Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion sat down Monday with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov — the first meeting of its kind in years. The 30-minute discussion took place in the tiny country of Laos on the margins of an annual meeting of Southeast Asian nations. Earlier this month, Dion called it "terribly unfortunate" that Canada had to send military forces to Latvia. Contacts between the two countries had been largely limited to discussions between bureaucrats since Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014. But he also said it was only a matter of time before he sat down at the table with Lavrov.

Source: CBC News July 25, 2016 15:10 UTC