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Itar-Tass January 11, 2006 Washington's comments on Russia-Ukraine gas talks inappropriate MOSCOW - Moscow believes that the biased comments in the United States regarding the dialogue between Russian and Ukrainian energy companies are inappropriate, officials at the Russian Foreign Ministry reiterated Wednesday, following a telephone conversation between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "Sergei Lavrov again drew attention to the inappropriateness of the openly politicized, biased comments in the United States which were accompanying the dialogue between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy," a diplomat underlined. The theme of the dialogue between these companies is a condition of their economic interaction, he added. ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11445878 Interfax January 11, 2006 U.S. comments on gas dispute inappropriate - Lavrov MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has told U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that he finds U.S. comments on the dispute between Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz inappropriate. The two held a telephone conversation on Wednesday. "Lavrov again described the openly politicized, biased comments of the United States accompanying on economic contacts between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy as inappropriate," a Wednesday Foreign Ministry report says. ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060111/42940116.html Russian Information Agency (Novosti) January 11, 2006 Lavrov warns Rice over bias in U.S. over Ukraine gas crisis MOSCOW - Russia's foreign minister has told his opposite number in the United States that some comments made in America during talks over Russian gas supplies to Ukraine were unacceptable, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. During a telephone conversation, Sergei Lavrov brought Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's attention to "openly politicized and biased comments" made in America while negotiations were ongoing between Russian energy giant Gazprom and Ukraine's national oil company, Naftogaz Ukrainy. Serbian News Network - SNN [email protected] http://www.antic.org/
