so. he's with this be able. to first foreign trip as a newly elected president i am happy that we have. intensive relations it with russia of course we have discussed the issues of our bilateral relations between germany and russia and we have arranged to hold an intergovernmental taishan between germany and russia in case and this year. as for our economic and trade cooperation it is on the rise we have established on either side that russia would like to. assist russia in modernizing its industries we also have severe interesting cooperation with regard to commodities trade. and that includes building the north stream pipeline we all also have discussed. the evolution of civil society in

russia there have been certain developments in this area i have emphasized that we are interested in developing a democratic democracy including those in russia because that is the only way. to conceive a civil society in russia that would assist. the country in its development but. the year two thousand and fourteen will be the year of russia in germany in the year of germany in russia. russia will be presented in germany and showcase here through more than a thousand of activities there will be an exposition titled germans and russians at thousand years of history culture in fine arts it will be opened in the historical museum. but our trade cooperation has increased by twenty nine percent. starting from the year two thousand and ten

that shows dynamic development of our cooperation and next year. the chairmanship in the g twenty will be rushes and we will therefore cooperate in the international market as well we have also discussed. the eurozone and its current situation i have once again emphasized that you many will do everything in its capacity to preserve the euro as a stable currency and that the debt crisis and the. feeling that the efficiency crisis will be over as soon as possible we have also discussed the syria issue and the complex situation in that country. massacre which has exposed how difficult the human rights situation is in syria with both underlined the significance of

a political settlement especially because the annan plan which might be a baseline which might be a starting point we must say this isn't the work within the u.n. security council to make sure the kofi annan plan becomes a reality we must also develop edition the d.v.d.'s and each and every country and i'm speaking on behalf of the german republic today. each and every country must do everything it can to prevent a civil war in syria and we must take the necessary political steps to that end also we. we are happy that the coming consultation on iraq will take place in moscow we have also discussed this. myth and we're also have people that transit needs to initiative that will keep under mr putin's presidency. we have covered all these important issues. we've had

a comprehensive and intensive discussion of that we'll have more time on during the g twenty summit and it during our other meetings this and here once again welcome was eventually nationalities in china you know what i was just concluded our detailed conversation with them is on a little bit murky it was productive is always a committee and the bulletin atmosphere was open but really really we reaffirmed our commitment to continue political log to you intensify cooperation between russia and germany and at the very serious and we had an exchange of views on various sea she is basically madam chancellor covered in the middle cesspits we are developing a humanitarian corporation with regional national unity to go to blake and i mean of course the economy was high on the agenda as you but you admitted i would like to point out about what that treaty is in libraries you know the. national my

pointing eleven on the u.k. but it would need we believe has reached the middle of all time high almost seventy two billion u.s. dollars is on the unit because they could. not reach the should be set this is more than thirty percent higher than in two thousand and ten and we are developing our energy corporation again like madam chancellor so that's what if you miss me we're working on the nordstrom you know when you project it will you all have heard about the first line has been launched the second option i ward of the second line has been finished and this year it will start to operate in the fourth quarter of this year but wishing list well he was definitely he encouraged his energy security and so we all over europe we paid special attention to preparations for the fourteenth randolph and intergovernmental cults consultations. in addition we have agreed that

this meeting will take place in cousin in the fall of this year i think before and of course i agree with madam chancellor not humans that we can actually look better in europe that it was an important event in our bilateral relations that will have a love with the euro that russia germany and the europe germany and russia but if we have sent an invitation to the president enough that i will in the of germany mr go and i believe that i will have douglas or but he just but if you give it to him in person when i meet with you later it doesn't deal with the going easy then this issue we'll consummate in. concert through it you can germany will have the result you got were various events. you know countries because they're good i believe they will be very popular with the people of germany and russia people in you do that but also i think that what she's doing this to be to the civil forum i mean this thing was for him you know he's

a very good and thank you platform for developing talented and civil societies about our country so we've discussed and i mean not only our cooperation on international issues again like a good man chancellor said you know with the issues that the international community faces today in syria growing violence on the country we discussed iran's nuclear program including it's good news quite soon in just a few days we'll have a summit yes there russia e.u. summit in st petersburg and we really expect that germany has are a long standing and we constructively partner will play a positive or a look at listening to villa ping i think our relations with the european union triple as a whole but i would like to think madam chancellor. for it will do to square it must be a dealer in the atmosphere in the business like atmosphere of the talks we have today thank you very much.

no i don't know. because this must be at the store madam chancellor and when you are being criticized harshly. for increasing germany's dependence on. russian energy resources and maybe president putin can comment on this as well. sixty you would all be in. i'm not sure whether. i'm a target for criticism or a reason for dependency as far as energy is concerned russia is a reliable partner we have seen this for decades we have seen that many large german companies have a long term contract with russia and the north stream pipeline has

evolved from in the german russian project into russian you would be in project money and ever more companies and countries in europe who are joining this project we have just hosted. a twenty three summit of people to state cooperation and. we have completed the situation with energy supplies to what we had some five years ago and nowadays the situation is fundamentally different there is that much less to no criticism. or europe has many other opportunities for receiving gas is that for example there is also norway which is also part of the of the both take counsel and once again we believe russia is a reliable partner. my answer will be completely a deep politicized i would like to say look if you did you get all humans of

russian deliveries of natural gas to germany compared to the pre-crisis levels have not even scream. in the so the composition of billion in a cup over german consumption. or russia's share is not increasing within it but when we talk about. growing supplies from russia what we mean is that germany's producing less guests now this is the same thing happens in other european countries as well this is why european countries become more and more interested in looking out with the such a project as a north stream that with this project has really become international it's a pan european project now and you can look at it as you know if you've noticed but with a natural gas you will not only go to germany about two other european countries as well on the end we are approached by scandinavian countries in the united kingdom

on this matter so i don't really think that there is any unilaterally dependency here in the even if we have some kind of dependency it isn't quite unusual and i think that this is significant if you will amend that believe for improving and richie stability for entire europe and i think this is the right move but i actually we discussed other project as well today we discussed south stream and in a book a pipeline we talked about and that is russia's cooperation with norway for example i told the man of chancellor about our dialogue with our norwegian partner and we should have no boogieman that year old these issues video thing they all not only promote russia's and german interests but the interests of the entire europe.

it was those who thought the title us always missed when hillary clinton. state secretary hillary clinton has said there russia is supporting the assad regime in syria. and therefore is the critic it is preventing political change in that country madam chancellor do you share that criticism and mr putin do you think it is justified or do do you believe that in case a the kofi annan plan fails russia would be able to agree to sanctions against syria in the security council we have discussed the situation in syria today with mr putin. and as far as thoughts outside the situation there is concerned our assessment. is similar and the situation is dire in that country right now and i have the impression that nobody actually is

interested in a civil war in that campaign and therefore we must do everything in our capacity to prevent a civil war and each and everybody should make their contribution become we must emphasize a political decision a political solution for syria and we must discuss how we can work with the united nations framework. that. plan does not go down in chaos. and we must discuss how we do you know affect the situation. improve the political climate in that country and we've discussed this situation on a friendly and. helpful terms and i have a feeling that we here our interests to this region even though they were different . in assessment with regard to certain aspects of the situation this is the reality of our discussion and really is room with guns which are against us and russia is

not supporting the third when you by any kind of regime you know larger like the acid regime those who claim syria are wrong. we have very good and long standing relationship with syria but we are not at all supporting either of the parties with the world are going to go away and if there is a threat of civil war it's our lessons before we can get involved and i agree with america chancellery that park common objective is to prevent them leaving the development of this kind of on a favorable scenario what we are witnessing today he's going the beginning of a civil war and this is extremely dangerous and in the history guards of the annan plan and his mission going on i don't think we should have no say as you know is a love for you for what means we should not expect it to fail. or un secretary-general in which the feeling is very low the experience of the person and

we should all focus on and held him come our objective is to stop violent acts no matter who comes around them from we we have agreed with madam chancellor that we will do all we can you know both russia and germany and other partners. will do bowl we can to prevent yes coalition of the violence we will help mr on and to achieve a positive result. yes i. think the facts will represent your facts and you say chintzy isn't mr president when you say if you have this situation in europe a square difficult madam chancellor remains perhaps the only wannabes who know him in this insistently supports. and speaks to you you need european bonds but you have read at the same time other european leaders to disagree for example the french president whom you are going to meet later today i

would like to ask you. what is important is that i know who do you side with in this argument used just in then. that's cool because what do you think resumed how will the situation in the eurozone affect the situation in russia isn't it possible are we going to withdraw from euro and rescue those again exchange our reserves use other currencies instead when yes they can afford an apology if it but if i have to go to paris later today and you put me in a very difficult situation that i knew you asked that i come to i side with i side with the russian people and the interests of the russian federation that's what my side with you know on the ground and based on what madam chancellor is doing her sympathies she siding with the german people and with the german nation but there

was more than a p.o.w. gut feeling now as regards your euro bonds when you claim we don't really know what it is we don't really know what is the plan of who is going to issue those bonds what the terms will be with you but if they are. i can only imagine the king for me and that inability of such security is such instruments with could be used to say that only after you ensure stability and order in the economy up with a little money and we haven't discussed this issue in much detail but based on the logic or germany has been doing so far i believe that the german literature shipley know if he's against you resuming to same old problems in europe again and again the one thing we definitely agree on of the fullness that was in. our interests converge i mean russian and german interests we all want to ensure

a national book on the normal operation of our economy and then we are interested in the european economy and what its functioning properly. all reserves a large part of our reserves is kept in europe with and with with it you know and like i told madam chancellor earlier today after the company gets also we have german and you better than your government bonds stands that the profit on them is not very high but there are various stable. those euro bonds you asked about i don't really know what it is i only know that somebody will have to issue them and then somebody will have to buy them if they're backed by germany people will definitely buy them. the ones you know and then they will use it to you finance but on the condition of the pull of you did it so those of countries in a difficult situation and also promote economic growth but if those countries do

not meet their obligations who will pay for those euro books most probably in germany but up with this is not a question for me it is a question thank you for german and french literature ships and the european union as a whole to decide. going to go well as regards the russian economy this will definitely. because more than fifty percent and you are sure it is with the european union and of course are interested in having stability in the euro zone as soon as possible and our interests on this point where we can bridge with both germany and france and as regards its question which instruments should be used it is up to our european partners for the first of all to decide who should be which instruments to use. and profit maybe i can say if you words in addition here just give you the facts. to life. for the sake of assessment maybe

you do know that out of the twenty seven e.u. member states twenty five countries have. signed. a new fiscal pact. and five of them have already already five yesterday denmark and latvia ready for the new fiscal pact and we're now expecting the results of a referendum and ireland. obviously you are realizes that stable finance and economic growth are interconnected the whole thing we can see that as an example in russia in its trend of development i can also tell you that i can treat like germany which has been a federal nation for over sixty years we do not have state issued bonds any any longer in germany we have federal bonds and we have state bonds. as in regional

bonds but not all therefore. the united states which is also a stable. nation also has federal and state bonds and therefore in a country like germany there is no such thing as a single government issued bonds. we have some. states within germany some lands within germany who would like to issue their own bonds to get themselves out of a crisis and out of the crisis but we would like to have to create a europe in the future where. we're stability is preserved and where where we all are competitive we need to ensure that your money is competitive and we can only ensure that if we produce. what we produce in competitive environment and we can only improve the situation thank you. president

putin have a. new president. i haven't fully understood what you are planning to. do about syria as power how is russia planning to use its. influence. and there are claims that russia should. go against syria should introduce an arms embargo in syria and i would like to hear more about you or your any chewed on this issue and met in chancellor i would like to ask you about the company if you could comment on that please. as regards to the instruments that we might use in interest in the syrian problem we are not going to use any instruments you know what surely you will definitely and actually put me working with our partners primarily you know

the un security council with germany and other countries interested in resolving this conflict of course we will also stay in contact them with the president. and the syrian government we will also maintain contact with the regional nations and through the arab nations that are involved in this conflict one way or another and we will do our best when he sees that you resolve this conflict with them if you will move to political instruments just. settlement for the conflict feel is it possible or not on the whole i believe it is possible. but if you don't know where this will take but here the lady grey of professionalism and nations who shoot you if you really cannot use violence and it's going to expect a little will instantaneous effect made a lot of people with all sorts of interests are involved in this conflict we need

to find the probably common ground and bring them to the negotiating team was that this is what we're going to do it for when you get weapons supplies going to russia and is not supplying the kind of weapons that could be used in a civil conflict. will listen to me and i don't. as far as your question is concerned we must take note of the decision taken by the idea to gritters the international region the international labor agency and its regional offices i'm going to do everything in our capacity to give these workers in opportunity to get their jobs in our bit to get in. to premier li held but. workers. should have an opportunity to get employed there is the federal labor. which will take care of it and we're

doing everything we can to help. they're wrapping up a press conference with russian oppression of a lot of it put in german chancellor angela merkel there addressing the press after having a behind closed doors meetings certainly they covered a broad range of subjects there but it got interesting during the q. and a when they gave the microphone to members of the press certainly one interesting note that of the issue of syria the ongoing conflict brought up there as well one reporter addressing president putin and saying that the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says that russia is complicating the syrian conflict by opposing u.n. sanctions and or possible action against syria president putin was quick to respond saying that russia is not unilaterally supporting the assad regime anybody that says that is simply wrong mr putin and president putin saying the common objective is for peace to prevail the annan peace plan must be supported are not expected to fail again president putin saying that russia will not act unilaterally with syria

it is an issue that all major global players must work together towards peace and ultimately the german chancellor angela merkel echoing the russian president sentiment saying a political solution within the u.n. framework must bring peace and the global players to the negotiating table more details on that at r.t. dot com we'll be back in just a moment. two things i'm open to one takes is transmission since the break from the big thing haunts of this incident one remaining open channel will come from missing from trouble free from filters then back to back to the ship didn't like speak to cyberspace where battle just melissa make the jump to hyginus space challenging the establishment's grip on information and are now being pursued by sinister agents more of what's happening with the figures on office and ends of the spectrum thus

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