Georgia's PM to discuss in China further economic cooperation

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TBILISI, October 24 (Itar-Tass) -- Georgia's Prime Minister Nika
Gilauri will discuss deepening of trade and economic cooperation with
China over his five-day visit to the People's Republic of China, which
starts on Sunday.
Gilauri will have meetings in Beijing and Shanghai with China's
leaders and businesses to discuss deeper economic cooperation and possible
increase of China's investments in the economy of Georgia.
Georgia's government said that the visit "is of a very big importance,
because the two countries have friendly and partner relations and their
further development is important both for Georgia and China."
On October 28, Gilauri will visit the international exhibition
Expo-2010 in Shanghai, where he will take part in the Day of Georgia's
national pavilion. He will make a presentation of Georgia's arts,
agricultural products and other objects.
Over several past years, cooperation between Georgia and China has
become more active in trade and economic spheres and in energy, though
China has not been a leading international partner of Georgia. During
January-August of the current year the export from Georgia to China made
1.24 million dollars and the import from China made 26.7 million dollars,
Georgia's National Statistics Service reports.


.Caucasus youth to help Ivanovo children who suffered of terrorism.

MOSCOW, October 24 (Itar-Tass) -- Representatives of the Caucasus
youth will assist students of the Ivanovo boarding school who lost their
parents in acts of terrorism. The unique action has united representatives
of the North Caucasus various nations - from Chechnya, Ingushetia and
Ossetia.
The Youth committee of Russia's Congress of the Caucasus Nations
supported by the administration of the city of Ivanovo and the fund
Support for the Development of Karachayevo-Balkar Youth called Elbrusoid
are the organisers of the action.
On October 24, about 50 young people will take part in the event. They
will come to Ivanovo, where about 400 children live and study. Among them
there are those whose parents were killed in acts of terrorism.
"The youth want to demonstrate that our children are common and that
terrorism does not have a nationality," leader of the Youth committee of
Russia's Congress of the Caucasus Nations, Sultan Togonidze, said.
"Terrorism which brought pain and sufferings to Beslan /South Ossetia/ and
terrorism which left these children without parents are the same, and all
nations suffer from it."
Organisers and participants in the action want to show to the children
that "they are not alone in this world." The guests will bring presents to
the children and later on they will visit victims of the recent act of
terrorism in Vladikavkaz who are being treated in the Vishnevsky Institute.
The present action is unique, as it will unite young people from
Ossetia and Ingushetia "as if showing that pain is common always."
The boarding school in Ivanovo is one of Russia's biggest boarding
schools. It is called sometimes as Interdom /dom means home in Russian/.
It was organised in 1933 as an international boarding school to host
children, whose parents were imprisoned by reaction and fascist regimes.
First children came there from Germany, Greece, Austria, Bulgaria,
Hungary, Italy, Spain and even China. Over its history, children from
almost 80 countries lived there, including Iran, Greece, Chile, Angola,
Ethiopia and Nigeria.
During the Soviet times, children from the zone of the Chernobyl
catastrophe were brought there. Over the past few years, over 400 children
from uneasy parts of Russia and from abroad lived there.


.Rossotrudnichestvo celebrates 85th anniversary.

BERLIN, October 24 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Federal agency on the CIS,
compatriots abroad and on international humanitariam coopeation /
Rossotrudnichestvo / celebrated its 85th anniversary on Saturday. A series
of events for the date was organised in Russia's House of science and
culture in Berlin. The Russian House, as it is called there, is the major
representation of Rossotrudnichestvo abroad.
The federal agency is the legal successor of the Russian centre for
international scientific and cultural coopeation supervised by the Foreign
Ministry. Over the past years the names of the organisation changed
several times, but its tasks and aims remained unaltered: "to share with
the rest of the world the best we have - Russia's unique cultural and
creative potential," Russia's Ambassador in Germany Vladimir Grinin said.
The organisation's jubilee is "in fact the 85th anniversary of our public
diplomacy."
The participants in the celebration ceremony spoke about the input of
the Russian House in the development of counteraction between the two
countries. Germany's capital, Grinin said, "has always enjoyed a special
position in Russia's cultural policies, and Rossotrudnichestvo is a
liaison between the Motherland and our compatriots."
Director of the Russian House Mikhail Vladimir said that
Rossotrudnichestvo is very young - just 25 years old.
"We are proud to be well known in Berlin," he said.
Every year, over 250,000 guests come to the House, and over the past
quarter of a century, there had been 10 million visitors, he said.
Vice President of Germany's non-governmental organisation called the
German-Russian Forum Martin Hoffmann said that over 85 years there had
been may positive pages, but there were also wars, and the cold war was
one of them. The organisations like Rossotrudnichestvo were "important
bridges at those times," he said. The cold war was over especially for
such bridges.
Rossotrudnichestvo "acts as a bridge thus being a liaison in the
development of the dialogue," Hoffmann said.

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