After a vigorous internal administration debate, President Barack Obama has decided there is little to lose by ending a diplomatic freeze-out and agreeing to a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the United Nations in New York City next week.
Expectations are low that the meeting will yield much progress on friction points between Washington and Moscow. But with Putin and Obama both in New York early next week, Obama concluded that the cost of talking to the Russia leader is low at a moment of U.S. uncertainty about Putin’s grander foreign policy plans — particularly in Syria, where …read more
Source: European Voice
