STOCKHOLM, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
point" when "ratification procedures of the Lisbon Treaty are being concluded."Prikhodko said Russian and EU officials would focus on climate change, efforts to overcome the consequences of the global credit crunch and the issue of energy supplies to Europe.
Russia has called on the European Union to take steps, including financial ones, to prevent problems again arising in Russian natural gas transit via Ukraine to Europe. Russian gas supplies to Europe were halted in January over a debt dispute, leaving much of Europe short of energy.
Prikhodko also said that Moscow and Brussels had already held several rounds of talks on a new partnership and cooperation agreement. The current Russia-EU agreement expired in late 2007, but was automatically extended. In early October, the sixth round of talks on the new agreement took place in Brussels.
Medvedev is also expected to discuss with his European colleagues North Korea"s nuclear problem, the situation
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