- Title: Putin's phone call with Trump, display of mutual respect - Lavrov
- Date: 30th January 2017
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JANUARY 30, 2017) (REUTERS) NEWS CONFERENCE BY RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, SERGEI LAVROV, AND HIS ERITREAN COUNTERPART, OSMAN SALEH MOHAMMED, IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, SERGEI LAVROV, SAYING: "The conversation which took place on Saturday between presidents Putin and Trump was good, I would say, in both political and personal aspects. The conversation displayed a mutual respect, an intention by leaders to talk without moralizing, based - and I would like to emphasize this especially - on national interests of each country." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, SERGEI LAVROV, SAYING: "The conversation which for obvious reasons was focused on general issues without going into detail displayed a whole range of areas where the interests of Russia and the U.S. coincide. They agreed to continue work on the level of experts as well as within the framework of their further contacts which certainly will take place. The time and place (for contacts) is still to be agreed." RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN, MARIA ZAKHAROVA, AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER, SERGEI LAVROV, SAYING: "I don't have any doubts that there are opportunities today for a non-ideological, professional conversation between the Russian and the U.S. military, the conversation which would be focused on working-out certain military measures to suppress terrorists in Syria. When the presidents were talking about their intentions to enhance our cooperation in fighting the Islamic State they meant this aspect as well." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS
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- Keywords: Russia U.S. Donald Trump Vladimir Putin talks phone call cooperation Syria
- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001619V493
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- Story Text: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday (January 30) that the phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday (January 28) was a display of mutual respect between the two men.
"The conversation which took place on Saturday between presidents Putin and Trump was good, I would say, in both political and personal aspects. The conversation displayed a mutual respect, an intention by leaders to talk without moralizing, based - and I would like to emphasize this especially - on national interests of each country," Lavrov said at news conference in Moscow after meeting the foreign minister of Eritrea.
In the call, their first conversation since Trump's inauguration, Putin and Trump agreed to try to rebuild U.S.-Russia ties and to cooperate on Syria.
Lavrov said he did not have "any doubts that there are opportunities... for a non-ideological, professional conversation between the Russian and the U.S. military" when it comes to fighting the Islamic State.
Trump has said he wants a rapprochement with Moscow if he can get along with Putin, who says he is also keen to mend ties. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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