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Italy calls for expanded links with Russia
MOSCOW (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Italy's relations with Russia should extend beyond energy cooperation in an interview with a Russian newspaper ahead of his meeting with President
Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
"Russia is the biggest energy supplier to Italy. But we should go further and build relations in the spheres of politics, culture, religion," Prodi said in the Izvestia daily on Tuesday .
"We are still too distant as peoples and this situation cannot be changed only through trade in energy resources or investment," he added.
Prodi, who came to power in April following a knife-edge election win, was due to meet President Vladimir Putin and representatives of Italian companies operating in Russia on Tuesday.
In January and February, Italy reported major shortfalls in gas supplies from Russia, due partly to a surge in Russian domestic demand because of bitterly cold winter conditions.
Italy imports some 36.5 percent of its natural gas from Russia.
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