Putin, Obama discussed how to avoid repeating mistakes of last 8 years -official
NOVO-OGARYOVO. July 7 (Interfax) - At their meeting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama analyzed the current state of bilateral relations and discussed the prospects of cooperation, Russian government office Deputy Head Yury Ushakov has said.
"Putin analyzed and evaluated the current situation in our relations [with the U.S.], analyzed the reasons for certain failures in cooperation," he said at a briefing following the meeting between Putin and Obama.
Ushakov said the discussion took place in a conceptual, philosophical key without unnecessary details but "with an emphasis of how to avoid the mistakes made in the previous eight years."
Speaking of the conversation, as a whole, Ushakov said that it focused on the core issues of bilateral relations.
Putin analyzed the current relationship between Russia and the Unites States given his ample experience with the previous U.S. administration, the aide said.
The conversation was aimed at shaping the prospects of building up positive cooperation between Moscow and Washington. "The meeting gave the impression that Obama and his team really want to move ahead, want to radically change the pattern of our cooperation and realize that a situation should not be permitted to continue, in which the administration would remain with one foot in the quagmire of stereotypes and dogma of World War II, all those Jackson-Vanik amendments. We felt that there was such an understanding, ," Ushakov said.
He got a definite impression from the meeting that what Putin said during the dialogue was extremely useful for the U.S. president, he said.
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