"In Russia, the national agrarian policy has always been about more than economics. It has at all times carried social implications and in many ways determined the potential for the country’s development in general." Vladimir Putin At the fifth annual conference of the Russian Agrarian Movement
Vladimir Putin’s speech:
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you for your invitation to participate in the fifth annual conference of the Russian Agrarian Movement.
Today, as I am told, you have already made an important decision with regard to organisation and personnel...
"In Russia, the national agrarian policy has always been about more than economics. It has at all times carried social implications and in many ways determined the potential for the country’s development in general."
Vladimir Putin At the fifth annual conference of the Russian Agrarian Movement
Vladimir Putin’s speech:
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you for your invitation to participate in the fifth annual conference of the Russian Agrarian Movement.
Today, as I am told, you have already made an important decision with regard to organisation and personnel. The organisation’s Central Council has been reshuffled, and Viktor Zubkov has been elected as its chairman. I’d like to congratulate him. And I would like to congratulate all of you on this decision because, indeed, Mr Zubkov is a person who has devoted virtually his entire life to agriculture, with the sole exception of the period in which he served as head of the Russian government.
(Addressing Viktor Zubkov) I understand you started working at a state-owned farm. Am I right? You started out as an ordinary worker and rose to the position of farm manager, then you worked as a Communist party and Soviet functionary. From then on, your career was always linked to the Communist party, and you were successful in it.
He thought it would be improper to speak of it, but I have known Viktor Zubkov for a long time. I know that he took charge of a state-owned farm that had one foot in the grave and he built it into a leader, then he was put in charge of another defunct farm and he helped it rise to its feet as well. I very much hope that Mr Zubkov will be as successful in his position within this non-governmental organisation.
I would also like to express my gratitude to the members of the Russian Agrarian Movement, AKKOR [the Russian Association of Farm Holdings and Agricultural Cooperatives], and other industry associations for supporting the creation of the Russian Popular Front. It is important to create new mechanisms for joint discussion and decision-making, the effective promotion of important and relevant ideas, and, of course, a basis for constructive feedback and public control over the way these decisions are implemented. I look forward to good teamwork, all the more so since there are many problems and questions being raised concerning the implementation of these ambitious joint plans. I expect to discuss such issues today.
Let me remind you that in the early 2000s, when we laid out the guidelines for our development strategy, we made the agro-industrial complex a key priority. Those present here know and have surely heard…
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источник новости: http://premier.gov.ru/eng/events/news/15678/
