BERLIN (Reuters) – German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel will travel to Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin soon, a high-ranking source at the Economy Ministry told Reuters on Friday.
The source said Gabriel will be accompanied to the meeting with Putin by a delegation of German business leaders. The agenda of the meeting will be current issues, especially German-Russian business relations, the source said.
No date for the trip was immediately available. Gabriel is the leader of Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD), whose last chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, is still a close ally of Putin.
(Reporting by Gernot Heller; writing by Erik Kirschbaum; editing by Andrea Shalal)
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