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Russian President Says State Visit to Britain Useful

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that his just concluded state visit to Britain was quite useful.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that his just concluded state visit to Britain was quite useful.

Putin's four-day visit to Britain, which ended on Friday, "was quite a useful enterprise not only because it was the first one for the past 150 years," the president told reporters in Kaliningrad before he returned to Moscow, according to Interfax news agency.

The Russian leader said the visit was intensive, during which many contacts with representatives of various political forces of Britain have been made.

He added that various informal conversations, including talks with Prime Minister Tony Blair, "offer a chance to understand one's partner more accurately."

"Our partners in Europe, including in Britain, are interested in further developing good-neighborly relations with Russia" and in "building up relations in the spirit of friendship without bringing them to a conflict," Putin was quoted as saying.

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