Syria Crisis Main Topic at Putin-Obama Meeting, Ukraine Issue Secondary

  Earlier Thursday, the Kremlin spokesman confirmed that Putin and Obama would meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday.”Of course, the main topic is Syria,” Peskov told reporters.

According to the spokesman, the Ukrainian crisis will only be discussed if there is time left at the end of the leaders’ meeting. “The main discussion on Ukraine will take place on [October] 2 in Paris in the Normandy format,” he said.