Moscow:
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama may discuss the Syria crisis on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit next week in Bali, a Kremlin aide said today.
"It would be rather logical to meet (Obama) in Bali, taking into account the work on the Syrian issue," Putin's top foreign policy adviser, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters.
He said US and Russian officials were discussing arrangements for a possible meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Putin is expected to leave Moscow for the Indonesian island of Bali on Sunday.
Russia, which is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main ally, and the United States have long been at odds over the conflict in Syria.
But the two countries, which are permanent members of the UN Security Council, agreed last month on a plan for the Syrian government trying to arrange an international peace conference.
Obama had pulled out of a US-Russia summit in September after Edward Snowden, the former US spy agency contractor, leaked details of government surveillance programmes and is wanted by the United States.
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