Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday —AFP MOSCOW, Apr 17 (Reuters/AFP): Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani arrived in Moscow on Thursday for talks with President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine and Middle East issues, on a trip that the Kremlin described as very important. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the two leaders would have a "serious conversation" on a range of issues and sign various agreements.
"It is difficult to overestimate the role of Qatar as a whole now in many regional and even world affairs. Qatar is our good partner, Russian-Qatari relations are developing very dynamically, and contacts between the heads of state are quite frequent," Peskov told journalists.
Ukrainian officials
in Paris to meet
US, EU highups
Top Ukrainian officials were in Paris on Thursday to meet EU and US delegations, Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff said, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and presidential envoy Steve Witkoff also expected in the French capital.
"I have just landed in Paris. We arrived together with Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga and Defence Minister Rustem Umerov," Andriy Yermak wrote on social media, adding they planned to meet representatives of France, Germany, Britain and the United States, without specifying who.
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