Sir Elton John ‘flattered’ after President Vladimir Putin rang him to

In the association, which will be announced by rock star Elton John and his wife, David Furnish, each will contribute USA $5 million to increase the medication facility for people with HIV and AIDS living in nations that have not so positive attitude towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. “Whether or not I make any progress I don’t know but unless I try… this is starting a dialogue and you don’t get anywhere without dialogue”.

Sir Elton, who has two sons, also backed HIV charities in the United Kingdom in demanding that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) be made available on the NHS.

“I’m not going to go straight in there and go “come on, you’ve gotta do this, you’ve gotta do that”.

“The president has said that he is ready to meet Elton John”, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, according to Russia’s official Sputnik news agency.

“Vladimir Putin asked Elton John not to take offence at the bad joke and said that he would be pleased to meet with him if their schedules coincide and to discuss any issues of interest to the singer”.

The Elton John AIDS Foundation’s founder, Sir Elton John, said “Our goal is to build a quick, nimble and easily accessible fund which can get funds to the most effective public health organisations doing a few of the most important work among the most at risk groups”. The report faults Russian authorities for failing to protect such people from persecution and are not prosecuting the perpetrators of a number of anti-gay attacks.

“I was very flattered that he reached out to me”.

Last week Sir Elton said he was “flattered” that President Vladimir Putin rang him to personally apologise for the hoax call. “I look forward to a further time when I can discuss things with him face to face within the next year”, the singer was quoted by the Mirror newspaper as saying. “He [Putin] was very gracious and he spoke good English”.