St Petersburg, 9 April: German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has arrived in St Petersburg to take part in a Russo-German forum.His plane landed at 1410 [1010 gmt]. At the time of the landing a flock of swans was flying over the airfield, RIA correspondent reports.Answering journalists' questions at the airport Schroeder said that the situation around NTV would not be in the centre of discussions at the forum as, in his words, there are more important matters to...
Abha, 17 March: Prince Khalid al-Faysal, the governor of Assir region, inaugurated here last night the Saudi-German forum for Culture and Business. He also opened the exhibition organized on the fringes of the Forum.Speaking on the occasion, Engineer Abd-Allah al-Mubti, the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Abha, highlighted the importance of such forums in enhancing bilateral relations and developing joint investments.On his part, Prince Khalid hailed the success of...
Riyadh, 28 February: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder opened here today a Saudi-German forum, organized by Riyadh's Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Speaking on the occasion, Abd-al-Rahman al-Juraysi, the chamber's chairman said the visit paid by Crown Prince Abdallah Bin-Abd-al-Aziz, the deputy premier and commander of the National Guard, to Germany in 2001 has had a great impact in enhancing bilateral relations."Moreover, the visit paid by the...
Nanjing, 29 October: A Sino-German forum on the connection between education and the economy has opened in this capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.During the three-day forum, a series of speeches, trade activities, technological consultations and art shows will be held, featuring the development of professional education cooperation between China and Germany over the past 18 years, architecture projects between local enterprises and their German counterparts, city...
PRAGUE - Barely two months after gaining office, Prime Minister Milos Zeman has made powerful enemies at home and abroad with undiplomatic comments that threaten to block the Czech Republic's entry into the European Union. At a Czech-German forum last month, Mr. Zeman compared ethnic Germans of Czech origin - known as "Sudeten" - to communists and former Nazis.Millions of Sudeten Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia after World War II for...