François Hollande and Vladimir Putin will talk over dinner in the Kremlin on Thursday evening, as the French president continues diplomatic efforts to form a broad coalition against Islamic State after the Paris attacks.
Hollande was in Washington meeting with US president Barack Obama on Tuesday, and met Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi in Paris earlier on Thursday. He also met British prime minister David Cameron on Monday and German chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday. His trip to Moscow will last just a few hours, as he is whisked to the Kremlin for one-on-one talks with Putin followed by a working dinner set to include his foreign and defence ministers.
So far, however, the pledges have been vague, and chances for a broad coalition have been further complicated by the shooting down of a Russian jet by the Turkish air force on Tuesday.
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