From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

George Sherwood wrote:
> 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=20
06-04-29T090957Z_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



It's the "West" once more. Ah how sweet. We're starting to
realise that the EU+US (i.e. the west) is less people than either the PRC
or India & has less landmass than Russia.

Adam

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