The Kremlin said Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin enjoys good relations with Francois Fillon, the surprise winner of the first round of France’s rightwing presidential primary.
“They established relations when Putin was still head of government, they had quite extensive exchanges,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“They do indeed maintain quite good relations.”
Peskov added that Moscow was following the French presidential primaries with “great attention.”
“France is our partner, a country with which Russia maintains good relations and with which the scope of cooperation could be much larger than it is now,” Peskov added.
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Source: African news network 7
