Canadian warship to visit Murmansk
Ottawa and Moscow to improve military relationship in the Arctic.
The Chief of Canada’s Defence Staff has for the first time in almost a decade visited Russia and met with top military leaders this week. General Walt Natynczyk discussed a joint counter-terrorism exercise with head of Defence Staff Army General Nikolay Makarov.
- During my first meeting with General Makarov last January in Brussels, I received his invitation to visit Moscow to expand on our initial discussions, says General Natynczyk in a press-release posted at the portal of the National Defence Forces.
- This visit is an important opportunity to strengthen Canadian-Russian military ties, and exchange views on some of our common defence interests. I hope that General Makarov will honour us with a visit to Canada so we can continue to build on our relationship, the General says.
The two military top officials also agreed to exchange visits of their warships between Canada’s Vancouver and the Murmansk port of Russia, reports Focus Information Agency.
The joint exercise and naval vessel visits will take place in 2012.
