EU-Russia summit will take place in Stockholm
BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union and Russia are due to hold their next summit in Stockholm on November 18-19, despite Moscow's reluctance for it to take place in Sweden.
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The date was set on the agenda of a meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels, while an official close to the Swedish EU presidency confirmed the host city.
In July, a Swedish government official said that Russia had sought a meeting in an alternative venue such as Brussels, given tensions in relations over Sweden's vocal denounciations of human rights violations in Russia.
Neither did Moscow appreciate the Swedish-Polish initiative last year for an EU "Eastern Partnership" to allow Europe to boost ties with six former Soviet-bloc states; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
EU-Russia summits are held every six months, and alternate between cities in Russia and th country holding the European Union's six-month rotating presidency. The last one was held in May in Khabarovsk, in Russia's far east.
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