No 10 said David Cameron wanted changes to EU relations, adding it was "hardly news" the two men took a different approach to the future of Europe.
Relations, he told the BBC, "should not be business as usual - they should be better than usual because there is a lot of untapped potential in developing Russia-EU relations on all fronts".
The Associated Press, citing diplomats, said Gambari was taken on a government-sponsored trip to attend a seminar in the far northern Shan state on EU relations with Southeast Asia, instead of meeting with junta leader Senior Gen.
However, critics argued that these kind of tactics threatened to leave Poland isolated in future EU negotiations and were symptomatic of the PiS-led government's failure more broadly to develop a coherent, long-term strategy in its approach to EU relations.
Critics have said the Conservative leader has not made it clear what he will do if the renegotiation he foresees in UK-EU relations is not agreed to by other EU nations or the outcome is not satisfactory while some MPs want the issue to be decided sooner.
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At the time, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said the 27-nation bloc wanted to promote change in Cuba.
As a result, the US-EU economic relations have become the most intense in the world (in terms of trade in goods as well as investment flows).
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Following the confirmation of the restoration of EU co-operation in October, relations with the EU, although still vulnerable to setbacks, are likely to be closer than they have been in recent years.
Also on the agenda for Monday's meeting will be the EU's relations with Israel and Iran, both affected by the September 11 attacks on the United States and the ensuing U.S. military strikes against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Two weeks ago Beilin met with the EU's External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and elicited from her a clear EU rejection of Olmert's plan to determine Israel's borders.
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Turkey's relations with EU member-state Cyprus are one obstacle, along with opposition to Turkish membership within other EU states, correspondents say.
"We are prepared to work with any Palestinian government, if this government seeks peace, using peaceful means, " said Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU's external relations commissioner.
But Mr Haarde has been told by EU bosses that unilateral action without the boring necessity of joining the EU first would wreck relations with Brussels.
Mr Cameron wants to renegotiate the UK's relations with the EU and then seek "fresh consent" from voters.
It agreed to renew high-level relations with the EU only after France grovelled.
The pledge eased nearly a decade of torn relations with the EU but sparked a chorus of protest from hardliners.
The fatwa, which was issued by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, disrupted Iran's relations with the EU though the 1990's.
But, Britain's longer-term relations with the EU hang to some extent on what happens now, says Mr. Persson of Open Europe.
The diplomat who spoke to Reuters after Tuesday's talks said that Iran had spoken of a "window of opportunity in relations with the EU".
Germany's Angela Merkel made clear two years ago that, if Russia wanted better relations with the EU, it had to mend fences with Poland.
Switzerland's upper house had backed the proposal, which analysts say was an attempt to boost the landlocked Alpine nation's relations with its EU neighbours.
But the report also says the EEA has ensured "a stable and relatively predictable framework" for relations with the EU, its most important economic partner.
But Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg reportedly wants the review to be undertaken in a low-key manner to avoid souring relations with other EU member states.
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Ukrainian prosecutors have denied the allegations and accused Tymoshenko of attempting to damage relations with the EU. Unconfirmed reports say she has gone on hunger strike.
The government is currently reviewing, department-by-department, all aspects of the UK's relations with the EU with a view to deciding what powers the UK should claim back.
So has its clumsy handling of relations with the EU, where it is poised to lose valuable trade privileges and thus thousands of jobs in the garment industry.
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It champions deeper relations with the EU's eastern borderlands.
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