President Donald trump will arrive in Hamburg in a week to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the first time since taking office. The white house confirmed that the 2 leaders will meet on the Sidelines of the G20 summit in the Northern German city.
The national security adviser G. R. McMaster confirmed a meeting during a briefing with reporters about the upcoming trip of the President, which also will include a stop in Poland.
The format of the meeting, trump and Putin at the "Big twenty" is not installed. National economic Director Gary Cohn told reporters during a briefing that the agenda of the meeting trump with Putin still being resolved. Subsequently, the representative of the national security Council, Michael Anton, said Kohn and McMaster did not specify whether it's a formal bilateral meeting, because "it is not set."
Some advisers trump prompted him to hold official bilateral talks with the Russian leader in a sign that he is serious to connect relations between Washington and Moscow. But other aides warned that the proximity to Putin will be an optical challenge to the President under a cloud of controversy about the intervention of Russia.
According to senior officials of the administration, the tramp remained open for an official meeting, but didn't press his team to put it in the schedule. According to him, he intends to find areas of cooperation with Putin, and asked the members of his team to continue the preparation of variants of cooperation with Russia.
This week, a senior White house official said that Moscow insists on a formal bilateral meeting with trump as a sign of respect between the leaders.