David Cameron is to hold his first bilateral talks with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Turkey, where he will seek to persuade the Russian president that his country’s bombing campaign in Syria is only going to prolong the conflict.
The meeting on Monday will be the first time the two leaders have met directlysince the last G20 summit in Brisbane, where they discussed the need for Putin to pull back in Ukraine.
The linked crises of Syria and refugees are likely to to dominate the summit, with Turkey a key player in the conflict and the country that has acted as the single largest conduit for refugees fleeing to Europe from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Cameron has spoken to Putin twice on the phone in recent days, first to express his condolences at the downing of a Russian plane flying over Sinai, and then to pass on British intelligence suggesting that the jet had been bombed.
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