PRIMAKOV TO MEET WITH EU LEADERSHIP.

Russian foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov is to meet today with EU leaders in Rome to discuss, among other topics, Russia’s relations with the EU, European security, and the situation in the former Yugoslavia. The EU leaders will present Primakov with the organization’s recently approved "action plan" on relations with Russia. (Itar-Tass, May 24)

Russo-Japanese Ceremony Nipped in the Bud.