Trump can use a meeting with Putin to mitigate sanctions, promising the return of "diplomatic dachas"

Two weeks after the US Senate adopted a bill on the expansion of anti -Russian sanctions, after which the House of Representatives sent him for examination to the profile committee on foreign affairs, rumors were spread in the press about the possible intention of American President Donald Trump at the first meeting with the head of Russia Vladimir Putin to mitigate the restrictive measures against the Russian Federation.

This was told by The Guardian was told by two former officials aware of the preparation for the conversation of two leaders. According to them, Trump ordered his assistants in the White House to formulate possible concessions, which can be offered as a bargaining coin during his meeting with Putin. The conversation of the two leaders, according to preliminary data , should take place as part of the G20 summit, which will be held on July 7-8 in Hamburg.

According to the newspaper correspondent, Julian Borger, we are talking about softening the sanctions imposed by the former US President Barack Obama on December 29, 2016 due to the alleged intervention of Moscow in the election of the American president in November and "pressure on American diplomats." "The National Security Council (SNB) received the task of proposing the" planned results "of the first meeting of Trump Putin, including the return of two diplomatic buildings that the Russians released by order of the Obama administration in response to Moscow’s intervention in the 2016 election," the journalist said, referring to the former official.

At the same time, Borger notes in an article translated by Inopressa : "It is unclear that Putin will be asked in return." According to one of the ex-officials, among the employees of the SNB "there is resistance to offer something, without receiving something in return."

The representative of the National Security Council, Michael Anton, said that the format of the meeting between the two leaders "has not yet been defined." He did not answer the question of a request to SNB employees to offer possible exchange coins for the conversation of the two presidents.

Ex-deputy assistant to the head of the Pentagon: Closing "Dach" was to be the first step of punitive measures

At the same time, the ex-deputy assistant of the US Minister of Defense on Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, Evelyn Farkas, told the publication that the closure of Russian buildings and the expulsion of suspects in espionage were only conceived as the first step in punitive measures against Moscow in response to intervention in the elections. “If President Trump begins to cancel any of these measures, including the return of objects in Maryland and New York, then the Russian government will think that they got away with what they did to us, and, believe me, they will make such an attempt again,” the interlocutor of The Guardian said.

Literally the day before, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that they were preparing response measures to close "diplomatic dachas" in the States of New York and Maryland at the end of 2016. The answer "will have a very solid study base," the official representative of the department Maria Zakharova warned.

In early June, Kommersant reported that Moscow was counting on the dacha unlocking until the July meeting of the presidents of Russia and the USA. If this does not happen, the Russian authorities can arrest the American state property in Moscow as a mirror measure - the “diplomatic cottage” in Silver Bor and the warehouse belonging to the US Embassy on the road street.

As the CNN television channel said on the eve of a number of high-ranking sources, the US presidential advisers are struggling to convince him that Russia is still a threat and require decisive measures. The White House stated this that Trump was seriously referring to Russian cyber attacks, and the administration was taking measures - albeit not public.

While Putin and Trump talked only by phone. Last Monday, AP reported with reference to unnamed American officials that the US President is looking forward to meeting the head of the Russian Federation during the G20 summit. At the same time, some representatives of the Trump administration believe that in the midst of investigating the facts of Russia's interference in the US elections to the American leader, it is better to maintain a distance with his Russian colleague.