Brussels, 17/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - Russian Ambassador to Belgium Vadim Loukov has given his assurance that his country will grant entry visas to Green MEPs so that they may attend a conference in Moscow at the end of October. Mr Loukov telephoned Daniel Cohn-Bendit (MEP, Greens) on Wednesday 17 October to announce the good news, a press release from the Greens/EFA parliamentary group states. This brings to an end two weeks of uncertainty about whether or not a 33-person delegation including 12 MEPs of the Greens/EFA Group could attend the conference in Russia (EUROPE 9523). Scheduled to take place from 28-31 October just after the EU-Russia summit, the conference may now be taking place after all. In addition to the European MEPs, participants include Russian opposition leaders (Grigory Yavlinsky and Garry Kasparov), government representatives, members of the civil society and NGOs. The MEPs will lay a wreath at the tomb of Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist who was assassinated in October 2006 in Moscow, on Sunday 28 October. Topics to be discussed at the conference include Russia-EU relations in the context of foreign policy, the fight against climate change, nuclear waste, human rights, Chechnya and democracy. (B.C.)