Russian President Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich PutinPutin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Navalny released from hospital after suspected poisoning Ex-Trump national security adviser says US leaders 'making it easy for Putin' to meddle MORE defended the Paris climate agreement on Friday, one day after President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE said he would pull the U.S. out of the deal.

But Putin didn’t join the chorus of criticism that Trump heard from many other world leaders after his Thursday announcement, instead downplaying the fallout.

Putin told an economic forum in St. Petersburg on Friday that the Paris deal gives signatories a lot of leeway when it comes to their commitments under the agreement, The Associated Press reports.

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Putin also said he was open to Trump’s call to renegotiate the deal — a proposal shut down by European allies — and that a global fight against climate change requires the U.S. at the table.

Reuters quoted Putin as saying, “Don’t worry, be happy.”

Many world leaders vehemently disagree with Trump’s decision to leave the Paris deal, and they openly criticized, and in some cases mocked, Trump over the move on Thursday.

Russia has not yet signed the Paris agreement, with Putin saying he is waiting for technical changes first. But before the deal was crafted, the country summited a plan to limit its greenhouse gas emissions to no more than 75 percent of 1990 levels by 2030.