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"Mr President, first of all, can I thank everyone who has participated in this debate and say that the messages that have been given, very loudly and clearly, will indeed be passed through, not just from myself but, of course, in the meeting with the Presidents. We will be raising the elections, that is very clear, and I want to say first of all to Mr Kelam that we are following the Magnitsky case very closely. It is indeed, as he described it, very troubling.
I also think it is important to let honourable Members know that we will be meeting with the EU-Russia Civil Society Forum on Thursday as well and that will give us an opportunity to discuss with them recent events and more generally the relationship between us, and we always discuss the international obligations that we have when we meet at the summit.
My staff have met with former Prime Minister Kasyanov, who is here again, and of course I met him in July and recognise that he is here with us this evening.
In all our discussions with Russia, there are a number of issues that continue to be raised of which, of course, Georgia is clearly one, and in our foreign policy discussions, the particular points that honourable Members have made are indeed part of that.
On Iran, yes, Mr Belder, you are right to raise the fact that this for me is a big and major issue and a great deal of my time is taken up with working to see how we can move forward on this. Russia is part of the E3+3 and works very collaboratively with us, with me, in order to try and find ways in which we can persuade Iran to turn away from the issue of acquiring nuclear weapons, which I think all honourable Members are very concerned about.
When we talk too about the common neighbourhood, as Mr Vigenin called it, we discuss the issues of Transnistria and of Nagorno-Karabakh and, as I have indicated earlier in this debate, it is very important that we see some progress there. I was quite concerned when I was in both Azerbaijan and Armenia at how tense the situation is. Russia could play a part in helping to reduce that and through the Minsk Group to find a solution to it.
I think the points that have been raised about ensuring that we show that we take democracy seriously and expect Russia to as well are very important. As for Ms Sinclaire, I meant no offence at all. I merely turned round and said, ‘I am sorry she is not in the Chamber’."@en1
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