| Discussion with participants in the Junior G8 July 14, 2006.Part 1 Pushkin, Leningrad Region Встреча с представителями «юношеской восьмерки» 14 июля 2006 года Ленинградская область, Пушкин PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: Good afternoon, dear friends, It gives me great pleasure to see you and have this opportunity to welcome you here to Pushkin, one of the suburbs of St Petersburg. First of all, I wanted to see how you have organised yourselves here, how your stay is going, and see that you are making good use of your time. I was just with your friends before, who were having a video conference with young people in Cairo. I hope they also had an interesting discussion, no less interesting than that which you are having now with Mr Khristenko, one of the key ministers in the Russian Government. If I can add anything to help satisfy your curiosity, I will be happy to do so, so lets make use of this opportunity. This will be all the more interesting and useful for me as your representatives will be having their meeting with the G8 leaders the day after tomorrow and I will be able to give them some idea as to what we can expect from this meeting. I can tell you that, without any exaggeration, all my colleagues, all the leaders of the countries that you come from, are very much looking forward to this meeting. That is all I wanted to say for a start. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them. QUESTION (in German): Your energy minister [Khristenko] said before that his ... |
