mr. lavrov? #the pulse. back in two. ♪ francine: welcome back to "the pulse" live on bloomberg tv and radio and streaming on bloomberg.com. the scottish first minister will set out her ideas on how the european union will set out her idea and make the case for the uk's continued membership of the 28 nation bloc. this comes after david cameron visited several european leaders last week. stephanie flanders is with us. great to have you on the program and thank you for sticking around. give us a sense, when is the ideal time for a referendum? if you have it too soon, it does not give you enough time to renegotiate it if you have it too late, we could have a year and a half of uncertainty on the markets. stephanie: there is a consent as it would be better to have it in 2017. that is also, you remember there are a lot of important elections happening in europe which would make it much harder for the likes of angela merkel to be giving any apparent concessions to britain. you are quite right. it is hard to say tha

mr. lavrov know better. when do we have to sign it? when it is ready, he said.iplomats are always like that. when it is ready. i believe that in some time yesterday we met the declaration of the ifea, and afterwards there will be implementation of the arrangements which will take about six months. there is another important thing. it is important that your country, the u.s., would support such initiative. for the congress to support it it is important. we know discussions are ongoing with the u.s. now that the president has derived to sign agreements that do not need ratification by the congress. that is not our problem. we cannot solve it. we cannot solve problems for the washington authorities, either. i believe that the ball is on your side now and we expect, among other difficulties, the presence of that state will produce the foreign policy. charlie: you do believe there will be an agreement, based on prime minister lavrov tells you? president putin: yes, we believe it. of the same importance is that countries in the region must not feel that there is a mom

. >> also in vienna the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov also meeting mr.ariff, compared notes with secretary state kerry. when he spoke with reporters he gave one of the most positive assessments from any of the key players during these lengthy negotiations. >> we have all the grounds to suggest that the result is within reach. and we gave instruction to colleagues deputies that in the coming days the agreement would be reached. >> everybody says that progress has been made but there is a great deal of details to be ironed out because this is supposed to be the final deal. that's why the so-called. 5, plusso-so called p 5 plus 1 continued. >> many have thrown their hats in the ring and now they've been joined by new jersey governor chris christie. well, he was one considered a real contender thanks to his handling of super storm sandy his ability to connect with the voters. but has prospected look bleak following the bridge gate scandal. we see three of his former aides creating traffic jams to retaliate against a mayor who refused to endorse his re-electi