
Presidents of the United States and Russia Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in the first personal meeting in Hamburg agreed on a truce in the southwest of Syria. Negotiations lasted more than two hours. It is reported by CNN.
The parties to the Syrian conflict will have to cease fire at noon on July 9 in time of Damascus. At the same time, new agreements are not related to the creation of de -escalation zones.
According to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in the negotiations it also was about Russia's intervention in the American presidential election. "Trump raised the question of interfering in the elections, Putin denied the role (Russia. - Ed.)," Tillerson said. According to the Secretary of State, the representative of Russia at the negotiations asked for the "evidence and evidence" of Russian intervention. The American side did not provide such evidence. According to Tillerson, such a question would be more appropriate to address intelligence.
Trump called a meeting with Putin "honor" for himself. According to Trump, negotiations with the Russian leader were "very good." "We had very, very good negotiations. We are talking now and we will definitely continue it. We will achieve great changes for the better for Russia, for the United States and for everyone who needs it. For me it is an honor to be with you," American president Putin said.
According to RIA Novosti, at a meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Putin said that in negotiations with Trump, Ukraine, Syria, the fight against international terrorism and cybersecurity were discussed. "I had a very long conversation with the President of the United States. There were many questions - there is Ukraine, Syria, and other problems, some bilateral issues. We returned to the fight against terrorism, cybersecurity," Putin said.
The meeting also discussed the settlement of the situation on the Korean peninsula, the American Secretary of State said. According to Tillerson, Moscow refers to the DPRK "a little different" than Washington.
On the eve of the Trump Great Twenth summit, during a visit to Warsaw, Russia urged Russia to stop “destabilizing actions” in Ukraine and the support of US hostile regimes. The American president also said that he was allowing Russia to intervene in the 2016 US presidential election, but, in his opinion, other countries could do this.
Since the inauguration of Trump, he had several telephone negotiations with Putin, but the parties could not agree on the conditions for the personal meeting of the two presidents for a long time. On May 3, it was reported that Putin and Trump did not agree on a meeting during a telephone conversation. This was associated with the uncertainty of the administration of Trump in the seriousness of the intentions of Moscow to resolve the Syrian conflict.
On May 10, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, whom Trump accepted in the White House, said that Putin would meet with the American president at the Great Twenth summit in July .
On July 4, Putin’s assistant Dmitry Ushakov specified that the meeting will be held on July 7. Ushakov then said that in negotiations the presidents would have to discuss Ukraine, Syria and the fight against international terrorism.