Kerry Comes To Syria Talks Bearing Unusual Gift: Potatoes (PHOTO)

[karynnj]

4. One of the other articles spoke of Lavrov bringing up potatoes in a phone call

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Likely the Kerry family spent Christmas/New Years in Idaho - as they often do -- and JK continued making calls. I would guess that potatoes may be the only thing Lavrov associated with Idaho!

More important - there is clearly mutual respect and they can and have worked together well. Neither Condi Rice or Hillary were able to work with him. Apparently they both love ice hockey. It is interesting that they are working together in advance of this conference.

This link has video of Kerry giving them to Lavrov - http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_13/Lavrov-presents-Psaki-with-Russian-ushanka-after-Kerry-gave-him-two-potatoes-2512/