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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said he wanted US President Donald Trump to be his guest in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday. The Russian leader said during a visit to South Africa at an economic conference that "appropriate conditions" were needed in both countries for another summit to take place, an apparent reference to a political uproar in the United States last week after the meeting of the two men.
The White House said that Trump was enthusiastic about another summit. Trump said he wanted to improve relations between the two nuclear powers, whose relations have fallen to a trough in the post-cold-war era in recent years. "President Trump looks forward to President Putin in Washington after the first of the year," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement
Separately, the US Secretary of State Defense, Jim Mattis, said he was considering the possibility of early negotiations for years between the defense. leaders of the United States and Russia. Mattis said that there had been no decision
Trump was criticized at home for not confronting Putin publicly with Moscow's interference in the 2016 US elections and for to have seemed to contradict his own intelligence agencies about the Russian threat. Trump defended his conduct.
The White House stated that no agreement was reached during the one-on-one meeting with Putin other than the meeting of national security teams. Mattis said on Friday that he had not received any new guidelines on Syria.
The military support of Moscow from 2015 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian war, the annexation of Russia in 2014 Russia is under the punitive sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union and wants to see them lifted. Friday: "We need the right conditions to exist, to be created, including in our countries" for other US-Russian summits.
Putin went on to say that Russia was ready to welcome Trump to Moscow. "Guest, I told him that."
Following the United States' reaction to Trump's cordiality with Putin in Helsinki, US and Russian authorities moved away from Trump's proposal of
The White House postponed this invitation to 39 next year, when a federal inquiry into Russian electoral interference could be completed.
The last time Trump was in the Russian capital was as a private citizen in 2013 to attend a Miss Universe beauty contest. This visit surfaced in the FBI's investigation of Russian electoral activities in the form of a file containing allegations that Trump had spent time with Russian prostitutes there. Trump and Putin have fiercely opposed Trump and Putin's efforts to relax. US lawmakers, including those of Trump's Republican Party, blame him for being too friends with Putin, whom they regard as an opponent of the United States.
US Intelligence agencies concluded last year that Moscow has waged an influential campaign to help Trump win the White House by hacking Democratic Party computers and using fake media accounts to denigrate Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton
The interference in the preparation of the November parliamentary elections brought together Friday its national security badistants to discuss election security.
A statement from the White House said the meeting was about the threat of elections "harmful foreign actors".
Trump repeatedly denied his campaign of complicity with Russia and called the investigation of special advocate Robert Mueller "witch hunt". Trump is outraged by any suggestion that he might owe his electoral victory to Russia.
Trump denied Friday knowing ahead of a meeting in 2016 his son Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign staff had at Trump Tower with a group of Russians who offered damaging information about Clinton . According to a CNN report, his long-time lawyer, Michael Cohen, had planned to tell Mueller that Trump knew the meeting
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