From: "George Sherwood" 

On Thu, 04 May 2006 18:08:52 +0200, Phil Payne wrote:

>
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-
05-04T151904Z_01_L04764741_RTRUKOC_0_UK-USA-RUSSIA-KREMLIN.xml
>
> Or perhaps the Administration secretly doesn't want a resolution, since
> both Russia and CHina have indicated they want to give Iran another
> three months.

Just doing what our European allies asked us to do.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2006
-04-29T090957Z_01_L29456357_RTRUKOC_0_UK-ENERGY-EU-USA.xml

The European Union urged the United States on Saturday to join it in
pressing for open energy markets and more democracy in Russia when the
world's leading industrial powers meet in St Petersburg in July.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told a trans-atlantic
forum that the 25-nation EU and Washington should jointly press Moscow to
create free market conditions and legal certainty to guarantee predictable
energy supplies.

George

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