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Article: VOA NEWS: RUSSIAN, EUROPEAN LEADERS HOLD INFORMAL SUMMIT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 20, 2006
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Lisa Bryanta Russian and European leaders are meeting in Finland Friday for an informal summit at a time when a number of issues - including energy and Russian-Georgian tensions - cloud relations between the two sides.
Energy is expected to top the agenda of Russian and European Union leaders meeting north of Helsinki. The Europeans want stable oil and gas supplies from Russia, and for Moscow to cut its prices. And they want Russia to remove stumbling blocks to European investment in that country's energy sector. But during interviews with European media ahead of the summit, Russian officials have suggested they are unlikely to yield to ...