В.Путин.Совместная пресс-конференция.28.02.06.Part 2

Joint Press Conference Following Talks with Prime Minister of Hungary Ferenc Gyurcsany.Part 2 February 28, 2006 Budapest Совместная пресс-конференция с Премьер-министром Венгрии Ференцем Дюрчанем 28 февраля 2006 года Будапешт The renewed activity of the Russian-Hungarian Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation played an important part in this growth. It held its first meeting last September. During our meeting today the Prime Minister and I agreed that we are ready to transform the commission, and not even transform it in fact so much as give its work a new impulse, and that we will look at the possibility of holding intergovernmental consultations of the kind that Hungary holds with its partners in Europe and that Russia holds with its major partners such as the Federal Republic of Germany, France and Italy. I am sure that we can work together to expand considerably the horizons of our trade and economic ties and our scientific and technical cooperation. The fuel and energy sector is a strategic area for cooperation between Russia and Hungary. We reaffirmed our plans to deliver energy supplies to Hungary on the basis of our existing long-term contracts. We are also ready to work together on promising oil and gas and other energy projects. The Prime Minister mentioned the possibility of building a major gas reservoir on Hungarian territory and supplying Russian pipeline gas to Hungary via new routes referring here to our multilateral cooperation with the Republic of Turkey and with other countries in southern Europe. We have already completed the project of laying a gas pipeline across the Black Sea bed to Turkey. Now we are examining the possibility of extending this project into southern Europe. In this context, Hungarys role and importance in increasing the reliability of Russian energy supplies not just to Hungary itself but also to other countries in Europe, is set to grow. Hungary could certainly become one of Europes energy centres and serve as an important base and vital link in energy cooperation on the European continent. We are also ready to begin work on joint projects in other areas. We discussed in detail investment and other cooperation projects, including between the regions, during our talks today. On our side this includes, for example, the reconstruction of Budapests metro system and deliveries of rolling stock. In this respect we plan to work together with our Japanese partners in order to meet the demands of the Hungarian market. I note also the modernisation of the Paks Nuclear Power Plant and the construction of a railway freight shipment centre in Zahan. This is a serious multilateral project and could give new substance to our cooperation. We could send a sizeable share of goods flows and container shipments from Asia to Europe via the Trans-Siberian railway and on through to Hungary, where a major logistics centre would be created to distribute these goods throughout the countries of Europe. Hungary is taking part in housing construction programmes under mortgage loan schemes, including the construction of social infrastructure facilities. The Prime Minister mentioned work in the areas of healthcare and housing construction. Here, we are referring to the creation also of logistics hubs in the Moscow Region and in Yekaterinburg.

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