| July 2006 |
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Yukos [RTS: YUKO] is ready to negotiate with Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] the sale of the ailing oil company's 20% stake in Gazprom Neft [RTS: SIBN], company's London-based spokeswoman said Tuesday. 
Russian peacekeepers have confirmed reports about gunfire being exchanged in the Kodori Gorge in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. 
Russia and Saudi Arabia call for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East and for support for the Lebanon government to spread its authority over the country's entire territory, a Saudi minister said Tuesday. 
Russia's rescuers dismissed reports Tuesday that they had refused to evacuate Georgian citizens from the Israeli-Lebanese conflict zone. 
Venezuela's president arrived in Volgograd in southern Russia Tuesday from the capital of Belarus, Minsk, where he had held talks with the Belarusian president. 
"We share the concern of the Abkhaz side over the growing tensions in the Kodori Gorge, the deployment of a large Georgian military contingent there, and the possibility of hostilities breaking out in the area," the ministry said. 
A meeting of creditors of Yukos Oil Company [RTS: YUKO] voted Tuesday to recognize the company bankrupt and start liquidation procedures. 
The crisis around Lebanon proves that the UN needs to become more effective, Russia's president said Tuesday. 



