OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion sat down Monday with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov — the first meeting of its kind in years.
The 30-minute discussion took place in the Laos on the margins of an annual meeting of Southeast Asian nations. It represented the most tangible move yet by the Liberal government to thaw relations with Moscow.
Contacts between the two countries had been largely limited to discussions between bureaucrats since Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014. The previous Conservative government took a harder line than even the U.S., steadfastly refusing to meet with anyone from the …read more
Source: National Post
