| January 2007 |
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Financial sanctions imposed by the United States against Pyongyang must be lifted, the new chief Russian delegate to six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear program said Wednesday. 
A Ukrainian parliamentary member, hospitalized yesterday after being shot while hunting in eastern Ukraine, has died in the hospital, a spokesman for his political faction said Wednesday. 
Iranian authorities have invited representatives of international organizations, which suspect the nation of pursuing a clandestine weapons program, to visit its nuclear facilities February 2-5, the ISNA news agency said Wednesday. 
"We are studying different scenarios for our work on the American market, and they will be linked to our liquefied natural gas production plans," said Alexander Medvedev, a deputy chairman of Gazprom's management committee. 
Building a Russia-Belarus Union State is impossible without economic integration between the countries, which has now stalled, Russia's economics minister said Wednesday. 
Russia and the European Union will sign Friday an additional document to a memorandum on the safety of meat products, to ensure continued meat exports from the EU, Russia's food safety watchdog said Wednesday. 
A Progress M-57 launch vehicle carrying refuse from the International Space Station sank in the Pacific Ocean after being undocked from the orbital station early in the morning, a Russian Mission Control spokesman said Wednesday. 



