Germany President at a meeting with Putin laid on relations between countries

Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted in Moscow the President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Kremlin press service reports .

“It is important that we use this opportunity to continue our dialogue in order to try to improve our bilateral relations, the state of which we cannot be satisfied,” Steinmeyer Putin said at the beginning of negotiations ( Reuters quote).

The politician the day before said in an interview with Kommersant . There, in particular, he announced the “sensitive” issue of Siemens turbines to Crimea.

The main goal of his visit, the President of Germany called the return of the Russian Church of the Moscow Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul.

After the negotiations, the participants told reporters about their results. Putin, as the Kremlin’s press service notes , said that “we also talked about the current issues of the international agenda”-about the situation in Syria and in the east of Ukraine, about the situation around the Iranian nuclear program and the crisis on the Korean peninsula.

“Even in conditions of various political limits and in many ways, the decline in bilateral trade in Germany is still one of the leading foreign economic partners and key investors in the Russian economy,” Putin added.

In turn, Steinmeier, according to Interfax , said: “There are still open wounds, there are unresolved questions, first of all, with regard to the accession of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine, which are burden and continue to be a burden for our relations.”