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Inspired of well-known political difficulties and geopolitical | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
situations, Germany becomes a leading partner for our country. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Talking about the situation with trade, we have stated that the | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
growth of trade in January and February increased 43%. We have | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
marked that Germany remains the biggest consumer of Russian gas, | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
supplies from Russia cover nearly 35% of German internal markets. | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
Germany is the leading investor into the Russian economy, more than $16 | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
billion. German business uses all the opportunities of the Russian | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
market. We have about 5000 joint ventures, businesses with German | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
capital and their capital exceeds $50 billion. The working group on | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
strategic operation in economy and finances has resumed its work. It | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
results issues between business people of two countries, and | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
facilitates the realisation of the joint project. Representatives of | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
German business circles will take part in Saint Petersburg | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
International economic Forum. We have touched the issues of | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
humanitarian cooperation, scientific educational context and cultural | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
ties. However, the biggest attention was paid to international agenda. As | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
to the issues of preparation for the upcoming G20 summit, we will discuss | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
it a working breakfast that. Right after this meeting with you. Russia | :02:31. | :02:40. | |
and Germany cooperate within the G20 format against terrorism, | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
money-laundering and tax evasion and corruption. Russia is prepared to | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
facilitate German legislation so that the G20 summit in hamburg is | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
protected. We can discuss all the issues about economy and finances. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
The current meeting, we have talked as I said, about the situation in | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Ukraine, which raises serious concern. With Mrs Merkel, we are in | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
constant contact, as well as with other members of the Normandy | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
format, as you know, the latest conversation was on the 17th of | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
April. We continue to be active in regulation of the Ukrainian crisis, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
and we will talk about this after the presidential election in France. | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
We have reiterated our commitment to full comment of the Minsk agreement. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
The most important ask is uniting all the forces of the conflict, | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
which will bring a ceasefire. The special status of regions need to be | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
confirmed. It is our opinion that the stabilising force in the | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
conflict is the special monitoring mission of OSSCE, and of course the | :04:21. | :04:32. | |
explosion of the OSSCE vehicle. The impartial investigation of what | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
happened, as you may remember exactly three years ago, and I | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
cannot remember this, Ukrainian nationalists drove defenceless | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
people into the trade union building and they were burned alive. | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
The culprits have not been identified or brought to account. | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
This should not be repeated. We also exchanged opinions on Syria about | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
the Geneva format. We are convinced the decision and the solution for | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
the Syrian conflict can be only peaceful and the UN agenda. A | :05:19. | :05:30. | |
thorough and comrades of investigation of the 4th of April | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
incident needs to be undertaken. -- Farrer and competence. We denounce | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
all use of chemical weapons. -- thorough and comprehensive. Our | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
talks are always frank and open, and businesslike. In the post-war | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
decades, Russia and Germany have gone through long and difficult | :06:00. | :06:12. | |
paths, we should not lose the gains for the sake of peace and | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
cooperation in Europe. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
believe that it is a very good opportunity here to have these talks | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
and thank you very much for the invitation to Sochi. We have had | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
very intense first talks, and I believe the next part, which will | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
deal with the G20 presidency and other international questions, will | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
be very constructive as well. Thank you for being a constructive partner | :06:50. | :07:01. | |
for the organisation of the G20 in hamburg. The events in the world | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
showed that a multilateral Corporation is needed more than ever | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
today and in this spirit we want to prepare for the G20 summit. We | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
started on the bilateral relations. We have some very pleasing | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
developments in our Corporation. Maybe we will come to a point where | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
the sanctions will be able to be used at some point, but there will | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
be conditions. We have a lot of co-operation in the economic sphere, | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
in scientific areas and between youth groups. It is the 70th | :07:52. | :08:05. | |
anniversary of the Second World War. I want to remind ourselves of our | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
common history in those 70 years since the sacrifices that the Soviet | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
Union also made. I also want to mention the War Graves, those War | :08:22. | :08:34. | |
Graves is very much a usual thing, and this means a lot for the lives | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
of many people who were affected by the Second World War. We spoke about | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
the Petersburg dialogue, which has become a forum were very critical | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
issues can be aired. And we believe in an exchange, even if there are | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
differences of opinion. We spoke about the rights and the | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
possibilities of civil society here in Russia. I spoke about the German | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
Russian house, I believe there are some good developments and we can | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
conclude on this case. But the possibility of the right to | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
demonstrate is important in a civil society, and also I have highlighted | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
the role of NGOs. We receive negative reports on the way that | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
homosexuals are dealt with in Chechnya in particular, and I ask | :09:39. | :09:48. | |
President Putin to make and use his influence to ease the way that | :09:49. | :09:58. | |
homosexuals, and also the Jehovah's Witnesses Abe approached in the | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
country. I think this dialogue is important because we agreed to | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
continue on the process after the presidential election in France. We | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
do have setbacks from time to I support what was said just now. | :10:12. | :10:27. | |
The work of the monitors by the OSCE, the gentleman there, I want to | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
highlight and it is even more sad and terrible when people who are | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
working for those rights are endangered and I think the central | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
point where we do have very little success, where we keep reminding | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
ourselves of the zero point of the Minsk agreement, which was that we | :10:54. | :11:01. | |
need a ceasefire, we have now started working in parallel | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
politically, but the ceasefire is of essential importance. And the | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
exchange of captive people, also. I can say from the German Federal | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
Government and from our Foreign Minister that we will not shy away | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
from any effort, even if it is very hard to continue in this format, but | :11:27. | :11:36. | |
we will continue to contribute. As the German Chancellor, I made clear | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
that we want to do everything to support a ceasefire and to help | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
people who are in acute need. I think the concept of a security zone | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
that one could work on more and I believe that we can talk about other | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
challenges as well. We are united in the fight against international | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
terrorism. Russia and Germany could work more closely here, but we have | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
a coalition to work on Islamist terrorism and we are on one opinion | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
with Russia on this field. We have had very extensive talks and we can | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
continue those as well. There are differences of opinion but I believe | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
international policies always means seeking the conversation, seeking | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
new talks and on the 72nd anniversary of the end of the Second | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
World War, we should really work towards solutions where many people | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
now believe many things have deteriorated badly. | :12:54. | :12:59. |