Putin, Obama begin talks

UNITED NATIONS, September 29. /TASS/. Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Barack Obama of the U.S. have begun talks. They are meeting at the hall for consultations of the UN headquarters.

This is the first full-fledged meeting between Putin and Obama since June 2013 when they held talks on the sidelines of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

Also in 2013, they had one more meeting. It took place on the sidelines of the G20 summit in St Petersburg but is lasted only from 20 to 30 minutes and, according to Putin, Obama and he only reaffirmed their positions on Syria without bridging the differences.

Since the start of 2014 when a sharp cool-off in the Russian-U.S. relations began, they only had brief meetings in the brims of international forums, like the festivities in Normandy on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the summits of APEC and the G20 in November.

After that they had only a few telephone conversations.

The Kremlin and White House protocol services allotted about an hour for Monday’s conversation. Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov said the sides did not plan any joint statements upon the end of the conversions but still he said the Russian and American delegations would inform the reporters about its results.

The Kremlin press secretary, Dmitry Peskov said Syria was likely to become one of the central issues at the meeting in the light of struggle with terrorism in the Middle East but his opposite number in the White House, Josh Earnest, supposed Obama would like to raise the Ukrainian problem with Putin.

Moscow attaches significance to the meeting, Ushakov said. "It has real importance since the two leaders haven’t met each other for quite some time and there are many hot issues for discussion," he said.

Putin does not plan to stay in New York after the talks. He will take a flight back to Russia.

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