Moscow, Wash fix documents to be adopted during pres visit.

MOSCOW, June 22 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow and Washington have fixed about
ten documents and joint statements that are to be adopted during Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev's upcoming visit to the United States. The visit
begins on Tuesday. Presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said that the
leaders' joint statement on the situation in Kyrgyzstan might be among the
above-mentioned documents.
"It is planned that the leaders will adopt joint statements on efforts
to promote greater openness of public administration, on strategic
stability, on Russo-American cooperation in the fight against terrorism,
on strategic partnership in the field of innovations, as well as,
possibly, a number of statements on regional problems," Prikhodko said.
In response to a question as to whether he referred to a separate
document on the situation in Kyrgyzstan, the presidential aide said, "Work
is in progress". "We are busy planning out, and working on it," he said.
"Such a document must show our common concern over the situation in the
republic, and uphold the coordinated international reaction," Prikhodko
explained. In so doing, he emphasized, "Nothing is said in the (draft)
statement about a US military base".
Commenting on the other statements that are being prepared, the
presidential aide said a Joint statement on strategic stability would be
of framework nature. "It is lacking any specific timeframe or dates," he
said. "This is, rather, our estimate concerning the situation around the
START Treaty, joint efforts towards its ratification, and the activities
of the working group on arms control," Prikhodko specified.
"All in all, there will be about ten documents, although some of them
are still being coordinated," he said. "On the sidelines" of the visit,
commercial companies and agencies of the two countries are also planning
to sign a number of contracts and agreements.

.Russo-Chinese panel on ecology meets in Khabarovsk Tue.

KHABAROVSK, June 22 (Itar-Tass) - A session of the subcommission of
the Russo-Chinese commission on cooperation in the field of environmental
protection is held here on Tuesday. The session is to be attended by Yuri
Trutnev, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology.
Trutnev, who arrived here on Monday, told journalists, "We consider it
important to meet precisely here, in Khabarovsk Territory, not in Moscow
or Beijing offices, and to see on the spot how rivers look like, what
pollution dynamics is, how it is reduced, and which problems remain
unresolved".
The Minister pointed out, "The Chinese side attaches much attention to
matters aimed at improving the sanitary condition of the Amur (Heilong
Jiang) River catchment area, and allocated more than $1,500 million for
programmes to build purifying installations and make healthier the Sungari
(Songhua Jiang) River, the major tributary of the Amur".
The Russo-Chinese cooperation commission was set up in 2008 on the
initiative of the governments of the two countries for joint work to
improve the ecological condition of the basin of the transborder river
Amur.
An official at the Khabarovsk Territory Ministry of Natural Resources
has told Itar-Tass that it is expected that the Ministers of Natural
Resources of Russia and China, Yuri Trutnev and Zhou Shengxian, will sign
a cooperation protocol as a result of the subcommission's session.
A meeting on the problems of the Amur River is also to be held here,
with the two Ministers attending.

.Russia FM to attend Weimar Discussions meeting in France.

PARIS, June 22 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sergei Lavrov begins a visit to France on Tuesday. The problems of
ensuring regional and European security will be the focus of attention
during the visit.
A French Foreign Ministry official said this subject would be the main
one at a meeting in the format of Weimar Discussions, due to be held here
on Wednesday. The Foreign ministers of France, Russia, Germany, and Poland
will take part in the discussion.
Russia will be for the first time represented at these informal
consultations that have been held by Paris, Berlin, and Warsaw at various
political levels for almost two decades now. This forum was brought into
being at the beginning of the 1990s on the initiative of German diplomacy
in order to "draw on the experience in the postwar development of
Franco-German relations in the process of German-Polish reconciliation".
The participating countries regard this consultative format as an
instrument for the invigoration of the political dialogue and cooperation.
A number of meetings between Foreign ministers and the leaders of the
three countries have been held within the scope of the forum. Meetings are
also held by defence, finance, and law ministers of the three countries.
Experts believe that the "triangle" has played an important role in
bringing Poland and the European Union closer together.
French diplomats say that the invitation to Russia to participate in
the Weimar Discussions-format meeting reflects the partners' intention "to
orient cooperation to Eastern Europe as well".
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