Olmert to make surprise visit to Russia


	Olmert to make surprise visit to Russia

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10-17-2007 3:47 PM

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</P><P></p> <SPAN id="dbIframeDiv"></SPAN>  <FONT class="text14"><SPAN><A target="_blank" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283691,00.html" class="bluelink">Prime Minister Ehud Olmert</A>
	 will leave Thursday for a one-day visit to Moscow, where he is set to meet with Russian President Valdimir Putin, who returned from a <A target="_blank" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3460386,00.html" class="bluelink">visit</A>
	 to Tehran on Wednesday. 
<P></p> <P> </P>The surprise visit was announced Wednesday afternoon, and reporters will not be allowed to join the trip.</SPAN></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3461031,00.html">Putin met Wednesday with Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to senior officials in Tehran, the Russian president suggested that the Iranian halt all uranium enrichment activities in return for a removal of the sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3461031,00.html">Olmert spoke to Putin last week, and apart from the Iranian issue, he and the Russian president may also discuss issues in dispute between Israel and the Palestinians ahead of the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3460611,00.html" class="bluelink">Annapolis peace conference</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3461031,00.html">On Sunday, Olmert is scheduled to travel to Paris for a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. On Tuesday he will travel to London for a meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0EF76A58-5086-42E5-A823-E1F79BFFCB93/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>