10/15/2010

Talks between Medvedev and Chavez begin in Kremlin

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (right) is holding talks with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez



MOSCOW, October 15 (KATAKAMI / Itar-Tass) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is holding talks with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in the Kremlin. Hugo Chavez arrived in Moscow for a visit on Thursday. 

At present, the talks are being held in the narrow format behind closed doors. 

As is expected, the Moscow meetings will yield a plan of action which will be the basis for cooperation up to 2014. 

The document lists specific cooperation guidelines in such spheres as foreign policy, financial sector, oil and gas industry, military-technical cooperation, nuclear power engineering, telecommunications, agriculture, fishing, transportation, education, health care, tourism, sport, culture, and elimination of natural calamities aftermath.