| 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. 
A memorandum of understanding on defense cooperation was signed between Belarus and Iran during a visit by the ex-Soviet nation's defense minister to the Islamic Republic, the Belarusian ministry's press service 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. 
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. 
Russia's upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, has called on international parliamentary organizations to prevent Estonia from demolishing Soviet war memorials in the ex-Soviet Baltic state. 



