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EU-Russia Summit
Date: 24 Nov 2006 Venue:Policy area: General Affairs and External Relations
Finland, the current holder of the EU Presidency, will host the EU-Russia Summit in Helsinki on 24 November. The EU delegation will be led by Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and the Russian delegation by President Vladimir Putin. The EU will also be represented by the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana.
The EU-Russia Summit will be paralleled with a separate high-level Northern Dimension meeting. The meeting will be attended by the Northern Dimension partners: the EU, Russia, Norway and Iceland. The aim is to adopt a new Northern Dimension Framework Document to replace the current Northern Dimension Action Plans. The framework document will turn the Northern Dimension into a common policy, to be pursued by all Northern Dimension parties as of the beginning of 2007.
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