| June 2008 |
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Russia's unreasonable actions could help to speed up Georgia's accession to NATO, the Polish foreign minister said Wednesday after a meeting of the New Group of Georgia's Friends in Warsaw. 
The first phase to build a security force for Kosovo, which unilaterally proclaimed independence on February 17, will be completed by 2009, a NATO spokesman said Wednesday. 
The EU-Russia summit that opens Thursday will focus on steps to draft a European security treaty and ways of meeting global economic challenges, a Russian presidential aide said on Wednesday. 
The cost of the trans-Balkan oil pipeline being built by Russia, Bulgaria, and Greece has increased to 1.5 billion euros ($2.3 billion) from 1 billion euros ($1.55 billion), the project operator said on Wednesday. 
About 500 domestic and foreign arms manufacturers will participate in an international arms exhibition to be held in the Urals Region next month, a local government official said on Wednesday. 
President of the Turkish Football Federation Hasan Dogan has promised to sacrifice 1,111 rams if his country beats Germany tonight and goes through to the 2008-Euro final, local media said on Wednesday. 
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised on Wednesday to provide proof that the United States was behind an attempt on his life planned during his visit to Iraq in March. 
Georgia pledged Wednesday to appeal to international organizations if regular sea links are set up between its breakaway republic of Abkhazia and Russia. 
U.S.-led coalition forces killed over 70 Taliban militants in a ground operation supported by air strikes in the eastern Pakistani province of Paktia on Wednesday, local authorities said. 
Russia's nuclear industry is open to both domestic and foreign investors, a Russian deputy prime minister told an international nuclear forum on Wednesday. 



