EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini will make her first official visit to Russia this month, with relations strained to breaking point by the Ukraine conflict and the war in Syria.
She will also visit China and India next week, her office said in a statement on Wednesday.
Most attention is likely to focus on her trip to Moscow on April 24, with ties in deep freeze over its support for pro-Russian rebels fighting an insurgency in eastern Ukraine and its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Adding to tensions, the European Union is pushing for a political solution in Syria without President Bashar al-Assad, …read more
Source: African news network 7
