| October 2008 |
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Talks on the Georgia conflict in Geneva this week will produce no meaningful results if officials from breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia do not participate, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. 
NATO has ignored numerous Russian proposals for cooperation via the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the fight against drugs and terrorism in Afghanistan, Russia's UN envoy said on Tuesday. 
Ukraine's government again refused on Tuesday to allocate election campaign funds and urged President Viktor Yushchenko to reverse a decision calling for early parliamentary polls, the UNIAN agency said.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is set to win a landslide victory in Wednesday's presidential election, which has been boycotted by the main opposition parties over election fraud allegations. 
Italian Admiral Andrea Toscano proposes that Italy's navy make more calls at Russian ports and practice tasks in the Black Sea together with Russian ships, a Black Sea Fleet spokesman said Tuesday. 
Tehran is ready to resume talks with Washington on security problems in Iraq, a spokesman for the Iranian embassy in Baghdad said Tuesday. 
Russia started talks with Iceland on Tuesday on granting a 4 billion euro ($5.4 billion) loan to help the Nordic country through its financial woes, the Russian Finance Ministry said. 
French police have opened a criminal case into an attempted poisoning of Russia's leading human rights lawyer, the representative of murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya said Tuesday. 
The U.S. government will buy shares of U.S. banks and financial institutions to help stabilize the economy amid the ongoing global financial crisis, President George W. Bush said on Tuesday. 
Ukraine's government again refused on Tuesday to allocate election campaign funds and urged President Viktor Yushchenko to reverse a decision calling for early parliamentary polls, the UNIAN agency said.

EU member states have yet to agree on whether to resume talks on a new cooperation pact with Russia, temporarily put on hold last month over Russia's military operation in Georgia, an EU diplomatic source said. 
Ukraine's government again refused on Tuesday to allocate election campaign funds and urged President Viktor Yushchenko to reverse a decision calling for early parliamentary polls, the UNIAN agency said. 
The United States has no plans to provide Georgia with military assistance in 2009, Congressman Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told journalists in Moscow on Tuesday. 



