St. Petersburg summit has influenced EU-Russian relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Russia's Representative to the EU Mikhail Fradkov in Moscow on Friday. The president's press service told Rosbalt that during the meeting they discussed EU-Russian relations.

Fradkov informed Putin about how the agreements reached at the EU-Russia Summit in St. Petersburg in May are being fulfilled and about preparations for the upcoming EU-Russia Summit in Italy. 'Work has significantly been speeded up. At the St. Petersburg Summit everyone received an extra impulse. Now we have the EU-Russia Summit in Rome in November before us, and we are preparing a conception of our economic relations. Moreover, work has been speeded up in regard to our entry into the WTO. We also feel a genuine desire by the Europeans to fulfill the agreements which were reached in St. Petersburg,' said Fradkov.