Add InterestBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visited Moscow Friday, mixing calls for cooperation on global security challenges with sparring over allegations of Russian meddling in Britain's vote to leave the European Union. Despite an acerbic exchange between Johnson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, both diplomats expressed a strong desire to work together when national interests align. Johnson is the U.K.'s first foreign secretary to visit Moscow in more than five years. Lavrov said Johnson has acknowledged that there was no proof of Russian interference in the June 2016 vote. He emphasized that while British and other Western officials like to publicly air their grievances about Russia, Russia would prefer to "discuss mutual concerns face-to-face, not through microphones."

Source: ABC News December 22, 2017 09:02 UTC