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Reuters: Russia’s Lavrov and Tillerson spoke by phone about situation in Syria

Published April 9, 2017 at 2:26 pm

This image released by the White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, on Twitter on April 07, shows President Donald Trump receiving a briefing on the Syria military strike from the National Security team via secure video teleconference on April 06, at the Mar a Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. President Trump, staring directly ahead, is surrounded at the table by (clockwise from left) Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, son-in-law Jared Kushner, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. Sitting a row back from the table are Sean Spicer, chief strategist Stephen Bannon, senior adviser Stephen Miller, national security aide Michael Anton, Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell, and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke by phone on Saturday about the situation in Syria after the U.S. strikes on a Syrian air base, the Russian ministry said in a statement.

Lavrov pointed out that “an attack on a country whose government fights terrorism only plays into the hands of extremists, creates additional threats to regional and global security,” the Russian ministry said.