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The main thrust of the treaty is to keep Russian gas flowing to the EU (Photo: Gazprom)

EU and Russia resume treaty talks

Senior EU and Russian officials will on Tuesday (2 December) resume talks on a new treaty in Brussels, with the simmering conflict in Georgia low on the agenda.

Russian ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov will meet the European Commission's top external relations official, Eneko Landaburu, for a "plenary" session of negotiations on a new "Strategic Partnership Treaty."

The treaty talks are set to take years, with Tuesday's event to debate banal issues and coming after more than...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

The main thrust of the treaty is to keep Russian gas flowing to the EU (Photo: Gazprom)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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