President of Russia
  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search this website
President of Russia
Mobile version

President's
website
sections

  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search
  • For the Media
  • Subscribe
  • Directory
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • YouTube Channel
  • Русский

President's
website
resources

  • President of RussiaCurrent resource
  • The Constitution of Russia
  • State Insignia
  • Send a Letter
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website

Special
animal welfare
projects

  • Amur tiger
  • Beluga whale
  • Polar bear
  • Snow leopard
  • Far Eastern leopard

Legal
and technical
information

  • About website
  • Using website content
  • Personal data of website users
  • Contact website team

All content on this site is licensed under

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Presidential Executive Office2023
Events

President Vladimir Putin met with German businessmen and the public

September 26, 2001
17:50
Essen
President Vladimir Putin with Wolfgang Clement, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.
President Vladimir Putin with German businessmen and the public.
President Vladimir Putin at a news conference after the meeting with German businessmen and the public.

The meeting, organised by the Eastern Committee of the German Economy, Russian-German forum and German Foreign Policy Society, took place at the Huegel villa, former home of the Krupps steel tycoons.

The President was welcomed by the Krupps Fund manager and famous manufacturer Berthold Beitz.

Opening the discussion, the chairman of the Russian-German Forum, Lorenz Schomerus, welcomed the Russian President and noted his positive role in strengthening the bilateral trade and economic contacts.

In his response President Putin said that the gates of reform in Russia have never been opened wider. He reminded that the EU countries accounted for up to 40% of Russia’s trade and 64% of direct investment in Russia, pointing to the mutual attraction and complementarity of the two economies.

The President noted that in the past 18 months the Russian economy underwent serious changes which had been regarded impossible in the past. Speaking about the reform prospects in Russia, Mr Putin stressed the need to fundamentally change the customs administration system, enact laws to protect the rights of owners and creditors and ease the bureaucratic formalities that hindered the development of small business.

Mr Clement highly praised the results of President Putin’s meeting with the German businessmen and the public, and at the joint news conference he stated that the North Rhine-Westphalia planned to present itself in Moscow in late 2002 – early 2003 and asked Mr Putin for assistance.

Answering the reporters’ questions, Mr Putin spoke about the bilateral ties that existed between the North Rhine-Westphalia and Russian regions, specifically the Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Kostroma and Rostov regions.

Mr Putin said that many bilateral cooperation issues should be solved not in Moscow, but in places where the economic activity was developing. That is why the Russian delegation included representatives from the Russian regions developing business relations with Germany.

Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, Vnesheconombank chairman Andrei Kostin, Vneshtorgbank president and board chairman Yury Ponomarev, and National Reserve Bank chairman Alexander Lebedev also took part in the meeting.

See also

Speech at a Meeting with German Businessmen and the public
September 26, 2001
State Visit to Germany
September 22 − 27, 2001

Publication status

Published in section: News

Publication date: September 26, 2001, 17:50

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/40103

Text version

Text
3
Photo

Share
Direct link
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/40103
Share
  • VK
  • LiveJournal
  • Send by email
  • Print
Send by email

Official Website of the President of Russia:

President Vladimir Putin met with German businessmen and the public

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/40103

Last updated at March 20, 2015, 17:59

Официальные сетевые ресурсы

Президента России

Official Internet Resources

of the President of Russia

Русский Английский
  • For the Media
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • Telegram channel
  • YouTube Channel
  • State Insignia
  • Send a Letter
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website
  • Putin. 20 years

Presidential Executive Office
2023