Washington – President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed efforts to bring peace to war-torn Syria during an hour-plus phone call on Tuesday. Iran, North Korea and Ukraine also were on the agenda, the White House said.
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Trump called it a “great call” Tuesday afternoon as he left the White House to spend Thanksgiving in Florida. Noting the length, he said he and Putin spoke “very strongly about bringing peace to Syria” and “very strongly about North Korea.”
Trump’s phone call with the Russian president came a day after Putin met with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Putin hosted Assad at a Black Sea resort ahead of a summit later this week with Russia, Turkey and Iran. Assad was called to Russia to get him to agree to potential peace initiatives drafted by the other three countries, the Kremlin said.
The Kremlin said Putin briefed Trump in the phone call about his talks with Assad and plans for a political settlement in Syria. Putin also called for coordination of anti-terror efforts with the U.S., the Kremlin said, adding that Afghanistan was also discussed.
Trump and Putin spoke informally several times earlier this month when they attended a summit in Vietnam. They agreed on a number of principles for the future of Syria.
Great I hope it’s the beginning of a new strong Russian American alliance . We have lots to gain
And let me set the record straight for those who label putin a KGB soviet . We all hear stories all the time about politicians who use the word nazis to loosely . And there is often an outcry on how offensive it is for Jews who were in the camps . Well the same is true for the KGB soviet jargon . I am old enough to have physically lived thru the fall of the ussr . We have seen countless Russian Jews and heard the tales of struggle and pain
they endured under the soviet yimach shimo. Till about 3 years ago , there was a collector for a Russian Mosod who frequented my shul . The yid was a fartzatisha yid with a long beard and old style Russian Chabad Yiddish . He use to say over how his father woke him in middle of the night in the freezing cold and would sit in the attic to teach him a little Torah .
These people suffered through torture , Siberia etc… shame on anyone who degrades these people’s suffering by loosely throwing around the notorious KGB term . It’s a lack of empathy for our Russian brethren
I agree that putin is a former KGB agent . But he ain’t this evil soviet communist Stalin . The name calling and labeling by many as is the man is the same rutheless tyrant like soviet dictators is what I am calling out as lies and distortion . And offensive to those that suffered