JAVIER SOLANA:  EXTENSION OF EUROPEAN UNION ACCROITRA THE PORTEE OF
THE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA








BRUSSELS, March 2.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Viktor Onoutchko).  The
extension of the European Union will accroitra the portee relations
between this organization and Russia, A declares has Paris the
secretary-general of the Council of the UE, Javier Solana, who has
presente has the French Institute of the international relations a
vast report/ratio on the security in the context of the widening of
the European Union.

" Our common border but also our common interests increased with the
extension of the UE ", said Javier Solana.  It is interest of the
European Union to help Russia has to strengthen its economy, the
democratie and the civil company, has it underlines.  " It should be
made so that Russia fully continues cooperer with the European Union
in the formation of a new economic area political and prospere ",
estimates the secretary-general of the Council of the UE.

For Javier Solana, " the relations of Russia with the European States
constitute an essential element of the history of Europe ".  Russia is
narrowly liee has the European history, it pointed out.  A present, it
is possible to establish with Moscow of solids reports/ratios melt on
the co-operation and not on the balance of military potentials or
blocks ", estimates it.

The European Union is already the most significant trade partner of
Russia, pointed out the secretary-general of the Council of the UE.
According to remarks' of Javier Solana, the fields in which the UE
must continue to develop a close co-operation are numerous:  nature
conservancy, not proliferation of the weapons of massive
extermination, elimination of the crises regionales, migration of the
population, fights against the criminalite organisee, etc.