(4 Sep 2025) RESTRCTION SUMMARY: AGENCY POOL Beijing, China - 3 September 2025 1. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President: "The President of the United States is not without a sense of humour clearly, we all know it well. I have good relations with him, we're on a first name basis. I can tell you and hope that he would hear it: however strange it might seem, over these four days, during negotiations of all kinds, both in formal and informal settings, no one has ever expressed any