“First of all, it is necessary to carry out what remains (the existing agreements),” RIA Novosti quoted Ushakov’s view expressed in the program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin “on the TV channel Russia 1.

According to the representative of Kremlin, Russia is also ready for the new agreements in this area. “But this requires serious negotiations, which unfortunately no one has yet begun,” he stressed.

On April 26, U.S. President Donald Trump spoke in favor of nuclear disarmament.“We all have to [do this]. Russia must get rid of it, China must get rid of it,” noted the United States leader.

Earlier, The Washington Post and CNN, citing sources in the Trump administration, reported that the U.S. authorities are preparing a draft of a new trilateral nuclear agreement involving Washington, Moscow and Beijing. The newspaper and TV channel interlocutors explained that such deal would allow the United States to limit Russian nuclear weapons that are not regulated by any treaties, as well as convince China to join the pact and test its capabilities for the first time.

Source: http://uawire.org/kremlin-russia-is-ready-to-negotiate-nuclear-disarmament

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Russian President Vladimir Putin met Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow to discuss the situation in Syria and ways to foster cooperation.

The two leaders also tackled Iran’s role in Syria.

An Israeli official said that Netanyahu called on Russia to use its influence in Syria to prevent Iran from securing a lasting presence in the country.

Putin stressed the special significance of keeping communication between the two countries. As for Netanyahu, he invited Putin to Israel in May for the unveiling of a monument on Leningrad during World War II.

Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow was his second this year.

Although the two leaders didn’t reveal details of their discussions, Kremlin sources indicated that talks mainly focused on military cooperation in Syria.

Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov also told journalists that they discussed events in Syria but that Netanyahu did not present any concrete plan to solve the Syrian crisis.

Reports said that the Israeli PM called on Putin to warn Lebanon of Iranian and Hezbollah plans to build a secret factory that produces weapons.

“We will discuss events in Syria … and the regular and special coordination between our armies as well as other important issues for Israel,” Netanyahu said before departing to Moscow.

The major topic discussed by Netanyahu and Putin was the constant pursuit by Iran to establish a military structure that enables it to open a front in the northeast against Israel, military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai, who accompanied Netanyahu to Moscow, told Yedioth Ahronoth.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani has responded to previous Russian pressure and moved Iranian forces away from the border with Israel, Ben-Yishai said.

Meanwhile, a senior Kazakh official said the next round of the Astana-format Syrian settlement talks has been planned to be held in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan on April 25-26.

Kazakh First Deputy Foreign Minister Mukhtar Tleuberdi said: “I have recently been in Brussels at the Syrian conference organized by the UN and the European Union. The new UN special representative for Syria has expressed interest in participating in the Astana process. His participation is possible, of course.”

Further, Russian FM Sergei Lavrov stressed in an interview that the war on terrorism in Syria “hasn’t finished yet”, underlining the necessity of eliminating terrorist organizations completely.

“It is important for us to completely crush hotbeds of terrorism, and one of the most important of them which raises concerns is Idlib as there are still several thousands of terrorists in it,” he added.

He reminded of Putin’s proposal in his speech at the UN in 2015 on establishing a real international front for combating terrorism.

Lavrov said dialogue against terrorism was resumed with the US after its long attempts to avoid it, adding “we will resume dialogue with the European Union.”

Source: https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1666031/netanyahu-calls-putin-pressure-iran-out-syria

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A terse synchronized statement issued by the Kremlin and the White House said Putin and Trump will discuss bilateral issues and international relations. The announcement comes a day after Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton held talks with Putin in Moscow to lay the groundwork for the summit.

“I’ve said it from Day One, getting along with Russia and with China and with everybody is a very good thing,” Trump said Wednesday. “It’s good for the world. It’s good for us. It’s good for everybody.”

He said they would discuss Syria, Ukraine and “many other subjects.”

Finland has been a favored location for U.S.-Russian summits since the Cold war times, a role helped by its efforts to maintain neutral friendly ties with its huge eastern neighbor.

The summit will offer Putin a chance to try to persuade Washington to lift some of the sanctions imposed on Russia over its 2014 annexation of Crimea, its support for separatists fighting the government in eastern Ukraine and its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

During Wednesday’s meeting with Bolton, Putin argued that U.S.-Russian relations were at a low point because of American political infighting and expressed a desire to “restore full-fledged relations based on equality and mutual respect.”

Putin had two brief meetings with Trump on the sidelines of international summits last year, but plans for a full-fledged summit had been delayed amid the FBI and Congressional probes into alleged Russia-Trump ties that Trump has dismissed as a “witch hunt.”

Russian officials and lawmakers warned against excessive optimism about the summit — a cautious stance reflecting Moscow’s failed expectations for rebuilding ties after Trump’s victory.

Trump has called for improving relations with Moscow, but his administration has imposed an array of new anti-Russia sanctions.

During Thursday’s briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova warned against waiting for any quick breakthroughs resulting from the summit, noting that Moscow has “pragmatic and realistic” expectations for the meeting given the scope of issues to be addressed.

She said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo could meet as part of efforts to prepare for the summit.

Ahead of the announcement, Trump repeated Russian denials of election interference, tweeting “Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!”

Trump has continually parroted the Kremlin’s denial of election interference, a move that has put him out of step with the findings of the U.S. intelligence community and nearly all Democrats and Republicans in Congress, who say there’s clear evidence of Russian efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.

Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said after Putin’s meeting with Bolton that the issue of alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election was raised in the meeting and the Kremlin reiterated its denial of any interference with the U.S. vote.

“It was stated clearly by our side that the Russian state hasn’t interfered with the U.S. domestic politics, moreover hasn’t interfered in the 2016 election,” Ushakov said.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg welcomed the U.S.-Russian summit, saying that “for me, dialogue is not a sign of weakness. Dialogue is a sign of strength.”

“It’s absolutely, totally in line with NATO policies to talk to Russia, to meet with Russian leaders. We don’t want a new Cold War. We don’t want to isolate Russia. We want to strive for a better relationship,” Stoltenberg said.

Finland served as a venue for a 1975 meeting between U.S. President Gerald Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and also hosted a summit between U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990. In 1997, President Bill Clinton met his Russian counterpart Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Helsinki summit could go down in history as a major landmark if Putin and Trump make steps toward cooperation. Russian lawmakers were also positive about the meeting.

“The decision on holding a full-fledged summit is a very positive development,” Russian upper house speaker Valentina Matvienko said Thursday in remarks carried by Russian news agencies. “We hope it will play a very important role in helping begin the normalization of Russia-U.S. ties.”

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Jari Tanner in Helsinki contributed to this report.

Source: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38530896/putin-trump-to-have-summit-in-helsinki-on-july-16

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