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Tillerson meets with Putin amid deepening tensions over U.S. missile strikes in Syria
[WASHINGTONPOST] The rift between the United States and Russia was laid bare Wednesday when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held his first direct talks with Russia’s president. Their discussions failed to ease deepening tensions over Syria and Washington’s demands that Moscow abandon its main Middle East ally."There is a low level of trust between our countries," Tillerson said in a news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "The world’s two primary nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship." Wednesday’s meeting brought no indication that the relationship would improve any time soon. After Tillerson spent three hours talking with Lavrov and almost two hours at the Kremlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin  ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead..., Lavrov, sitting three feet from Tillerson, aired a long list of grievances with the United States, some dating back many years. "Unfortunately, we’ve got some differences with regards to a majority of those issues," Lavrov lamented. Posted by: Fred 2017-04-13 |
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