Canada and Russia decide to play nice
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Cooperation on Arctic issues will be the new emphasis between Canada and Russia rather than the recently increased rhetoric over Arctic sovereignty, a senior Russian official says.
After some bilateral meetings between the two countries’ foreign ministers, Canada and Russia are “absolutely” on more co-operative footing when it comes to such things as cross-polar air and sea routes, Sergey Petrov, a senior diplomat at the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, said Tuesday. more »