EU ROUND UP – RUSSIA ENERGY TALKS UNDERWAY AT LAST
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
FORMAL negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Russia over renewing the 1997 partnership and cooperation agreement between them are under way at last: formal talks started in Brussels on July 4, following a successful EU-Russia summit at the Siberian oil town of Khanty-Mansiysk..
The meeting even managed to issue a joint communiqué - a first for an EU-Russia summit since 2003. It said the new agreement would provide "a strengthened legal basis and legally binding commitments covering all main areas of the relationship," most ...
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