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(UPDATED) "I think it's a good start: very, very good start for everyone," President Trump told reporters after meeting with Vladimir Putin for over two hours with their performers . security teams
HELSINKI SUMMIT. Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) listens to US President Donald Trump before meeting in Helsinki on July 16, 2018.
Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP
HELSINKI, Finland (UPDATE) – Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a historic summit Monday promising to restore troubled relations between the world's largest nuclear powers.
Despite accusations of Russia's interference in US politics, the Kremlin leader went to the summit accusing the "stupidity" of his predecessors of having forged close ties with their present level.
"I think it's a good start:" It's a very good start for everyone, "the US president told reporters after meeting Putin for more than two hours with their only interpreters and just before they are joined by their national security teams. The decision to sit one-on-one with Putin, a former KGB spy, worried about what he could negotiate after lying with the autocratic rulers of the China and North Korea.
National critics wanted the Helsinki summit to be canceled after 12 Russian military agents were indicted as part of a long-standing investigation into Moscow's alleged manipulation of the 2016 US elections. But Trump, convinced that his unique diplomacy could do business with Putin, eager to move forward and hoped to "have an extraordinary relationship" while the pair sat down to discuss everything from Syria, the 39, Ukraine and China at tariffs and the size of their nuclear arsenals
Putin, congratulations of Trump and others "It is time to speak substantially of our relations and problem areas of the world ", said the leaders for the success of the World Cup in Russia.
Trump added, "Frankly, we have not gotten along for several years and I really think the world wants us to hear, we are the two major nuclear powers."
"We'll do well"
Shortly before the opening of the summit, Trump was asked if he would press Putin about the alleged manipulation by the Russia's election that had brought to power the tycoon of the property 18 months ago. He only said, "We will do very well."
But there are a lot of friction points that could still spoil Trump's hoped-for friendship with his opponent, who has ruled Russia for 18 years.
Trump began the day by pulling a Twitter over his domestic opponents, accusing the diplomatic cold of the investigation into the alleged interference of the Russian elections.
"Our relationship with Russia has never been worse thanks to many years of American foolishness and foolishness … the tricked witch hunt!" Trump tweeted.
The Russian Foreign Ministry tweeted in response: "We agree."
Trump's American opponents tried, in turn, to gain popularity for the sarcastic hashtag that quipped about his reluctance to criticize the Kremlin: #BAF (Blame America First).
"False News"
After a stormy NATO summit in Brussels last week, Trump was accused by critics of favoring his relations with Putin on the transatlantic alliance
but at breakfast with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto he insisted that NATO has never been in an interview with CBS News, Trump admitted that Russia remained an enemy, but he put Moscow on an equal footing with China and the European Union as economic. and its diplomatic rivals.
The Kremlin also downplayed the hope that the outgoing couple will emerge from its first formal head-to-head summit with a breakthrough.
Indeed, after the angry summit of NATO and a controversial trip by Trump to Britain, anx European leaders may be relieved when they come out little from the meeting. Helsinki, 19659024. These leaders are already lamenting Trump's imposition of tariffs on various countries, including Russia.
Turning the tables, President of the European Union, Donald Tusk, said Trump was guilty of "spreading false news" with his remark about enemies, and warned that trade tensions could change in "conflict and chaos". China, America and Russia, today in Beijing and Helsinki, are jointly responsible for improving the world order and not for its destruction, "he tweeted
"I hope this message will reach Helsinki. "
The streets of Helsinki to denounce the policies of Trump and Putin.Greenpeace draped a giant banner in a church steeple urging:" warm our hearts and not our planet. "[19659028] Give up the land?
Trump also suffers the pressure of Britain to push Putin on the nerve poisoning agent of four people in southern England.
One of the victims, Dawn Sturgess, has passed away and her 19-year-old son, Ewan Hope, told the Sunday Mirror, "We must get justice for my mother."
But the American allies and many of them. Americans fear that Trump will not stand up to Putin.
Trump refused to personally pledge in the US refusal to recognize the annexation of Crimea by Russia, leaving open the possibility of a "death penalty". a descent a promise from Putin to curb the Iranian influence in Syria
And there will be indignation at home if Trump does not confront Putin with electoral scandal.
But the US leader will not say he will request the extradition of the 12 Russian intelligence officers who were indicted last week by US special prosecutor Robert Mueller. – Rappler.com
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