Thursday, September 24, 2015

Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet at U.N. next week


President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet during next week's gathering of the United Nations General Assembly.  As we already know, the relationship between Obama and Putin is not the greatest however; Obama believes that it would be irresponsible not to test whether progress can be made through high-level engagement.  During their bilateral discussion, Obama will press Putin to deescalate tensions in Eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian forces continue to clash with the Ukrainian military.  The actions taken by the Russians toward Ukraine have resulted in Russia's expulsion from the G8 group of world leaders.
Tom Sora
 

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