Theresa May and Vladimir Putin consider G20 meeting to thaw UK and Russia relations
2019-06-17 09:52:53 source：South China Morning Post
June 17, 2019
Britain and Russia are examining the scope for a thaw in relations, including the possibility of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and UK Prime Minister Theresa May at the G20 leaders’ summit in Japan at the end of this month.
If a meeting were to go ahead it would be the first encounter at this level since the poisoning in Salisbury of Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March last year – an episode that led to 23 Russian diplomats being expelled by the UK followed by the expulsion of a similar number of British diplomats from Russia.
The loss of the quality of the expelled British diplomats has severely damaged Britain’s capacity to analyse Russia from inside the country. Moscow also closed the British Council offices and the UK’s diplomatic outpost in St Petersburg.
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