RIGA, Latvia - The European Union reaffirmed its partnership with six post-Soviet nations on May 22 but offered them no new prospects of future membership in the Western bloc at a summit overshadowed by the Ukraine crisis.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) talks to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko at the begining of the second day of the fourth European Union (EU) eastern Partnership Summit in Riga, on May 22.
