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Moscow - Chilean President Michelle Bachelet
starts today an official three-day visit to
St. Petersburg on which she will hold talks
with the top Federal officials.
Chilean Ambassador to Russia Augusto Parra
says that Saturday she is to hold talks with
Peer Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin.
The diplomat told media that Bachelet will
also meet with Governor Valentina Matvienko
and lay a wreath at the cemetery of the
second important Russian city.
The Chilean president will attend the
opening of the Russia-Chile business
meeting, considered of special importance to
strengthen bilateral economic and commercial
ties.
Before her departure, Bachelet will meet
with local female leaders and pay a short
visit to the Ermitage Museum.
This is her second visit to Russia and she
will be presented the Doctor Honoris Causa
title of the Foreign Ministry International
Relations Institute and will give a master
conference.
The same day she will inaugurate the
bilateral work table at the Russian Academy
of Science and will meet with city Major
Yuri Luzhkov.
With Luzhkov she is to attend the closing
session of the Chile-Russia Business and
Investment Seminar at the President Hotel,
added the sources.
The meeting with Putin completes the agenda
for the day, which includes a ceremony to
decorate a group of artists with special
ties to Chile, said Parra.
On her last day in Russia, Bachelet will
meet with President Medvedev at the Kremlim,
attend the signing of a group of accords and
a reception the president arranged in her
honor.
The program includes a meeting with the
community of resident Chileans in Moscow and
laying a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier.
Bachelet will attend the opening of the Week
of Chilean Cinema in Moscow to run here and
St. Petersburg until May. The cinema week
will also include fine arts, literature,
music and cuisine, concluded the ambassador. |
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