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Trump and Putin chat Detente: What can go wrong and why
Stephen F. Cohen, @nyu@princeton EastWestAccord.com
Trump
and Putin chat Detente: What can go wrong and why. Stephen F. Cohen,
@nyu @princeton EastWestAccord.com
WASHINGTON
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President
Vladimir Putin discussed working together to end the violence in
Syria on Tuesday in their first phone call since U.S. air strikes in
Syria strained U.S.-Russian relations.
The
White House said the two leaders agreed that "all parties must
do all they can to end the violence" in Syria and that Trump and
Putin also discussed working together against Islamic militants
throughout the Middle East.
"The
conversation was a very good one, and included the discussion of
safe, or de-escalation, zones to achieve lasting peace for
humanitarian and many other reasons," a White House statement
said.
Both
men also spoke in favor of organizing a face-to-face meeting around
the time of the G20 summit in Hamburg in July, according to the
Kremlin statement. However, this was not mentioned in the White
House's summary of the call.
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