Mikhail Kasyanov is on the way to Berlin

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov is to fly to Berlin, Germany today, on December 1, after a meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of Government in Minsk, strana.ru informs. According to the Department of Government Information, he is due to hold planned talks with Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on further bilateral trade and economic cooperation. It is also expected that he will have a meeting with representatives of business and banking circles and deliver a report entitled "Russia'2000: Deeds and Plans." Kasyanov has been invited by two German non-governmental organizations - Eastern Committee for German Economy and German-Russian Forum.