| October 2008 |
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North Korea will fulfill its obligations to denuclearize, Pyongyang's ambassador to Moscow said Monday, reiterating his country's approval of its removal from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The UN's highest judicial body will consider the legality of Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia for no longer than a year, the Serbian prime minister said Monday.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Monday that representatives from Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia would take part in security talks scheduled for Wednesday. 
The European Union has dropped its remaining sanctions against Uzbekistan, except for an arms embargo, a source in the French Foreign Ministry said Monday. 
The tough economic situation in Russia and the world will not affect Russian natural gas projects, such as the Nord Stream and South Stream pipelines, the president of the Russian Gas Union said on Monday. 
Ukraine's energy ministry has approved a Russian company's winning bid to construct a nuclear power plant (NPP), Ukraine's UNIAN news agency reported on Monday. 
Foreign ministers of the 27-member European Union agreed on Monday in Luxembourg to suspend sanctions against the Belarusian leadership for six months, Bulgaria's foreign minister said. 
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday world leaders should set up a new Bretton Woods system to tackle the global financial crisis. 
Russia's future military presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia is an issue that should be decided by Moscow and the two Georgian breakaway republics, Russia's envoy to the European Union said on Monday. 
Tehran is counting on the continuation of talks with the Iran Six group of world powers despite a new UN resolution being passed against the country, an Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. 
A naval task force from Russia's Northern Fleet, led by the nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Veliky, is leaving the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after a three-day official visit, a Navy spokesman said on Monday. 
Russia's second largest bank, VTB, will apply to state-controlled national development bank, Vnesheconombank, for a loan to refinance its $11.4 billion foreign liabilities in 2008-2009, VTB CEO Andrei Kostin has said. 



