President of Russia Vladimir
Putin and President of the United States of America Donald
Trump have met in Helsinki for their first full-scale summit meeting.
Before this, Mr Putin and Mr Trump had met on the sidelines
of various international events.
July 16, 2018
16:30
Helsinki
The Russia-US summit began with
a one-on-one meeting, to be followed by talks that will be
attended by the Russian and US delegations. Vladimir Putin
and Donald Trumpwill discuss ways to normalise bilateral
relations, as well as current international issues, primarily
the situation in Ukraine, Syria and the Korean Peninsula,
the fight against terrorism, and other.
Following the talks,
the two presidents will make statements for the press
and answer questions from media representatives.
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With President
of the United States of America Donald Trump. Photo:
RIA Novosti. Photo: RIA Novosti
Beginning of meeting with US
President Donald Trump
President of Russia Vladimir
Putin: Mr President, I am delighted to meet with you here,
in Helsinki, the capital of hospitable Finland.
We have maintained regular contact.
Over the past few months, we have talked on the phone
and also met several times at various international events.
Of course, the time has
come to hold in-depth discussions on bilateral relations
and global problems, the number of which shows that we must
devote our attention to them.
(In English.) Thank you
very much.
President of the United
States of America Donald Trump: First of all, Mr President,
I would like to congratulate you on a really great World
Cup, one of the best ever, from what everybody tells me, one of the best
ever, and also for your team itself doing so well.
I watched quite a bit.
In the United States we call it soccer, and I watched quite
a bit of it. And I watched the entire final,
and the semi-finals, and they were really spectacular games,
and it was beautifully done. So congratulations, on that.
Most importantly, we have a lot
of good things to talk about, and things to talk about. We
have discussions on everything from trade to military,
to missiles, to nuclear, to China. We will be talking a little
bit about China, our mutual friend President Xi.
I think we have great
opportunities together as two countries, and frankly we have not been
getting along very well for the last number of years.
I have been here not too long, but it is getting close to two years.
But I think that we will end up having an extraordinary relationship.
I hope so. I have been saying it, and I am sure that you
have heard over the years, as I campaigned, that getting along
with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing.
And I really think
the world wants to see us get along. We are the two great
nuclear powers, we have 90 percent of the nuclear, and that is
not a good thing, it is a bad thing. I think we can hopefully do
something about that because it is not a positive force, it is
a negative force. So we will be talking about that among other things.
And with that the world
awaits, and I look forward to our personal discussion which
I thinks begins now, and then we are going to meet our whole
team. You have quite a few representatives, and I do. We all
have a lot of questions, and ultimately we will come up with
answers, most importantly. It is great to be with you.
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