The day of Putin at the G20 talks on the global and bilateral levels
The main event of the day was the first meeting of Vladimir Putin with U.S. President Donald trump.
HAMBURG, July 7. /TASS/. The President of Russia Vladimir Putin had a busy day at the G20 summit, and met with colleagues from the USA, South Korea and Japan. It is noteworthy that the forum’s sessions, and bilateral meetings failed to achieve results.
The main event of the day was the first meeting of Putin with U.S. President Donald trump. The leaders managed not only to establish contact, but to reach certain agreements.
As told journalists the Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov following the meeting, Russia and the United States agreed to establish a zone of de-escalation in the South of Syria since July 9.
The U.S. and Russia have pledged to enforce the cease fire by all factions that are there, to ensure humanitarian access and to establish contacts there are between the opposition and the monitoring center, which is created in the capital of Jordan. At first, the security around this area will be provided with the use of forces and means of the Russian military police, in coordination with the U.S. and Jordan, the Minister said.
Another arrangement for Ukraine. The American side announced that Washington appointed a special representative to promote efforts to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, Lavrov said. According to him, the special representative will arrive in Moscow in the near future.
Great attention was paid to issues of cybersecurity. Following the discussion, the parties agreed to create a bilateral working group on information security, which will deal with all questions of this sphere in the complex, including the fight against terrorism, organized crime, hacking in all its manifestations.
We also addressed the issue allegedly organized by Russia of hacker attacks on targets in the United States. President trump has heard the statement of the Russian authorities on non-interference in elections, accepts them and believes that the campaign accused Russia of selling is “strange”, said Lavrov.
The Minister also spoke about the fact that the meeting of leaders was held in a constructive atmosphere. This was evident by the presidency, which is open to journalists part of the meeting to feel free, open. While both of them were in favour of a closer dialogue on bilateral and international agendas.
The summit agenda
In addition to bilateral meetings Putin took part in the sessions of the summit. The result of one of them — on political issues — was a joint statement of leaders of “twenty” in the fight against terrorism. The document is not easy, consistent, however, in the end it managed to take, and as reported, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
As for the native “dvadcatogo”, that is the economic agenda, in this region the discussion was also fruitful. The G20 summit agreed in General with the need to abandon trade protectionism, said Sherpa of the Russian Federation in the G20 Svetlana Lukash. According to her, the task of the summit was to show that “this process can only be beneficial, it is still irreversible, the country will benefit from a joint cooperation.”
“Overall, it turned out. I think you’ll see it in the final communique,” — said the Russian G20 Sherpa.
Assessment Lukash, in General, the summit in Hamburg is constructive without much confrontation.
“I did not notice that was a strong confrontation at the summit, she said. — The meeting was fairly constructive. I was even impressed by the speech of the President of the United States. He basically talked about the need to care about the environment and about clean energy”.
“At our level (representatives of countries) has much more detail and the difference is visible is much stronger,” she said.
On Saturday the President of Russia will continue work in the framework of the summit of the group of 20. After its completion, Putin will leave Hamburg.