| January 2007 |
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The European Union's executive body is ready to join Russia's agricultural watchdog in monitoring Polish meat producers that Moscow suspects of violating health regulations, a spokesman said Wednesday. 
The World Economic Forum opened its annual session in Davos Wednesday, with participants focusing on the Middle East and climate change on the first day of the five-day event. 
Chechnya's president, whose term will expire next year, said Wednesday he would not like to remain at his post for a second term, but that he would stay on if necessary. 
Three large Russian companies in the telecommunications, metals and energy sectors have agreed to double investment in Armenia's economy in the near future, Russia's president said after talks with the Armenian leader Wednesday. "Three of our companies alone - VimpelCom, RusAl and Gazprom - are planning and have already made quite large investments, which will at least double to $1.5 billion," Vladimir Putin said following talks with Robert Kocharyan in the southern Russian city of Sochi. 
At a meeting with the president of Armenia in a southern Russian city Wednesday, the Russian leader praised the strong upward trend in bilateral trade, which gained 70% in January-November 2006. 
Russia will veto a United Nations resolution on Kosovo if Europe's human rights watchdog maintains its draft proposal on granting independence to the historically Serbian province, a senior Russian lawmaker said Wednesday. 
A session of the Russian-North Korean inter-governmental commission on trade, economic, scientific and technical cooperation could be held in March, the Russian co-chairman said Wednesday. 
The results of a tender to supply pipes for the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline to link Russia to the EU via the Baltic Sea will be finalized by March 30, the project operator said Wednesday. 



