Medvedev leads Summit delegation

Russia: President Dmitri Medvedev will lead the delegation to Russia-European Union Summit on May 21 and 22 in Jabarovsk, in Russia Far East, confirmed diplomatic sources here Monday.

Kremlin ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov affirmed its peer will be represented by the country’s leader who is at the presidency of the integration bloc temporarily the Czech Vaclav Klaus.

There will be also the head of the European Comission Jose Manuel Durao Barroso and the Higher representative of the Foreign Policy and Common Security at the EU Javier Solana.

During a Moscow-Brussels-Jabarovsk interactive conference organized by RIA Novosti press agency the diplomatic informed the global financial crisis, the energy problem and European security will be the key issues of the agenda.

Regarding the economic scourge born in United States which is now affecting the planet he considered the joint action, the exchange of experience in the anti crisis fight and confrontation of initiatives used to palliate its effects useful.

Chizhov recalled Medvedev proposition of elaborating a new juridical order for cooperation in the energetic field that will be a very important aspect in the talks.

The president’s idea is of global character but we considered its discussion with the European partners very important, he added.

Moscow, Prensa Latina