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Kremlin.Ru: Unified Wire Service
Summaries of news from the official website of the Russian President (last 40 publications)

SUMMIT-CSTO A summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation is taking place at the Kremlin. Beginning of a Meeting with Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko and Presidential Aide and Secretary of the State Council Alexander Abramov “A long-term programme for the development of physical culture and sport should be one of the elements of the country's development strategy between now and 2020.” MEETING-MINISTER-AIDE-MUTKO-ABRAMOV-SPORT Dmitry Medvedev had a working meeting with Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy Vitaly Mutko and Presidential Aide and Secretary of the State Council Alexander Abramov. CONVERSATION-AZERBAIJAN-ALIYEV Dmitry Medvedev had a telephone conversation with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. CONVERSATION-CUBA-RAUL-CASTRO Dmitry Medvedev had a telephone conversation with Chairman of the State Council and Council of Ministers of Cuba Raul Castro. Working Meeting with Chairman of the Audit Chamber Sergei Stepashin “The first thing I’d like to draw to your attention concerns one of the installations being built in preparation for the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit - I am referring to the bridge linking Vladivostok to Russky Island. This is a special project involving considerable investment, and I ask the Audit Chamber to keep it under particular supervision.” MEETING-TRANS-DNIESTER-SMIRNOV Dmitry Medvedev and Igor Smirnov, the head of Trans-Dniester, agreed to continue tripartite negotiations on achieving a settlement between Trans-Dniester and Moldova. MEETING-AUDIT CHAMBER-CHAIRMAN Dmitry Medvedev had a working meeting with Chairman of the Audit Chamber Sergei Stepashin. MEETING-TRANS-DNIESTER-SMIRNOV Dmitry Medvedev met with Igor Smirnov, the head of Trans-Dniester. GREETINGS-MOSCOW-BOOKS-FAIR Dmitry Medvedev sent his greetings to participants in the XXI Moscow International Book Fair. CONVERSATION-FRANCE-SARKOZY Dmitry Medvedev had a telephone conversation with President of France Nicholas Sarkozy. INTERVIEW-EURONEWS Dmitry Medvedev's interview with television channel Euronews has been published. Interview with Television Channel Euronews “Now that recognition has been given [to South Ossetia’s and Abkhazia’s independence] we really should reflect on the security architecture we want for our complicated world over the coming years. It is absolutely clear to me that the events that began with Georgia’s aggression on August 8 have put this issue firmly on the agenda. The former security architecture has proven its ineffectiveness.” Interview with Italian Television Channel RAI “We are ready of course to discuss all different issues at conferences and at the different international forums, but we want at the same time for the international community to remember who began the aggression [against South Ossetia], who is responsible for people’s deaths and what price has been paid for this.” INTERVIEW-RAI Dmitry Medvedev's interview with Italian television channel RAI has been published. MEETING-ARMENIA-SARGSYAN Dmitry Medvedev met with President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan in Sochi. Beginning of the Meeting with President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan “In just a few days the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organisation) summit will begin. Armenia will assume the presidency. I think that we can reflect on how to organise our work and share our thoughts in this regard.” MEETING-ARMENIA-SARGSYAN Dmitry Medvedev met with President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. DECREE-CHAD-CAR-TROOPS Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree sending a Russian Armed Forces unit to take part in a European Union mission to support the UN presence in the Republic of Chad and the Central African Republic. SHOIGU-INSTRUCTION-AID-CUBA-HURRICANE Dmitry Medvedev instructed Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu to arrange for urgent aid for Cuba to help in the clean-up effort after Hurricane Gustav. CONGRATULATIONS-UZBEKISTAN-PRESIDENT-INDEPENDENCE Dmitry Medvedev sent his congratulations to President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov on the country's national holiday - Independence Day. CONGRATULATIONS-EASTERN STUDIES SPECIALIST-TIKHVINSKY-BIRTHDAY Dmitry Medvedev congratulated Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Honorary Chairman of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society Sergei Tikhvinsky on his ninetieth birthday. VISIT-KORENOVSK Dmitry Medvedev marked the first day of the school year by visiting School No.18 and a sports centre in the town of Korenovsk. ANNOUNCEMENT-ARMENIA-SARGSYAN-VISIT President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan will visit Russia at the invitation of Dmitry Medvedev on September 2, 2008. CONVERSATION-FRANCE-PRESIDENT-SARKOZY Dmitry Medvedev had a telephone conversation with President of France Nicolas Sarkozy. INTERVIEW-JOURNALISTS-TELEVISION CHANNELS Dmitry Medvedev's interview with Russian television channels has been published. Interview given by Dmitry Medvedev to Television Channels Channel One, Rossia, NTV “Russia recognises the primacy of the fundamental principles of international law, which define the relations between civilised peoples. We will build our relations with other countries within the framework of these principles and this concept of international law.” CONGRATULATIONS-KYRGYZSTAN-INDEPENDENCE Dmitry Medvedev sent a message of congratulations to President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiev on the country's national holiday - Independence Day. Beginning of the Meeting with Champions and Medal-Winners of the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing “Evidently third place in the medal count is – let's be honest – a very good result, but we are obviously capable of better and we must begin now to prepare for the Games in London.” MEETING-OLYMPIC ATHLETES-CONGRATULATIONS Dmitry Medvedev met with Russian Olympic athletes in the Kremlin. Press Statements following Russian-Tajikistani Talks “I just want to repeat what any reasonable and honest person should understand today. Our peacekeepers acted strictly within international law in their actions to put an end to Georgia’s barbaric aggression, and we are grateful to all who have expressed their understanding and support for the position taken by Russia, which acted to protect its citizens and the civilians living in the region.” Beginning of Russian-Tajikistani Talks in Enlarged Format “There are a number of important issues I think we should discuss in this format. I am referring above all to economic cooperation issues.” Beginning of Meeting with President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon “We are important strategic partners for each other and coordination of our actions is in many ways decisive for our peoples’ futures and for peace and calm in Central Asia.” Beginning of the Meeting with President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev “We prepared the six-point plan with President Sarkozy. The Russian side has fulfilled its obligations. Now the most important thing is to ensure that the Georgian side is in full compliance, including the demilitarisation and the return of the Georgian Armed Forces to their permanent positions of deployment, so that there can be no reason to suppose that in some subtle way the plan is being rolled back.” Answers to Journalists' Questions “Now in this new phase of conflict resolution we must fully abide by those principles included in the agreement that was prepared by France and Russia and signed by the parties to the conflict. That was what we talked about. I am very pleased to have been able to discuss this with our colleagues and to have received from them this kind of support for our efforts.” Beginning of Meeting with President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai “I think that we are entirely capable of writing a new page in the history of Russian-Afghan relations, all the more so as the threats, problems and challenges our countries face today are, unfortunately, universal in character.“ Beginning of Meeting with President of Iran Mahmud Ahmadinejad Speech at a Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) “We cannot ignore the ongoing attempts by some to pursue their interests by resorting to violence: for example, the criminal and irresponsible actions taken by Georgia in its attack on South Ossetia. We are grateful for your understanding and your objective assessment of Russia's peacemaking efforts. We are confident that the position of the member states of the SCO will receive appropriate international support. And I hope that this will send an important signal to those who are trying to argue that black is white and that the most blatant aggression is justified.” RESULTS-SUMMIT-SCO Russia assumed the chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). MEETING-CHINA-HU Dmitry Medvedev met with President of the People's Republic of China Hu Jintao.