Medvedev to devote whole day to Petersburg Economic Forum.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev on Friday will devote the whole day to the St. Petersburg
Economic Forum. He will speak at a plenary meeting and hold a series of meetings with businesspeople.

Medvedev will open the main programme of the forum at the plenary
meeting, which, as RF presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said, would be
devoted to post-crisis development of the world economy and is called "We
have changed."
"The president's programme includes several meetings with the business
community," Dvorkovich said. In particular, "Medvedev is expected to meet
with representatives of energy companies after the Global Energy session,
at which the future of the market of natural gas will be discussed," he
said. "Next, the head of state will have talks with executives of the
world's largest financial companies that will be on the consultative
council for forming an international financial centre in Moscow," he
continued. "Then, he will meet with technological innovation companies,
whose executives will enter the Council of the managing company of the
Skolkovo Foundation," Dvorkovich noted.
Medvedev also plans meetings with representatives of major American
companies.
Also on Friday, Medvedev will participate in the ceremony to award the
Global Energy Prize. It is an independent scientific award, the only prize
in the world given for fundamental research and inventions providing new
opportunities in the development of power generation. It was founded in
November 2002, and the first award-giving ceremony took place in St.
Petersburg on June 15, 2003. More than 20 scientists from eight countries,
half of them Russians, have become its laureates since. This year the
prize has been awarded to two academicians - Ukrainian Boris Paton and
Russian Alexander Leontyev.
Medvedev will also hold a number of bilateral meetings, in particular,
with Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov, Prime Minister of Slovenia Borut
Pahor and Secretary General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa.
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.Medvedev to discuss bilateral relations with Macedonia president.

ST. P ETERSBURG, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Within the framework of the XIV
Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev will hold a meeting with Macedonian President Gjorge
Ivanov who is St. Petersburg on a working visit from June 16 to 19.
The Kremlin press service reported that during the top-level talks the
parties intend to discuss in detail the state of and prospects for the
development of Russian-Macedonian relations, to consider important
international and regional problems.
Among priorities of cooperation for both countries there are the
trade-economic, fuel and energy and investment spheres. In the context of
the joint work for the improvement of the contractual legal framework the
sides intend to give an impetus to the preparation of a number of
intergovernmental documents, including in the sphere of railway transport,
in the education sphere, on the establishment in Moscow and Skopje of the
two countries' cultural centres.
In the humanitarian interaction sphere the sides plan a major project
- to hold the Russian Spiritual Culture Days in Macedonia this autumn and
the Macedonian Culture Days in Russia in 2011. These events are to promote
the further strengthening of cultural relations between the two countries.
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.Medvedev sees no need to send RF troops to Kyrgyzstan.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev believes there is no need to send Russian troops to Kyrgyzstan
for the normalisation of the situation there.
"As for the appeals to us regarding the use of the Russian
peacekeeping contingent, so far, in any case as it appears to me, there is
no need in that, and our Kyrgyz partners have so far recalled their
request, in essence, because they should cope with this situation
themselves," Medvedev stated in an interview to The Wall Street Journal.
"It is an internal problem. And I hope that they will be able to finally
settle it," he said. "Time will show," the president added.
"I hope that the leadership of Kyrgyzstan will after all will do all
that depends on it in order to raise its authority and establish order,"
Medvedev said noting that "already now the situation in the south of
Kyrgyzstan is close to a humanitarian catastrophe."
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.Medvedev hopes interest of RF partners in BP to be insured.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 18 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev hopes that the interests of Russian partners of British Petroleum
(BP) will be insured in the event of company's problems following the
crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.
"We would like, after all, let's have its straight, to have the
interests of Russian investors who created the joint business with PB,
ensured one way or the other," Medvedev told The World Street Journal in
an interview.
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