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Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against expectations that her meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday will produce any breakthrough on the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria.
Speaking on the eve of talks with the Russian leader, Merkel pitched the meeting as the product of necessity rather than choice: Russia and Germany must engage in dialogue on the long list of problems they have an interest in solving.
“It’s a working meeting from which no specific results are expected - but the number of problems that occupy us - from Ukraine and Syria to the issue of economic cooperation - is so big that it is justified to be in a permanent dialogue,” Merkel said.
Merkel spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, ahead of her meeting with Putin, and discussed the situation in Ukraine and Syria, Macron’s office said Friday in a statement, without elaborating.
Source: Reuters.