Russia wants reinvigoration of EEC work

Russia is interested in further reinvigoration and higher efficiency of work of the European Economic Commission. The Press and Information Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry reports that this opinion was voiced at a meeting on Thursday between Yuri Fedotov, deputy chief of the Russian foreign policy establishment, and the United Nations deputy secretary general Brigita Schmoegnerova, executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe, who is now on a working visit in Russia.

It was noted during their conversation that "the European Economic Commission is among the really functioning mechanisms which ensure the participation of all states in European economic cooperation," said the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The Russian side also drew the attention to such promising spheres of cooperation with the Commission as transport, energy efficiency, environmental protection and forestry.