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John Kerry looks to scaffold US-Russia hole with potatoes

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John Kerry looks to scaffold US-Russia hole with potatoes

After months of pressure between the United States and Russia, US secretary of state John Kerry tried to extension the conciliatory hole by giving his Russian partner an abnormal endowment of potatoes.

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PARIS: After months of pressure between the United States and Russia over issues running from Edward Snowden's discernment breaks to the Syrian clash, US secretary of state John Kerry looked to extension the strategic hole on Monday by giving his Russian partner a bizarre endowment of potatoes.

Kerry, who was in Paris with Russian remote clergyman Sergei Lavrov to sledge out portions of a peace meeting on Syria planned for January 22, amazed his partner by opening up a container and giving him two vast Idaho potatoes.

Kerry clowned to writers about his blessing to Lavrov: "Well, he let me know he's not set to make vodka. He's set to consume them."

Lavrov answered: "In Poland, they make vodka from potatoes. I know this. In any case that is in Poland.

"We used to do this in the Soviet Union. Right away we attempt to do it from wheat."

Kerry then returned to the matter, saying he needed to "elucidate". "There's no shrouded importance. There's no representation. There's no typical anything," he said.

"We were having a great discussion over the span of the Christmas break over the subject of Idaho, which was the place I was around then, and he reviewed the Idaho potatoes as being something that he knew of, so I thought I might astound him and present to him some exceptional Idaho potatoes."

In any case Lavrov, talking in English, proposed the potatoes may have typical use as the Syria transactions approach.

"The particular potato which John gave to me has the shape which makes it conceivable to embed potato in the carrot-and-stick declaration. So it could be utilized contrastingly," he said.

The Russian appointment responded with a pink hide cap for state office agent Jen Psaki.