Moscow-Sana
Russian President Vladimir Putin considered that Germany remains one of the main partners of his country in Europe and the world.
The RIA Novosti news agency quoted Putin as saying before the start of his talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Kremlin today, that Germany is our second economic and trade partner after China, and regardless of the serious decline in this field in 2020, we recorded an almost double increase in the volume of trade exchange in half. The first of this year.
For her part, Merkel stressed that Russia and Germany intend to develop dialogue between them despite the existence of differences in relations between the two countries.
According to the Kremlin, Putin and Merkel will discuss the status and prospects for developing bilateral cooperation in various fields, in addition to the most important international and regional issues.