RUSSIA: Foreign Secretary David Miliband, on a visit to Russia, meets with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov
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RUSSIA: Foreign Secretary David Miliband, on a visit to Russia, meets with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov
- Title: RUSSIA: Foreign Secretary David Miliband, on a visit to Russia, meets with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov
- Date: 3rd November 2009
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (NOVEMBER 2, 2009) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) UK FOREIGN SECRETARY DAVID MILIBAND AND RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV ENTERING HALL PHOTOGRAPHERS VARIOUS OF MILIBAND, LAVROV AND DELEGATES SEATED FOR TALKS VARIOUS TALKS IN PROGRESS CLOSE OF LAVROV TALKING VARIOUS OF LAVROV AND MILIBAND MEETING CLOSE OF MILIBAND TALKING MEETING IN PROGRESS
- Embargoed: 18th November 2009 12:00
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- Story Text: UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband, on a first official visit to Russia, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Monday (November 2).
Miliband's two-day trip to Moscow is the first visit by a British foreign secretary to the country in five years.
Relations between the UK and Russia have worsened in recent years due to a series of diplomatic crises, including the 2006 radiation poisoning of a Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko, in London and Russia's 2008 conflict with neighbouring Georgia.
Litvinenko was poisoned in London with polonium-210 three years ago.
In 2006, after a lengthy investigation, the British police asked for the extradition of the chief suspect from Russia, former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoy.
But Russia's refusal to do so has led to a diplomatic stand-off between the two nations. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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