DPRK) is ready for multilateral talks, including six-country ones
on denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, DPRK leader Kim Jong Il said
in Pyongyang during a meeting with Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State
Council of the People's Republic of China, the Xinhua news agency reports.
Kim Jong Il pointed out, "The DPRK intends to hold multilateral talks,
including six-country ones. However, this will depend on the outcome of
talks between the DPRK and the United States".
Wen Jiabao is currently in Pyongyang on an official visit.

.Int'l ecological forum opens in Vladivosotk on Tuesday.

VLADIVOSTOK, October 6 (Itar-Tass) - An international ecological
forum "Nature without Borders" opens here on Tuesday. It has drawn
officials of state power bodies of the Russian Federation and regions of
the Far East, chiefs of local self-government bodies, representatives of
international organisations, scientists, and diplomats from China,
Vietnam, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, and the United
States.
The main subject of discussion will be marine environment: the
maintenance of the purity of coasts, present-day condition of littoral
marine econsystems, threats to and technologies to monitor the
environmental safety of sea areas, international cooperation in the field
of marine environment, as well as a sustainable development of the
littoral zones of the Far Eastern seas.
Those present are also to devote their attention to the ecological
component of the forthcoming summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation forum in Vladivostok in 2012.

.RF govt panel to discuss future of AVTOVAZ on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, October 6 (Itar-Tass) - First Vice-Premier Igor Shuvalov is to
hold a meeting of the government commission on the ensurance of
sustainable development of the economy here on Tuesday.
Shuvalov said the principal item on the agenda would be the
development of the domestic car industry, including the future of its
leading automotive enteprise -- the AVTOVAZ car factory.
The problems of the car manufacturing enterprise, which accounts for
about one-quarter of car sales on the Russian domestic market, have been
hot news for all the media and headache for government officials. This
locomotive of the domestic car industry has virtuallly found itself
facing the risk of complete departure from the market while the financial
and economic downturn has exacerbated the factory's problems still further.
On October 5, Putin convened a special meeting with the management of
the enterprise and its main stakeholders -- RENAULT and the
Rostechkhnologii State Corporation. Putin said when addressing those
present, "We are well aware that if nothing is done, the enterprise would
be engaging in feverish activities for some time and would subsequently
quit the market and cease to exsit". "We cannot allow that to happen," he
added.
A way out, the Premier believes, is in the need for the earliest
technological modernisation of the enterprise, the modernisation that
must enable it to get its "second wind". Putin directed the government
together with the management and sharehodlers of AVTOVAZ to work out three
plans: those for financial normalisation, technical modernisation, and
social development. All these three spheres are of equal importance, the
Premier emphasized. The State intends "to assume part of the burden",
including the financial one, he pointed out.

.Lipetsk region investment videoconf to be held Tuesday.

LIPETSK, October 6 (Itar-Tass) - The 9th international investment
conference on the theme of "Lipetsk Region: Development Throurgh
Investments", which draws hundreds of participatns every year, is to be
held onTuesday for the first time in the format of a video communications
conference. Participants in the forum will be in the lecture rooms of
Lipetsk and Moscow, a regional administration official has told Itar-Tass.
A number of Russia's regions, such as Voronezh, Belgorod, Ivanovo,
Kaluga, and Oryol, will also join in the dialogue between participants in
the videoconference in the capital and Lipetsk.
Members of the staff of the presidential plenipotentiary
representative in the Central Federal District, officials of a number of
ministries, agencies, and banks will take part in discussions. Members of
the business communities of Italy, Hungary, Germany, Japan, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, and Kazakhstan will also go on the air to take part in
discussions.
Oleg Korolyov, head of the Lipetsk Region administration, said
participants in the conference are to discuss a wide range of matters
connected with the strategic orientations for the development of
investment activities and the creation of favourable long-term conditions
for investments in international and interregional projects. In the
process, special attention will be devoted to the elaboration of a system
approach to attracting investments, and developing mechanisms for private
business-State partnership.
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