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On a possible meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump spoke of the end of June. First, there were rumors that politicians would meet in Vienna, but official news later appeared that the meeting would be held in Helsinki on July 16th. Although Putin and Trump met earlier, it was their first full summit after Trump's inauguration as US President in early 2017. Radio Liberty recalls the opinions and opinions that experts and politicians have expressed about this meeting
The White House has scheduled a meeting of one and a half hours in the form of the catch-all between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. After the talks, they will have lunch together and hold a joint press conference. This is stated in the official Trump calendar on July 16th.
Negotiations with Putin in the form of one-on-one talks should begin at 1:20 pm in the presidential palace in Helsinki (local time, which coincides with Kievan's time). At 2:50 pm, it is planned to start negotiations in the expanded format of US and Russian delegations.
At 16:50, Trump and Putin will hold a joint press conference
Will talk about Ukraine
Researcher of history and Ukrainian publicist Sergei Grabovsky still at the end June expressed fears that the presidents of the two countries will not reach an agreement on Ukraine without the participation of a Ukrainian representative. He also recalled that the West in 2014 urged Kiev to refrain from any armed reaction to the annexation of Crimea by Russia, which has not prevented the ;bloodshed. "President Trump, if he wishes, must speak seriously and persuade Putin Ukraine, as well as Georgia and Moldova," Grabowski said in a commentary to Radio Free Europe
Donald Trump has called earlier a significant resonance, saying that Crimea is Russian, since most of its inhabitants speak Russian. However, soon the White House made an official statement: Washington does not recognize the annexation of Crimea and does not plan to do so in the future.
The spokesman of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov declares that the Russian president is ready to discuss. Question, except Crimea annexed
Toxic Meeting
For this meeting, Trump does not go to Moscow, and Putin does not fly to Washington – this was pointed out by an analyst at the Hudson Institute (USA) in his interview Richard Weitz . He believes that a visit to Russia could have catastrophic consequences for Trump before the US Congress scheduled for November this year. But the president of Russia has qualified the expert of "too toxic" to invite him to the White House.
Weitz did not rule out that Trump could be so accommodating to Putin, who was in front of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il after the meeting of the Group of Seven. However, such a scenario seems unlikely to l & # 39; analyst.
NATO Summit – Preparation
The NATO Summit in Brussels ended on 12 July. During the last speech of this event, Donald Trump confirmed that he will talk about Ukraine with Vladimir Putin and noted that the annexation of the Crimea did not please him
The President of the Ukraine Petro Poroshenko the satisfaction of being able to discuss with Trump on the eve of his visit to Helsinki. However, the expectations of the meeting between Trump and Putin, in the words of the Ukrainian president, do not exist.
At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klimpush-Tsintsadze The delegation of Ukraine to PACE Volodymyr Aryev shared the expectation that Trump would not go to Putin's concessions in relation to the interests of Ukraine.
Success where others failed
Meeting with Putin for Trump, like the previous meeting with Kim Jong Yin, is a way to show him that the talks are more successful than others. This opinion was expressed in an interview with Radio Liberty, director of the European Carnegie Center and former Slovak delegate to NATO Tomas Valasek .
It was not suggested if the summit would have concrete consequences
It may be a meeting that ends with a blurry press release or press conference, where they expose the great progress they have made and which may or may not include concrete actions by governments. But one can assume that the purpose of the meeting with President Putin will prove to the world that I, President Trump, have succeeded where others have tried but failed. "I managed to establish cooperation on Syria, Ukraine and solve other problems," says Valahek
. At the same time, Paul Goble a Eurasian expert and former official of the US State Department and the CIA, feared
Freedom House Memo
The US Organization of Human Rights Man Freedom House decided not to be limited to predictions and prepared for the American president a complete list of reasons why he was not in the right direction. e may be friends with Vladimir Putin
The relevant article appeared on the website of the organization on 11 July. Human rights activists recalled Russia's aggression against Georgia and Ukraine as well as the killings of Putin's opponents, journalists and activists in Russia, including the activist political Boris Nemtsov, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the lawyer Stanislav Markelov and others. and Tyler Roylan also recalled political prisoners held by the Kremlin, including Ukrainian citizen Oleg Sentsov. All this, according to human rights activists, would have forced Trump to wonder if he really wanted to be a friend of the President of Russia.
Trump said that he was expecting a little meeting with Putin
has no exaggerated expectations of this meeting. At the same time, he shared plans to discuss with Putin the likely Russian intervention in the US presidential election, as well as Syria and Ukraine.
The US president also predicted a wave of media criticism and representatives of the Democratic Party. "Unfortunately, how could I not show up at the top, even if I was given Moscow as compensation for all the sins and misdeeds committed by Russia for many years, I would still be criticized for the fact that 39 was not good enough and that I should and also give back to St. Petersburg, "- wrote Trump on Twitter.
See also: "In Helsinki, before the meeting Trump and Putin meet in support of Sentsov (photo)"
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