Russian foreign minister says anti-terror co-operation with the West should resume

MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign minister says terror attacks in France have highlighted the need to restore anti-terror co-operation between Moscow and the West.

Sergey Lavrov said Monday that such co-operation, which the West suspended last year amid tensions over Ukraine, was essential for fighting terror.

Lavrov represented Russia during Sunday’s unity march in Paris after 17 people were killed in attack in the French capital.

Lavrov has rejected the argument that Russia should change its stance on Ukraine to allow anti-terror co-operation with the West to resume, saying that such ties would benefit global peace. He says that a common response to terrorism shouldn’t be conditional to “personal sympathies or personal offences.”