US Security Adviser Says To Meet With Russian Security Secretary In Geneva On Thursday

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 20th August, 2018) US National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Sunday that he would hold a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva on Thursday, August 23.

On Friday, a spokesman for the Russian Security Council said that the bilateral meeting might take place in Geneva before the end of August.

"We have agreed that what we can do at the meeting [with Patrushev] on Thursday is look at a broad range of issues that might be open for discussion between Washington and Moscow and try and plan it out in systematic way," Bolton told the ABC broadcaster.

The meeting came about after the summit between the US and Russian leaders in Helsinki in July, according to the official.

"The interests that we are pursuing in Syria and Iraq are the final destruction of the ISIS territorial caliphate (Islamic State, outlawed in Russia and in the United States), dealing with the ISIS territorial threat and getting Irans forces back to its own territory. Thats what we are focused on, we are obviously concerned about a number of things, including the humanitarian situation in the region. We will discuss it here, in Israel and with the Russians in Geneva," Bolton stated ahead of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The US official noted that he would see what kind of results the upcoming meeting would yield and would inform US President Donald Trump about the talks' outcome.