VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
“Mutual trade grew to almost $40 billion. In the volume of trade Russia ranks first among Turkey's trade and economic partners, and Turkey ranks fifth on the list of Russia's partners, above the United States, Great Britain and Japan.”
“Gaz de France is our long-term, reliable and stable partner, one of the biggest European energy companies. We know about the level of your competence in gas liquefaction, and are interested in cooperating with you in this and in other directions - transportation, electric power, and renewable energy sources. On the whole, energy industry is a major component of our cooperation with the French Republic. In this context, we are pinning great hopes on cooperation with such European grandees as GDF.”
"We took the fundamental decision to develop high-level timber processing in Russia. We announced these plans long ago, we set them out, and our partners recognise this. We will accommodate our traditional partners. However, I would like to stress again that the strategic plans to develop timber processing within the Russian Federation remain unchanged. And that means that we must agree in due course about how we will go forward and how we will build our relations in this sensitive area."
"Should the Finnish Government make a decision regarding the future development of nuclear energy, Russian companies would be interested in participating in the relevant tenders. And I do not doubt that the bids put forward by them will be competitive in their financial and technical criteria, and in terms of safety requirements."
"In this regard, I would like to mention, first and foremost, the organisation of high-speed passenger train links between St Petersburg and Helsinki, which aims to cut the journey time to 3.5 hours. On the Russian side, this project is being implemented under a public-private partnership. Its overall cost is around $2.5 billion, over a third of which is allocated from budget resources. The positive experience accrued here could be successfully applied to other areas of cooperation."
"The crisis did not shake Russia off course for its future integration into the global economy. I am certain that Russia's imminent accession to the WTO and the OECD, on mutually acceptable, non-discriminatory conditions, will promote increased stability in global trade and economic systems."
"The most important one being the clearly expressed mutual desire for the expansion of our partnership. We are united on the fact that it is vital to create an environment that is as favourable as possible to joint business initiatives, industrial cooperation, and joint investment streams. Moreover, we have something to start from. Last year we attained a record trade turnover of more than $22 billion. Russia became Finland's most important partner, ranking first in terms of trade."
"High technologies certainly dominate our bilateral relations. This directly concerns energy industry. Russian companies are among Finnish thermal power plants' suppliers. Our partnership is quite smooth in electric energy in general, and has good prospects in nuclear energy."
"Open-hearted neighbourly relations have taken shape between Russia and Finland, and between their populations, within the preceding decades. There relations are surely a value to be cherished and protected. If problems arise in the private sphere-in families, they can be put up with, and the people concerned should get help. It is inadmissible, however, to involve public services and servants in such controversies."
"Today we must adapt trade and economic contacts to the global economic realities. We must concentrate on the most advantageous directions of our cooperation, such as energy, transport, the timber sector, and a range of arctic technologies, including ship building. Maybe, the latter should come first. The energy sphere includes supply of hydrocarbons, nuclear power engineering, the power plant industry, renewable energy sources, and so on."
