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Joint
press release
Andean Community – Russian
Federation
Moscow, October 4, 2000
Andean Community Secretary
General, Mr. Sebastián Alegrett,
and Andean Development Corporation
President, Mr. Enrique García,
made an official working trip to
Moscow from October 2 to 4, 2000,
following up the visit made by Mr.
I. D. Ivanov, Vice-Minister of
Foreign Affairs of the Russian
Federation, to the headquarters of
the Andean Community General
Secretariat in Lima on January 25,
2000, and the agreement adopted by
the Andean Council of Foreign
Ministers in the context of the
subregion’s common foreign policy.
The
Andean Community dignitaries were
received by the Community of
Independent States’ Executive
Committee Chairman, Mr. Yuri F.
Yarov, and held talks with Russian
Federation Central Bank President,
Mr. V. V. Gueraschenko; First
Finance Vice-Minister of the
Russian Federation, Mr. S. M.
Ignatiev; and Russian Federation
Economic Development and Trade
Vice-Ministers, Messrs. R. F.
Piscoppel and M. Y. Medvedkov. In
the State Duma, they met as well
with the Chairman of the Committee
on International Affairs, Mr. D.
O. Rogozin, and the Director of
the Latin American Institute of
the Russian Academy of Science, Mr.
V. M. Davydov.
In
the course of these talks, they
discussed a series of
international and regional issues
of common interest and exchanged
viewpoints on the possibility of
strengthening relations and
cooperation between Russia and the
Andean Community in the political,
economic, trade, and scientific
and technological areas, among
others.
A
Seminar was held under the
sponsorship of the Russian
Confederation’s Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, the Chairman of
the National Committee for
Economic Cooperation with the
Latin American Countries, Mr. I.
S. Silaev, and the Embassies of
the Andean Countries in Russia, on
the subject of "Relations between
the Andean Community and Russia:
reflections and measures for their
strengthening." The main speakers
at the event attended by high-ranking
Andean Community officials and
Russian government and business
representatives were Russian Vice-Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Mr. I. D.
Ivanov, Andean Community Secretary
General, Mr. Sebastián Alegrett,
and Andean Development Corporation
President, Mr. Enrique García.
The
parties are pleased to report with
satisfaction that a broad range of
issues were addressed in the
course of the talks and the
Seminar with regard to the
development of mutual relations,
particularly the expansion of
economic and trade ties and
investments between Russia and the
Andean Community and its member
countries: Bolivia, Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. The
search for an effective mechanism
to fund trading operations between
the Andean Community and Russia
received special attention as a
means of contributing to the
growth of reciprocal trade. Draft
agreements between Russia and the
Andean Community for the creation
of a political consultation and
cooperation mechanism and of a
council to promote trade and
investment were discussed in
detail, as was a technical
cooperation agreement between
Russia and the Andean Community
General Secretariat. It was agreed
to continue and to accelerate the
consultations between the
pertinent bodies of the two
parties in order to sign those
agreements as soon as possible.
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