Meeting with US Secretary
of State John Kerry
Vladimir Putin received
in the Kremlin US Secretary of State John Kerry.
July
14, 2016
22:10
President of Russia Vladimir
Putin: Mr Secretary, colleagues, let me welcome you to Moscow once again.
I would like to note
our mutual efforts to settle conflicts that we consider important
and that must be resolved.
My latest conversation with
President Obama convinced me that we are sincerely striving not only
to maintain and develop our cooperation but also to achieve
positive results.
I hope you will report
to him – and please send him my best regards – that
during our consultations today we also made headway in discussing
and resolving the issues we are meeting to address.
United States Secretary
of State John Kerry: Well, Mr President, thank you very much
for taking time. I appreciate the opportunity to be able
to meet. President Obama sends you his regards. He thought it was
a constructive conversation, and hopefully we will be able
to make some genuine progress that is measurable and implementable,
and that can make a difference to the course of events
in Syria. So I look forward very much to a serious
conversation this evening and again tomorrow with Sergei. We have
a lot of work to do.
The President
and I both believe, Mr President, that the United States
and Russia are in a position to make an enormous
difference in the course of events, not just in Syria but
obviously in Ukraine and even in other potential areas
of cooperation. And so we are anxious to get to work. We
have done a lot of groundwork but we’re not where we need to be
yet and we hope to be able to get there.
So I’m ready to work.
I know you are. Let’s go.
Vladimir Putin: President
Obama drew my attention to the fact that we helped
in the release of one of your citizens. I would like
to say that we continue working in this area at your request
and also hope the US side will reciprocate with constructive efforts
if need be.
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To be continued...
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