Russia wants Rand Paul to arrange broader Senate meeting

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Russia wants Rand Paul to arrange broader Senate meeting
by Joel Gehrke
 | August 06, 2018 06:54 PM



Russia wants Sen. Rand Paul to help arrange a meeting with congressional foreign policy leaders this fall, a top Russian lawmaker said Monday.

“The issue at hand is trying, perhaps, to organize a new meeting, this time at the level of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the Federation Council’s Foreign Affairs Committee during the autumn session,” said Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee for the upper chamber of the Russian legislature. “That is, before the end of this year.”

Kosachev discussed the prospects of such a meeting with Paul during the Kentucky Republican’s trip to Moscow on Monday. The libertarian-leaning senator, who traveled to Russia to back President Trump “in engaging around the world” in the midst of congressional criticism of Trump's Helsinki summit with President Vladimir Putin, also discussed the prospective meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.

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