Obama intends to meet with Putin in New York

US President Barack Obama intends to meet with Vladimir Putin next week during the visit of the Russian leader to New York to the Session of the UN General Assembly. It is reported by The New York Times with reference to unnamed officials of the American administration.

The newspaper notes that Obama avoided meetings with Putin for almost a year due to Russian aggression in Ukraine. The publication associates the change in the form of actions of the American president with anxiety about the military presence of military presence in Syria quickly increasingly building up by Russia.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin’s conversations with Obama, as well as with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, were scheduled for September 28, Interfax reports . “The conversation with Japan Abe was agreed and after that the conversation with Obama was agreed,” Peskov said. “At least these are the meetings that have embarked on the schedule and are agreed.”

TASS wrote about Putin’s intention to meet with Obama during his visit to New York the day before . At the same time, this information was officially confirmed either in the Kremlin or in the White House.

Earlier on Thursday, Bloomberg said that Moscow is preparing to bomb the Islamic State objects on its own if Washington refuses to accept its plan of joint actions. This plan, stated, is that the United States and its allies agreed to combine forces with Russia, Iran, as well as the regime of the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. Thus, the publication noted, Putin wants to achieve the preservation of Assad in power, since Syria Assad is the only vvvanpost of Russia in the Middle East.

It was noted that Putin would prefer to act in conjunction with Western countries, however, since the Obama administration opens against the preservation of Assad in power, Russia can start a war without coordination with the West.

Meanwhile, another source of the publication stated that Putin, on the contrary, was ready to agree to Assad’s departure - the key demand of the United States - in exchange for joint operations against the IG with the Western coalition. It was argued that this would be devoted to the performance of the Russian leader on September 28 at the Session of the UN General Assembly.