Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to bury the hatchet and work together to fight terrorism

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the two most powerful leaders in the world today, have agreed in principle to work together to tackle international terrorism and extremism. The two of them had spoken for the first time on the telephone since Donald Trump won the election.
He will be inaugurated as president on 20 January next year.
Kremlin has added that they will work towards "constructive co-operation" to improve "the extremely unsatisfactory state of Russian-US relations at present".
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 15 November 2016.

Moscow has indicated that the pair will continue contact by phone and that they are working towards meeting in person. Relations between President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin had become strained over a number of issues including the Syrian war, where the countries back different sides.
In addition, there had also been tension over the Ukraine conflict, apart from allegations of Russian cyber-attacks in the just concluded election campaign.
It seems the two leaders had discussed a range of issues including the threats and challenges facing the United States and Russia, strategic economic issues and the historical US-Russia relationship. The basic intention is to bring back Russian and American relations to a stable path of development.


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