Russian president Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 30, 2017. Pavel Golovkin / AFP / Pool
Russian president Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 30, 2017. Pavel Golovkin / AFP / Pool
Russian president Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 30, 2017. Pavel Golovkin / AFP / Pool
Russian president Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 30, 2017. Pavel Golovkin / AFP / Pool

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Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman meets Putin in Moscow

The Saudi deputy crown prince and defence minister said relations between Riyadh and Moscow were 'seeing one of their best stages at the moment'.

Josh Wood

May 30, 2017

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Mr Putin said Moscow and Riyadh were working together "on the issues of resolving difficult situations, including in Syria." Prince Mohammed added, "The two countries have a lot of points of mutual understanding. As for the points on which we have differences, a clear mechanism exists to overcome them and we are progressing at a quick pace in this respect."

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