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Medvedev to raise visa-free travel issue at Deauville meeting.
MOSCOW, October 16 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
hopes for the support of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel in the soonest solution of the visa-free travel
issue between Russia and the EU.
This issue will be discussed at the Deauville meeting on October
18-19, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said.
These kinds of meetings, which give political impulses, bring the
partners closer to the understanding of the necessity of real work,"
Prikhodko said, underlining that "given the scope of traveling, much
depends on the position of France and Germany. Dmitry Medvedev hopes for
their support."
"At the same time, we understand our responsibility. /Germany and
France/ are competent conversation partners, the "heavyweights," who have
the right to ask questions of their own, such as the system of
registration of foreigners in Russia, and we're ready to treat the
questions of our leading partners as seriously," the presidential aide
said.
He reminded about the president's decree on skilled foreign
specialists' staying in Russia.
"We'll be simplifying the registration procedure and already are doing
so; we'll simplify the issue of visas, launch modern methods to transfer
visa information and are introducing biometric passports, Prikhodko said.
"Medvedev, Merkel and Sarkozy will discuss - ahead of the Russia-EU
summit in Brussels on December 7 -- the initiative which Russia voiced at
the Rostov-on-Don top-level meeting: the draft agreement to drop visas in
Russia-EU relations and general easing of the visa regimes with other
countries. They will also consider the stepping up of the innovative
element of our economics, and the condition and development of European
interaction in electric power engineering," the Kremlin official said.
Prikhodko said the issue of concluding a new Russia-EU strategic
partnership agreement would not be discussed in detail in Deauville.
"We expect the leaders of France and Germany to state their
preferences and priorities which they wish to see in the new treaty; and
they might possibly suggest the timeframe for its signing," Prikhodko
noted.
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hopes for the support of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German
Chancellor Angela Merkel in the soonest solution of the visa-free travel
issue between Russia and the EU.
This issue will be discussed at the Deauville meeting on October
18-19, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said.
These kinds of meetings, which give political impulses, bring the
partners closer to the understanding of the necessity of real work,"
Prikhodko said, underlining that "given the scope of traveling, much
depends on the position of France and Germany. Dmitry Medvedev hopes for
their support."
"At the same time, we understand our responsibility. /Germany and
France/ are competent conversation partners, the "heavyweights," who have
the right to ask questions of their own, such as the system of
registration of foreigners in Russia, and we're ready to treat the
questions of our leading partners as seriously," the presidential aide
said.
He reminded about the president's decree on skilled foreign
specialists' staying in Russia.
"We'll be simplifying the registration procedure and already are doing
so; we'll simplify the issue of visas, launch modern methods to transfer
visa information and are introducing biometric passports, Prikhodko said.
"Medvedev, Merkel and Sarkozy will discuss - ahead of the Russia-EU
summit in Brussels on December 7 -- the initiative which Russia voiced at
the Rostov-on-Don top-level meeting: the draft agreement to drop visas in
Russia-EU relations and general easing of the visa regimes with other
countries. They will also consider the stepping up of the innovative
element of our economics, and the condition and development of European
interaction in electric power engineering," the Kremlin official said.
Prikhodko said the issue of concluding a new Russia-EU strategic
partnership agreement would not be discussed in detail in Deauville.
"We expect the leaders of France and Germany to state their
preferences and priorities which they wish to see in the new treaty; and
they might possibly suggest the timeframe for its signing," Prikhodko
noted.
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