Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have said a brief hello to the press as they sat beside Sergey Lavrov and Rex Tillerson, the foreign ministers of the two countries.
Donald Trump said that it was an “honour” to meet with Putin and that he hoped the meeting would deliver things that would be good for the US, Russia and the wider world.
Trump then thanked the Russian President saying Спасибо, the Russian word for thank you.
Anti-capitalist and anti-globalist protesters, by the thousands, have greeted world leaders and their entourage in Hamburg, Germany, for the G20 summit. About 15,000 demonstrated on Thursday, July 6, 2017, and the riot police cracked down on them with water cannons set on armored vehicles.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have met for the first time. They are pictured greeting each other below prior to their first formal meeting this afternoon.
FIRST IMAGES: Putin and Trump shake hands at #G20 Summit in Hamburg https://t.co/PPooXMzWDP pic.twitter.com/EmCzvTlg2e
— RT (@RT_com) July 7, 2017
(COMMONDREAMS) — German police deployed a water cannon and pepper spray to disperse around 500 protesters in Hamburg, ahead of the Group of 20 (G20) Summit this weekend, where advocacy groups say global leaders will continue to support a flawed model for creating a more just world.
Putin will meet with Trump amid heightened tensions over Syria and the US election hacking controversy in the US [Xinhua]
The Kremlin on Tuesday confirmed that a high level meaning between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump would indeed take place on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg Germany this Friday.
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US President Donald Trump will hold his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, July 7, on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg.
Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov announced…
“A date has been agreed, the seventh of July.”
For the majority of the second half of the 20th century, the three greatest powers of the world were at odds. The schism between neighbours that resulted in the so-called Sino-Soviet split allowed the United States to spend much of the ensuing decades, particularly beginning in the 1970s trying to exploit the split between the great powers of the wider global east.
(MEE) — The Saudi-led axis of powers has extended by 48 hours a deadline on 13 demands issued to Qatar, a statement said on Monday morning.
US National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster has confirmed that Donald Trump with meet with Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of next weeks G20 summit in Hamburg.
McMaster stated,
“While in Hamburg the President will meet with many world leaders including…President Putin of Russia”.
He continued,
“The discussion will not have any particular agenda.It’s really going to be whatever the president wants to talk about”.
In just over a week, the G20 summit of nations is to convene in Germany.
This will be the first time that Donald Trump and President Putin will have been in the same room and many are suggesting that the two will meet on the sidelines of the main summit as world-leaders often do at such events.
