OREANDA-NEWS. October 15, 2009.  A conversation between Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov and Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Store took place in Murmansk within the framework of the ministerial session of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council that has opened there.

Practical questions of Russian-Norwegian relations were examined, including strengthening their legal framework, economic, commercial and energy cooperation and topical issues of bilateral collaboration in the North.

Certain issues of the international agenda also were discussed, including European security, prospects for Russia-NATO relations, and the situation in the Middle East peace process.