Blinken meets with Swedish Foreign Minister Linde

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde at the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Ministers from Russia, the U.S., Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway are attending the two-day Arctic Council meeting.

Russia is due to assume the two-year rotating chairmanship of the group.

Blinken and Russia's longtime Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also plan to talk Wednesday on the sidelines of an Arctic Council meeting in the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, a city with a deep history in US-Russian relations.