News Conference following Russian-Czech Talks.Part 2
October 14, 2009
Barvikha, Moscow Region
Пресс-конференция по итогам российско-чешских переговоров.
14 октября 2009 года
Московская область, Барвиха
We have many common interests and we discussed many interesting joint projects. As a result, I feel that Mr Presidents visit has been very timely and successful, especially since it has not yet ended Mr President will speak before [Moscow State University] students who are currently waiting to hear what the President of the Czech Republic has to say, following the speech made by the U.S. Secretary of State, to see whether there are differences in their positions or whether their stances are similar.
Overall, I think it is very important - especially since the Presidents schedule includes a business component that there will be a meeting with Russian and Czech business people. This is very good, because we have many joint projects. Today alone, as far as I understand, a large number of agreements will be signed agreements worth hundreds of millions of euro. This demonstrates that in spite of the crisis not our national crisis, but the global crisis our relations are developing and progressing really well.
I would like to sincerely thank the President of the Czech Republic for his visit to the Russian Federation, and I hope that we will be able to continue our communication in other places.
PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC VACLAV KLAUS: If you dont mind, I will speak in Czech.
First, I would like to thank Mr President from the bottom of my heart for this invitation. As he mentioned, we agreed on this visit during the Russia-EU summit in Khabarovsk [on May 21-22, 2009], which I had the honour of chairing. In my view, we had some very extensive and most positive dialogue there.
Mr President has very clearly described the content of this dialogue. I think that I can share something important with you: we have very similar views and approaches in many of the areas we discussed, which is good, and I think that our public should know this.
Naturally, we are interested in promoting our bilateral relations. I think during todays meeting we initiated some important dialogue at the highest political level, and we will continue it.
We did not only discuss political issues, but economic ones as well. Our economic relations with Russia are very important to us, and I am pleased that many things have been going well recently. I believe that my visit is one of manifestations of our good economic ties.
We had a detailed discussion regarding energy issues, including oil, gas, and nuclear energy. I think it is good that a major Russian company intends to continue participating in the development of nuclear energy in the Czech Republic.
We spoke about numerous issues in international politics. Many of them have already been mentioned, and I have also felt a recent change in the global political climate. I will say again to the public of both our nations: this is a positive signal and an important development.
We addressed a variety of specific topics too. One of them was mentioned by Mr President: bringing a major exhibition of artefacts from the Moscow Kremlin museums to Prazky Hrad. I think that it is very important for us to continue such traditional, humanitarian exchanges, rather than limiting relations to matters concerning oil and gas.
Finally, I would like to mention just one last thing, since I must leave shortly to meet the students at Moscow State University. I invited President Medvedev to visit the Czech Republic. As I understood from the expression on his face, he has accepted this invitation.
DMITRY MEDVEDEV: I can tell you directly that I will be happy to visit. Thank you very much for your invitation.
We are ready to take some questions.
QUESTION (CZECH RADIO): The first question is for President Vaclav Klaus.
You talked about international issues. Did you explain your position on the Lisbon Treaty? Most importantly, what are you going to do on this issue?
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The Czech people should have nothing to with Russia.
amunimhotep 2 years ago