The position country by country was originally drawn up in view of Emma's meeting with the British ambassador in Rome: for this reason, although Russia had not taken the floor, it seemed important to indicate that its position was anyhow closer to the one of the US than ours.

Said this, I am not aware whether the russian representative has spoken or not, but perhaps Marini can tell us.

The advice to give is to support anyhow the Aus/Can resolution but probably a sort of compromise will eventually be negotiated.

Fil.