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Cameron: UK and Russia ‘can overcome Syria differences’
LONDON (BBC News) – Mr Cameron said it was no secret he and the Russian president had disagreements over Syria, but they shared a common aim – to end the conflict.
But he added: “What I take from our conversation today is that we can overcome these differences if we recognise that we share some fundamental aims: to end the conflict, to stop Syria breaking apart, to let the Syrian people decide who governs them and to take the fight to the extremists and defeat them.”
“We will use the opportunity of having G8 leaders together to try and build on this common ground.”
President Putin said he did not agree that efforts to secure peace talks had been “thwarted”. He said he fully shared Mr Cameron’s view that the conflict could only “be resolved by political and diplomatic means”.
Along with the US, Moscow has been leading efforts to organise peace talks in Geneva next month but the Syrian opposition has not said whether it will attend.
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