EU–Russian summit in Stockholm
The next EU-Russian summit is scheduled for November 18th and 19th.
Radio Sweden reports that Russia has agreed to hold the next summit meeting with the European Union in Stockholm despite earlier reservations against certain aspects of Sweden’s foreign policy.
In July Russia had indicated that it wanted to change the location for the meeting because of political differences with Sweden.
According to Radio Sweden Moscow has repeatedly voiced irritation with Swedish complaints about the state of human rights in Russia.
Sweden holds the Presidency of the European Union for the second half of 2009.
Before the Stockholm summit, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt will meet with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Barents Council meeting in Murmansk on the 14th and 15th of October, as previously reported by BarentsObserver. Russia is the chair country of the Barents Council until Sergey Lavrov will hand over the chairmanship to Sweden’s Carl Bildt in Murmansk.
