Norway resumes high-level trade talks with Russia after two-year break


  • World
  • Monday, 28 Nov 2016

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has resumed high-level talks with Russia on trade and economic cooperation that were broken off after Moscow annexed Crimea in 2014, the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries said in a statement on Monday.

Industry Minister Monica Maeland and Oil Minister Tord Lien held separate meetings in Oslo with Russia's Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi.

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