| January 2007 |
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Georgia has not given up its plans to resolve the conflict with Abkhazia by force, the president of the self-proclaimed republic said Thursday. 
Russia's president met with his Indian counterpart Thursday as part of his two-day visit to the economically vibrant Soviet-era ally. India's Abdul Kalam received Vladimir Putin at his residence, Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi.
The procedure by which foreign investors gain access to the Russian continental shelf will be toughened, the Russian natural resources minister said Thursday. 
Georgia has withdrawn all its objections but one on Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization, a Russian economics ministry spokesman said Thursday. 
Polonium-210, which Russia supplies to the United States, is worth no more than several tens of thousands of dollars, a source in the Russian nuclear section said Thursday. 
Boris Gryzlov, speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, said the lack of a free trade zone and a single emission center made it impossible to introduce a single currency for the Russia-Belarus union project. 
Ukraine's government urged Moscow Thursday to obey a court ruling on the return of navigation facilities being used by the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the post-Soviet state's Crimean Peninsula. 
Boosting trade ties and securing energy deals was a crucial part of the agenda on the first day of talks Thursday during the Russian president's two-day visit to India. 
At talks in New Delhi Thursday, the Russian and Indian leaders discussed key international problems and pledged their countries' efforts in handling them. 
Any gas or oil pipelines across the floor of the Caspian Sea would be environmentally unacceptable, an official with the Russian Natural Resources Ministry said Thursday. 
The Kyrgyz president will not submit Felix Kulov's candidacy for prime minister to parliament for a third time, the presidential press service said Thursday. 
Russia has agreed to build four more nuclear reactors for India's Kudankulam nuclear power plant and other plants in addition to the two units already under construction, a bilateral agreement said Thursday. 



