Saudi Arabia has secretly offered Russia a sweeping deal to control oil prices and safeguard Russia's gas contracts, if the Kremlin backs away from the Assad regime in Syria, the U.K. newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia
has
secretly offered
Russia
a
sweeping deal to control oil prices and safeguard
Russia
's gas
contracts, if the Kremlin backs away from the Assad regime in
Syria
, the
U.K.
newspaper The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.
Leaked transcripts of a closed-door meeting between
Russia
's
leader Vladimir Putin and Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan shed an extraordinary
light on the hard-nosed Realpolitik of the two sides, The Telegraph wrote.
Prince Bandar, head of Saudi intelligence, confronted the Kremlin with a mix of
inducements and threats in a bid to break the deadlock over
Syria
, The
Telegraph wrote. "Let us examine how to put together a unified
Russian-Saudi strategy on the subject of oil. The aim is to agree on the price
of oil and production quantities that keep the price stable in global oil
markets," he said at the four-hour meeting with Mr. Putin, according to
The Telegraph. They met at Mr. Putin's dacha outside
Moscow
three
weeks ago, The Telegraph said.
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