Dmitry Medvedev meets Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim

22 May 2017 13:00 Istanbul, Turkey

Excerpts from Dmitry Medvedev’s meeting with President of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon

Igor Dodon: On behalf of Moldova, I would like to thank Russia for the specific steps it has taken since the beginning of this year. There has been significant progress on the issues agreed with Vladimir Putin in early January, including in terms of exports and migration policies. In the first three months of this year, Moldova’s exports to the Russian Federation increased 42 percent, and surged five to seven times in specific product categories that are of special interest to us, such as agricultural products, wine and apples.

Thank you very much for the assistance Russia provides to our immigrants. There have been several legalisation waves in Russia, and tens of thousands of immigrants were able to obtain legal status.

Dmitry Medvedev: We are meeting on the sidelines of the meeting of the Organisation for Black Sea Cooperation, which is a great opportunity to compare notes and assess progress in the implementation of your agreements with the Russian President, as well as the overall state of economic cooperation. In recent years there have been quite a few issues, but we now have an opportunity to move forward and resolve the existing issues. Let’s discuss the approaches that can be used, including those that can help solve the system-wide issues that have accumulated in relations between our two countries recently. I hope they will be resolved in the future.

List of heads of delegations taking part in the meeting of heads of state and government of the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation member states:

Group photo of heads of delegations from the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation member states.

Speaker of the Milli Mejlis of the Azerbaijan Republic Oktay Asadov

Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Albania Halil Hyseni

Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Armenia Ashot Hovakimian

Vice President of the Republic of Bulgaria Iliana Yotova

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos

First Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister of Georgia Dimitry Kumsishvili

President of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev

Foreign Minister of Romania Teodor-Viorel Meleşcanu

First Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Serbia Ivica Dacic

President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan

First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv

Secretary General of the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Michael Christides

Dmitry Medvedev attended a plenary session titled Law in the Global Context.

The St Petersburg International Legal Forum was launched in 2011 and is a major platform for dialogue between politicians, lawyers, economists and scientists who represent various economic and legal systems.

The forum seeks to promote ways to modernise the law in the changing global environment, including ways to optimise cooperation between legal systems and work out common approaches to developing new laws in today’s world, to modernise Russian law by using the best foreign practices for drafting and administering laws, and to assist in the development of modern legal sciences and legal education in Russia and throughout the world.

The 7th St Petersburg International Legal Forum

17 May 2017

The 7th St Petersburg International Legal Forum

17 May 2017

The 7th St Petersburg International Legal Forum

17 May 2017

The 7th St Petersburg International Legal Forum

17 May 2017

The 7th St Petersburg International Legal Forum

17 May 2017

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The 7th St Petersburg International Legal Forum

The forum’s agenda this year includes discussions on the regulation of modern technologies and their influence on the legal profession, antimonopoly regulation, financial and investment policies, Russia-Asia cooperation, and the regulation of marketing cultural values. The theme of this plenary session is Law in the Global Context.

On 26 May, Dmitry Medvedev will chair a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government.

The meeting agenda will feature the further development of the multi-faceted interaction within the CIS, including the signing of international agreements in such areas as the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes; geodesy, cartography, cadastre and Earth remote sensing; the counteraction of production and distribution of counterfeit products, and intellectual property protection.

On the same day, Mr Medvedev will take part in a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council.

The meeting will focus on a wide range of issues related to the integrative interaction within the Eurasian Economic Union that comprises Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

Plans call for approving a plan of joint actions to abolish withdrawal and limitations on the Union’s market, discussing the work to develop main directions of the digital agenda implementation and the development of the one-stop services system in regulating foreign trade in the member states. Participants will also discuss the organisation of joint research, testing and design works in the agro-industrial sector, the procedure of coordinating subsidies for industrial products, and other issues of mutual interest.