Waiting for the Tramp and Putin summit in Helsinki

In short:

• Tramp and Putin will meet in Helsinki, because Finland has the experience of mediation
• The themes of the meeting are little known
• Finland accepts the reception of the summit with shared feelings
• The President of Lithuania does not expect good results from the summit
• The President of Lithuania does not expect good results.
• The President of Lithuania does not expect good results from the summit. Rinkevič: Tramp says that he is wary of optimism.

Finland – experienced mediator

According to the official explanation of the White House, Helsinki was chosen as a meeting point because there have already been several talks between Russia or the former USSR and American leaders in the past.

The 19th century Finnish presidential residence, in pale yellow light, in Helsinki, overlooking the Baltic Sea, will become the place where Tramps will meet on Monday. Putin

This is not the first time that the two great powers have seized Helsinki directly because Finland claims to be a neutral state in that it does not exist. is not a member of NATO. This was also the case in the 1990s when US President George W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in the Finnish capital, and seven years later, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin

. The Air Force One launcher does not fall on the red carpet but lands with a special lift that serves to deliver food to the plane. The US president was operated on the knee, but that did not stop Yeltsin from discussing post-Cold War security and NATO enlargement

Tramps, unlike Clinton, is in good health and will arrive in Helsinki in Scotland after when he will be on a national visit to the UK and also in Belgium, in Brussels, where a two-day NATO summit has taken place. It's there that he was able to completely shake the Alliance, threatening the consequences if European countries did not pay more in their defense budgets.

On the other hand, the Russian president has returned after the success of the World Football Championship. the fact that Russia is continuing its aggression in Ukraine occupied Crimea and bombed Syria.

We do not know much about what will be discussed at the meeting at this time. However, it is clear that Tramp may also have to talk about Russia's attempts to intervene in the US elections, which Moscow still denies. The Finnish company is aware that President Saulius Nine is leaving his residence in Putin and Tramp, not only because of the great security measures and therefore the inconveniences of life, but also because of the policies of the two leaders and also because Uncertainties do not only concern the Finns but also the rest of the world.

Tramps: But after all, he is a competitor

It is asked who will be in the center US President Donald Tramps said at the NATO meeting in Brussels: "We will focus on a few subjects: Syria, possible interference in the US presidential election, which is the favorite issue of journalists, including Ukraine. "

Tramps also stated that he would never have committed the annexation of Crimea as it was was done by his predecessor, Barack Obama, but at the same time admitted that he did not know how the talks on Ukraine would end. Tramps also said that he did not see Putin as an enemy.

"He has always been very kind to me and I have been kind to him.He is a competitor.If someone asks if Putin is my enemy, then I say that this is not a good idea. is not it? Is he my friend? I do not know him so well.But on a few occasions when we met, we understood very well.Tramps said

"But after all, he is a competitor because he represents Russia, but I am the United States, "said the White House host.

Concerned about the plight of NATO forces in Europe [19659013] ] Many experts point out that it would have been better if Putin and Tramps met before the NATO summit, and not after, given the unpredictability of the actions of the US president.

One of the problems Many people are working, that Tramps can promise Putin to withdraw American forces from Europe on the basis of the 1997 NATO-Russia Mutual Relationship Act, which Russia keeps putting on the table.

Of course, NATO rejects these accusations, stating that, first and foremost, the forces are rotating. And also, that such a solid point in the document does not exist. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, meanwhile, tried to dismiss these concerns, telling reporters in Brussels that NATO had spoken before the Tramp visit.

"US President Tramps said that he was in a strong commitment to NATO, that the US is in Europe, that European countries are investing more and that we are more able to move forces across the Atlantic with new command structures, "said Stoltenberg

. We are very cautious, "said Lithuanian President Dalia Grisuiskaite as the next Latvian radio

" We are cautious about this meeting. We saw the President of the United States meet the North Korean leader, and the result, I would say, was controversial. It was a commitment on the one hand, but the other half did not fulfill what was being discussed, "said the President of Lithuania [19659014] "Why are we cautious? We are well aware of Putin's ability to say something and to do something completely different. We do not expect good results, "acknowledged Grībauskaite

Edgars Rinkēvičs, Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, was invited to attend the NATO Summit in Brussels at the beginning of the year.

"What President Tramps has said about Russia in closed meetings gives me cautious optimism that he is aware of many things we know," said Rinkēvičs

without both Presidents, Michael Pens, the US Vice President, will arrive in Helsinki as well as Russia – Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.However, the Presidents will be alone in the negotiating room, and the decisions they will take will be, at least in the beginning, between two.