Д.Медведев.Встреча Д.Медведева и Б.Обамы.08.07.09.Part 1

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and President of the United States Barack Obama at Russian-American Business Summit.Part 1
July 8, 2009
Moscow

Встреча Дмитрия Медведева и Президента США Барака Обамы с участниками российско-американского бизнес-форума.
7 июля 2009 года
Москва

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Ladies and gentlemen,

I would like to begin by welcoming everyone here. We are running a little bit late, but let me assure you, this is because we were working, as the President of the Russian Federation and the President of the United States do not meet that often.

Furthermore, President Obama has had a very busy day, and even this meeting with business leaders is not the last item on his agenda today.

It is my pleasure to make a few remarks. I will begin by saying that just recently, about a month ago, I met with many of the people present here today at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum. I am certain that some good discussions were held there, and Im sure that the discussions here today will also lead to practical results.

I think that nearly all the issues we needed to discuss have been brought up, but still I feel that it is my duty to make a few general remarks.

I would like to say that the United States of America is our nations long-standing and promising partner, a partner with whom we have many plans that have not yet been implemented. Even the difficulties that have existed between our states in the past and the affects of the crisis have not decreased the desire of our businesspeople to work on joint projects, which is wonderful.

Last year, as you recall, we had exceptional results in trade turnover between our two countries, although I would like to emphasise again that those figures could have been even higher. This year, we have had somewhat of a slowdown, but we can ensure that this slowdown is not extreme, so that cooperation between our nations accelerates in a variety of areas.

During our first meeting in London, the President and I made a joint statement that highlighted the need for new momentum in our trade and economic relations, expressing our unified stance that business leaders from both countries should use every opportunity to generate economic activity. The fact that so many businesspeople are present here today and that our business community is so widely represented serves as direct evidence of those opportunities.

I must mention that in terms of cooperation, at some moment the Russian and U.S. business communities were well ahead of the official organisations, especially in few recent years. Over the last several days, we have tried to fill in those gaps, and yesterday, as you know, we created the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission. The Commission addresses a variety of issues in cooperation, first and foremost through working groups that will work under the guidance of the ministers present here today. I think it is very good that the working group on developing trade, economic, investment, and business relations will be headed by Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina and Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke.

Yesterday, we devoted a lot of time to discussing economics, though perhaps not as much as issues of global development and nuclear disarmament. Still, we had a productive discussion, and we feel that it is important to maintain positive attitudes within the business communities in our countries.

We also discussed some fairly practical issues. President Obama asked me whether Russia will be joining the World Trade Organisation. You already provided Russias answer at this forum. I would like to state again, on behalf of our nation, that we will be joining the World Trade Organisation. And we will do this with consideration of the progress that has been made in recent years.

The format may change, and we may need some additional agreements, but we do not want to lose any of the ground that we have gained in the last few years. The road turned out to be long and difficult, and quite frankly, we are a little tired of it, as we have been waiting for sixteen years. But we will hope that some reformatting will allow us to come to an arrangement as quickly as possible.

Investment is very important, and we fully welcome the diversification of American investments in our country. In addition to investing in the oil and gas sector where they already have some presence, we would very much like for our American partners to invest in other sectors as well: traditional Russian industries, as well as the high-tech sector.

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Медведев хорошие слова в конце получил то, что они хотели бы услышать из уст Обамы, что Россия великая держава

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