{"id":27437,"date":"2018-12-30T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27437"},"modified":"2018-12-30T14:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T14:22:43","slug":"russias-putin-says-he-is-open-for-dialogue-with-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27437","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s Putin says he is ‘open for dialogue’ with United States"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>,\u00a0in a letter to his US counterpart Donald Trump, has said Moscow is ready for dialogue on a “wide-ranging agenda”, the Kremlin said.<\/p>\n

“Vladimir Putin stressed that the [Russia – United States] relations are the most important factor for providing strategic stability and international security,” a Kremlin statement said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“He confirmed that Russia is open for dialogue with the USA on the most wide-ranging agenda.”<\/p>\n

At the end of November, Trump abruptly cancelled a planned meeting with Putin on the sidelines of a G20<\/a>\u00a0summit in Argentina, citing tensions around Russian forces opening fire on Ukrainian navy boats and then seizing them.<\/p>\n

The letter comes days after Trump said he was pulling all 2,000 US troops<\/a> from Kurdish-held northeastern Syria, declaring that Washington had achieved its objective with the “defeat” of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL<\/a>, also known as ISIS) group in the region.<\/p>\n

Moscow intervened on the side of Syria’s government in 2015, a few years after the conflict began.<\/p>\n

In a separate letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad<\/a>, Putin pledged the continuation of aid to the Syrian government and people in the “fight against terrorism, in defence of state sovereignty and territorial integrity”.<\/p>\n

He also sent New Year’s greetings to other world leaders, including prime ministers Theresa May of Britain and Shinzo Abe of Japan and Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

Putin wished “well-being and prosperity to the British people”, the Kremlin said.<\/p>\n

Russia’s embassy in London said on Friday that Moscow and London had agreed to return some staff to their respective embassies after they expelled dozens of diplomats early this year.<\/p>\n

Britain had expelled 23 Russian diplomats over accusations the Kremlin was behind a nerve toxin attack in March<\/a> on former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English city of Salisbury.<\/p>\n

Russia, which denies any involvement in the poisoning, sent home the same number of British embassy workers in retaliation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n SOURCE:
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