13/05/2004 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Chris Patten has just sent the Russian Foreign Affairs Minister, Sergei Lavrov, an information memo, consisting of a four-page summary of plans already put into place by the Commission to date to promote the integration of Russian-speaking minorities in Latvia and Estonia. Russia had asked for this information when it agreed with the EU to extend the Partnership and Co-operation Agreement to the ten new Member States. The European Union had refused...