RF transport minister to discuss economic cooperation in Poland.

WARSAW, November 27 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Transport Minister Igor
Levitin on Saturday will discuss in Poland prospects for bilateral
economic and trading cooperation. He arrived in the Polish capital on
Friday night, and today he is to meet with his counterpart, Minister of
Infrastructure Cezary Grabarczyk.
According to the Ministry of Transport's statement, the two parties at
a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation
"will discuss prospects for trading and economic cooperation, exchange
information about the current state of the economies of Russia and Poland,
consider progress in the implementation of decisions made at the third
session of the Russian-Polish intergovernmental commission on economic
cooperation, and outline a program for activities in the forthcoming
period."
Sources at Poland's Ministry of Infrastructure told Itar-Tass it was
not ruled out that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's forthcoming visit
to Warsaw, as well as the content of the bilateral agreement on maritime
transport might be among the themes to be discussed at the talks.
According to the local TV channel TVN24, the head of the Interstate
Aviation Committee (IAC), Tatiana Anodina, was scheduled to arrive in
Poland together with Levitin. There has been no confirmation of this
either from Polish officials or the Russian Embassy. According to
journalists, the visit may be associated with Poland's draft amendments to
the report of the IAC technical committee concerning the Polish
presidential plane crash near Smolensk last April.
This document was handed over to Warsaw for review on October 20. It
contains 72 conclusions regarding the direct and indirect causes of the
disaster, and also seven recommendations concerning civil air transport.
Poland, in accordance with the rules of the Chicago Convention, was given
60 days to formulate its position. This term expires on December 19.

.CSTO chief to meet with Armenia's top political, military officials.

MOSCOW, November 27 (Itar-Tass) -- The secretary-general of the
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha will
arrive in Armenia on a working visit on Saturday, CSTO spokesman Vladimir
Zaynetdinov said.
Bordyuzha is scheduled to meet with Armenia's top political and
military officials: President Serzh Sargsyan, Foreign Minister Eduard
Nalbandian and Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian, and secretary of the
National Security Council Arthur Baghdasaryan.
"This is a planned trip and part of preparations for the upcoming
session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in early December. Another
purpose is to discuss measures to implement the earlier decisions by the
Collective Security Council," the spokesman in early December. Bordyuzha's
visit will last till November 30.

.Kadyrov satisfied over arrest of terrorist suspects in Europe.

GROZNY, November 27 (Itar-Tass) -- The head of Chechnya, Ramzan
Kadyrov, is satisfied over the recent arrest in Europe of several
suspected terrorists. He has called it a good sign.
"We have repeatedly said that in western countries there operate
different groups and organizations that recruit young people with the aim
to convert them into terrorists. We have kept saying that some of these
eventually make their way to the territory of Chechnya to sow death here
and to bring grief and suffering for the people. But those words of ours
were left without an adequate response," he told reporters in Grozny on
Friday.
"Maybe now, at last (after the arrests - Itar-Tass) they will deal
with this issue thoroughly, and close down the variety of foundations and
organizations that recruit and train terrorists, wherever these may be
trying to stage bomb attacks," Kadyrov said. "Also, it would be very nice,
if they stop furnishing moral support for the various illegal armed groups
and stop calling thugs and criminals political immigrants," Kadyrov said.
According to official statistics, the Chechen Republic has been a
scene for the operation of terrorists from 51 countries.
"International terrorism has declared war on Russia. But the federal
center and the Chechen people, headed by the first president of the
Chechen Republic, Akhmad-Hadji Kadyrov, managed to defeat this
international terrorist conspiracy," Kadyrov stressed.
On November 23 a joint European anti-terrorism raid, which took place
in Antwerp (Belgium), Karlsruhe (Germany), and the Netherlands resulted in
the detention and arrest of ten members of Moroccan and Chechen Islamist
networks, which were plotting attacks in Belgium and also financing
Chechen terrorist groups and recruiting new members for them. Among the
detainees were citizens of Belgium, the Netherlands, Russia and Morocco.
As a representative of the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office said,
the citizens of Russia arrested in Antwerp were of Chechen origin.
Investigation into the activities of that group has been conducted
since 2009. It was initiated after evidence surfaced about the intention
of the international terrorist group to stage terrorist attacks in
Belgium, for which they were using a number of extremist websites. The
exact purpose of the attacks had not been determined. The investigation
exposed a network that was engaged in financing and recruiting militants
for the Chechen terrorist underground that called itself the Caucasus
Emirate.

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