Berlin - Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, is to pay his introductory visit to Berlin next month, a German government spokesman said Tuesday, adding that contacts were continuing about a precise date.

A Bonn newspaper, the General Anzeiger, was set to report Wednesday that the Germans and Medvedev, who will officially take over from President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, were likely to settle on June 5.

As president, Medvedev would meet with both Chancellor Angela Merkel and Germany's mainly ceremonial head of state, President Horst Koehler. Merkel was in Moscow in March and met with Medvedev shortly after he won the Russian presidential election. (dpa)