Syria: Putin cancels France trip after Hollande's war crimes comments
Source: CNN
Russian President Vladimir Putin has canceled a planned visit to France next week, the Kremlin said Tuesday, in an apparent snub to French President Francois Hollande, who suggested Moscow was guilty of war crimes in Syria.
Tensions have been rumbling between the two leaders since the weekend, when Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution aimed at ending Syrian regime airstrikes on Aleppo and allowing humanitarian aid into the city. France and Spain had put forward the resolution.
"The president has made a decision to cancel this visit (to Paris)," Peskov told Russian state-run news agency TASS.
Putin was scheduled to attend events linked to the opening of a Russian religious and cultural center, but the trip was canceled because the events "fell out of the program." But a French government spokesperson told CNN that Putin canceled because he did not agree with Hollande's request that the meeting be dedicated to Syria.
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