Obama vows take Russian views into account: Putin aide
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama vowed at a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to take into account Russia's view of its relations with Georgia and Ukraine, a senior Putin aide was quoted as saying.
"They spoke about Georgia, they spoke about Ukraine and generally about the post-Soviet area. The U.S. President promised to take into account the peculiarities of our (relations) with these countries," Putin aide Yuri Ushakov was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.
(Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov, writing by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Michael Stott)
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