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    RUSSIAN, EU APPROACHES TO CRISIS SETTLEMENT NOT ALWAYS IDENTICAL ...

    Interfax News Agency
    June 26, 2008
    Russia

    The upcoming Russia-EU summit in Khanty-Mansiisk will see a traditional
    exchange of opinions about security problems on the European continent,
    including the so-called "frozen conflicts," among them Kosovo, northern
    Cyprus, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transdniestria and Nagorno-Karabakh,
    Russian presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko told reporters on Thursday.

    Russia and the European Union are equally interested in reducing the
    number of "hot points," but often their "practical approaches in this
    sphere are not identical," Prikhodko said, referring to Kosovo and
    conflicts in the post-Soviet space.

    He reiterated Moscow's position that the use of force in the resolution
    of these conflicts was inadmissible.

    A settlement should be carried out only through the signing of
    agreements between the conflicting parties on a voluntary basis and
    with due respect for their positions, Prikhodko said.

    He called for safeguarding the existing negotiating and peacekeeping
    format and for handling the existing problems in stages.

    Russia should take care of the people who found themselves in so-
    called uncontrolled territories in conflict zones to prevent them
    from feeling isolated from the international community, the aide
    said, adding that these people should have access to all mechanisms
    of social, economic and other provision.

    At the same time, he said that Russia and the EU were discussing
    these problems on a regular basis in search for mutually acceptable
    solutions that would suit the conflicting parties and serve the
    interests of European security.

    The summit's international agenda will include the situation around
    the Iranian nuclear problem, the Middle East settlement and the
    developments in Afghanistan, Prikhodko said.
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