Putin to receive Netanyahu in the Kremlin
● In the Kremlin today Russian President Vladimir Putin will receive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is to come to Moscow on a short working visit, the Russian president’s press-service reports. The meeting will take place according to an agreement reached earlier and the sides are expected to discuss topical issues of international politics and bilateral relations.
● Talks between the Russian president and the Israeli leader take place on a regular basis. At the beginning of November at Israel’s initiative there was a telephone conversation between Putin and Netanyahu during which they also discussed current international problems. Before that the sides talked on the phone in June this year paying special attention to the situation in Syria and around it.
● The previous meeting of the Russian president and Israeli prime minister took place in Sochi in May this year. When it was over Putin reported that the sides had come to an agreement to continue contacts with the aim of a peaceful settlement of the Syrian crisis. Putin stressed that he and Netanyahu shared the opinion that the continuation of an armed conflict in Syria is fraught with disastrous consequences both for Syria and the entire region.
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