From Indian Punchline
By MK Bhadrakumar
"The state department spokesperson in Washington claimed on Thursday that there is an “increasing convergence” between the US and Russia over the Syrian situation. Interestingly, the remark appeared in a dense week in US-Russia ties during which Moscow disclosed the historic possibility of giving access to Russian airspace and to the base in Ulyanovsk for transporting the US and NATO’s military supplies for Afghanistan, and Washington held out the tantalising offer to share with Moscow top-secret data relating to the US missile defence programme.
But these straws in the wind are of less importance in the long run for the US-Russia relationship than the move by the Barack Obama administration to approach the Senate for repeal of the Jackson-Vanik legislation of 1974 which restricts the scope of normal trade relations between the two countries."
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