MOSCOW. Sept 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow expects that "its dialogue with Spain will continue to be conducive to the stable development of relations" between Russia and the European Union and "to guaranteeing their sustained and nonconfrontational character," a Kremlin source said on Tuesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero are due to meet in St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
"In a situation where the so-called unipolar system has proved to be completely incapable of coping with diverse crisis phenomena, there is increasing demand for a new architecture of international security and economic interaction," the Kremlin source said.
"It is at this angle that the complex of relations between Russia and the European Union will be given consideration at the forthcoming negotiations," he said.
The Russian-Spanish summit will also involve a discussion on current relations between Russia and NATO, the source said.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one more issue the two leaders plan to raise, including in light of a recent meeting in New York of the Quartet on the Middle East, a body mediating in the conflict whose members are the United Nations, the European Union, the United States and Russia, the source said.
The agenda for the Medvedev-Zapatero meeting also includes the Iranian nuclear program issue in light of UN Security Council Resolution 1835 of September 27, the source said.