| August 2006 |
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International rating agency Fitch said Monday that Russia's move to cut oil supplies to a major Lithuanian refinery could be political. 
Russia's foreign minister and the UN secretary general agreed during a telephone conversation Monday that a comprehensive settlement plan for the Middle East crisis must be reached, the Foreign Ministry said. 
Russia and Germany have signed a final agreement on the early repayment of part of Russia's Soviet-era debt to the Paris Club of Creditor Nations, a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday. 
"At given stage, the priority is to calmly and gradually deploy the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon in cooperation with UN forces and pull out Israeli troops," said spokesman Mikhail Kamynin. 
Russia's air force will deploy S-300 air defense systems during a five-day combined air defense exercise in the south of the country this week, a spokesman said Monday. 



