President Barack Obama is urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to decrease tensions with Turkey following the shoot-down of a Russian jet by Turkish forces.
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Their meeting was taking place in private.
The West has accused Moscow of mostly targeting Western-backed rebel groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“The two presidents discussed the imperative of making progress on the Vienna process [Syria talks] to bring about a ceasefire and political resolution to the civil war in Syria”, the official said.
U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to deliver remarks during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. “They also spoke about Ukraine and pointed out the importance of an earliest possible implementation of the Minsk accords”. Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the meeting between the two leaders was constructive, but could not become a crucial one. The presidents discussed the situation in Syria, including the fight against the Islamic State terror group, as well as the situation in Ukraine.
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The Kremlin confirmed in a statement that Putin and Obama had met for half an hour in Paris, without providing further details. On November 15, 2015, Putin and Obama held a tete-a-tete 20-minute conversation at the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey.
