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MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, during a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday with U.S. Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, advocated wider Russian-U.S. cooperation in the energy industry, an industry he described as the main area of Russian-U.S. cooperation. Bodman said at the meeting that one of the main goals of his current visit to Moscow was to express support for more extensive trade between the two countries, above all in the energy industry. Bodman said Russian-U.S. trade had made good progress but slowed down somewhat in 2004. "I see your visit as a logical continuation of the meeting between our presidents," said Fradkov. "We are ready to give consideration to issues of energy dialogue and a wide range of aspects of constructive interaction, which is a guarantee of stability and security throughout the world," the Russian premier said.