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Dmitry Medvedev to meet President of China Xi Jinping on 4 July in Moscow.

“Hungary is not anti-EU at all, and in fact would like to return to the European Union’s fundamental values, for instance with regard to preserving national sovereignty”, the Government Spokesperson said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday evening current affairs program.

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) publishes a statement on its investigation into the chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Syria on 4 April 2017. The OPCW confirms that deadly nerve agent sarin was used in the horrific attack.

Today, Prime Minister Jüri Ratas discussed with President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker how to make substantial progress.

Gazprom’s annual General Shareholders Meeting opened today in Moscow. Shareholders from Russia and a number of foreign countries are taking part in the Meeting in person, via their representatives, and in absentia.

From Dmitry Medvedev’s opening remarks at the Government meeting.

NATO has taken an important step in improving its ability to refuel aircraft in mid-air, with two Allies joining a European programme to acquire and operate new tanker transport aircraft.

The United Nations refugee agency is alarmed by a fresh incident of forced returns of refugees from Cameroon into northeast Nigeria amid an absence of conditions to make such movements safe and sustainable.

NATO Defence Ministers are meeting in Brussels today to address a wide range of issues, from fairer burden-sharing to the fight against terrorism and cyber defence.

Small business across Ethiopia will benefit from a new 6.4 billion Birr (EUR 247 million) lending and leasing programme to be managed by the Development Bank of Ethiopia announced in Addis Ababa earlier today.

Russian state-controlled Rosneft said today the company's servers have been under «massive attack», but that production is not affected.

Market News alert PJSC Inter RAO UES.

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has sent a letter of birthday greetings to Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.