http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=16055&name=Russia+seeks+closer+EU+defence+ties%2C+says+FranceMOSCOW, Jan 21 (AFP) - Russia wants closer ties to the European Union, especially on defence issues, while France supports this goal and will try help attain it, two top French officials said here Friday.
"It appears that there is on both sides an obvious desire for rapprochement between Russia and the European Union," French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie told reporters after she and French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier met Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Geographic proximity, along with a certain number of challenges that we are confronting, make us desire this rapprochement," she said.
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