News: Russia & EU

www.investinkaliningrad.ru. On October 20 a new international automobile checkpoint Chernyshevskaya was officially opened at the border between Kaliningrad and Lithuania. The ceremony was attended by: Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for State Border Maintenance (Rosgranitsa) Vladimir Goncharov, the delegation of the Republic of Lithuania headed by the Consul General of the Republic of Lithuania to the Kaliningrad region, Vaclav Stankevich, the EU Commission delegation led by head of the EEU-Russia cooperation progamme Etienne Claye, heads of state control bodies, the head of the North-West Customs Administration of the FCS of Russia Mikhail Prokofiev.

ISRIA. Lithuania and Denmark concluded an agreement, under which Lithuania would represent Denmark in Kaliningrad when issuing Schengen visas.

Reuters. Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday he will call off his decision to deploy missiles in the enclave of Kaliningrad, his response to the United States scrapping missile shield plans in Europe.

www.investinkaliningrad.ru. A working group has been set up in the Regional Government on the commission from the Governor Georgy Boos to prepare and hold the Forum of partner-regions planned for 1-2 October 2009. At the moment the work coordinated by the Department of International Relations is focused on organizational issues.

www.investinkaliningrad.ru. Supported by the regional government a number of Kaliningrad businessmen visited Germany and Portugal on a trip aimed at extending cooperation, establishment of business relations and promotion of their products.

On 27 June on the Greek island of Corfu, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas took part in the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, during which the problems of cooperation between NATO and Russia were evaluated and areas of Council’s future activities were discussed.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Moscow and the European Union (EU) could wrap up WTO entry negotiations by the end of the year, the Russian economic development minister said on Thursday.

ITAR-TASS.MOSCOW, April 4 (Itar-Tass) -- There exists a rather wide window of opportunities for achieving a mutually acceptable result, “despite some major disagreements in approaches of the two sides to filling a new Russia-EU agreement with specific content,” officials at the Russian Foreign Ministry said about the results of the just-ended fourth-round meeting of delegations devoted to a new base agreement between Russia and the European Union.

RIA Novosti. MOSCOW, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - The next round of talks on a comprehensive Russia-EU partnership deal will be held in June, Russia's EU envoy Vladimir Chizhov said on Friday.

RIA Novosti. MOSCOW/BRUSSELS, April 3 (RIA Novosti) - A new round of talks on a comprehensive Russia-EU partnership deal opens in Moscow on Friday.