Contents tagged with trump

  • Trump’s advisor to visit Moscow to prepare a meeting between the US and Russian leaders

    US National Security Adviser John Bolton will visit Moscow next week to begin preparations for a meeting between the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Interfax reports with reference to sources in Washington. The Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov confirmed this information.

    "As far as we know… such a trip will take place. This is all we can say for now," Peskov replied to the journalists’ question about whether Bolton is …

  • Iran refuses to negotiate with Trump

    Iran will not hold negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump after his decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal with the country, said official government representative Mohammad Bagher Nobakht.

    Commenting on the request of several Iranian politicians to begin negotiations with the U.S., Nobakht stressed that there is no logic in this, but he did not rule out a dialogue with other countries.

    “We never negotiate when it comes to national security issues, but dialogue remains one of the …

  • US senators call on Trump to impose sanctions against Russia for religious persecution in the Donbas and Crimea

    A group of the American senators has submitted a resolution placing responsibility on Russia for violating religious freedoms in the annexed Crimea and separate regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. This was reported by the Ukrainian Embassy in the US on Thursday, June 14.

    "A bipartisan group of senators headed by the Chairman of the Helsinki Commission, Roger Wicker, have introduced a draft resolution on the situation in the field of religious freedom in the OSCE region," the Embassy’s …

  • Merkel not convinced by Trump’s arguments regarding Russia and the G7

    U.S. President Donald Trump’s arguments about Russia returning to the G8 were unconvincing, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a broadcast on television station ARD.

    “I cannot say exactly what motivated him (Trump)…Of course, we asked him, but the answer was not convincing,” Merkel said.

    According to her, the American leader said that “Russia plays an important role in matters of war and peace, which, of course, is indisputable,” but in the G7 format are “governments that share …

  • Putin says he is waiting for Trump to fulfill his campaign promise regarding Russia

    During the TV program News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he expects US President Donald Trump to fulfill his campaign promise regarding the improvement of Russian-American relations, Interfax reports.

    “One of the [campaign] promises was to improve Russian-American relations,” Putin stated. “I hope that it will also happen. We are ready for this. The ball, I think, is on the American side, it is in their court.”

    Putin stressed: “We are ready for the …

  • Kremlin: the meeting of Putin and Trump can take place in Vienna

    On Saturday, Dmitry Peskov stated that in March, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of meeting, and Vienna was mentioned as a prospective location.

    Peskov, who is accompanying Putin in the regional summit in Qingdao, China, noted that the decision for both meeting and location has not yet been decided.

      According to the Kremlin’s press secretary, there have been no specific arrangements or negotiations made yet.

    Russian presidential aide …

  • EU rejects Trump’s proposal to bring Russia back into G7

    US President Donald Trump’s proposal to return to the Group of Eight (G8) format, inviting Russia to the negotiations between the seven developed countries as a full-fledged participant, has not found support in the EU.

    Germany, France, Italy and the UK unanimously opposed the motion, advisers to French President Emmanuel Macron told AFP.

    According to them, the European leaders’ stance was agreed upon during talks initiated by France on June 8, the day before the opening of the annual G7 …

  • Media: Trump to respond to Putin’s missiles by deploying anti-missile systems in Germany

    The animated video clips of missiles destroying the US, which Russian President Vladimir Putin presented in an address to the Federal Assembly, have been noted by the Pentagon.

    As Reuters reports, the US has begun negotiations with Germany concerning the placement of US anti-missile defense systems in the European country.

    A THAAD system may be installed at the Ramstein Air Base, where the command of the US Air Forces in Europe and the joint NATO Air Force Command are based, an official in …

  • Media: Merkel invited Trump to visit his ancestral homeland in Germany

    During a meeting with US President Donald Trump on Friday, German Chancellor Angela President Trump to visit the homeland of his ancestors, the village of Kallstadt in the federal state of the Rhineland-Palatinate from where his grandparents emigrated in the 19th century, Bild reported on Sunday with reference to sources in the German delegation.

    According to the publication, this was Merkel’s way of reminding Trump that he has a special bond with Germany. In addition, she presented to the …

  • Merkel and Trump discuss Ukraine during their meeting

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated she and US President Donald Trump discussed the state of Ukraine during a recent conference, Ukrinform reports.

    “Of course, we talked about Ukraine, which is where we work very closely together in regard to Russia’s actions concerning the occupation of Crimea and the situation in the east of Ukraine,” Merkel stated.

    Merkel stated that she is pleased with the fact that the U.S. administration works very closely on this issue with its partners, which …