{"id":11922,"date":"2018-08-18T02:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T02:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11922"},"modified":"2018-08-18T02:30:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T02:30:18","slug":"un-chief-proposes-options-to-protect-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11922","title":{"rendered":"UN chief proposes options to protect Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump\u2019s National Security Adviser John Bolton will discuss arms control treaties and Iran\u2019s role in Syria in talks with Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva next week, an administration official said.
The meeting is a follow-up to Trump\u2019s controversial summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July.
Trump held a one-on-one meeting with Putin during that summit and drew criticism for siding with Moscow over US intelligence findings that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. He later corrected his assessment about Russia\u2019s role.
The White House has not released many details about Trump\u2019s meeting with Putin. But the official offered a list of items he said the two men discussed.
The leading topic of their conversation was the war in Syria, he said, including Iran\u2019s role there and the humanitarian situation in the country.
The two agreed in principle that the Iranians should exit Syria but Russia saw that as a tough task, the official said.
Trump and Putin discussed arms control, including the New START treaty and the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, which banned nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 km.
The official said the leaders did not agree on a way forward on arms control, however.
Bolton is a critic of the New START treaty, agreed during Democratic President Barack Obama\u2019s administration.
Trump also raised the issue of Russia\u2019s Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany, which he has criticized sharply, with Putin, the official said.
Directly after his meeting with Putin, which lasted more than two hours, Trump briefed Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Jon Huntsman, the US ambassador to Russia, about their meeting for about 15 minutes, the official said.\"\"
Many topics they discussed were raised again in the larger group meeting that followed, the official said.
Syria is expected to be on the agenda when German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany on Saturday.
Merkel on Friday confirmed an announcement by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of plans for a summit with the leaders of Russia and France, but she said no date had been set yet.
Although Syria peace talks should broadly be led by the UN and other established groupings, Merkel said such a four-way summit \u201ccould make sense.\u201d
\u201cIt must be well prepared, that\u2019s why no date has been set yet,\u201d she told a Berlin joint press conference with Montenegro\u2019s Prime Minister Dusko Markovic.
\u201cBut we will arrange for advisers to hold a preparatory meeting and then decide whether it makes sense to hold such a meeting together.\u201d
She said she had also discussed this by telephone with Erdogan, pointing to the \u201cvery, very tense situation\u201d in Syria\u2019s opposition-held northwestern province of Idlib, now the focus of Assad\u2019s troops after sweeping military gains \u2014 helped by direct Russian support \u2014 across Syria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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