Trump announced that he would meet Putin and Xi at the G20 summit in Japan

The president of the USA, Donald Trump announced Monday that he will talk with his Russian counterparts, Vladimir Putin, and China, Xi Jinping, at the G20 summit. to be held at the end of June in Japan.

"We are going to meet at the G20 in Japan and it will probably be a very successful meeting," Trump said. at a meeting at the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

"I will also meet President Putin," Trump added shortly thereafter.

This last meeting will be the first official meeting between Trump and Putin for almost a year, since the summit they held in Helsinki last July, and also the first since the US investigation concluded the special prosecutor Robert Mueller on the huge Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

Ukrainian sailors arrested by Moscow in November are still being held in custody in Russia, and the White House has not explained why she decided to schedule another meeting, even though the problem was not solved. .

On the usual topics on the agenda between Trump and Putin, such as Syria, Iran or Ukraine, has added in recent months the situation in Venezuela, which was part of a telephone conversation that the two leaders had earlier this month.

The Trump government, like that of 50 other countries, recognizes as the legitimate president of Venezuela the leader of the opposition, Juan Guaidó, while Russia continues to support President Nicolás Maduro. In March, she sent to Caracas two planes with a hundred soldiers.

After talking with Putin on May 3, Trump contradicted his government, which severely criticized Moscow, saying that the Russian president "is not thinking of getting involved in Venezuela."

Trump and Putin also discussed the possibility of concluding a possible tripartite agreement with China on their respective nuclear arsenals.s, a topic they could explore further at their meeting in Osaka.

Regarding Xi, Trump has been discussing for several months a possible meeting with him to conclude an agreement to put an end to the ongoing trade war. bilateral, but the negotiations in this direction were complicated at the end of April and the United States decided to increase their customs duties on Chinese products to 25% to a value of $ 200,000.

In addition, Trump ordered his government Friday to begin the process of imposing tariffs on an additional $ 300,000 million for Chinese products, which would cover almost all exports from that country to the United States. USA, but announced today that it has not yet decided whether will go ahead with this punishment.