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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9644

17 April 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/russia
Moscow ups ante on Lithuania and Poland for opening negotiations on new partnership agreement

Brussels, 16/04/2008 (Agence Europe) - Russia is increasingly impatient with regard to the EU's inability to adopt a negotiations mandate for the European Commission to begin negotiations with Moscow for a new strengthened partnership agreement. Addressing the press on 15 April, the Russian ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhof, said, “we would wish to avoid seeing this negotiating process being taken hostage by certain interests of individual member states wising to pursue their own...

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