| December 2008 |
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NATO foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday to gradually resume contacts with Moscow, suspended after Russia's armed conflict with Georgia in August, the NATO secretary general said. 
Russia and India will sign an agreement to build another four reactors at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant and to build new plants, the Russian nuclear power chief said on Tuesday. 
Talks on a new comprehensive cooperation treaty between Russia and the European Union, which resumed on Tuesday after a five-month hiatus, have begun constructively, Russia's EU envoy said. 
Russia's envoy to the UN said on Tuesday that Russia is considering sending additional forces to fight pirates off Somali coast. 
Ukraine's national oil and gas monopoly Naftogaz has asked Gazprom to postpone the deadline for repayment of Ukraine's natural gas debt for September and part of October, the Russian company said on Tuesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the king of Bahrain on Tuesday that the countries should develop peaceful nuclear cooperation and boost economic contacts. 
Around 6,000 ethnic Albanians held a peaceful protest in Kosovo's capital on Tuesday against UN-backed plans for an EU police mission in the province. 
Iran plans to send exploratory rockets into space with live animals on board, paving the way for manned space flights, a space research official said on Tuesday. 
Russia and the European Union resumed on Tuesday talks on a comprehensive cooperation treaty three months after they were suspended over the Georgia conflict. 
A senior Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday that NATO does not need Georgia or Ukraine in the alliance, and that member states are unwilling to create 'problems' for themselves by admitting the countries. 
Russia's National Geological Prospecting Company announced on Tuesday the discovery of a large gold deposit in the Republic of Buryatia in East Siberia. 
Ukraine's president has ordered a high-level group be set up to improve ties with Russia in the face of the ongoing financial crisis, the country's top security official said on Tuesday. 
Iran's foreign minister reiterated his country's aim to become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at a meeting with the SCO secretary general on Tuesday. 



