- Russia will expand its hydrocarbon transportation network in all directions to reduce its dependence on transit states
- Russia will accelerate the construction of hydrocarbon transportation networks, including a pipeline along the bed of the Baltic Sea, and a pipeline to the coast of the Pacific Ocean to use the possibility of sending energy products directly to consumers
- Russia is committed to switch to market relations with all hydrocarbon consumers
- It is important to start negotiations on a new strategic partnership treaty between Russia and the EU, to replace the existing accord when it expires at the end of this year
- It is inadmissible for the Kosovo status solution to be imposed from outside
- The Iran nuclear issue should be solved solely by political and diplomatic means
* Senior Russian and North Korean diplomats met in Moscow to discuss the prospects of solving North Korea's nuclear problem, the information and press department of Russia's foreign ministry said
* Iran does not intend to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said
* Algeria's Sonatrach has chosen four out of eight deposits offered by Russian energy giant Gazprom for asset swap, Russia's industry and energy minister Viktor Khristenko said
* An ethnic Armenian teenager was stabbed to death in Moscow, the Russian capital's law- enforcement bodies said
* Russian WBA champion Nikolai Valuyev defended his heavyweight title in Switzerland's Basel Saturday after American challenger Jameel McCline retired with a knee injury in the third round
