§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the dates on which Ministers have(a) contacted and (b) been contacted by the Russian Foreign Minister since 1 November 1998. [73249]
§ Ms QuinContacts between Ministers and Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov are frequent. This continues the pattern established when Mr. Primakov was Foreign Minister. Over the last two weeks alone, the Foreign Secretary has been in contact with Ivanov or Deputy Foreign Minister Avdeev on an almost daily basis concerning the Rambouillet peace process and other international issues. Our contacts since 1 November 1998 are therefore far too numerous to itemise case by case.