WASHINGTON– President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande met on the sidelines of the US Nuclear Security Summit on Thursday where they discussed plans to combat ISIS, securing a new government in Libya and nuclear agreement with Iran.
The leaders held an “overview of the progress” made on the campaign against IS and some of the “strategic decisions that have to be made in the coming months,” said Obama in remarks alongside Hollande.
On Libya the two discussed, “possibilities of a new government being formed” and how to “solidify a structure there that would prevent ISIL from using that territory as a future stronghold, as well as deal with the broader issues of refugees,” said Obama.
He said that the French President, “has been a leader in helping to galvanize the European community around the necessity to be more effective in transatlantic exchanges of information.”
 For Hollande’s part, he said, “the truce which is being complied with so far — is also at the service of a political transition and a negotiation…and we will have an opportunity to talk to a number of governments or heads of state of this region.” He added that they also discussed other topics such as the nuclear agreement with Iran that, “Barack Obama and myself and all the others who were involved in the negotiations, we’ve been playing a role, and now we have to make sure that the commitments are met.”

Source: KUNA, APRIL 1