EU-Russia Summit, Brussels, 7 December, 2010

The EU and Russia held their 26th bilateral summit meeting in Brussels.

Partnership for Modernisation:  The coordinators of the Partnership, Hugues Mingarelli, Deputy Director General, External Relations and Andrei Slepnev, Deputy Minister for Economic Development, together signed off on the first Progress Report of the Partnership pdf - 174 KB [174 KB] at the 26th EU-Russia Summit in Brussels on 7th December 2010.  A workplan of agreed activities / projects pdf - 2 MB [2 MB] is available as well. This is a working document that will be regularly updated.

In a joint letter sent to European Heads of State and Government before the recent G20 Summit in Seoul, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy made the following statement about the EU-Russia summit:

'[The summit] will be an important opportunity to strengthen EU/Russian engagement. We will follow up on earlier discussions on the modernisation of Russia not least by taking stock on our Partnership for Modernisation. The summit should focus, in particular, on achieving decisive progress on Russia's accession to the WTO, and on some our outstanding bilateral issues, such as trade, investment and cooperation in the energy sector. We should see how we can enhance the efficiency of crisis-management co-operation on the basis of a comprehensive approach to security issues, including frozen conflicts. We should also register progress on the visa dialogue entering a fully operational phase through the elaboration of Common Steps. As always, the summit will be an opportunity to openly address questions related to human rights and the rule of law.'

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