Russia willing to help US with accident in Gulf of Mexico

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FUKUI, June 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia is prepared to provide any
assistance to the US in overcoming the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico,
the head of Russia's delegation to the ministerial meeting of
member-countries and territories of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Forum, Russia's Deputy Minister of Energy, Stanislav Svetlitsky, said.
"Russia is prepared to provide any assistance the US may require, but
we have not heard from them yet," he said.
"This problem is everybody's concern, of course," Svetlitsky said.
"The consequences of the accident were touched upon in the speeches of
representatives of Japan, Mexico, Canada and the United States."
They show "there is no clear picture of the situation or the actions
the US plans to undertake," he said. "It is too early to speak about the
reasons as the investigation is still in process."
"We expect a report from our American counterparts," he continued. "We
shall reconsider the ecological and technological expertise of the
projects in the Russian Federation."
The agenda of the ministerial meeting includes energy security,
efficiency and saving. The participants are expected to adopt a joint
declaration. The declaration items, which will be based on suggestions
from Japan, the chair over this year, will be considered over the
preparations for the APEC summit due in Yokohama on November 13-14.
The APEC unites 21 countries, including Russia, China, the USA, South
Korea and Japan. The economies of the member-states produce half of the
world's GDP. Russia has been taking part in the forum since 1997 and will
host a summit in Vladivostok in the Russkiy Island in 2012.


.Omsk invites compatriots in Germany to move to Siberia.

OMSK, June 20 (Itar-Tass) -- The government of Russia's Omsk Region
will present its programme of support for compatriots wishing to move in
from abroad.
The presentation, due on June 25 in Germany's Frankfurt on the Main,
will be made by "civil organizations and coordination committees of former
Russian Germans from different parts of Germany," the first deputy
chairman of Omsk government, Andrei Besshtanko, said on Saturday.
"Over ten months of the programme, the Irtysh territory of our region
has attracted 360 compatriots from different countries of the works - they
have filed their applications for moving in," he said. "85 have already
become residents of Siberia."
"We plan to provide more detailed information mostly in places where
former Soviet and Russian citizens live," he added.
They are mostly able-bodied people and a half of them are between 20
and 35, others are under 50. Most of them have university or college
degrees, Besshtanko said.
Russia's 20 constituent territories take part in the federal programme
- the Compatriots. Under the programme, the federal government will
support families which choose to move back to Russia. The biggest feedback
came from Russian-speaking residents of the CIS countries, especially in
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Tajikistan.
The Omsk Region has the third biggest ethnic group of Germans,
attracts the biggest number of Russia's compatriots.


.Vladivostok, Marseilles railroad stations to exchange experience.

VLADIVOSTOK, June 20 (Itar-Tass) -- Railroad stations of Russia's
Vladivostok /Far East/ and France's Marseilles will exchange experience,
as stated in the agreement between Vladivostok's station and S ,
The agreement covers management of the railway stations, the
integration of Russia's RZD /Railroads Company/ into the international
transportation system and the development of tourism, the press secretary
of the Vladivostok's division of Russia's Far East Railroads, Alexander
Artamonov, said.
France's experts came to Vladivostok in the framework of the Year of
France in Russia. They inspected the railroad station and learned about
the services for passengers there. The members of the delegation greeted a
group of France's writers who crossed Russia by the Trans-Siberian
railroad route.

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