Margot takes on the lead in Barents, thebarentsobserver.com

We will seek to keep tensions low and promote good cooperation in the region, the Swedish Foreign Minister says as she takes over the chair of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council…

«Everything is influenced by what is going on in the world and our relations to Russia are affected by what is going in Ukraine and by the positions taken by the respective countries», Wallström says to the Barents Observer.

«But what we do value the most is the opportunity to meet here with a fundamentally constructive tone and in a constructive atmosphere, with a will to cooperate and solve concrete problems.»

«When we invest in this, when we show that we find it important, then we also show that we want it to be a peaceful region with a peaceful development», she says. Läs artikel