Kremlin explains Putin’s handshake with Saudi prince

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on Russian President Vladimir Putin's hearty handshake with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the G20 summit in Argentina.

"These are good personal relations," Peskov said. According to him, these good relations are a ground for "rather effective and mutually beneficial cooperation."

"We seek to continue fostering bilateral Russian-Saudi relations," TASS cited the spokesman as saying.

"President Putin and the Crown Prince held a rather fruitful and substantive discussion on the sidelines of the summit." Peskov recalled that at the talks the sides discussed cooperation in the framework of OPEC plus.