ST. PETERSBURG, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin held a one-on-one meeting with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, which was “good and friendly,” Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov was quoted as saying on Friday by Russian news agencies.
“The discussion was friendly. It was in the form of a tete-a-tete, one on one,” the agencies quoted Ushakov as saying. “I honestly don’t know any of the details. It took place in Moscow, in the Kremlin.”
In his comments to journalists, Ushakov said Russian officials were engaged in numerous informal contacts.
“I can well imagine that there are a lot of informal contacts and we simply don’t know about them,” the agencies quoted him as saying.
Schroeder was German Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, when his Social Democratic Party was voted out of office.
