Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks in Oslo on Tuesday afternoon with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Labor).
The meeting is a courtesy visit and will be held in the government building at 17:00 pm, it says the chancellery of the prime minister .
Lavrov was in Tromsø on Monday to attend the Barents Council summit. He met there, among others: With Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre meets with the Russian minister
Støre knows Lavrov well from his time as Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 2011, they reached an agreement on the dividing line in the Barents Sea, ending a 40-year-old dispute between the countries. Lavrov has been Russia's foreign minister since 2004.
Collaboration in Barents is at the heart of the Støre government's Hurdal platform, which states that the High North is Norway's most important strategic area of interest. Russia has had cool relations with the West for several years, partly because of Russia's involvement in Ukraine.
Earlier in October, NATO released eight Russian envoys whom it considered intelligence officers. Russia responded by closing the NATO office in Moscow and the NATO diplomatic office in Brussels.
Source: NTB
Photo: Rune Stoltz Bertinussen / NTB
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