Putin Meets With US State Secretary Tillerson, Russian FM Lavrov in Kremlin
SputnikNews.com
12.04.2017
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is holding a meeting with US State Secretary Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Kremlin, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.
Earlier, Tillerson met with Lavrov for bilateral talks.
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow on April 11. He became the first representative of the Trump administration to come to Russia.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting with the US Secretary of State Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in the Kremlin,” Peskov told Sputnik.
Peskov refrained from revealing what the President discussed with the diplomats.
Previosly, the Kremlin declined to confirm whether Putin would be able to meet with Tillerson.
“I cannot confirm this yet,” Peskov said when asked to comment on Russian media reports citing sources that Putin would meet Tillerson on Wednesday.
The meeting comes at a time of hightened tensions between the US and Russia following the attack on a Syrian airbase last week. The US launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian military airfield in Ash Sha’irat near Homs in retaliation to what Washington claims to have been a chemical attack carried out by Syrian government in Idlib province.
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