Syria and Müller investigations cast a shadow over the Helsinki summit

Investigations of Syria and Muller cast a shadow on the Helsinki Summit

Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at the Summit

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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Helsinki on Monday to demonstrate the president's willingness to establish a personal relationship with the Kremlin master and overcome diplomatic tensions between the two countries.

Trump, the business magnate, has been in power for 18 months, while Putin, a 65-year-old former intelligence official, has ruled Russia for 18 years. However, Trump, 72, says he is confident of his ability to convince his opponents along with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who held a summit in June.
It is difficult to predict the tone that Trump will adopt, but many diplomats are afraid to make a series of concessions to Putin on the many controversial issues between Syria and Ukraine in Crimea and to intervene at American elections.
A few hours before the start of the summit, Trump launched a surprise email by an American president, His country and Russia as "years of American madness and madness And now the political campaign" in reference to the investigation by the special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
Trump pointed out during an interview with CBS News before arriving in Helsinki: "I think it's good to meet, I believe in meetings" , although "Trump and his wife Melania began their day with Finnish President Soli Ninesto and his wife Jenny Hokyu, who also won Sunday's 2018 World Cup in Moscow. Helsinki, but remained silent about his expectations or the goals of his strategy.
His adviser Yuri Ushakov said only that "the development of bilateral relations Very bad," adding, "We must begin to repair them. "
Syria will have a big stake in the talks between the two presidents.
On the other hand, Russia has a military presence in this country since 2015, in support of the regime of Assad and counts more than ever to play a key role in it
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The summit is held at noon in the presidential palace in the heart of this coastal city hosting summits East-West.
On the agenda of the summit is a private meeting with only the translator and a working lunch with both teams And the joint press conference
Tremb, like his Republican predecessors and Democrats, met with Putin, but the style and timing of the meeting make the Helsinki summit a unique event: it's the last step of a tour of business. have a week in Europe. Germany, but avoiding any criticism of his Russian counterpart.
However, Trump and despite recent tension with his allies, confirmed Monday, that "the Atlantic Alliance was not a unified day as it is now". NATO in Brussels: "It was a bit difficult at first, but it turned out in the end" The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, called Europe, China, the states United States and Russia to "avoid the chaos" of a trade war and to "not destroy" the world order
. The survey is being conducted by independent investigator Robert Mueller on the Russian intervention in the 2016 US presidential election.
The survey returned to the heart of the US. event three days before the summit, Muller accusing 12 Russian intelligence service agents Democrat.
Trump promised to raise the issue with his Russian counterpart, but a
In addition to denouncing Trump as a "political campaign" against him, he has repeatedly appeared to stand in the line of Putin, who denies any interference despite the consensus of US intelligence agencies that the opposite is true. Democratic senators not to negotiate privately, and wrote in an open letter: "There must be other Americans in the room."
But Trump says weeks ago, "Will I be ready I'm quite ready!" He said a few days ago to his supporters in Montana: "I have been preparing my whole life for such a thing. "
But many analysts worry that Trump is not firm enough. "We have to face Russia under Putin as he is: a rogue state," said Richard Haass, chairman of the Foreign Relations Council, before the summit.
This is the fourth time that the presidents of the two countries meet in the Finnish capital. It is only on this basis that the summit will take place in the context of previous summits between Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev (1975), George HW Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev (1990), Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin (1997).

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