Tillerson fell in with a 'bad crowd', says Vladimir Putin
7 Sep 2017 5:07 PM GMT
VLADIVOSTOK: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had "fallen in with a bad crowd" and was pressuring Moscow's diplomats, four years after the Kremlin gave him an honorary award.
"We have given… Rex Tillerson an Order of Friendship some time ago. But it seems he has fallen in with the wrong crowd and is now steering in a different direction," Putin quipped while speaking at an economic forum in the far-eastern city of Vladivostok.
Putin made the comments after awarding the Order of Friendship to Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, remarking on the growth of Chinese investment in
Russia. Putin bestowed the same award on Tillerson in 2013, when he was the chief executive of ExxonMobil.
That year the company signed an agreement with Russia's Rosneft to explore for oil and gas in the Russian Arctic.
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