German FM to Visit Moscow for Russian-German SummitGerman Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer will begin an official visit to Moscow on Monday to prepare a Russian-German summit, the official Itar-Tass news agency reported Sunday.On Monday, Fischer will meet with Russian State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev, Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov, and on Tuesday, he will hold talks with Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Ivanov and members of the Memorial Human Rights Center. The report did not preclude the possibility that President Vladimir Putin will receive Fischer. On the Russian-German summit, scheduled for April 2001 in St. Petersburg, Russia, the news agency said the two sides will discuss economic cooperation, restructuring of the Russian debt, strengthening of international stability and preservation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Relations between Russia and Germany have been evidently strengthened since Putin assumed the Russian presidency in early 2000. |
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