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The President of the United States Donald trump instructed the national security Council (NSC) of the White house to prepare a list of possible “concessions” that he could offer Russian President Vladimir Putin during the upcoming negotiations. About it reports The Guardian with reference to former White house staff familiar with the situation.
According to one of interlocutors of the edition, and in the secret service, and the administration of the President of the United States do not want to make unilateral concessions “only in order to improve the atmosphere of negotiations.”
In addition, surrounded by trump’s allegedly unhappy that he insists on full-fledged meeting with Putin.
Among one of the concessions the newspaper calls the return of the Russian Embassy in the US diplomatic “cottages” in new York and Maryland. Seized them in 2016, when the US President was Barack Obama, explaining the measure alleged Russian interference in the election of the American leader.
While it is unknown what trump may ask Putin instead.
The representative of the NSC Michael Anton said that the meeting between the two leaders “had not yet been set in any format.” The Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia proceeds from the fact that the meeting trump and Putin at the summit of “Big twenty” (G20) will take place anyway, because they need “to talk on many issues”.
The G20 summit will be held in Hamburg on 7-8 July.