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Reps of 22 countries to gather for climate change forum in Rome.
ROME, June 30 (Itar-Tass) - Representatives of the world's 22 leading countries, the European Commission and the United Nations will gather for a climate change forum in Rome on Wednesday.
According to the Italian Ministry for Environment, the forum's
organizer, the agenda will include measures of prevention of climatic
changes, financial support for these measures and the monitoring and
analysis of actions aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The Rome forum is expected to start preparations for the Clean Energy
Ministerial Meeting to be held in Washington in July and a conference of
parties- signatories of the United Nations framework convention on climate
change to be held in Cancun in Mexico late this year.
Alexander Berditsky, a presidential adviser and special envoy for
climate change, will represent Russia at the forum.
.Russian FM, Egyptian leaders to discuss expansion of bilateral ties.
CAIRO, June 30 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
will meet Egyptian leaders on Wednesday to discuss expansion of bilateral
cooperation and the Palestinian-Israeli settlement.
The Russian foreign minister will be received by President Hosni
Mubarak. Lavrov will meet the League of Arab States Secretary-General Amr
Musa after that. A day earlier, on Wednesday, Lavrov had held talks with
his Egyptian opposite number Ahmed Abdul Gheit.
Special attention will be paid to the situation in the Middle East in
the context of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement, in which Cairo plays an
active role. Lavrov will inform his Egyptian colleagues about the talks he
had held in Israel and in the Palestinian National Autonomy on June 28-29.
After his meetings in Jerusalem, Lavrov said that Russia considered
the Middle East 'quartet' to be a useful mechanism, which is definitely
insufficient at this stage. In this connection, the Russian minister said
that an agreement had been reached to expand contacts with an appropriate
committee of the League of Arab States on developing the Arab peace
initiative. He also confirmed Moscow's position to continue a dialogue
with the HAMAS Islamic resistance movement. Moscow is doing the right
thing when it contacts HAMAS to advance the positions of the 'quartet' and
the entire world community, Lavrov said.
"We began maintaining contacts with this movement after a considerable
part of the Palestinians voted for them in elections. In the course of all
our contacts we've been trying to persuade HAMAS to accept the PLO
platform. Certain shifts have been made," Lavrov stressed.
Lavrov spoke about the need to step up economic development of Gaza,
which is going to be impossible without everyday contacts with HAMAS.
"The process is complicated but if we don't tackle this issue, we are
unlikely to achieve results," the Russian foreign minister added.
Lavrov and Egyptian leaders will also discuss the implementation of
the Treaty on Strategic Partnership, which provides for the development of
interaction in foreign policy between the two countries, especially in
regional matters.
Promising projects in trade, economic and other spheres will be vital
topics for discussion.
"Despite the world financial crisis, the indicators of the
Russian-Egyptian ties haven't decreased. Egypt continues to be Russia's
leading partners in the region in terms of trade and tourism," Russian
Foreign Ministry's spokesman Andrei Nesterenko stressed.
Sergei Lavrov and Amr Musa will discuss practical launch of the
mechanism of the Russian-Arab cooperation forum. Its task is to expand the
range of multi-dimensional interaction between Russia and the Arab world.
In the meantime, the president of the Russian Autonomous Republic of
Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, believes that Russia, and Tatarstan in
particular, have good prospects for developing ties with the Arab Muslim
world.
"Everything that we do today to develop contacts with the Islamic
world has a big future. The Russian leadership understands this, and gives
support to these undertakings in every possible way," Minnikhanov said at
a reception in the Kazan Kremlin, which was given on Tuesday in honor of
the ambassadors of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Russia. They had
attended the 11th International forum of Islamic business and finance in
Kazan.
Tatarstan cooperates with 42 members of the Organization of the
Islamic Conference. The republic's annual trade turnover with the Islamic
world has increased from 93 million to three billion dollars in recent
years. That accounts for 23% of the republic's foreign trade volumes.
At the same time, President Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan should
upgrade its relations with Muslim countries and bring them to a
qualitatively new level.
" I agree that it's necessary to develop trade and economic relations,
make investments in Russia's economy, develop cultural and scientific ties
and find points of contact in developing tourism," said Kuwait's
Ambassador to Russia, Nasser Hadji Ibrahim Al-Muzayan.
Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, will host the third forum of Islamic
business and finance in 2011.
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According to the Italian Ministry for Environment, the forum's
organizer, the agenda will include measures of prevention of climatic
changes, financial support for these measures and the monitoring and
analysis of actions aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The Rome forum is expected to start preparations for the Clean Energy
Ministerial Meeting to be held in Washington in July and a conference of
parties- signatories of the United Nations framework convention on climate
change to be held in Cancun in Mexico late this year.
Alexander Berditsky, a presidential adviser and special envoy for
climate change, will represent Russia at the forum.
.Russian FM, Egyptian leaders to discuss expansion of bilateral ties.
CAIRO, June 30 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
will meet Egyptian leaders on Wednesday to discuss expansion of bilateral
cooperation and the Palestinian-Israeli settlement.
The Russian foreign minister will be received by President Hosni
Mubarak. Lavrov will meet the League of Arab States Secretary-General Amr
Musa after that. A day earlier, on Wednesday, Lavrov had held talks with
his Egyptian opposite number Ahmed Abdul Gheit.
Special attention will be paid to the situation in the Middle East in
the context of the Palestinian-Israeli settlement, in which Cairo plays an
active role. Lavrov will inform his Egyptian colleagues about the talks he
had held in Israel and in the Palestinian National Autonomy on June 28-29.
After his meetings in Jerusalem, Lavrov said that Russia considered
the Middle East 'quartet' to be a useful mechanism, which is definitely
insufficient at this stage. In this connection, the Russian minister said
that an agreement had been reached to expand contacts with an appropriate
committee of the League of Arab States on developing the Arab peace
initiative. He also confirmed Moscow's position to continue a dialogue
with the HAMAS Islamic resistance movement. Moscow is doing the right
thing when it contacts HAMAS to advance the positions of the 'quartet' and
the entire world community, Lavrov said.
"We began maintaining contacts with this movement after a considerable
part of the Palestinians voted for them in elections. In the course of all
our contacts we've been trying to persuade HAMAS to accept the PLO
platform. Certain shifts have been made," Lavrov stressed.
Lavrov spoke about the need to step up economic development of Gaza,
which is going to be impossible without everyday contacts with HAMAS.
"The process is complicated but if we don't tackle this issue, we are
unlikely to achieve results," the Russian foreign minister added.
Lavrov and Egyptian leaders will also discuss the implementation of
the Treaty on Strategic Partnership, which provides for the development of
interaction in foreign policy between the two countries, especially in
regional matters.
Promising projects in trade, economic and other spheres will be vital
topics for discussion.
"Despite the world financial crisis, the indicators of the
Russian-Egyptian ties haven't decreased. Egypt continues to be Russia's
leading partners in the region in terms of trade and tourism," Russian
Foreign Ministry's spokesman Andrei Nesterenko stressed.
Sergei Lavrov and Amr Musa will discuss practical launch of the
mechanism of the Russian-Arab cooperation forum. Its task is to expand the
range of multi-dimensional interaction between Russia and the Arab world.
In the meantime, the president of the Russian Autonomous Republic of
Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, believes that Russia, and Tatarstan in
particular, have good prospects for developing ties with the Arab Muslim
world.
"Everything that we do today to develop contacts with the Islamic
world has a big future. The Russian leadership understands this, and gives
support to these undertakings in every possible way," Minnikhanov said at
a reception in the Kazan Kremlin, which was given on Tuesday in honor of
the ambassadors of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Russia. They had
attended the 11th International forum of Islamic business and finance in
Kazan.
Tatarstan cooperates with 42 members of the Organization of the
Islamic Conference. The republic's annual trade turnover with the Islamic
world has increased from 93 million to three billion dollars in recent
years. That accounts for 23% of the republic's foreign trade volumes.
At the same time, President Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan should
upgrade its relations with Muslim countries and bring them to a
qualitatively new level.
" I agree that it's necessary to develop trade and economic relations,
make investments in Russia's economy, develop cultural and scientific ties
and find points of contact in developing tourism," said Kuwait's
Ambassador to Russia, Nasser Hadji Ibrahim Al-Muzayan.
Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, will host the third forum of Islamic
business and finance in 2011.
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