PM Medvedev Says Russia Ready to Fully Restore Relations with Finland

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Prime Minister Medvedev meets with Finland's counterpart Juha Sipila - Sputnik International
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According to the Russian prime minister, Russia is ready to restore relations with Finland.

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ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) — Russia is ready to fully restore relations with Finland as soon as the European Union takes necessary steps to improve ties with Moscow, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Friday.

"We are ready to restore relations [with Finland] in full. It is vital that all our partners, including those who meet in Brussels, hear this," Medvedev said at a joint press conference with his Finnish counterpart Juha Sipila in St. Petersburg.

"And as soon as necessary decisions are made [in Brussels], our relations with Finland will certainly return to the previous level, I mean, in terms of trade volumes and prospects of trade cooperation," Medvedev stressed.

The Russian prime minister earlier said Moscow and Helsinki had agreed to resume the work of the intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation as a tool to develop bilateral ties.

"We agreed that we’ll restart work of the intergovernmental commission as a mechanism to develop ties," Medvedev told a press conference after a meeting with his Finnish counterpart Juha Sipila.

The officials also agreed to continue negotiations on energy and migration issues.

In October, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed hope that the commission would resume its work which would improve the Moscow-Helsinki relations.

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