Putin to leave for Bishkek for state visit on Tues, CSTO Collective Security Council to meet on Thurs - Kremlin
MOSCOW. Nov 24 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will leave for Kyrgyzstan for a state visit on Tuesday, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said.
"The Russian president's visit to the Kyrgyz Republic starts on Tuesday. This visit was organized at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and will last two days," Ushakov told reporters.
Putin will stay in Kyrgyzstan for two days as a meeting of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) is planned in Bishkek on Thursday.
The visit program will start on Tuesday evening. Japarov will meet Putin at the aircraft steps at the Bishkek airport. Then the leaders will go to the city, where they will lay down a wreath to the Eternal Flame in Victory Square.
"After that, the two presidents will talk informally in the Ala Archa Residence. It will be an informal talk between the two presidents in a one-on-one format," Ushakov said.
On Wednesday, Putin's program in Bishkek will begin in the Unity Palace with an official meeting ceremony. Then there will be Russian-Kyrgyz talks, which are expected to address key issues concerning bilateral interaction in the political, trade, economic, humanitarian and other areas. In particular, they will address cooperation in the trade, economic, energy and education spheres, as well as in healthcare and migration. The talks will be held in an expanded format, Ushakov said.
"These are issues on which the reporters have been determined on both sides. But it doesn't mean that there will be no exchange of opinions on other issues as well, including international and regional," Ushakov said.
The Russian delegation in the talks will be very representative, he said. It will comprise Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin, Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov, Science and Higher Education Minister Valery Falkov and Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev, he said. The delegation will also include Russia's consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor head Anna Popova, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina, State Secretary and Deputy Education Minister Andrei Korneyev, Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation deputy head Mikhail Babich, Rosatom head Alexei Likhachev, and some businessmen: Roman Abramovich, Musa Bazhayev, Pyotr Fradkov and Mikhail Volkov. Russia presidential aides Yury Ushakov and Maxim Oreshkin and presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov will also accompany the president to Bishkek.
In the talks, the presidents are expected to sign a joint statement on deepening relations of alliance and strategic partnership in the rapidly changing world. "This program document sets new large-scale tasks concerning further strengthening of bilateral relations in the long-term perspective," Ushakov said.
"A number of important intergovernmental and commercial documents will be signed during the visit. A total of seven documents have now been considered. They embrace cooperation in education, economy, healthcare, migration, sanitary-epidemiological wellbeing of the population, development of military-technical cooperation, as well as an agreement between Russian Post and Kyrgyz Post," he said.
After exchanging the signed documents, the presidents will make statements on the results of the talks.
A state reception will be held on Wednesday evening.
The program of the state visit will end with that. However, the president will stay in Bishkek to attend CSTO events, the Kremlin representative said.
