MOSCOW (Agencies) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have discussed prospective contacts, including the G-8 summit in Japan, by phone, the Kremlin press office said, Itar-Tass reported.

Berlusconi congratulated Medvedev on his recent inauguration, and Medvedev congratulated Berlusconi on the confidence vote in his new government.
The interlocutors lauded the high level of bilateral cooperation and said the cooperation would mount.
Italy's new right-wing government led by Berlusconi won a vote of confidence in the Senate on Thursday, sealing parliament's approval 24 hours after the lower house passed a similar vote, AFP reported.
""We cannot waste time with futile confrontations,"" Berlusconi said after the 173-137 vote, reaching out to the opposition as he did following the lower house vote in which he prevailed by a similar margin on Wednesday.
""The situation that we must address is extremely difficult,"" he told the Senate, hailing what he called the ""creation of a new climate.""
Berlusconi, 71, who is embarking on a third stint as prime minister, enjoys a comfortable margin in both houses of parliament after a convincing victory in mid-April elections.
The self-made billionaire pledged to place top priority on reviving Italy's moribund economy, forecast to grow just 0.6 percent this year.
The media tycoon also vowed to bolster law and order, and his interior ministry on Thursday announced a crackdown on crime and illegal immigration in which police arrested 268 foreigners including many Romanians.
Crime blamed on illegal migrants was a central issue in the campaign for the April elections.
Berlusconi also said that the national flag-carrier Alitalia would recover from its deep financial crisis without being nationalized or sold off cheaply. The struggling carrier will be rescued by an Italian consortium, he said, a vow that he made repeatedly during the election campaign.
Italy's interior minister has said also he will take immediate action to tackle the country's ""security emergency"", BBC reported.
Roberto Maroni, who belongs to the anti-immigrant Northern League, pledged to bolster the resources available for Italy's police and security services.
In Bucharest, Interior Minister Cristian David said Romanians should be able to go freely anywhere in the EU.
He told a press conference in the Romanian capital: ""There are two things which are non-negotiable.
""One is respect for the law, and the other is respect for the right to free movement Romanians acquired with EU entry.""
The eruption of violence in Italy followed a report that a Roma girl allegedly attempted to kidnap a baby.
Maroni said ""firm measures"" were needed to avoid people taking matters into their own hands.
""It is time to intervene with force to prevent anger taking over... and to avoid episodes of the unjustifiable violence that we saw in Naples,"" Maroni said.
He also said he had already been in touch with the governments of Libya and Romania to try to draw up more effective ways of keeping out migrants with no job prospects.