Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on March 9 in Moscow, the Kremlin said Wednesday.
Reinfeldt will arrive in Russia on a working visit on Medvedev's invitation. Both countries' trade ministers previously praised bilateral relations.
Russian Industry and Trade Minister Viktor Khristenko earlier said Swedish investors were and remain the most active despite the economic crisis. He in particular mentioned joint projects being implemented in car manufacturing and trade.
Khristenko's Swedish counterpart Ewa Bjorling, in turn, earlier named energy as a promising sphere of cooperation with Russia.
Agreements on space, energy, healthcare and other spheres of cooperation have been drafted for Reinfeldt's visit. This will be his first visit to Russia in his current post which has occupied since 2006. Last November, he met with Medvedev in Stockholm where the Russian leader came to attend a Russia-EU meeting.
The Swedish premier intends to discuss with Medvedev climate change, trade and cooperation with the EU as well as meet with Swedish businessmen working in Russia.
Reinfeldt will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter has called Reinfeldt's visit to Russia a diplomatic "thaw." The paper reported bilateral relations grew colder when Sweden slammed Russia over its war with Georgia in 2008.
Tbilisi broke off diplomatic relations with Moscow after a five-day war over South Ossetia in August 2008. Russia later recognized the independence of South Ossetia and another former Georgian province, Abkhazia, in a move described by Georgia as "annexation."
MOSCOW/STOCKHOLM, March 3 (RIA Novosti)
