JAVIER SOLANA:  EXTENSION OF THE EU BECOMES THE INCREASE OF THE
MEANING OF THE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA LEADING








BRUSSELS;  2.  March (of RIA Nowosti Korrespondetn Viktor Onutschko).
  The extension of the European union will lead to an increase of the
meaning of the relations between the EU and Russia.  That determined
the Secretary-General of the European Union advice, Javier Solana, in
Paris, where he held a large report in the French institute for
international relations to the security politics under the conditions
of the European Union extension.

" our common boundary like also the common interests with the European
Union extension will be larger ", meant Solana.  It would be in the
interest of the European union, Russia with strengthening the economy
to support the democracy and the civilian society.  " one must do
everything to the fact that Russia cooperates with the education of a
new, prospering political and economical space with the European union
globally. "  In his opinion " the question of the relations between
Russia and the European states is one of the main items of the history
of Europe ".  Russia is closely connected with European history.
Today insist the possibility of arranging fixed relations with Moscow
on the basis of co-operation and not on the basis of an equilibrium of
the military strength or the blocks. "  The European union is already
the largest trade partner of Russia, stressed the Secretary-General of
the European Union advice.  The list of the areas, within which the EU
should develop close co-operation further with Russia, is large:
Environmental problems, nichtweiterverbreitung of
massenvernichtungswaffen, regional crises, migration of the
population, among other things organized criminality.