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Medvedev gets ready for difficult talks with Ukraine, Georgia pres.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 6 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold on Friday and on Saturday several bilateral meetings with CIS leaders, who will get together here for an informal CIS summit.
The Kremlin gets ready for the talks, noting that some of them will be quite thorny, in particular talks with the presidents of Georgia and Ukraine.
"We have a lot to discuss with (Ukrainian President) Viktor Yushchenko," Kremlin aide Sergei Prikhodko said. According to him, the presidents will have to try to remove at talks contradictions, which some forces in Ukraine use to attain their ends, which mars interstaterelations.
In particular, they will discuss the Russian Black Sea Fleet, NATO, an inter-church dialogue, as well as Kiev's review of historical realias.
"The conversation will be hard, but we are not drawing the line, we are ready to move forward," Prikhodko stressed. "We shall maintain the dialogue persistently and in a confident manner. We shall considerrelations with Ukraine as a complex," he noted.
Too many things unite Russia and Ukraine to make some politicallyshort-sighted politicians destroy that, he stressed.
The Kremlin is also getting ready for a difficult conversation with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Prikhodko declined to give a detailed forecast as concerns the upcoming talks.
However, the Kremlin press service reported that in a telephone conversation on June 3, the two leaders agreed to continue discussing Russian assistance in the restoration of railways in Abkhazia. Regional peace and stability as well as concrete issues of Russian-Georgian cooperation are also on the agenda.
Medvedev plans no separate meetings only with Kazakh President Nursulatan Nazarbayev, with whom he held talks in Astana not long ago,Prikhodko said on Tuesday.
Apart from talks with the Georgian leader, he will meet with theleaders of two other Transcaucasian republics - Azerbaijan and Armenia.
According to Prikhodko, both talks will focus on trade and economic cooperation, as well as on the situation in the region. In particular, they "will possibly discuss the settlement in Nagorno Karabakh".
Cooperation on the Caspian Sea is also a potential topic for talks with Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev.
The Dniester Region settlement will be in the focus of attention at talks of the Russian leader with his Moldovan counterpart. "We welcome the dialogue which Moldova conducts with the leadership of the Dniester Region," Prikhodko said. Besides, the sides will discuss economic cooperation. "Our mood is rather positive," the Kremlin aide said.
Focusing on upcoming talks with President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, he said Russia "pays tribute to the leadership of the republic and the moves it makes to solve economic, social and other tasks".
He said Russia highly appreciates the attention, which Berdymukhamedov personally pays to the deepening of relations with Russia and his bid to implement economic projects. He stressed that there are no major problems in cooperation between Ashgabat and Moscow at the present moment.
As for the Tajik leader, Emomali Rakhmon, Medvedev will discuss with him concrete aspects of trade and economic cooperation, in particular in the hydropower engineering. Besides, the two leaders expect to exchange opinions on the situation in the region, including in Afghanistan, as well as on fight against such threats as drug trafficking and terrorism.
The situation in Central Asia, as well as bilateral economiccooperation will be discussed at talks of the Russian leader with Uzbek President Islam Karimov and Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Prikhodko said.
According to Prikhodko, "there is a possibility Medvedev will have a bilateral meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and work to this end is in progress." Contacts with Lukashenko within the framework of the summit and on the sidelines of the event will certainly take place.
According to the presidential aide, Medvedev plans to meet with his Macedonian counterpart Branko Crvenkovski. "It is important for us to learn their opinion on the situation on the territory of former Yugoslavia, on Kosovo and the situation in the Balkans on the whole,"Prikhodko noted.
The Kremlin gets ready for the talks, noting that some of them will be quite thorny, in particular talks with the presidents of Georgia and Ukraine.
"We have a lot to discuss with (Ukrainian President) Viktor Yushchenko," Kremlin aide Sergei Prikhodko said. According to him, the presidents will have to try to remove at talks contradictions, which some forces in Ukraine use to attain their ends, which mars interstaterelations.
In particular, they will discuss the Russian Black Sea Fleet, NATO, an inter-church dialogue, as well as Kiev's review of historical realias.
"The conversation will be hard, but we are not drawing the line, we are ready to move forward," Prikhodko stressed. "We shall maintain the dialogue persistently and in a confident manner. We shall considerrelations with Ukraine as a complex," he noted.
Too many things unite Russia and Ukraine to make some politicallyshort-sighted politicians destroy that, he stressed.
The Kremlin is also getting ready for a difficult conversation with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Prikhodko declined to give a detailed forecast as concerns the upcoming talks.
However, the Kremlin press service reported that in a telephone conversation on June 3, the two leaders agreed to continue discussing Russian assistance in the restoration of railways in Abkhazia. Regional peace and stability as well as concrete issues of Russian-Georgian cooperation are also on the agenda.
Medvedev plans no separate meetings only with Kazakh President Nursulatan Nazarbayev, with whom he held talks in Astana not long ago,Prikhodko said on Tuesday.
Apart from talks with the Georgian leader, he will meet with theleaders of two other Transcaucasian republics - Azerbaijan and Armenia.
According to Prikhodko, both talks will focus on trade and economic cooperation, as well as on the situation in the region. In particular, they "will possibly discuss the settlement in Nagorno Karabakh".
Cooperation on the Caspian Sea is also a potential topic for talks with Azerbaijani President Ilkham Aliyev.
The Dniester Region settlement will be in the focus of attention at talks of the Russian leader with his Moldovan counterpart. "We welcome the dialogue which Moldova conducts with the leadership of the Dniester Region," Prikhodko said. Besides, the sides will discuss economic cooperation. "Our mood is rather positive," the Kremlin aide said.
Focusing on upcoming talks with President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, he said Russia "pays tribute to the leadership of the republic and the moves it makes to solve economic, social and other tasks".
He said Russia highly appreciates the attention, which Berdymukhamedov personally pays to the deepening of relations with Russia and his bid to implement economic projects. He stressed that there are no major problems in cooperation between Ashgabat and Moscow at the present moment.
As for the Tajik leader, Emomali Rakhmon, Medvedev will discuss with him concrete aspects of trade and economic cooperation, in particular in the hydropower engineering. Besides, the two leaders expect to exchange opinions on the situation in the region, including in Afghanistan, as well as on fight against such threats as drug trafficking and terrorism.
The situation in Central Asia, as well as bilateral economiccooperation will be discussed at talks of the Russian leader with Uzbek President Islam Karimov and Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Prikhodko said.
According to Prikhodko, "there is a possibility Medvedev will have a bilateral meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and work to this end is in progress." Contacts with Lukashenko within the framework of the summit and on the sidelines of the event will certainly take place.
According to the presidential aide, Medvedev plans to meet with his Macedonian counterpart Branko Crvenkovski. "It is important for us to learn their opinion on the situation on the territory of former Yugoslavia, on Kosovo and the situation in the Balkans on the whole,"Prikhodko noted.
