Prime Minister Vladimir Putin meets with members of the presidium of the Transport Workers Union
“The transport industry is a major national area of activity because the transport industry, similar to the energy industry, has a direct effect on the viability and vitality of the state.”
“We should not stop at increasing bilateral trade. Our strategic goal is to reach a qualitatively new level of business cooperation – I mean the development of industrial cooperation, partnership in high-tech industries, and the promotion of long-term mutual investment,” said Mr Putin.
“Today we have made an important step toward expanding our bilateral partnership: we signed the ambitious Russian-Ukrainian Economic Cooperation Programme for 2011-2020. We intend to base it on the most promising areas of cooperation. The implementation of these plans will not only strengthen long-standing trade and economic ties but also create new science-intensive high-tech industries,” said the Russian prime minister.
“We chose this route expressly to minimise, to cut its impact on the coastal ecosystem to zero. This enabled us to preserve old-growth forests and keep this natural environment, which is such a source of pride to us, and which the millions of people who live in Russia love, pristine and untouched.”