The Kremlin announced Putin’s willingness to meet with trump tete-a-tete
Russian President Vladimir Putin “totally fit” the format of the meeting tete-a-tete with the President of the United States Donald trump told reporters on Tuesday, Putin’s press Secretary Dmitry Peskov.
He commented on the TV channel CNN about trump’s desire to meet with Putin one-on-one before the start of negotiations of delegations of two countries on 16 July in Helsinki.
“President Putin is absolutely comfortable with herself in any formats that are comfortable to his sides,” — said Peskov.
We do not exclude that if that is agreed, first there will be a meeting of presidents from eye to eye.Dmitry Pescovitz Secretary of the President of Russia
The meeting of Putin and trump will take place on 16 July in Helsinki, reported earlier, the Kremlin and the White house. This will be the first full meeting of the presidents of Russia and the United States. Before that, they only spoke on the sidelines of certain summits.
Trump wants to start meeting with Putin in one-on-one, only in the presence of the interpreters, reported CNN, citing a source. Then, according to him, the conversation will be joined by members of delegations. The American President in June, mentioned that he wanted to talk with Putin “about everything.” In the message of the Kremlin it was noted that the theme of the meeting will be the state and prospects of Russian-American relations, as well as “topical issues of the international agenda”. In turn, European diplomats and American officials expect that trump will ask Putin to reduce military presence of Iran in Syria. Trump may meeting to raise the issue of possible intervention of Moscow in the presidential elections in the United States, said Vice-President Mike Pence.
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