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Putin, Chavez discuss energy, Russian supplies
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MOSCOW, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin had a telephone conversation with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez
on Thursday, the government press service said.
"Putin and Chavez discussed various issues of bilateral trade and
economic relations, including several aspects of Russian-Venezuelan
interaction in the energy sphere, as well as in the sphere of supplies of
machinery and equipment from Russia," it said.
They also agreed the schedule of bilateral contacts for early 2010,
the press service said.
.Russia, Venezuela to set up 4-bln dollar bank.
CARACAS, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia and Venezuela will set up
in early 2010 a joint bank with an authorized capital of four billion
dollars, according to Venezuela's Economy and Finance Minister Ali
Rodriguez.
The bank will finance bilateral trade and economic projects, the
minister told Tass on Thursday.
The major energy project is the Junin-6 bloc in the Orinoco River
belt where a Russian-Venezuelan joint venture plans to daily produce 450
thousand barrels of heavy and extra heavy oil.
Rodriguez said bank activities would expand to the countries of the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), which comprises
Bolivia, Honduras, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Antigua and
Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Commonwealth of
Dominica.
The intergovernmental agreement to set up the bank headquartered in
Moscow and with a branch in Caracas was signed in late June.
.Belarus begins housing construction in Venezuela.
CARACAS, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Belarus began housing construction
in Venezuela, which is to produce 72 buildings with a total of 2160
apartments in a year.
Venezuela's Vice-President Ramon Carrizales and Belarussian
presidential aide at large Viktor Sheiman on Thursday visited the
construction site in Aragua state. Belarus has to erect a total of five
thousand apartments in Venezuela, according to the signed contracts.
Sheiman said besides housing, Belarus will erect kindergartens,
schools and polyclinics and will create production facilities" in Aragua.
President Hugo Chavez met Sheiman on Wednesday saying relations with
Belarus had "a strategic character."
Sheiman co-chairs bilateral high-level intergovernmental commission
which met in Caracas to prepare a visit of Belarussian President Alexander
Lukashenko in January.
.Russia builds railway to bypass flooded mine.
NOVO-OGAREVO, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia completed the
construction of a 53-kilometer long railway to bypass the sinkhole of a
collapsed and flooded pit in the Perm region.
Russian Railways Company (RZD) head Vladimir Yakunin told Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday the 12.3 billion ruble project lifted
all risks posed by the expanding sinkhole at Verkhnekamsk potash mine near
the settlement of Berezniki to railway traffic in the area.
The pit sank and was flooded in 2006 by water that burst from the salt
rock. Local residents had to be resettled as their buildings could
collapse into the sinkhole, as well as the nearby railway that delivered
cargoes to local chemical enterprises.
"We completed the construction of the railway object 10 months ahead
of schedule," Yakunin reported adding the project comprises five bridges
and water drainage systems at each kilometer.
He said the construction of one kilometer cost 199 million rubles and
the project was jointly financed by the state and private enterprise.
The federal budget earmarked close to seven billion rubles, while the
rest was provided by RZD and mining companies. "Three billion rubles of
costs remain unpaid and we are currently negotiating their repayment on
parity basis with companies," Yakunin said.
Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev said private companies have
agreed to pay one billion rubles of the remaining costs. They also
financed the resettlement of 1127 local residents and provided 494 million
rubles for the construction of an emergency temporary railway bypass. Six
billion rubles of private investments went to the construction of the
53-km railway.
"Thus, the total contribution of private companies to railway
construction and other works comprised 8.8 billion rubles," Trutnev said.
"Stable work of the enterprises did not stop for a single day," he
added.
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MOSCOW, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin had a telephone conversation with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez
on Thursday, the government press service said.
"Putin and Chavez discussed various issues of bilateral trade and
economic relations, including several aspects of Russian-Venezuelan
interaction in the energy sphere, as well as in the sphere of supplies of
machinery and equipment from Russia," it said.
They also agreed the schedule of bilateral contacts for early 2010,
the press service said.
.Russia, Venezuela to set up 4-bln dollar bank.
CARACAS, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia and Venezuela will set up
in early 2010 a joint bank with an authorized capital of four billion
dollars, according to Venezuela's Economy and Finance Minister Ali
Rodriguez.
The bank will finance bilateral trade and economic projects, the
minister told Tass on Thursday.
The major energy project is the Junin-6 bloc in the Orinoco River
belt where a Russian-Venezuelan joint venture plans to daily produce 450
thousand barrels of heavy and extra heavy oil.
Rodriguez said bank activities would expand to the countries of the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), which comprises
Bolivia, Honduras, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Antigua and
Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the Commonwealth of
Dominica.
The intergovernmental agreement to set up the bank headquartered in
Moscow and with a branch in Caracas was signed in late June.
.Belarus begins housing construction in Venezuela.
CARACAS, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Belarus began housing construction
in Venezuela, which is to produce 72 buildings with a total of 2160
apartments in a year.
Venezuela's Vice-President Ramon Carrizales and Belarussian
presidential aide at large Viktor Sheiman on Thursday visited the
construction site in Aragua state. Belarus has to erect a total of five
thousand apartments in Venezuela, according to the signed contracts.
Sheiman said besides housing, Belarus will erect kindergartens,
schools and polyclinics and will create production facilities" in Aragua.
President Hugo Chavez met Sheiman on Wednesday saying relations with
Belarus had "a strategic character."
Sheiman co-chairs bilateral high-level intergovernmental commission
which met in Caracas to prepare a visit of Belarussian President Alexander
Lukashenko in January.
.Russia builds railway to bypass flooded mine.
NOVO-OGAREVO, December 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia completed the
construction of a 53-kilometer long railway to bypass the sinkhole of a
collapsed and flooded pit in the Perm region.
Russian Railways Company (RZD) head Vladimir Yakunin told Prime
Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday the 12.3 billion ruble project lifted
all risks posed by the expanding sinkhole at Verkhnekamsk potash mine near
the settlement of Berezniki to railway traffic in the area.
The pit sank and was flooded in 2006 by water that burst from the salt
rock. Local residents had to be resettled as their buildings could
collapse into the sinkhole, as well as the nearby railway that delivered
cargoes to local chemical enterprises.
"We completed the construction of the railway object 10 months ahead
of schedule," Yakunin reported adding the project comprises five bridges
and water drainage systems at each kilometer.
He said the construction of one kilometer cost 199 million rubles and
the project was jointly financed by the state and private enterprise.
The federal budget earmarked close to seven billion rubles, while the
rest was provided by RZD and mining companies. "Three billion rubles of
costs remain unpaid and we are currently negotiating their repayment on
parity basis with companies," Yakunin said.
Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev said private companies have
agreed to pay one billion rubles of the remaining costs. They also
financed the resettlement of 1127 local residents and provided 494 million
rubles for the construction of an emergency temporary railway bypass. Six
billion rubles of private investments went to the construction of the
53-km railway.
"Thus, the total contribution of private companies to railway
construction and other works comprised 8.8 billion rubles," Trutnev said.
"Stable work of the enterprises did not stop for a single day," he
added.
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