Medvedev promises to bend every effort to advance Russian-Kyrgyz friendship
BISHKEK. June 6 (Interfax) - Moscow will bend every effort to promote friendly relations between Russia and Kyrgyzstan, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at talks with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev.
"I will try to use every opportunity and naturally do my utmost for the friendship between Russia and the Kyrgyz Republic to continue developing," Medvedev said at a Monday meeting with Atambayev.
Welcoming the Russian prime minister Atambayev decorated him with a high state award - the Order of Danaker.
Medvedev thanked the president of Kyrgyzstan and said that the decoration symbolizes the friendship and strong relations between the two nations.
"I want to sincerely thank you for the high state award of the Kyrgyz Republic. I want to say that, of course, it is symbol of our friendship, a symbol of the common job that we are doing together with you so that the people in our two countries would live in normal, modern conditions, that the economies would develop, that important decisions would be made in the social sphere," Medvedev said.
On the Russian side the meeting was attended by Vice Premier Igor Shuvalov, head of the Federal Customs Service Andrei Belyaninov, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development Alexei Likhachyov and Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak.
