Medvedev thanks Berlusconi for high-level summit organisation

MOSCOW

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warmly thanked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for the high-level holding of the G8 summit. Medvedev in a telephone talk on Saturday noted the high level of the preparation for the summit, both in the organisational aspect and in point of the content of the taken decisions important for the entire international community. 

The two leaders in the talk organised on the initiative of the Italian side also discussed some aspects of Russian-Italian cooperation on international issues and agreed to continue the practice of regular contacts that proved its effectiveness.