| 11.11.200915:30 (GMT) | The European Union and Russia are on the verge of signing an agreement on exchanging classified information, news agency AFP reports. The agreement, six years in preparation, is expected to be signed at the next EU-Russia summit on November 18 in Stockholm, Sweden.
On the Russian side, it is the Federal Security Service (FSB) that will coordinate proceedings, while the EU's High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, currently Javier Solana, will act on the union's behalf.
According to the agreement, each party, Russia and the EU, can decide on the release of classified information to the other party on a case-by-case basis according to its own security interests. Nothing in the agreement is to be regarded as a basis for mandatory or generic release of classified information, daily Javno cites an unofficial document on the agreement.
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