DECLARATION OVER FRIENDSHIP AND PARTNERSHIP OF RUSSIA AND NIGERIA IN
MOSCOW SIGNS








MOSCOW, 6 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent Oleg
Ossipow /. on Tuesday in Moscow declaration over principles of the
friendly relations and partnership, signatory by the presidents of
Russia and Nigeria, is directed toward the development of
commercialeconomic co-operation between the two countries.

The document presupposes the creation of " necessary economic,
financial and legal conditions for development and promotion of all
forms of the trade, the investments and other economic activity, in
particular in the oil and branch of natural gas, ".

In the declaration it is underlined that " Russia and Nigeria confer
to questions, which concern the problem of the foreign debts, and with
the solution of this problem will co-ordinate their methodologies ".


The presidents of the two countries also agreed, direct contacts
between subjects of the entrepreneur activity, among them between
small and middle class enterprises as well as banks and other credit
organizations to manufacture.

Additionally the pages will develop the " exchange of experiences and
information about socialeconomic, financial questions and commerce as
well as about the policy, which is pursued within these areas " in
agreement with the declaration.  Additionally the exchange of
information and experiences is to be organized with the investigation,
production and use of natural resources, under it mineral resources.


A majority of the 10 pages strong declaration applies to international
questions.  As is referred in the document, bilateral cooperating
between Russia and Nigeria can include the " development of practical
co-operation for increase of the anti-crisis and peace potential of
the UN and the regional international organizations ".

In the declaration it is also underlined that the pages affirm " their
loyalty for getting the global disarmament going and for strengthening
the regimes of the nichtweiterverbreitung of massenvernichtungswaffen
and the coordination of their actions in these areas first vines
become ".

Additionally, it is called a great importance in the document,
attaches the pages of the conversion of the Initiativprogramms for
strengthening strategic stability, which is stated in the assertion of
the president of Russia from 13 November 2000.

Russia and Nigeria will contribute also to the successful execution of
an international conference in Moscow in the year 2001 to questions of
the prevention of the militarization of space under the UNO patronage,
for the 40.  Anniversary of the first space flight of humans is fixed.