Monday, July 9, 2018

What Will Putin - Trump Discuss When They Meet


Reuters: The issues on the table when Trump and Putin meet

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will sit down in a room together in the Finnish capital on July 16 for their first summit meeting.

The U.S. president’s spontaneous approach to negotiations, and the inscrutable style of the Kremlin leader, make predicting the outcome of the summit with any accuracy close to impossible.

We do however, have a reasonable idea of the issues the two leaders and their aides will have mapped out before the meeting: the areas where they each want something from their counterpart, and the places they are willing to give ground.

Below are the issues likely to figure:

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Commentaries and Analysis On The Putin - Trump Meeting Later This Week

What's on Vladimir Putin's wish list for his meeting with Donald Trump? -- Matt Bevan, ABC News Online
Trump, Putin, and Crimea -- Steven Pifer, Brookings
How Trump Could Actually Make the Summit with Putin a Success -- Evelyn Farkas, Time
Soon Putin and Trump will meet in Helsinki — here's what they should do -- John Richard Cookson, The Hill
Trump and Putin face nuclear options at Helsinki summit -- Financial Times
The Perils of a Putin-Trump Summit -- Steven L. Hall, Cipher Brief
What will Trump and Putin agree on at the Helsinki summit? -- Joe Macaron, Al Jazeera

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Pee tape.

Anonymous said...

INF Treaty withdrawal.
Russian co-operation in giving evidence of Bill & Hill bribery in turning over 20% of proven US uranium reserves.

Matthew Putnam said...

They will most likely discuss how to leave even less evidence for collusion in the next election.