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"Mr President, just before the informal EU summit Finland was criticised for having invited President Putin to the meeting. His invitation was right, because one of the topics of the meeting was relations between the Union and Russia. Mr Putin was a guest at Lahti, though not an honorary guest. Whilst courteous, the Finns did not succumb to window-dressing, and instead raised the issues of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, human rights in Russia, and the unsatisfactory state of democracy in the country. Some suspected beforehand that these matters would not be mentioned.
The EU-Russian dialogue is important. Finland took and is taking responsibility for sustaining it. Mutual dependence is a good thing for Russia and the EU, as long as it is exercised in the right way. Europe needs Russian markets, because Russia is close by and is a rapidly growing economy; but Russia also needs the EU."@en1
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