“It appears that President Putin is convinced that his position would benefit from a conversation with President Obama,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday. “And given the lengthy list of concerns that we have about Russia’s conduct in a couple of these international hot spots, a face-to-face sit-down seems appropriate at this juncture.”
President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will have a sit-down meeting Monday, their first in two years, amid new tensions in recent weeks between the already-adversarial world leaders.
While the world won’t likely be privy to all of details of their conversation at the United Nations General Assembly, the back-and-forth by White House and Kremlin officials leading up to the meeting has already been contentious.
“It appears that President Putin is convinced that his position would benefit from a conversation with President Obama,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday. “And given the lengthy list of concerns that we have about Russia’s conduct in a couple of these international hot spots, a face-to-face sit-down seems appropriate at this juncture.”
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