US President Barack Obama started understanding Russia's position, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said at a briefing during the Summit on Countering Terrorism on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly.
The head of Kazakhstan said that he is pleased that both US and Russian presidents had met and discussed the sharp issues of bilateral relations. "Obama has just told me that they talked about the situation in Ukraine and Syria, and they were very frank, he said," TASS cited Nazarbayev as saying.
According to him, Obama "started understanding Russia's position".
