Putin's 'very nice' Christmas letter to Trump
December 24, 2016  00:23
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United States President-elect Donald Trump on Friday shared a letter he received from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who urged the next president 'to take real steps to restore the framework of bilateral cooperation' while offering Trump his 'warmest Christmas and New Year greetings'.

'A very nice letter from Vladimir Putin; his thoughts are so correct,' Trump said in a statement. 'I hope both sides are able to live up to these thoughts, and we do not have to travel an alternate path.'

In the translation of the December 15th letter provided by the Trump team, Putin wrote that 'serious global and regional challenges, which our countries have had to face in recent years, show that relations between Russia and the US remain an important factor in ensuring stability and security of the modern world'.

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