"Aid deal to be revealed during Medvedev visit"

Details of the Russian aid package to Serbia will be revealed during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Serbia, says Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić.

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Details of the Russian aid package to Serbia will be revealed during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Serbia, says Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic. The two countries’ foreign ministers announced that Serbian and Russian representatives would be signing a series of multi-national agreements in Belgrade on October 20, including economic ones. "Aid deal to be revealed during Medvedev visit" The details of the Russian financial assistance package and loans sought by Serbia will also be announced then. Not wishing to elaborate on the loans, Jeremic said that Serbia had received a positive response to President Boris Tadic’s letter to Medvedev of just under a year ago, requesting financial assistance. The minister said that the Russian president’s visit would have “an exceptionally important economic segment, as Russia is a big investor in Serbia.” He said that agreements in the fields of culture, scientific and technical cooperation, education, security, parliamentary cooperation and air traffic would be signed during the visit. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Medvedev’s visit would open “now points of reference” for developing strategic cooperation between the two countries. Lavrov said that Serbia was one of Russia’s priority economic partners, adding that bilateral trade last year had reached USD 4bn, but that it had fallen markedly owing to the economic crisis. “Economic cooperation between the two countries has been achieving major results in recent times. Projects agreed during President Tadic’s visit to Russia last year are being implemented successfully,” the Russian minister surmised. “In the oil and gas sector, we have investments in NIS, there’s South Stream, the gas reservoir at Banatski Dvor. Other ideas are being looked at, including cooperation in the energy transport sector, as well as joint work on other infrastructure jobs,” he explained. Jeremic, Lavrov (FoNet, archive)

"Aid deal to be revealed during Medvedev visit"

The details of the Russian financial assistance package and loans sought by Serbia will also be announced then.

Not wishing to elaborate on the loans, Jeremić said that Serbia had received a positive response to President Boris Tadić’s letter to Medvedev of just under a year ago, requesting financial assistance.

The minister said that the Russian president’s visit would have “an exceptionally important economic segment, as Russia is a big investor in Serbia.”

He said that agreements in the fields of culture, scientific and technical cooperation, education, security, parliamentary cooperation and air traffic would be signed during the visit.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Medvedev’s visit would open “now points of reference” for developing strategic cooperation between the two countries.

Lavrov said that Serbia was one of Russia’s priority economic partners, adding that bilateral trade last year had reached USD 4bn, but that it had fallen markedly owing to the economic crisis.

“Economic cooperation between the two countries has been achieving major results in recent times. Projects agreed during President Tadić’s visit to Russia last year are being implemented successfully,” the Russian minister surmised.

“In the oil and gas sector, we have investments in NIS, there’s South Stream, the gas reservoir at Banatski Dvor. Other ideas are being looked at, including cooperation in the energy transport sector, as well as joint work on other infrastructure jobs,” he explained.

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