BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - EU energy commissioner Andris Piebalgs met
Russian minister for industry and energy Victor Khristenko in Moscow on Sunday
to discuss energy cooperation between the European Union and Russia.
The commission said the two assessed issues of common interest and prospects
of enhanced cooperation in the energy field.
Piebalgs and Khristenko discussed the Russian position on the establishment
of an International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation ahead of the
G8 energy ministers' meeting on June 8 in Aomori, Japan.
They also assessed the work by the joint thematic groups of the EU-Russia
Energy Dialogue which have met and discussed extensively since the commissioner
and the minister last met in Oct. 2007.
Their meeting was also an opportunity to discuss the results of the recently
achieved EU-Russia electricity interconnection feasibility study by the Unified
Power System/Interconnected Power Systems on the Russian side and the Union for
the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity on the European side.
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