BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries failed on Thursday to agree on a mandate for partnership talks with Russia but diplomats voiced optimism that objections by ex-Soviet Lithuania could soon be set aside.
At talks in Brussels, Lithuania stuck to demands that any mandate include assurances on energy supplies, cooperation over a missing businessman and movement by Russia on frozen conflicts in former Soviet republics.
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