The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council meeting.
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Mikhail Mishustin and Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of the Kyrgyz Republic Akylbek Japarov
Mikhail Mishustin meets with Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of Kyrgyzstan Akylbek Japarov
Mikhail Mishustin meets with Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of Kyrgyzstan Akylbek Japarov
Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of the Kyrgyz Republic Akylbek Japarov during his meeting with Mikhail Mishustin
Mikhail Mishustin meets with Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of Kyrgyzstan Akylbek Japarov
Mikhail Mishustin and Prime Minister and Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of the Kyrgyz Republic Akylbek Japarov
Mikhail Mishustin: Mr Japarov, I would like to greet you and the entire delegation of the friendly Kyrgyz Republic here in Sochi, Russia. First of all, I would like to ask you to pass best regards to President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov from President of Russia Vladimir Putin and from me personally.
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Restricted meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council
During the President of Kyrgyzstan's official visit to Russia on 7–9 May, talks were held at the highest level, and now our Governments’ goal is to ensure that the agreements between our leaders are implemented. We sincerely value our friendship and brotherly alliance with Kyrgyzstan. Despite the difficult external economic situation, today Russia remains Kyrgyzstan's leading trading partner, and together we are implementing projects in various fields such as geological exploration, manufacturing, the digital economy, and a number of other areas.
In January-April, trade grew 16 percent to almost 85 billion roubles, or more than 92 billion Kyrgyzstani som. The share of national currencies in mutual transactions, which is very important, has reached 70 percent. Thanks go to your team, Mr Japarov, for, among other things, making all of this possible. We will continue to increase this level.
As you are aware, Mr Overchuk and I held the 24th meeting of the Kyrgyz-Russian Intergovernmental Commission in Bishkek on March 29. The meeting was held in a very constructive atmosphere. We reviewed the main areas of economic cooperation, including existing priorities, signed a number of agreements of mutual interest and outlined benchmarks for Kyrgyz-Russian cooperation for this year.
Our government agencies have begun the practical implementation of the signed minutes of the intergovernmental commission meeting. I would like to inform you that our team plans to take an active part in the upcoming St Petersburg International Economic Forum. It is good to know that a special panel – Business Dialogue between Kyrgyzstan and Russia – will be held as part of the forum. In addition, the Kyrgyz delegation will take part, for the first time, in the Innoprom-2023 exhibition in Yekaterinburg on July 10–13. I am pleased to highlight the agreement on a major joint project for the construction of nine general education schools in the Kyrgyz Republic with instruction in Russian which was signed as part of the intergovernmental commission. This is a highly important and significant project in the history of our relations.
I hereby inform you that the law on ratifying the agreement on the construction of the above schools has passed all three readings in the parliament and will soon be submitted to the President for signing. We hope that on September 1, the heads of our states will launch the practical implementation of the agreement to build nine Russian schools in our country.
The humanitarian project, Russian Teacher Abroad, is gradually being implemented. We are grateful to the Russian side for the decision to gradually increase the number of state funded scholarships at Russian universities for our citizens. We hope that the earlier announced plans to increase the quota to 1,000 students will become a reality soon. We let Mr Overchuk know that we would like to increase this number to 5,000 people.
Following up on the subject of cooperation in education, I would like our countries to start the practical work on creating branches of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Higher School of Economics in Kyrgyzstan’s capital. There is one more proposal in education, which is to create the Kyrgyz-Russian Skryabin Institute of Agrarian Technology and Biomedicine under Skryabin Kyrgyz National Agrarian University.
Mikhail Mishustin: Mr Zhaparov, I have a question for you. I’m aware that you spent many years working as a professor at the Plekhanov Institute. Why not create a branch of the Plekhanov Institute in Kyrgyzstan? You came up with ideas of creating Moscow State University and Skryabin Institute branches; why not the Plekhanov Institute, your alma mater? You are not interested in this?
Akylbek Zhaparov: This is a very interesting idea.
Mikhail Mishustin: I propose instructing our respective ministers to work on this.
Akylbek Zhaparov: I agree. We'll get to it right away.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you.
Akylbek Zhaparov: There’s one more thing. The staff of our Skryabin Agrarian University expressed gratitude for the support provided by the Russian Government and the Kyrgyz Government. But they would like to immortalise the memory of this three time doctor of sciences − in medicine, veterinary medicine, and in biology – in connection with the creation of a new joint institute.
Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you.
Akylbek Zhaparov: Thank you.
