Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson said Tuesday the Harper government will not follow the U.S. and engage with Russian President Vladimir Putin until he changes his ways.
Nicholson spoke with reporters via teleconference from Turkey, where he was attending the NATO foreign ministers meeting after visiting a military hospital in Ukraine. When asked by several reporters why the Canadian government was not engaging with Russia — as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was doing Tuesday during his meetings in Sochi with President Vladimir Putin and Kerry’s Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov — Nicholson said Canada will wait to see a positive …read more
Source: iPolitics
