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Lavrov to attend presentation of Yugra econ potential Tue
MOSCOW, December 8 (Itar-Tass) - The economic potential of the
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area (KMAA) (commonly known as Yugra) is to be
presented here on Tuesday, with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov participating.
The Yugra delegation, led by Governor Alexander Filipenko, is to
introduce Yugra resources for cooperation with foreign partners in
modernisation and introduction of innovative technologies at KMAA
enterprises.
Participants in the presentation will be able to get acquainted with
the main orientations of the activities of the KMAA agri-industrial and
fuel-and-energy sectors, wood processing and building industries, and
research organisations.
Filipenko said, "Yugra has successfully coped with the recession and
is still in the lead on many economic indicators, gaining an increasingly
high investment rating".
"The initiatives proposed by the KMAA government in the fields of the
economy, culture, education, and health care have rendered the faroff
northern area very attractive to life, business, and spare time
activities," the Governor emphasized.
Filipenko recalled that the United States, Germany, France, Poland,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania
remain partners of KMAA. "We aim to look for new areas of cooperation and
strengthen friendly contacts," he pointed out.
.It is possible to counteract global challenges jointly--view.
BEIJING, December 8 (Itar-Tass) - Global challenges and threats can be
counteracted only through the joint efforts of all countries, Nikolai
Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
(SCRF), said here on Tuesday when speaking at the 4th round of
Russo-Chinese consultations on strategic security matters. The Chinese
delegation is headed by Dai Bingguo, Member of the State Council.
Patrushev said, "The world is in the stage of deep transformation.
Apart from the financial and economic upheavals, the world development is
still threatened by regional and local conflicts, terrorism, trans-border
crime, shortages of food and drinking water, and by climate change". "It
is possible to counteract global challenges and threats only through the
combined efforts of all states," he emphasized.
At the close of the talks the sides are planning to sign a Protocol
on cooperation within the scope of the machinery of Russo-Chinese
consultations on strategic security. The Protocol is to sum up this year's
results of interaction between the two countries and determine tasks for
2010.
.Perm night club fire death toll rises to 117--RME.
PERM, December 8 (Itar-Tass) - Death toll in the wake of the
recentfire in the Lame Horse night club here has risen to 117. "Another
four people have died in Perm hospitals," an official at the Russsian
Ministry for Emergencies (RME) department for the Perm Territory has told
Itar-Tass.
Over 120 people fell victim to the fire that broke out at the night
club on the night from December 4 to 5. One hundred people were airlifted
to the medical institutions of other cities: 65 to Moscow hospitals, 28 to
St Petersburg, and seven to Chelyabinsk.
The condition of all the hospitalised is grave and extremely grave,
for they sustained the heaviest burns of the body, upper respiratory ways,
and suffer from the poisoning with products of combustion, as well as
various injuries.
.MERCOSUR to discuss integrational processes.
BUENOS AIRES, December 8 (Itar-Tass) - The Heads of State of the
member-countries of the South American common market (MERCOSUR) are to
discuss integraitonal processes at a regular summit that is to be held in
the Uruguayan capital Montevideo on Tuesday.
This major trade-and-economic bloc of countries in the region
comprises Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
The summit will be also attended by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
Venezuela was admittted to MERCOSUR in 2006. However, its membership still
remains a formal one, for it has not received an approval from the
parliaments of Brazil and Paraguay.
The presidents of Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador have
been also invited to attend the summit as associated members.
Analysts are of the opinion that no particular breakthroughs should be
expected from the the regular summit of MERCOSUR. Many integrational
problems are still far from solution. A common Customs Code still awaits a
final elaboration. Neither is there a consenus among participants on the
issue of changing the system of representation in the MERCOSUR's common
parliament in 2011 when its members will be elected through a country-wide
vote. Eighteen deputies from each member-country are curretnly
represented in the parliament. However, Brazil, for example, suggests
making the number of parliament members dependent on the size of the
population of each country. Such an option does not suit "small"
countries, such as Uruguay and Paraguay.
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Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area (KMAA) (commonly known as Yugra) is to be
presented here on Tuesday, with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov participating.
The Yugra delegation, led by Governor Alexander Filipenko, is to
introduce Yugra resources for cooperation with foreign partners in
modernisation and introduction of innovative technologies at KMAA
enterprises.
Participants in the presentation will be able to get acquainted with
the main orientations of the activities of the KMAA agri-industrial and
fuel-and-energy sectors, wood processing and building industries, and
research organisations.
Filipenko said, "Yugra has successfully coped with the recession and
is still in the lead on many economic indicators, gaining an increasingly
high investment rating".
"The initiatives proposed by the KMAA government in the fields of the
economy, culture, education, and health care have rendered the faroff
northern area very attractive to life, business, and spare time
activities," the Governor emphasized.
Filipenko recalled that the United States, Germany, France, Poland,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania
remain partners of KMAA. "We aim to look for new areas of cooperation and
strengthen friendly contacts," he pointed out.
.It is possible to counteract global challenges jointly--view.
BEIJING, December 8 (Itar-Tass) - Global challenges and threats can be
counteracted only through the joint efforts of all countries, Nikolai
Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
(SCRF), said here on Tuesday when speaking at the 4th round of
Russo-Chinese consultations on strategic security matters. The Chinese
delegation is headed by Dai Bingguo, Member of the State Council.
Patrushev said, "The world is in the stage of deep transformation.
Apart from the financial and economic upheavals, the world development is
still threatened by regional and local conflicts, terrorism, trans-border
crime, shortages of food and drinking water, and by climate change". "It
is possible to counteract global challenges and threats only through the
combined efforts of all states," he emphasized.
At the close of the talks the sides are planning to sign a Protocol
on cooperation within the scope of the machinery of Russo-Chinese
consultations on strategic security. The Protocol is to sum up this year's
results of interaction between the two countries and determine tasks for
2010.
.Perm night club fire death toll rises to 117--RME.
PERM, December 8 (Itar-Tass) - Death toll in the wake of the
recentfire in the Lame Horse night club here has risen to 117. "Another
four people have died in Perm hospitals," an official at the Russsian
Ministry for Emergencies (RME) department for the Perm Territory has told
Itar-Tass.
Over 120 people fell victim to the fire that broke out at the night
club on the night from December 4 to 5. One hundred people were airlifted
to the medical institutions of other cities: 65 to Moscow hospitals, 28 to
St Petersburg, and seven to Chelyabinsk.
The condition of all the hospitalised is grave and extremely grave,
for they sustained the heaviest burns of the body, upper respiratory ways,
and suffer from the poisoning with products of combustion, as well as
various injuries.
.MERCOSUR to discuss integrational processes.
BUENOS AIRES, December 8 (Itar-Tass) - The Heads of State of the
member-countries of the South American common market (MERCOSUR) are to
discuss integraitonal processes at a regular summit that is to be held in
the Uruguayan capital Montevideo on Tuesday.
This major trade-and-economic bloc of countries in the region
comprises Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
The summit will be also attended by Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.
Venezuela was admittted to MERCOSUR in 2006. However, its membership still
remains a formal one, for it has not received an approval from the
parliaments of Brazil and Paraguay.
The presidents of Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador have
been also invited to attend the summit as associated members.
Analysts are of the opinion that no particular breakthroughs should be
expected from the the regular summit of MERCOSUR. Many integrational
problems are still far from solution. A common Customs Code still awaits a
final elaboration. Neither is there a consenus among participants on the
issue of changing the system of representation in the MERCOSUR's common
parliament in 2011 when its members will be elected through a country-wide
vote. Eighteen deputies from each member-country are curretnly
represented in the parliament. However, Brazil, for example, suggests
making the number of parliament members dependent on the size of the
population of each country. Such an option does not suit "small"
countries, such as Uruguay and Paraguay.
-0-pop
