OREANDA-NEWS. April 22, 2009. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Stanislaw Tillich, Minister-President of Saxony, Germany. Transcript of the beginning of the meeting:

Vladimir Putin: Mr Minister-President, I would like to congratulate you on your birthday, which you recently celebrated. Please accept from me this small but, I think, rather nice present.

Stanislaw Tillich: Thank you for the present and your thoughtfulness.

Vladimir Putin: Mr Minister-President, I am pleased to see you in Moscow. It is your first visit here, but I hope it will not be the last.
You have come here with a large delegation of businessmen, and plan to visit not only Moscow but also Tatarstan and Kaluga. We too have concrete plans for developing cooperation. I can assure you that the federal Government will do its best to support their fulfilment.
I am very glad to see you here. Welcome to Moscow.

Stanislaw Tillich: (as translated) Mr Prime Minister, thank you for this opportunity to meet with you after our recent first meeting in Dresden.

Indeed, we have come here with a large business delegation and plans to promote existing contacts and develop new ones. Today we have met with the deputy minister of energy and plan to meet with the deputy minister of industry and trade, as well as the Mayor of Moscow, Yury Luzhkov.

We hope to sign an agreement with Tatarstan on establishing an engineering centre there.
During our meeting with the deputy minister of energy in the morning, we discussed two issues. One of them referred to renewable sources of energy and energy saving, above all inside buildings. The deputy minister hopes to be in Germany in May or June, and so we have invited him to visit Dresden.

The other issue we examined concerns new achievements made at the Rossendorf Research Centre, which in its time closely cooperated with the Institute (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) in Dubna. Here I am referring to the new technology of influencing metals in nuclear reactors, which should prolong their service life by 30, 40 and possibly even 50 years.

Vladimir Putin: I am glad to hear about this. Although you do not develop nuclear power generation in Germany, you do not neglect the nuclear industry as a whole. At the very least, you have the technological capability of resuming this type of operation as you see fit.

We are happy that relations between our primary companies in this sphere are developing. Ties that develop in all spheres at the level of production will complement the efforts undertaken at the top level. Relations between our leading companies - Rosatom and Siemens - have reached a strategic level.
We have increased the capitalisation of Rosatom. We plan to invest nearly 80 billion roubles of federal funds this year, and have decided to recapitalize the company by 50 billion roubles.

Stanislaw Tillich: I express my own respect for this strategy, because the volume of energy resources and raw materials will decrease, and their prices will grow. So their timely accumulation is definitely a correct decision.

Vladimir Putin: Your proposal regarding the development of alternative sources of energy is very interesting for us.