U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is welcoming Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the State Department Wednesday for talks expected to be dominated by the two countries’ differences over Syria and Ukraine.
Later in the morning Lavrov will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House. This will be the first time Lavrov has visited Washington since 2013.
Tillerson and Lavrov met in Moscow last month, amid tensions over the U.S. bombing of a Syrian airfield after alleged chemical attacks by Syrian forces on civilians, including many children.
Former U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, now with the Atlantic Council research institute, …read more
Source: Voice of America
