Press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov did not answer the question of whether Vladimir Putin to shake hands with the President of the United States Donald trump. About it reports “Tape.ru”.
According to Peskov, the question “put him into a wall.”
Trump is known to firmly shake hands. Media linked this with the fact that he graduated from the military Academy and in his youth played baseball. In particular, the handshake American leader and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon lasted about seven seconds, and in the press compare it with the tug-of-war.
According to TASS, the Kremlin hopes that the outcome of the upcoming meeting of Putin and trump between them established a working dialogue, “which is probably vital for the world.” According to Peskov, Putin is preparing for a meeting with trump “as well as the other meetings that are scheduled on the sidelines of the summit.”
Putin repeated the Russian position about the necessity of fulfilling the Minsk agreements, also leaders will discuss the Syrian settlement, said the representative of the Kremlin.
The G20 summit in which the presidents meet will be held in Hamburg on 7-8 July.
Earlier in mass media appeared information that the trump instructed the national security Council (NSC) of the White house to prepare a list of possible “concessions” that he could offer Putin in the negotiations. Among one of the concessions was called 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 “intervention of Russia in the elections.” It was also reported that trump during the upcoming meeting plans first and foremost to discuss the situation in Syria and Ukraine.