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External relations and foreign affairs - Foreign policies - 25/05/2009

EU-Russia summit

EU and Russian leaders at summit ©ECVaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, Javier Solana, Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia and José Manuel Barroso in Khabarovsk, Russia

Energy, security and trade top the agenda.

The EU and Russia sought to overcome differences on security, trade and energy supplies at a summit in the Siberian city of Khabarovsk, near the Chinese border. They also discussed the EU’s new Eastern partnership plan to aid six former Soviet republics.

The two sides are trying to improve ties strained by Russia’s 2008 war with Georgia and its January gas dispute with Ukraine, which left many EU customers without gas in the dead of winter. Russia pressed for its rapid admittance into the World Trade Organization.










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