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RUSSIAN TRANSPORT MINISTER TO MEET WITH FRENCH COUNTERPART
by Dmitri Gorokhov
ITAR-TASS News Agency
July 5, 2006 Wednesday
Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin and his French counterpart
Dominique Perben will meet in Paris on Thursday to discuss new steps
in development of bilateral cooperation in the economy sector, one
of the key ones.
The Russian minister began his working trip on Wednesday with visiting
Toulouse, Western Europe's aviation and space industrial centre. He
met there with chief managers of the Airbus aircraft building company,
which supplied more than 4,300 planes to consumers over the 35 years
of its existence. It is a leading company on the civil aviation market.
Aside from the talks in the Transport Ministry, Levitin will meet
with the Paris airport administration and open a seminar of the
Russian-French Dialogue Association.
Among the themes of the Paris talks will be the French experience of
automatic control over speed on roads. Russia with interest studies
France's experience in the area, the minister's press secretary
Svetlana Kryshtanovskaya told Itar-Tass.
On the concluding day of the visit, next Friday, Levitin will present
awards in the Russian ambassador's residence to French participants
of the search operation in Sochi, where an Armenian airline A-320
crashed last May.
by Dmitri Gorokhov
ITAR-TASS News Agency
July 5, 2006 Wednesday
Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin and his French counterpart
Dominique Perben will meet in Paris on Thursday to discuss new steps
in development of bilateral cooperation in the economy sector, one
of the key ones.
The Russian minister began his working trip on Wednesday with visiting
Toulouse, Western Europe's aviation and space industrial centre. He
met there with chief managers of the Airbus aircraft building company,
which supplied more than 4,300 planes to consumers over the 35 years
of its existence. It is a leading company on the civil aviation market.
Aside from the talks in the Transport Ministry, Levitin will meet
with the Paris airport administration and open a seminar of the
Russian-French Dialogue Association.
Among the themes of the Paris talks will be the French experience of
automatic control over speed on roads. Russia with interest studies
France's experience in the area, the minister's press secretary
Svetlana Kryshtanovskaya told Itar-Tass.
On the concluding day of the visit, next Friday, Levitin will present
awards in the Russian ambassador's residence to French participants
of the search operation in Sochi, where an Armenian airline A-320
crashed last May.