STOCKHOLM, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...

Presidential spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said Medvedev"s working visit to Sweden began with an unofficial dinner with Reinfeldt, with the two leaders holding bilateral talks ahead of the EU-Russia summit scheduled for Wednesday morning.

"The president and the premier discussed Russian-Swedish relations, bilateral economic cooperation as well as certain topics of the international agenda: Russia-EU interaction, Middle East settlement, Iran, Afghanistan," she said.

On Wednesday, King Charles XII will grant an audience to the Russian president.

Kremlin aide Sergei Prikhodko earlier said Russia welcomes EU reform. The EU reform treaty, called the Lisbon Treaty, now ratified by all 27 member states, will come into force on December 1.

"We hail the Swedish authorities" pragmatism and consistency, which we hope will ensure the effectiveness of both the bilateral meeting and the EU-Russia summit," Prikhodko said, adding the summit was taking place "at a critical

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