Trump and Putin in Helsinki: "They can speak pretty well" – live ticker



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"You can speak pretty well"

The Kremlin sees good relations between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and therefore expects a successful Russian-American summit in Helsinki. "They respect each other, and they can speak well enough," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RT television a few hours before the meeting in Helsinki. Therefore, Monday to hope for a "full conversation" that "at least a small step" of the current bad relations continue.

Previously, Trump had tweeted, his political opponents and predecessors were responsible for the "historically bad" relationship between the two. country. He accused his own country of "stupidity".

Russia has no problem with Trump putting America first in political terms, said the Kremlin Peskov spokesman. "Each Head of State should, above all, represent the interests of his own country in his international contacts, in this sense our President is also very pragmatic and direct, and he says that for him the interests of Russia and Russian people go beyond. "

The conversation about Syria would be difficult because of a disagreement over the role of Iran, Peskov said. "We know how Washington is linked to Iran, but at the same time, Iran is a good partner for us in economic relations as well as in political dialogue." Russia and Iran are the military badets of the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

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