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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9763

17 October 2008
EUROPEAN COUNCIL / (eu) eu/russia
Talks will not resume over a new agreement until until after 14 November 2008 summit in Nice

Brussels, 16/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - Relations between the EU and Russia remain tense, even after the withdrawal of Russian troops from areas bordering on South Ossetia and Abkhazia. At the European Council in Brussels on Thursday, EU heads of state failed to reach agreement on when talks with Moscow should resume over a new, reinforced partnership agreement with the EU. The talks started in July 2007 but were suspended by the special European summit on 1 September after Russia's military...

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