The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump had a “very good” phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump and Putin spoke Tuesday afternoon “regarding Syria” and “discussed at length working together to eradicate terrorism throughout the Middle East,” according to the White House’s readout of the call.
The call was the first conversation between the two leaders since Russia’s condemnation in April of a U.S. missile strike on a Syrian airfield. Days later, Trump said the United States was “not getting along with Russia at all.”
Committees in the House and Senate, as well as the FBI, are conducting ongoing investigations into any connections between members of Trump’s campaign and Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.
Read the White House’s full readout of the call below:
President Donald J. Trump of the United States and President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation spoke today regarding Syria. President Trump and President Putin agreed that the suffering in Syria has gone on for far too long and that all parties must do all they can to end the violence. The conversation was a very good one, and included the discussion of safe, or de-escalation, zones to achieve lasting peace for humanitarian and many other reasons. The United States will be sending a representative to the cease-fire talks in Astana, Kazakhstan on May 3-4. They also discussed at length working together to eradicate terrorism throughout the Middle East. Finally, they spoke about how best to resolve the very dangerous situation in North Korea.