Part one of Reuters interview with Medvedev

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Following is the first of three sections giving translated excerpts from Reuters interview with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, conducted earlier this week at the Kremlin:

REUTERS: Could you set out your priorities for the EU-Russia summit ?

MEDVEDEV:

I think it should be a successful summit and I hope that we can make progress on the most complex problem of recent times - preparing a framework agreement between Russia and the European Union. Besides that, naturally, we will look at all those questions that have accumulated, in an absolutely amicable way, even though in some areas the work has perhaps not proceeded as intensively as we all would have liked.

Nonetheless, the time and place of the summit oblige us to look at all areas of the relationship between the Russian Federation and European Union.

We have many joint projects. I will mention just one figure that surprised even me: Russia is the third largest exporter to the countries of the European Union. The fourth most important market for EU products is the Russian Federation...

REUTERS:

But is there any particular priority issue ?

MEDVEDEV: