Moscow: US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the idea of placing Syrian chemical weapons under international control at last week's G20 summit in Saint Petersburg, MR Putin's spokesman said today.
"The issue was discussed," spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Russian agencies as saying in response to the question of who initiated the proposal that Syria hand over its chemical arsenal in order to avert a US strike.But Peskov did not say who first mooted the idea. "We're not disclosing the contents of the conversation," he said.
who cares who first said it it was obviously said and implemented and agreed to, case closed.
Despite having no bilateral talks scheduled, Putin and Obama had a half-hour discussion on the sidelines of the two-day Group of 20 summit Putin hosted last week, with the conversation focused heavily on Syria.Obama confirmed in an interview Monday with PBS Newshour that he "had conversations" with Putin in Saint Petersburg about the plan for Syria's chemical arms, announced by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov just hours earlier."And this is a continuation of conversations I've had with President Putin for quite some time," Obama said in the interview.Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also indicated Tuesday that the plan was born out of joint US-Russia efforts to iron out their disagreements over handling of the Syrian conflict.
will this satisfy the republicans, don't think so they will rattle until they say something that could kill the whole thing, if they do it will be intentional blinded by their desire to depose the Pres. at any cost we have seen that.
