Head of Sverdlovsk Region Government Viktor Koksharov met Germany’s Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Koltsovo airport of Yekaterinburg on May 13, 2008. The spokesperson for the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region reports the minister heads an official delegation of Germany’s leading business executives.

The agenda of the minister’s visit covers meeting the Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel, negotiating with the Russian Federation Minister of Foreign Affairs and Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Petr Latyshev, and visiting the premises of Ural State University, the regional children’s clinic No.1, and Unimatic (the machining equipment center) as well as some sightseeing.