Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the participants and guests of the International Parliamentary Conference on All-European Cooperation 2003-06-17 00:00:00 The message reads, in part: “The integration processes in the European space now represent an independent factor of political and economic development. I believe that the experience of creating the European Union merits an all-round study as it can be creatively applied to various-format unification processes in the Commonwealth of Independent States.”