BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

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09/10/2008

EU faces tough talks on Russia, Belarus

Source: DPA

Brussels - The European Union's foreign ministers face tough talks on Monday when they meet in Luxembourg to debate whether or not to push for closer ties with Russia and Belarus. The ministers are set to discuss, in particular, whether the bloc should re-open talks with Moscow on a wide-ranging strategic deal, which EU leaders froze after August's Russian occupation of Georgia, and whether the EU should push for closer ties with Minsk, despite a general election which observers saw as deeply flawed.

Both issues are controversial. Some EU states say that neither country has done enough to earn a warmer relationship with Europe.

Officially, the meeting is set to "take stock of the political situation" in Georgia and its breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia following the deployment of EU monitors to the area on October 1 and the subsequent pull-out of R

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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/236235,previeweu-faces-tough-talks-on-russia-belarus.html

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