U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed a statement on Syria during a brief meeting at a summit in Vietnam on Saturday, their first meeting since July. Putin again dismissed allegations of meddling in last year’s U.S. election.<br /><br />The meeting came at a time of U.S.-Russia relations being battered and Trump is haunted by the accusations that Putin influenced the election that brought him to the White House.<br /><br />“It shows that Russia-US relations are still in crisis. The fact that we manage to agree on something even in these conditions, I am talking about the Syrian statement now, is great but not enough,” said Putin.<br /><br />On the flight from the APEC summit to Hanoi Trump spoke to reporters about his meeting with Putin, adding they also spoke about North Korea.<br /><br />Trump said their agreement to support a political solution to Syria’s conflict would save “tremendous numbers of lives”.<br /><br />“We did it very quickly,” Trump explained aboard Air Force One.<br /><br />He then said “I don’t know how many times I can ask him if he meddled in the election, but I pressed him again and he denied it, and I believe him”. Trump added he believed the Russian president was “very insulted by it, which is not a good thing for our country”.<br />
