![With the Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi.](http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/photos/big/pHKqtR7AsAAzeYcpdVbmbeUmyIrr2KDr.jpeg)
Following their meeting the heads of state gave a press conference. Before the press conference the Russian company Sukhoi and the Italian company Finmeccanica signed an Agreement on Strategic Cooperation in a Programme to Create a Russian Regional Jet in the presence of the two heads of state.