Will Syria come up in Biden-Putin summit?
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In July 2018, when US President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Putin did most of the talking. Much of it was about Syria.
It was clear, Trump told his national security adviser John Bolton after an almost two-hour one-on-one session with his Russian counterpart with only translators present, that Putin "wants out" of Syria, as Bolton recounts in his memoir, "The Room Where it Happened."
When Biden meets Putin in Geneva on June 15, Syria again is likely to be on the agenda, if perhaps not to the extent of the Trump-Putin meeting. It will get slotted in among issues such as cyberattacks on US infrastructure, human rights, the Russian military buildup in Ukraine, US sanctions on Russia and even the fate of talks over an Iran nuclear deal.
