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| In New York, Tuesday, September 29, Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin toast at a dinner at the UN. A photo that says a lot about their relationship. |
After the Cold War, the icy cooperation. If the urgency of the situation in Syria has forced them to talk face-to-face - a first since 2012 - Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin did not put more than shapes and widely displayed their disagreements Tuesday at the UN. Especially on the political settlement of the Syrian conflict and the fate of the current Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
Symbol of this delicate dialogue, handshake, just short and polished by which debuted maintenance. Worse, if the two leaders were later drank with meals, Barack Obama has not failed to show a serious mask, on the edge of contempt to the attention of photographers, while Putin looked at him with a slight smile. Atmosphere.
"Large antiterrorist coalition"
Is that both at the UN rostrum, accused each other of having driven up tensions in the region. And Russian President Obama and Hollande sending graze on the issue of the departure of the current Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad: "I have the utmost respect for my American and French counterparts, but they are not Syrian nationals and therefore should not be involved in choosing leaders of another country. " Obama had previously denounced the logic (Russian) of supporting a "tyrant" who massacre of innocent children "under the pretext that the alternative" would be worse. "
Sign of a slight improvement, however Vladimir Putin has not ruled out strikes against Russian Daech as part of a "broad antiterrorist coalition" like "the one against Hitler" during World War II. If there is still a lot of blurring, a US official stressed the "shared desire" to find answers to face the war in Syria. But the path to a common answer seems still long.
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