Copenhagen is interested in restoring normal relations with Moscow, including business ties, Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said following talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday.
“We have common interests in many areas,” Samuelsen pointed out. “We hope to restore normal relations between our countries, people and companies in the near future,” he added.
“But in order for us to achieve that goal, Russia needs to choose another course of development,” Samuelsen stressed.
According to the Danish foreign minister, he had frank exchange of views with Lavrov at their previous meeting, which took place in Russia’s northern city of Arkhangelsk. “Today, we had a conversation in the same kind of manner,” he said. “Dialogue is important when we have common views on some issues, as well as when we have differences,” Samuelsen added.