RUSSIA: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN MEETS WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON FOR TALKS ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A US MILITARY ACTION ON IRAQ

Record ID: 400630

  • Title: RUSSIA: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN MEETS WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON FOR TALKS ON THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A US MILITARY ACTION ON IRAQ
  • Date: 30th September 2002
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (SEPTEMBER 30, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN ALONG ROOM THEN GREETS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON AND RUSSIAN DELEGATION 0.37 2. WIDE OF ISRAELI DELEGATION AND RUSSIAN DELEGATION SITTING DOWN AT TABLE; PRESS (2 SHOTS) 0.55 3. SV (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUT
  • Embargoed: 15th October 2002 13:00
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  • Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA8ZGZD1XM5Y2PB72B3U741ERZC
  • Story Text: Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Israeli Prime
    Minister Ariel Sharon for talks on the Middle East and the
    possibility of U.S. military action against Iraq.



    Officials on both sides said the two-year-old
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iraq would be the main issues
    at the talks.

    Sharon, who is on a two-day visit, is seeking Russian
    support in ending the conflict with the Palestinians, in which
    at least 1,572 Palestinians and 601 Israelis have been killed
    since the Palestinians rose up against Israeli occupation.

    The two leaders were not expected to resolve differences
    over Iraq at their meeting in the Kremlin. Israel supports a
    possible U.S. military strike against Iraq but Russia strongly
    opposes such action.

    Russian news agencies quoted informed sources as saying on
    Sunday (september 29) that Russia was unhappy with a proposed
    new U.N. resolution setting down tough terms to Iraq on
    disarming.

    Iraq has denounced the U.S.-drafted resolution, which
    gives Iraq a week to accept demands to disarm and 30 days to
    declare all its weapons of mass destruction programmes.

    Sharon and Putin were also expected to discuss political,
    cultural and economic ties which Sharon has sought to
    strengthen since he was elected prime minister in February
    2001.

    Sharon is likely to face a general election in about six
    months and wants to court Israeli Russian speakers, an
    important slice of the electorate. Israel's population of six
    million people includes more than one million former Soviet
    citizens.

    Sharon was scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
    later on Monday and Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Tuesday
    on his second visit to Moscow since he was elected.




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