Pompeo first met with Putin: what was agreed. VIDEO

The first talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended in Sochi. The meeting was also attended by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation Sergey Naryshkin and Assistant Russian Leader Yury Ushakov. Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela and Ukraine are in the center of discussions.

Pompeo and Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru

As noted by Newspaper.ruRecently, contacts between Russia and the United States have become more frequent. In early May, a telephone conversation took place between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. After this, the head of the White House tweeted that Washington “has amazing potential for good or even excellent relations with Russia.”

The US Secretary of State was greeted without a red carpet, anthem or traditional ceremonies. A video of the meeting was posted on his social network by Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Dmitry Smirnov.

US-Russia dialogue begins again: Mike Pompeo flew to Sochi to meet with Vladimir Putin pic.twitter.com/98ai7DijDp

- Дмитрий Смирнов (@ dimsmirnov175) May 14, 2019

Pompeo spoke about the purpose of his visit to Russia, notes RIA News.

“We have common interests and there are also issues where we can cooperate and work productively. We can work together to make our peoples more successful and the whole world prosperous in a general sense. Therefore, President (US Donald) Trump asked me to come with this message so that I could talk about some ideas, some projects,” Pompeo said.

Meeting Pompeo and Putin

Before the start of the dialogue, Vladimir Putin said that he hoped for the restoration of Russian-American relations. According to him, Russia and the United States have something to talk about in terms of stability in the energy markets.

According to the Russian leader, the report of US Special Prosecutor Robert Muller is objective and confirms the absence of collusion between the Russian Federation and the current US administration.

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“Despite all the exoticism of the work of Mr. Mueller’s commission, we must give him his due, in general he conducted an objective investigation and confirmed the absence of any traces and any collusion between Russia and the current administration, which we initially characterized as complete nonsense,” Putin said.

“As you know, just recently, a few days ago, I had the pleasure of talking with the President of the United States on the phone, I got the impression that the President is determined to restore Russian-American ties, contacts, to jointly resolve issues that are mutually beneficial for us.” interest,” said the Russian leader.

He also emphasized that Moscow has repeatedly expressed a desire to restore relations. “I hope that now the necessary conditions are being created for this,” the president noted.

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Putin noted that the trade turnover between Russia and the United States has always been low, but in recent years it has been striving for zero. Nevertheless, the two countries have something to discuss in the economic sphere.

“We know that the United States is becoming, has already become, the largest oil producer, in this sense we also have something to talk about in terms of stability in world energy markets. There are other areas of possible interaction in the economic sphere. I hope that all this will be the subject of discussion,” the Russian president said.

Photo by: kremlin.ru

Pompeo said that Russia and the United States could cooperate in the direction of resolving the North Korean problem.

“We can cooperate on North Korea, on Afghanistan and also on other issues, we can also talk about strategic dialogue. I hope that we can talk about this so that the whole world as a whole can benefit from this,” says the American Secretary of State.

Pompeo said that Russia and the United States can cooperate so that “our peoples live and the whole world <...> also prospers.”

Negotiations between Putin and Pompeo lasted just over an hour and a half. Putin aide Yuri Ushakov described the meeting between the president and Pompeo as “a good substantive conversation.” He added that the parties confirmed the beginning of the improvement of relations.

According to Ushakov, at the meeting with Pompeo, the Russian leader stressed Moscow’s readiness to return to dialogue on all aspects of arms control, writes RBC. Also, he noted, the Russian side indicated its readiness to discuss with the US issues of missile defense, treaties on the reduction of offensive weapons (START) and on the reduction of medium and short-range missiles (PRSMD).

Video broadcast of the fragment of the talks between Putin and Pompeo:

How was the meeting of Pompeo and Lavrova

“We had frank conversations on many issues, even on issues on which we do not agree,” Pompeo said following a closed conversation with Sergei Lavrov, which took place without the press. “President Trump said his expectations are that we want to improve the relationship between our countries because it will be in the interests of both of our peoples.” And we are doing everything to take steps in this direction.”

The press is finally gone. Putin with Lavrov, Ushakov and Naryshkin can speak with Pompeo honestly pic.twitter.com/ZcNYvckv6K

- Kremlin pool RIA (@Kremlinpool_RIA) May 14, 2019

Lavrov discussed with Pompeo the issue of the INF Treaty and the problem of extending the New START Treaty. “Of course, we paid special attention to issues of strategic stability,” the minister said. “And we are interested in resuming a concrete and professional dialogue on all aspects of arms control.”

According to the Secretary of State, the United States is working on connecting other countries to agreements on nuclear disarmament.

“We are doing everything to continue talking [with the Russian Federation] about arms control and including other countries in these negotiations. We want to do everything to ensure that China also takes part in these negotiations,” Pompeo said.

Pompeo and Lavrov. Photo: video frame YouTube / Russia 24

“We also discussed North Korea and its nuclear program. Both the US and Russia agree that the goal is the denuclearization of North Korea. We will lift sanctions after North Korea fulfills its promises. Our teams work together, and we are very effective and efficient in this area,” Pompeo said.

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Lavrov gave US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a copy of an article in an American newspaper in 1987, which warned that “the USSR will try to influence the US presidential election,” writes RIA News.

“I gave Mike today a copy of an article that was published in the United States in 1987, warning that the USSR would try to influence the US presidential elections that were coming up in 1988. The article, by the way, was the first to mention the political ambitions of the then already successful entrepreneur, businessman Donald Trump,” Lavrov said at a briefing following negotiations with Pompeo.

“This topic can be discussed endlessly. Until we have concrete facts on our table, we will not be able to talk about this topic like adults,” Lavrov concluded.

In the 1988 election of the year, the Republican candidate George Bush Sr. won, he won the 53,4 percent of the vote. Second place went to Democrat Michael Dukakis.

Pompeo and Lavrov. Photo: video frame YouTube / Russia 24

According to Lavrov, Russia expects that the military scenario in the situation with Iran will not be realized.

“When I say that we hope to find a political solution to the situation around Iran... We will really help to ensure that the situation does not fall into a military scenario,” he emphasized. Sergei Lavrov also added that Washington is also committed to finding a political solution.

As noted RIA NewsFollowing the talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Mike Pompeo also expressed the hope that Russia will take the initiative to break the deadlock to resolve the situation in Ukraine.

“We also discussed the situation in Ukraine. We, as has been said, do not recognize the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Our sanctions are still in effect. We want Russia to extend its hand to the new Ukrainian government so that a way out of the situation can be found,” Pompeo said at a press conference.

“We also call on the Russian government to release representatives of the crew (of Ukrainian Navy ships - ed.) who were captured in the Kerch Strait,” he added.

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Commenting on the plans of US President Donald Trump to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Osaka, Lavrov said that if the proposal officially arrived, Moscow would respond positively, writes RIA News.

“We, of course, have heard President Trump’s statements that he expects to hold a meeting with President Putin, including as part of their participation in the G20 summit in Osaka. If such a proposal is officially received, we will, of course, react positively to it,” Lavrov said at a press conference following negotiations with Pompeo.

“Let’s get along with Russia” - background to the meeting

The day before, US President Donald Trump, answering the question of what signal Pompeo should send to Moscow, said: “I think the signal is that there has never been anyone [in the US, besides Trump] who would treat Russia so harshly. At the same time, we will eventually get along with Russia. It makes sense to get along with Russia.”

Pompeo on the eve of the negotiations stated the need to seek a solution to problems in cases where the positions of the United States and Russia do not match, writes Air force.

“At my negotiations in Russia a number of important topics will be raised. On some topics we can agree, on others we cannot. But we must look for a way out of problematic situations in cases where it is in the national interest,” the US Secretary of State wrote on Twitter.

As Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said, the parties were going to discuss issues of bilateral relations, strategic stability and disarmament issues, as well as “regional hot spots” - Iran, Syria, Venezuela and the Korean Peninsula.

Mike Pompeo, by the way, brought a message not only from Trump. US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in a letter to the Secretary of State, asked him to convey a warning to Putin. According to Schumer, Pompeo should remind the Russian president that Washington will not tolerate interference in the 2020 elections, and otherwise Russia will receive a “tough response.”

“It is very important that when you meet with Vladimir Putin, you warn him that any actions aimed at interfering in our elections will receive an immediate and harsh response,” The Hill quotes the senator as saying. “I ask you to make it clear to Putin that we are not going to tolerate interference in the American elections.”

Change of plans

Initially, on the way to Sochi, Pompeo was going to come to Moscow, but at the last moment his plans changed. The US Secretary of State went to Brussels to discuss the Iranian issue with the representatives of Britain, France and Germany. These European countries, along with Russia, the United States and China, in 2015, signed a nuclear agreement on Iran. The Trump administration pulled out of it in May 2018 of the year and now wants to get Tehran a new deal.

Last week it became known that the United States sent additional ships and aircraft to its bases in the Gulf countries. Thus, Washington is trying to increase pressure on Tehran, experts say.

On May 6, Pompeo and Lavrov met in Rovaniemi, Finland. The Russian minister then called the conversation “good” and “constructive.” The main topic of the negotiations, as stated by both sides, was the political crisis in Venezuela.

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Lavrov’s meeting with Pompeo was preceded by a telephone conversation between Trump and Putin. It took place on May 3 and was the first this year. The conversation reportedly took more than an hour, after which Trump told reporters that Putin “has absolutely no desire to interfere in the situation in Venezuela” and “only wants to see positive developments there.”

Pompeo and Lavrov. Photo: video frame YouTube / Russia 24

The positions of Moscow and Washington regarding the situation in Venezuela remain opposite, writes RBC. The United States does not abandon the idea of ​​changing the regime in the country. Russia's position also remains the same: Moscow is against a power shift of power. According to Ryabkov, both in Finnish Rovaniemi (the meeting of the foreign ministers of Russia and the US State Department took place on 6 in May on 2019 of the year), and in Sochi, Pompeo did not mention possible US intervention, but Moscow is not sure that this scenario is completely excluded.

According to another diplomat who participated in the talks, the topic of anti-Russian sanctions was not raised at the meeting between Lavrov and Pompeo, since the heads of the diplomatic departments do not discuss such issues.

The day before, Trump said he was going to meet with Putin at the G16 summit in Osaka at the end of June. The first and so far last time Trump and Putin met was on July 2018, XNUMX at a summit in Helsinki.

In mid-November, against the background of the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty, negotiations between the two leaders in Paris broke down, and then Trump refused to meet with Putin because of the detention by Russia of Ukrainian sailors in the Kerch Strait.

Sergey Lavrov recalled that Russia has questions about the conversion of a greater number of submarine launchers and strategic bombers into a non-nuclear state announced by the US.

“This is allowed by the treaty, but the conversion must be carried out in such a way that the other side has the opportunity to be absolutely sure that it is impossible to return these launchers and bombers to a nuclear state again,” he said.

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