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Senator Rand Paul invites Russian lawmakers to Washington
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Aug 06, 2018 04:06pm |
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| Author | Reuters Staff |
| News Date | Monday, August 6, 2018 10:55:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Monday invited Russian lawmakers to visit Washington after holding talks in Moscow with parliamentarians and pledging to obstruct new sanctions against Russia.
The Republican senator and ally of U.S. President Donald Trump said he had traveled to the Russian capital to encourage diplomacy amid tense relations between Moscow and Washington.
U.S. intelligence agencies say Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to try to tilt the race in Trump’s favor, an assertion Moscow rejects, and the two countries are also at odds over Syria and Ukraine.
“I am pleased to announce that we will be continuing this conversation,” Paul said after meeting Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of the upper house of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, and former Russian ambassador to the United States Sergei Kislyak. |
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