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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8571

24 October 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/russia
European expectations high for next summit with Russia but the road still has many stumbling blocks, acknowledges Chris Patten, who, like many MEPs, worry about developments in Chechnya

Strasbourg, 23/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - In view of the EU/Russia Summit of 6 November in Rome, MEPs have referred, together with the Commission and Council, to the main issues at stake with relations with Moscow.

The President of the Council, Franco Frattini, who will be in Moscow on 28 October with the EU Troika to prepare the summit, indicated that the Presidency was seeking to ensure the follow-up to the Saint Petersburg declaration of 31 May "to provide content and consistence to the...

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