to stand in the dark it's got to which are far more in common between our countries is more things that unite us or rather them. and. questions or views so we approach as he is on the various. not always coincides with not being critical which was it over dramatize the situation with what is more important just not to let them see where you're going to now order all the way also today with. the resumption of political dialogue where we have covered practically all relevant international questions. of the international survey of the global situation in the north of africa in the middle east in the european leagues and the global crisis have shown that we have joined police for the new ways to use those eels new post-crisis wall dollar and we have discussed repeatedly that it would be

. with mr prime minister here in the meetings. which one place i meant and leave it to the government to discuss this issue should it have a vote economy or learn a new stadium recently where in the smaller states we have slowed our north push them getting me a little when. we are doing noble well now what are no grew by twenty one percent and was reached sixteen ballou is the and going to. double this is a good fielder because not only turnover is growing but mutual investments are growing as well it's just you know what aspirations to bring this investment to the guaranteed level and to ensure the. legal framework of why it's to this investment and. to ensure that there. the beneficial. investments of british companies

and what i'm going to do carry a big of a huge importance. when incarceration in the field of magic knowledge of scientific knowledge waste and modernisation we'll have a numbers in order to show you of course relations which you did. in the more than i threw away from the. raw materials and. took our aspects of economic operational i believe that this is a memorandum of this subject was the way to communicate unless there is a very important to develop humanitarian about the relations contacts between the common people and if we interviewed him mr teachers and the scientists prominent cultural figures and of course between because people were here for a lot of good examples. so this compilation recently the

russian delegation visited along the route. and you know. by me in the context of the russian british. how it was here. reparation of the money man said to your ego gary and i believe this is an. examples is taken into account of where the country is and what. it would be and all the important areas for cooperation in terms of investment security and safety ensuring and they believe. topical will become an increasingly irrelevant see in our relations in near future so i would like to thank my colleague general david cameron before i open an affair with these talks that we have quite good relations one is that we have established you interview assignments so. oh it's on the move forward to you know it will thank you

mr president thank you dimitri and i agree we've had excellent talks this morning of first of all let me express my sympathy to the friends and families of those who died in the iris travel plane crash i am very pleased to be here in the kremlin with president medvedev today i think it is a year since we first met in canada and we've had good meetings since then because britain shares with russia many interests and challenges from trade to security at home and abroad from culture to education and sport and research britain as the president has said invests more here than almost any other country and our bilateral trade is worth almost twelve billion pounds and accelerating we work together to counter piracy in the indian ocean and on issues like iran in the middle east peace process and financial stability in the g eight and g twenty almost all of which we've discussed this morning so as i said at last year's state

university this morning if we can build a stronger relationship i believe both our countries will gain of course it's no secret that there are difficult issues where we differ we can't pretend these don't exist we must continue to have frank discussions about them as we've had today at the same time without wishing these issues away it is right to rebuild a more effective relationship on those things that are vital to the safety and well being of people in russia and in britain so i'm pleased the president is out and i have agreed to strengthen our cooperation in a number of areas first on our commercial relationship we agreed on the need to increase trade and investment between britain and russia and on the partnership we've just signed to support modernization it's good for britain and british jobs to connect our economy to faster growing parts of the world like russia and it's good for russia too because britain is strong in the financial and business services and sexual expertise that are high tech and diversify. economy needs today

were actually two hundred fifteen million pounds worth of new commercial deals creating five hundred jobs back home and safeguarding thousands more from engineering companies like i.e.e.e. com working on the new moscow st petersburg highway to small companies like global immersion providing cutting edge technology for the moscow planetarium and there's a new joint company launching today to create a state of the art pharmaceutical plant here in moscow and three hundred jobs back in britain. and this growing business is why british airways is today announcing more seats on its london to moscow route we've also agreed to work together on new technology in areas like civil nuclear power this will pave the way for rolls royce to win a substantial share of russian backed projects to develop nuclear reactors elsewhere with wider benefits for the two hundred fifty british companies involved in the nuclear supply chain i'm delighted the result ohman rolls royce have signed the agreement today on international issues we agreed on the importance of completing russia's accession to the world trade organization we discussed the need to ensure

security and confidence for dogs and russia implementing the two thousand and eight cease fire in full we also discussed key issues on the agenda of the security council in g twenty on libya i have strongly welcomed russia russia's role at the paris conference and russia's recognition of the national transitional council we agreed to support a libyan led and un backed transition to build a united stable and democratic libya and we discussed ways to tackle the danger of surface to air missions missiles getting into the wrong hands and syria i was interested to hear more about the recent messages that russia has sent the assad regime we agreed the u.n. has a role to play to end the violence and support a genuine process of real reform and to continue discussions on a un resolution without a productive meeting there's more work to do today and more conversations to be had i very much look forward to the rest of my visit and to working with president medvedev all of these important issues thank you very much for the warm welcome

you've given me today mr president thank you romance but. it can skew so whole british colleagues used to independently so it is the answer for our press conference that. we will give the floor to the russian journalists to put our set. thank you very much question to both. russian and british relations way paradoxical british. on investments and written over six years so we witnessed the fall. is of all the political conflicts in. this situation today maybe to manage to address. the issue of. interaction between these two countries thank you thank you very much. our

face is so we are not pros and so it would be. pretty. good though should we talk about our relations between our countries and investment and economic relations. and of course there is room for improvements someone mentioned that we're here for you is that investment. would be provided by british companies but the structure of this investment is far from being. this is related to the. trade and we have to that is investment and trade and economic relations so we have something to address but the results are excellent and i welcome the delegation of business community and the. u.k. to discuss with their counterparts the relations of trade and.

this is as far as political contacts concerned will never stop them. really difficult. overbroad them. and we start discussing this issue. the result of these discussions of this complex issue resulted in this visit. and i believe that if we have managed to overcome some difficulties which exist the dozen members we don't hear. so there are some topics. in which we are. friends. and we are talking of what he is acceptable to us from the legal point of view and what is not acceptable to us from the legal point of view is well because we have the sunni's i was on the legal circumstances not the political one. maybe.

you can correct me if i go much agree with that i mean britain and russia have very strong business to business relationships we have very strong people to people relationships in terms of government relationship it's not been frozen president medvedev but i have had very good meetings over the last year i wouldn't of course we haven't solved every problem as i said in my statement there are difficulties and problems between between the two governments but these issues that we are working on and while we're doing that we don't see any reason why we can't try at the same time to build a stronger relationship and that is what i think today's meeting starts to do in the agreements that are been signed by businesses and p. between the two governments that discussions we want to have about things like the world trade organization the olympics energy cooperation these are all issues we want to make progress on even as we have the difficulties in our relationship that we don't we don't ignore.

thank you it's now in from i.t.v. news prime minister the russian foreign minister has said you should move on from talking about the litany in case we leave do you think that britain and russia can have normal relations if it's not sorted out and mr medvedev would you like britain to stop talking about case and do you think that they're coming or relations of britain does not. the point i'd make about this is that as i said there are still issues between the two governments it's not so much a question is whether we go on talking about them the question is there are legal issues and in britain we have a legal system that is independent of the government and those legal avenues have to be pursued in the proper way and government should should help with that and shouldn't stand in the way of that but as we've discussed this morning while these

difficulties disagreements between us remain we're not changing our views on those issues that doesn't mean we shouldn't pursue stronger business relations stronger commercial relations we shouldn't work together on issues like stability and peace in the middle east we should work together to try and work out the very best that the world can do the g twenty in cannes it's absolutely vital for russia vital for britain that those meetings are productive that we solve the problems of the euro zone problems of of debt and we get the world economy to move on so we're committed to building a stronger relationship even while some of the problems and issues between us haven't been resolved. right i'm sure. the question was do you want britain to stop talking about living in caves oh you're one of them so it was. great to call you for you will this has been said by

my colleagues who got into. a legal killings this month of it but he was sure through the. legal process of illegal prison any politicization of the legal. harmful difference a legal framework really. isn't any way we should talk to each other or we should to look for solutions like a new but we. are not likely to manage. to find solutions then we should continue the is. different. because of the princess in our legal framework what it should. be in our other areas of course we should continue to use the. national legal framework. let's continue to give something. so it's. i have

a question to both leaders in moscow and london is that it seems to be the real the un resolution regarding syria but this far as i understand the. point and over this resolution can you explain the way it is so difficult for you to agree on that second question have you discussed the counter-terrorism. is it possible that the british and the russian. intelligence and special services have frozen their contacts have you discussed this possibility as. you wish you would just. talk until the boss. we discussed the syrian problem in the parts of our talks and this is the question where we have different feelings maybe we are different in our positions despite the practical cooperation between us what is the difference.

it's not a dramatic difference about still exists. from the assumption that so on syria you should adopt such a resolution which should be it's our unbalanced address both parts of syria. both but this. official part headed by. their position and in this case this or is a loose from. them this resolution should be. sure. to the automatic use of sentients there are a lot of sanctions introduced by united states the european union an additional pressure is not required to do in this area. what is more important for me is just there. is a lucian on syria once it is. not so so on to sort of the

result ninety and seventy three is not in the in the sense of. because on the. road but in terms of its implementation of. the we are discussing this is a discussion between british colleagues and the us another color and so i believe there is discussion of. the reasonable saying now turn to the counterterrorist operation this is an important period for work a parishioner let's remember what happened yesterday in the united states a year anniversary of nine eleven. no it should dress equally it is like the world we have. there and we have. catered to the terms of the acts of terrorism of the more that's why this

is the course of lee important for our country. russia and. so we have to do everything in my life to. chair the. constructive and efficient and cooperation in their syria in order to hear from the practical results to you'll usually information and share this information. and then there's three that i believe there is a need to reanimating can not only between the law enforcement authorities but also between question of service should be the key is again are we prepared to discuss the practical ways how to do this work thank you first of all on all syria i think there was some some level of agreement that what is happening in syria is not acceptable that what president assad is doing to his own people is wrong that

the violence needs to stop but there is a difference in perspective between britain and russia on this issue and we don't we don't hide that we've had discussions because we want to move ahead and try and get a good u.n. resolution i think that the differences are clearly britain would like to go further we don't see a future for president assad and his regime in syria we think it's lost just legitimacy and he must stand aside but nonetheless we want to work together to try and get the best possible u.n. resolution to show that the world wants to make a clear statement about what is happening in syria and it's backed up obviously by the action we've taken at the european. level where we have put in place travel bans asset freezes and indeed quite tough sanctions on syrian oil but it's an issue will go on discussing in terms of counter-terrorism clearly we have a common interest in combating violent islamic extremism it's something i think

we're going to discuss over lunch we haven't changed the arrangements between our security services which were frozen at the time of the issue and that's not being discussed as something that is going to change but i think we can talk about how we cooperate in terms of combating criminality how our police services how are serious and organized crime agency work together in the future that's something we can discuss as i say over lunch. in found out from the b.b.c. . i don't know if you see the promise i'm still not entirely clear you how can you come here and bang the drum for british business while the suspected killer of alexander litvinenko has been protected by the russian state i don't understand how you can park the issue without being accused of putting trade before human rights and can you confirm that you will raise this with mr putin

later and mr president if i could give you a question. can you explain why a british businessman should invest in russia when he faces the possibility of intimidation corruption and an inconsistent rule of law and finally mr cameron suggested this morning that the k.g.b. tried to recruit him on a visit here in ninety five. do you think he would have had a good k.g.b. agent. let me. answer that last question i think is no let's be clear about that. first of all on the issue of this issue hasn't been pock the fact is that the two governments don't agree we don't agree with each other about this issue and it's important issue to the united kingdom i'm not down playing it in any way william hague spoke to his

widow before coming to russia it remains an issue between britain and russia and we haven't changed our position about that and the russians haven't changed their position but i don't think that means that we freeze the entire relationship what we should do is to mature and sensible countries try and see if we can build a relationship that's in our mutual interest covering important areas that will help us both we both need to see growth in trade and investment and jobs we both were. to see progress and stability in the middle east we both want to deal with issues like nuclear proliferation and the danger of getting into the wrong hands there is a bilateral agenda for britain and russia needs to be progressed and should be progressed and there's also a whole set of international issues where we meet together at the g eight the g

twenty i to nations climate change where we should understand each other's positions and try and work with each other it's not parking an issue it's just recognizing there is a disagreement that hasn't changed the two countries are changing their arrangements because of it but we should work on our relationship beyond it i think that is the right thing to do and that's why when dimitri asked me to russia i agreed to come and have enjoyed undertaking this visit a question about my conversations by the blacks in the ulta i will leave it to dmitri to answer. all legal colonics we all have to learn to respect our legal. frameworks i would like to remind you it's article sixty five for the russian constitution and there are cards russian citizen and there will be extradited

that's louis for instance. and sure i will never have no matter what would be the circumstances so we should understand this their respect this because we have. many questions regarding. the court decision so i implemented it in the territory of the u.k. we are not raising this issue so we have to respect. them no matter who raises this issue we have the answer would be this same this is not. please remember this when you now airs for. the we implement our cooperation in syria where in the rush. the corruption should we use the crate here then it will be very difficult to deal with the main is really exist on our planet because corruption there's

a social element exists everywhere and i. know this secret. and that's just in the great britain as well but we are prepared to cooperate and there's the end to the doesn't mean that we are not in and into to deal with this is a large scale corruption and we should may dress take a mattress radical measures and not to. you know the to improve the situation in our economy and the last part of the question pretty much sure that they would be in a very good teacher be edge and in this case he would never become prime minister of the u.k. . thank you very much. now for more on this we're

joined in the studio by political analyst dmitri babich thank you very much for joining us here so i will suggest it's still too early to talk about a reset in relations like the one we've seen which we need us in russia to have one between the u.k. and russia work you think i are the chances for something like that well i think the chances are very good we've seen that there is a cold here between the two men and i see no unsurmountable obstacles basically or the russian side is ready for the british side that keeps raising each other's. russia side you know is a rate you for your sort of economic cooperation and regard in the last question i think obviously the don't just was really referring to the situation between b.p. and its partners in russia well you cannot say that this is you know they're all too familiar. a nasty russian officials say against owners breeders businessmen

because there's a main problem that b.p. has in brushes with its partners from a are in or a company which is all by international businessmen they're over russian origin but one of them is in a u.s. citizen leaving the new york the art of and also leaves i would say gosh most of the time so it's much more complicated than their parents that were. suggested by the western press now you mentioned the issues and probably one of the main sticking point that was brought up at the news conference here was the issue of you live an ngo case now at this point britain is insisting that russia hand over the prime suspect in that case a man in under lubed right moscow refuses to do this we heard president a bit of saying that the russian legal system must be respected in this case do you see this at all being resolved or where do you see it heading and could continue being a stumbling block for relations between the two well russia wants to improve relations with the region but not that big sponsor of some principle. yes that russia needs

tests and one of these principles is not to give up on issues regarding competence the confidence of russian authority and not when or whether tribute to risk their political system in russia because just to please britain and i would like to remind you there in great britain that there are actually four people whose extradition do not the states want one of them to famous hundreds are killed a lot of russians in afghanistan in the united states these people face up to one hundred years in prison. and they committed things much more atrocious than. you know what mr will go boy supposedly did in london so all basically you know we should always look who is the judge here that's the russian singles ok now i'm moving on to international issues syria will suddenly talk about among the other like syria libya lots of a baby international north africa middle east issues on the table here but syria

remaining one of the main stumbling blocks of britain would like to see the u.n. move on this or russia has held back on the u.n. resolution for now how do you see this one a bargain moving forward well i think russia is somewhat conservative stance on this issue and i think russia has reasons we have just recently seen what the so-called arab spring lead to what you need tipped it's left to the rents they came all these radium but for the first time in thirty years. so it's not such a. one way nice street there. how the events i develop in in the middle east and of course russia is concerned which of course syria would take if indeed it has no future with the president. i would like to remind you that president of our side that his father presented to the minority community in syria what would happen to these minority it looks like.