"I'm happy to be here in Moscow, and you know my conviction that the world needs Russia," Sarkozytold reporters ahead of his hour-and-forty-five-minute-long closed door meeting with Putin at the Russian leader's residence just outside the capital.
"Russia and Europe should work together... To discuss, listen and respect, this is the destiny of France and Russia.”
The meeting between the two men, the third since Sarkozy left the Elysée Palace in 2012, comes at a time of fraught relations between the Kremlin and current French President François Hollande over Russia’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine and recent military intervention in Syria .... http://www.france24.com
