Me, Russia and the European Union

EU Study Week 22 Oct. 2011

Soren Liborius,

Head of EU Press & Information

EU & Russia

• Neighbours - European neighbourhood policy

• Trade, tourism, culture

• Practical work –> how to build up relations

Working with Russian authorities

• Is it…..

• challenging?

• difficult?

• easy?

Working with Russian business

Meeting the Russian people

Russiske Foreign Relations Concept

(Juli 2008)• The development of friendly relations with

China and India forms an important track of Russia's foreign policy in Asia. Russia will build up the Russian–Chinese strategic partnership in all fields on the basis of common fundamental approaches to key issues of world politics as a basic constituent part of regional and global stability. Bringing the scope and quality of economic interaction in line with the high-level of political relations constitutes a major task in the field of bilateral ties.

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The deepening crisis in Afghanistan poses a threat to the security of the southern CIS boundaries.

Russia, in collaboration with other countries concerned, the United Nations, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and other multilateral institutions, will make consistent efforts to prevent the export of terrorism and drugs from Afghanistan, find a just and lasting political solution to the problems of this country while respecting the rights and interests of all country's ethnic groups and achieve post-conflict rehabilitation of Afghanistan as a sovereign and peace-loving State.

Russia and China