US Republican senators meet Russia’s foreign minister on rare visit
Moscow — US Republican senators met Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on a rare visit to Moscow on Tuesday ahead of a summit between the countries’ Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. The US delegation is in Russia until Thursday, ahead of the summit planned in Helsinki on July 16, at a time of high tension between Russia and the West. "We recognise that the world is better off, I believe, if Russia and the US have fewer tensions, get a long a little better, maybe put aside some differences," senator Richard Shelby said during Tuesday’s meeting with Lavrov at the Russian foreign ministry. "We are competitors, but we don’t necessarily need to be adversaries," said Shelby, a Republican senator from Alabama, in televised comments. "We’re hoping that coming out of the Putin-Trump meeting in Helsinki, it will be the beginning, maybe, of a new day. We will have to wait and see." Lavrov, speaking in English, said he hoped that the US senators’ visit "will symbolise the resump...
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