FAIRBANKS, United States: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson traveled about as far from Washington as he could without leaving the United States, but could not escape questions about Russia and climate change.
America’s top diplomat is in Fairbanks, Alaska on Thursday to chair a meeting of the eight-nation Arctic Council, a policy forum for countries with territory in the great white north.
He left behind a US capital in a frenzy over President Donald Trump’s abrupt dismissal of FBI director James Comey, whose agency was investigating Russian interference in the US election.
And he flew into the most northerly US state as concerns …read more
Source: The Manila Times
