The White House announced that President Barack Obama will visit Moscow next September to attend the G-20 Summit.

In its statement, the White House added that the US President and his Russian counterpart Putin will meet next June on the sidelines of the G-8 Summit in Northern Ireland.

Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin yesterday held telephone talks on the latest Syrian developments and agreed on the need to “advance a political transition" in order to end the violence there as soon as possible.
Source: BNA