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Zubkov to visit Netherlands, meet with Dutch vice-premier
THE HAGUE (Itar-Tass) - Viktor Zubkov, First Deputy Chairman
of Government of the Russian Federation, is to make a working visit to the
Netherlands on Wednesday.
An Itar-Tass correspondent here has been told that Zubkov will meet
with Maxime Verhagen, Dutch Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economics,
Agriculture and Innovations.
Zubkov and Verhagen are to preside over a regular session of the Mixed
Commission for economic cooperation between Russia and the Netherlands.
They both are co-chairmen of the Commission.
The sides are to consider matters concerning bilateral interaction,
including that in the fields of energy, agriculture, transport, industry,
and health care. Special attention is to be devoted to efforts to give
greater scope to bilateral scientific, technical and innovations-related
cooperation. They are also to discuss the course of the preparation of a
programme for a reciprocal Year of Russia in the Netherlands and a Year of
the Netherlands in Russia in 2013.
Russia-Netherlands trade-and-economic cooperation is notable for a
positive dynamism of growth. As a result of 2010, bilateral trade turnover
gained in scope by 46 percent to run at $58,400 million. The tendency
towards growth kept on in the first quarter of this year: trade turnover
grew by 7.6 percent to run at $14,300 million. The Netherlands keeps the
leading positions by the scope of investments in the Russian economy.
Within the 2002-2010 period, these increased more than ten-fold to run at
over $40,000 million.
A package of documents, prepared for signarure as a result of the
Commission's session, will contribute to a further expansion of and add
substance to investment and trade-and-economic components of interaction
between Russia and the Netherlands. Apart from a final protocol, the sides
are to sign a Joint statement on partnership for modernization, as well
as a series of memorandums.
Priority areas of interaction between the two countries are as
follows: the technology for the production, transportation and processing
of oil and gas, energy efficiency and the use of renewable sources of
energy, information technologies and telecommunications, and health care
and medical aid technologies.
of Government of the Russian Federation, is to make a working visit to the
Netherlands on Wednesday.
An Itar-Tass correspondent here has been told that Zubkov will meet
with Maxime Verhagen, Dutch Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economics,
Agriculture and Innovations.
Zubkov and Verhagen are to preside over a regular session of the Mixed
Commission for economic cooperation between Russia and the Netherlands.
They both are co-chairmen of the Commission.
The sides are to consider matters concerning bilateral interaction,
including that in the fields of energy, agriculture, transport, industry,
and health care. Special attention is to be devoted to efforts to give
greater scope to bilateral scientific, technical and innovations-related
cooperation. They are also to discuss the course of the preparation of a
programme for a reciprocal Year of Russia in the Netherlands and a Year of
the Netherlands in Russia in 2013.
Russia-Netherlands trade-and-economic cooperation is notable for a
positive dynamism of growth. As a result of 2010, bilateral trade turnover
gained in scope by 46 percent to run at $58,400 million. The tendency
towards growth kept on in the first quarter of this year: trade turnover
grew by 7.6 percent to run at $14,300 million. The Netherlands keeps the
leading positions by the scope of investments in the Russian economy.
Within the 2002-2010 period, these increased more than ten-fold to run at
over $40,000 million.
A package of documents, prepared for signarure as a result of the
Commission's session, will contribute to a further expansion of and add
substance to investment and trade-and-economic components of interaction
between Russia and the Netherlands. Apart from a final protocol, the sides
are to sign a Joint statement on partnership for modernization, as well
as a series of memorandums.
Priority areas of interaction between the two countries are as
follows: the technology for the production, transportation and processing
of oil and gas, energy efficiency and the use of renewable sources of
energy, information technologies and telecommunications, and health care
and medical aid technologies.
