Strasbourg, 15/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - President of EU Council, Tassos Giannitsis, in a declaration to the EP on the EU/Russia Summit at the end of May, stressed how recent international events (reference to the Iraqi crisis, which he did not mention), once again highlighted the importance of the strategic relationship between the EU and Russia. The Minister explained that everyone recognised that the framework for developing theses relations had been "overtaken by events", but that...