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Medvedev to hold talks with King of Jordan Wed.
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AMMAN, January 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has
arrived in Jordan on the second part of his Middle East tour.
On Tuesday, Medvedev visited Palestinian lands and had negotiations
with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho on
the West Bank. Later in the day the leaders opened a Russian museum in
Jericho and toured a park near the biblical Fig Tree.
Dmitry Medvedev made the following entry in his Twitter blog,
expressing his impressions of the tour of the Palestinian lands: "People
in Palestine like Russia. It was gratifying to see the sincere emotions
being expressed by folk in the streets of ancient Jericho."
On Wednesday the President of Russia is to hold talks with his old
acquaintance King Abdullah II of Jordan and visit the site of the Baptism
of Christ.
An official ceremony to welcome Medvedev is to be held in the main
square of the Jordanian capital. According to the Protocol, the national
anthems of the two countires are to be played; the two leaders are to hear
a report by the commander of the guard of honour. Following that, talks in
narrow and broader formats are to be held.
"Our relations are notable for activeness and a high level of trust,"
a Russian presidential administration official has told Itar-Tass. "There
have been nine visits by Abdullah II to Russia since 2001. In February
2007, the then Russian President Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to
Jordan". "As regards the developments in the Caucasus, Jordan officially
took up a neutral attitude which was regarded by the West as a pro-Russian
one," the official said." "In August 2008, the King sent planeload of
humanitarian aid supplies to Vladikavkaz for the South Ossetian
population," presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko recalled.
Dmitry Medvedev and King Abdullah II are also to discuss the
construction of a nuclear power station in Jordan by Russian specialists,
Prikhodko said.
"We evinced such an interest and said we are ready to cooperate,"
Prikhodko remarked. "However, this is not a matter of tomorrow or one or
two years," he added.
"Apart from Russia, applications were also filed by the Korean,
French, and Canadian sides," the presidential aide recalled. Jordan "must
make a desicion about a site, and we must decide on a credit," he said.
"In the estimates of the Jordanian side, the first nuclear power unit
is to come into operation in 2018," Prikhodko said.
Medvedevl's aide recallled that in 2009 Russia and Jordan had signed
an agreement on cooperation in the peaceful uses of atomic energy. "It is
now a matter of technology and finance. Russia will state its position at
the (upcoming) talks. However, the situation depends chiefly on the
Jordanian side," Prikhodko said.
After the talks the Russian President will visit the
historico-religious estate "The Site of the Baptism of Christ". Over
there Medvedev will tour a hospice which is being built on the river
Jordan by the Russian side. More than 200,000 pilgrims and tourists
visited the site last year. The RF Directorate for the Management of
Presidential Property set a task of completing the construction and
equipment of the compound in March 2011.
"The implementation of this unique project is of great importance: for
the first time in history the Russian state has received a plot of land in
this area and is erecting its own compound of buildings which will play
host to pilgrims from Russia," Prikhodko pointed out.
.People in Palestine like Russia, Medvedev writes in Twitter.
MOSCOW, January 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
made an entry in hisTwitter blog on Wednesday, briefly sharing his
impressions of his stay in Jericho (Palestine) on Tuesday.
"People in Palestine like Russia. It was gratifying to see the sincere
emotions being expressed by folk in the streets of ancient Jericho. This
land needs peace," Medvedev wrote in Twitter.
On Tuesday, the programme for Dmitry Medvedev's visit began with a
meeting with Head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Mahmoud
Abbas at the Jericho Governor's residence.
Jericho is the world's oldest city (several months ago it marked its
10,000th jubilee). It is situated in the northern part of Judaean desert
on the west bank of the river Jordan in the territory controlled by the
Palestinian administration. Jericho is reckoned one of the hottest places
in the Middle East. In summer, air temperature there quite often rises to
50 degrees above zero (Celsius).
The Russo-Palestinian talks resulted in the signing of joint documents
and were followed by a news conference. Later in the day Medvedev and
Abbas opened a Russian museum in Jericho and toured a new park complex
near the biblical Fig Tree near which, as the legend goes, Jesus Christ
met rich publican named Zacchaeus.
The park complex has become Russia's gift to the Palestinian people
and the residents of Jericho on the occasion of the city's 10,000th
jubilee.
"The parkland is an important symbol of the strengthening of Russian
presence in the Holy Land. The operation of the park complex will be of
great importance for the development of the PNA's tourist infrastructure,"
presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko pointed out.
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AMMAN, January 19 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has
arrived in Jordan on the second part of his Middle East tour.
On Tuesday, Medvedev visited Palestinian lands and had negotiations
with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho on
the West Bank. Later in the day the leaders opened a Russian museum in
Jericho and toured a park near the biblical Fig Tree.
Dmitry Medvedev made the following entry in his Twitter blog,
expressing his impressions of the tour of the Palestinian lands: "People
in Palestine like Russia. It was gratifying to see the sincere emotions
being expressed by folk in the streets of ancient Jericho."
On Wednesday the President of Russia is to hold talks with his old
acquaintance King Abdullah II of Jordan and visit the site of the Baptism
of Christ.
An official ceremony to welcome Medvedev is to be held in the main
square of the Jordanian capital. According to the Protocol, the national
anthems of the two countires are to be played; the two leaders are to hear
a report by the commander of the guard of honour. Following that, talks in
narrow and broader formats are to be held.
"Our relations are notable for activeness and a high level of trust,"
a Russian presidential administration official has told Itar-Tass. "There
have been nine visits by Abdullah II to Russia since 2001. In February
2007, the then Russian President Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to
Jordan". "As regards the developments in the Caucasus, Jordan officially
took up a neutral attitude which was regarded by the West as a pro-Russian
one," the official said." "In August 2008, the King sent planeload of
humanitarian aid supplies to Vladikavkaz for the South Ossetian
population," presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko recalled.
Dmitry Medvedev and King Abdullah II are also to discuss the
construction of a nuclear power station in Jordan by Russian specialists,
Prikhodko said.
"We evinced such an interest and said we are ready to cooperate,"
Prikhodko remarked. "However, this is not a matter of tomorrow or one or
two years," he added.
"Apart from Russia, applications were also filed by the Korean,
French, and Canadian sides," the presidential aide recalled. Jordan "must
make a desicion about a site, and we must decide on a credit," he said.
"In the estimates of the Jordanian side, the first nuclear power unit
is to come into operation in 2018," Prikhodko said.
Medvedevl's aide recallled that in 2009 Russia and Jordan had signed
an agreement on cooperation in the peaceful uses of atomic energy. "It is
now a matter of technology and finance. Russia will state its position at
the (upcoming) talks. However, the situation depends chiefly on the
Jordanian side," Prikhodko said.
After the talks the Russian President will visit the
historico-religious estate "The Site of the Baptism of Christ". Over
there Medvedev will tour a hospice which is being built on the river
Jordan by the Russian side. More than 200,000 pilgrims and tourists
visited the site last year. The RF Directorate for the Management of
Presidential Property set a task of completing the construction and
equipment of the compound in March 2011.
"The implementation of this unique project is of great importance: for
the first time in history the Russian state has received a plot of land in
this area and is erecting its own compound of buildings which will play
host to pilgrims from Russia," Prikhodko pointed out.
.People in Palestine like Russia, Medvedev writes in Twitter.
MOSCOW, January 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
made an entry in hisTwitter blog on Wednesday, briefly sharing his
impressions of his stay in Jericho (Palestine) on Tuesday.
"People in Palestine like Russia. It was gratifying to see the sincere
emotions being expressed by folk in the streets of ancient Jericho. This
land needs peace," Medvedev wrote in Twitter.
On Tuesday, the programme for Dmitry Medvedev's visit began with a
meeting with Head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Mahmoud
Abbas at the Jericho Governor's residence.
Jericho is the world's oldest city (several months ago it marked its
10,000th jubilee). It is situated in the northern part of Judaean desert
on the west bank of the river Jordan in the territory controlled by the
Palestinian administration. Jericho is reckoned one of the hottest places
in the Middle East. In summer, air temperature there quite often rises to
50 degrees above zero (Celsius).
The Russo-Palestinian talks resulted in the signing of joint documents
and were followed by a news conference. Later in the day Medvedev and
Abbas opened a Russian museum in Jericho and toured a new park complex
near the biblical Fig Tree near which, as the legend goes, Jesus Christ
met rich publican named Zacchaeus.
The park complex has become Russia's gift to the Palestinian people
and the residents of Jericho on the occasion of the city's 10,000th
jubilee.
"The parkland is an important symbol of the strengthening of Russian
presence in the Holy Land. The operation of the park complex will be of
great importance for the development of the PNA's tourist infrastructure,"
presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko pointed out.
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