| June 2006 |
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The UN Security Council Thursday called for close collaboration in tracking and bringing to justice the parties that organized the killing of five Russian Embassy employees in Baghdad earlier this month. 
Pavel Borodin, the state secretary of the Russian-Belarus union, said that he hoped the Union's Supreme Council would meet in July or August to set the dates for the referendum and for parliamentary elections.
Russia wants to see the same rules for all participants in global energy markets, the foreign minister said Thursday. Speaking after a meeting of G8 foreign ministers in Moscow, Sergei Lavrov said: "We fully support the idea of the necessity to be governed by unified rules of the game, and these rules should be defined by the market. This is 100% Russia's position," he said. 
Russia's newly appointed chief prosecutor, Yury Chaika, started to reform the office Thursday, creating new departments to monitor the rule of law and combat corruption. 
Turkey's president Thursday praised the Blue Stream underwater gas pipeline and said his country was looking to a new gas project with Russia to link Turkey's Black Sea coast to the Mediterranean. 



