US President Barack Obama met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin three times on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit on Tuesday (11/11/2014), with their conversations covering Iran, Syria and Ukraine, the White House said.
Relations between Washington and Moscow are at their lowest since the Cold War, with Russia under US-backed Western sanctions over its seizure of the Crimea this year and its role in the separatist war in eastern Ukraine.
But the two spoke for “a total of approximately 15-20 minutes” during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gathering at a lakeside venue north of the Chinese capital, National Security Council spokesperson …read more
Source: Herald LIVE
