Berlusconi, Putin to sign cooperation deals
25. April 2010. | 07:47
Source: Itar-Tass
Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in his private residences outside Milan to discuss a wide range of issues of bilateral economic cooperation, the Italian governmental press service said on Saturday.
Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in his private residences outside Milan to discuss a wide range of issues of bilateral economic cooperation, the Italian governmental press service said on Saturday.
According to the press service, the two prime ministers will hold an unofficial meeting at the Arcore villa Sunday evening. On Monday, Berlusconi and Putin will move to Villa Gernetto in the town of Lesmo, where they are expected to sign a number of documents, including an agreement on cooperation for the reconstruction of two architectural monuments in the city L'Aquila, which suffered from a devastating earthquake last year - the palace Ardingelli and the Church of St. Gregory the Great, and a protocol of intent for the creation of a fusion reactor in Russia. Italy attaches great importance to cooperation in the nuclear sector after the Berlusconi government decided to go back to nuclear power engineering.
The agenda also includes issues of cooperation between Italian and Russia companies active in the energy sector (ENI of Italy and Gazprom of Russia – chief partners in the South Stream gas pipeline project), in the automotive industry (Sollers of Russia and Fiat of Italy), and in the area of air transport (Italy’s Alitalia and Russia’s Aeroflot airlines).
According to local observers, during the “private” visit by the Russian prime minister, Berlusconi will present his new “house of receptions” – Villa Gernetto, an 18th-century palace boasting 36 hectares of woods and a terrace overlooking the valley of the Lambro north of Milan which he plans to convert into his planned "university of liberal studies", but where he will retain a wing for his own use.
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