Canada’s and Russia’s foreign affairs ministers met on Monday in an attempt to mend relations strained by the Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea and its support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine.
In a first meeting of its kind, since Canada froze high-level contacts with Russian officials two years ago, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion sat down for a 30-minute discussion with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the margins of an annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Vientiane, Laos.
“The ministers discussed Ukraine where Minister Dion was firm on Russia’s totally unacceptable actions in Crimea and they …read more
Source: Radio Canada International
