Wednesday, April 12, 2017

U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson Ends His Trip To Moscow -- News Roundup



Daily Mail: Tillerson is frozen out in Moscow: Two hours of talks with Putin end with nothing to show as Kremlin refuses to admit Assad gassed his own people - then lectures him on Iraq and Libya

* Putin met with Tillerson just before his departure from Moscow after yo-yoing the American diplomat around for days
* But no pictures have been released of the two-hour encounter in a caluclated snub
* US and Russia continued to disagree about Bashar al-Assad's use of chemical weapons on Wednesday
* Kremlin is insisting that the Syrian dictator did not gas his own people and the Trump administration is asserting that he did
* Talks got off to an icy start - Tillerson's counterpart Sergey Lavrov wanted to know the 'real intentions' of the US
* Russia has questions about America's 'very ambiguous' and contradictory' ideas

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is leaving Moscow empty-handed following two hours of frosty talks with Vladimir Putin - without even a snapshot with the Russian president to show for it.

Instead he got a public lecture on America's past actions in the Middle East from Putin's foreign minister, and reminded of Sean Spicer's Hitler gaffe by a Russian reporter.

And he could not even get agreement that Bashar al-Assad's used chemical weapons, with the Kremlin insisting that the Syrian dictator did not gas his own people and the Trump official asserting that he did.

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WNU Editor: No pictures of Putin and Tillerson together. No agreement on any of the big issues. A complete absence of trust. And no way forward to lessen tensions. This is not what I call a success.

U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson Ends His Trip To Moscow -- News Roundup

Tensions High as US, Russia Call for Syrian Chemical Weapons Probe -- VOA
Putin finally meets Tillerson in Moscow -- RT
Tillerson and Putin Find Little More Than Disagreement in Meeting -- New York Times
Tillerson meets Putin: Some agreements, but mostly divisions -- USA Today
Putin says trust erodes under Trump, Moscow icily receives Tillerson -- Reuters
Lavrov-Tillerson meeting round-up -- TASS
Tillerson faces off with Russia's foreign minister in tense press conference following Syria strike -- Business Insider
Trump says US-Russia relations may be at "all-time low" -- AP
Trump: US 'Not Getting Along With Russia At All' -- Sputnik
Trump's hopes for warmer relations with Russia in deep freeze -- Stephen Collinson, CNN
Rex Tillerson feels the chill in Moscow -- Nahal Toosi, Politico

4 comments:

AZuLike said...

Does that make him a russian spy? jkjk

Jac said...

All of that is understandable: after 8 years of Obama policy, Russia, and any other country, feel that America has to shut it's mouth. When time is changing that's hard to handle it. This transition will make some "bad waves" but it will go well.

D.Plowman said...

This is how it is with the Trump administration.

One has to wonder just how bad it would have gotten with a Clinton administration.

And considering she was advocating further strikes against Syria, I'd say its a fair bet to assume that a Clinton administration would not be good for Russian-US relations.

James said...

Plowman,
"One has to wonder just how bad it would have gotten with a Clinton administration."
The answer to that is in Sandy Berger's socks.