| February 2009 |
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Saturday Ukraine was a reliable gas transit country and urged that projects for gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine be abandoned. 
The United States will continue to work on a planned missile defense system in Central Europe, but it will consult Russia, Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday. 
The delegation, led by a senior Hamas leader, Mahmoud Zahar, is expected to learn Israel's response to the group's ceasefire proposals and to give its final response on the 18-month ceasefire deal. 
A Ukrainian governmental delegation went to Russia on Friday for secret talks on a loan, a presidential representative said on Saturday on Ukraine's Inter TV channel. 
Poland will follow through with the deployment of U.S. missile shield elements on its territory, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday. 
Russia must be included in European security structures, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy 
Russia is not the main military threat for NATO and the EU, French President Nicholas Sarkozy told the 45th Munich Security Conference on Saturday. 
Strengthening Russia's ties with the West is vital and the NATO-Russia Council can play an important role, the military alliance's secretary general said on Saturday. 
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg will arrive in the United States on Sunday and visit Russia next week, the country's CTK news agency reported on Saturday. 
Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL expects to sign a $780 million contract on fuel supplies to Indian nuclear power plants, a spokesman for Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom said on Saturday. 
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will discuss the U.S. missile defense shield planned for Central Europe with Vice President Joe Biden during a meeting at a security conference in Germany on Saturday. 



