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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

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Serbia, Russia sign interstate agreements

Belgrade, 17 January 2019

In the presence of President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the delegations of the two countries exchanged today more than twenty signed agreements, memoranda, contracts and protocols on the future cooperation.

Among the most important agreements is the one related to the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, which was initialled by CEO of “Rosatom” Alexey Likhachev and Serbian Minister without Portfolio in charge of innovation and technological development Nenad Popovic.

Another important document signed is the Memorandum of Understanding on Russian-Serbian cooperation in the field of digital technologies, as well as the Memorandum on the development of innovations in the electricity sector.

Administrator of “Roscosmos” Dmitry Rogozin signed the Agreement on the Russian-Serbian cooperation in the field of research and use of cosmic space for peaceful purposes.

A contract worth €230 million was signed today by General Manager of “RZD International” Sergey Pavlov and Director General of “Railway Infrastructure Serbia” Miroljub Jevtic, in the presence of Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic.

The contract deals with the design and execution of works on the construction of the railway infrastructure of Serbia and the construction of a unique dispatch centre for train traffic management in Serbia between the companies “Railway Infrastructure Serbia” and “RZD International”.

Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Zoran Djordjevic and Russian Minister of Labour Maxim Topilin signed the Administrative Agreement on Social Insurance, the Protocol on the Exchange of Ratification Charters, the Social Security Protocol, as well as the Memorandum on Understanding and Cooperation in the field of social protection.

An agreement on the increase of capacity of the hydroelectric power plant "Djerdap 2" was signed between the Russian company “Power Machines” and the “Electric Power Industry of Serbia”, as well as the Memorandum on Russian-Serbian cooperation in the electricity sector.

A Memorandum of Understanding dealing with the localisation of industrial products in Serbia with the participation of Russian companies was signed by Serbian Minister of Economy Goran Knezevic and Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Denis Manturov.

Also, important agreements were signed with the Serbian oil industry “NIS”, including the Memorandum on Strategic Cooperation with the Moscow State Institute for International Relations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The list of documents signed also includes the Memorandum of Strategic Cooperation between the Russian State University for Oil and Gas and the Serbian “NIS”.

In the field of bilateral relations, among the documents signed are the Plan of consultation between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia for 2019-2020, a Joint Statement on cooperation in the implementation of the project for the construction of a regional centre for nuclear technologies in the territory of Serbia, the Protocol on the Exchange of Instruments on the Confirmation of the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Serbia on social security.

In the area of innovation and technological development between the Government of Serbia and the Skolkovo Foundation, the document signed is the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Serbia and the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organisation “Strategic Initiative Agency”.

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between “Gazprom Export” and “Srbijagas” for the development of the project of expansion of capacity of the Banatski Dvor underground gas storage facility.

Other documents signed are in the field of gas economy, development of production and distribution infrastructure of pipelines and liquid natural gas, Serbian-Russian cooperation in the field of innovation development in the electricity sector between the Government of Serbia and the Russian power company "Rosseti".

Also, the visit of the Russian President was an opportunity to initial the Agreement on Cooperation between the Direct Investments Fund of the Russian Federation and the Development Agency of Serbia, the Memorandum on Cooperation between the University of Novi Sad and the Russian State University for Oil and Gas "Gubkin", as well as the agreement between the Russian company “Power Machines” and the “Electric Power Industry of Serbia” on the reconstruction of the hydroelectric power plant Djerdap-2.

“Sberbank Serbia” signed a memorandum with “Telekom”, as well as Belgrade University with Saint-Petersburg Mining University.

A Joint statement was signed between the Government of Russia and the Government of Serbia on the establishment and conditions of activity of cultural and information centres, the Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Belgrade and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations - MGIMO University, then the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Defence of Serbia and Kamaz, as well as many other protocols with Russian companies that have come to Belgrade today.