Putin: Trump "television" is very different from a real person.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that there is a chance to restore relations with the United States. He stated this at a press conference following the G20 summit. “I really hope for this [restoration of relations between Moscow and Washington], it seems to me that certain prerequisites for this have been created,” the publication quotes him TASS.

According to the president, his American colleague Donald Trump on television is different from the real one, and relations with him will help restore ties with the United States.

“As for personal relationships, I believe that they have been established,” the Russian leader told reporters. “I don’t know how it will sound, but I’ll say it as I see it: Trump on television is very different from a real person,” Putin added, explaining that the US President is “concrete, absolutely, absolutely adequately perceives his interlocutor, quickly enough analyzes, answers the questions posed, or some new elements that arise during the discussion.”

“It seems to me that if we build relations this way, as our conversation went yesterday, then there is every reason to believe that we will be able to at least partially restore the level of interaction that we need,” Putin concluded.

The president also noted that Trump, at their meeting on Friday, several times raised the issue of Moscow’s alleged interference in the US elections. “Our position is well known, I have reproduced it: there is no reason to believe that Russia interfered in the election process in the United States,” Putin said. According to the Russian leader, Trump took note of the arguments that there was no such interference and probably agreed with them.

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“He [Trump] asked a lot of questions about this. To the best of my ability, I answered all these questions. It seems to me that he took this into account and agreed, but, in fact, how he reacted to this - ask him,” the Russian President told reporters. He also stated that he believed the US President was satisfied with his answers.

American journalists asked Putin to talk about the details of his meeting with Trump and retell part of the conversation regarding the holding of elections in the United States in 2016. “You have to ask how he [Trump] reacted to this, to my answers, and what happened - nothing happened, we did not interfere,” the Russian leader said. Representatives of the American media complained that they had virtually no information on this matter from the White House. “We will strictly tell them,” Putin joked.

Switching to a serious tone, the Russian President said that in a conversation with Trump he even recounted to him the dialogues with the previous American administration led by Barack Obama. “I do not consider myself entitled to tell the details of [the conversation] with President Obama. This is not accepted in world practice at this level; it would not be entirely correct for me to recount in detail our conversation with President Trump,” the Russian leader noted. He clarified: “He [Trump] asked me - I answered him, he asked leading questions - I explained them.”

Putin also noted that the working group of the Russian Federation and the United States on information security will avoid speculation on the topic of interference in other people's affairs. He recalled that at the meeting with Trump the parties agreed to create such a working group. “We believe that if we manage to organize this work, and I have no reason to doubt this, then there will be no more speculation on this topic [interference in the affairs of other countries],” Putin emphasized.

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Putin called his agreement with Trump important that “there should not be a situation of uncertainty, especially in the future, in these areas.” The President of the Russian Federation noted that he mentioned this at the last session of the G20 (it was devoted to digital topics - TASS note), since it relates to cyberspace, the Internet, etc. “We agreed with the President of the United States on that we will create a working group and work together on how to jointly monitor security in the field of cyberspace, how to ensure unconditional compliance with international legal norms in this area, how to prevent interference in the internal affairs of foreign states - first of all, this is what we are talking about in this case about Russia and the United States,” said the Russian leader.

“We believe that if we manage to organize this work, and I have no reason to doubt this, then there will be no more speculation on this topic,” Putin concluded.

Syrian crisis

The president also said that Washington’s position on the situation regarding the Syrian settlement has become more pragmatic. According to him, the agreement on the de-escalation zone in Syria was a breakthrough, including through work with Trump.

“As for Syria, we discussed this issue with almost all my interlocutors,” Putin said, answering a TASS question. — Has the US position changed or not? I think she has become more pragmatic."

“Yesterday’s agreement on the southern de-escalation zone is, you know, no matter how anyone reacts, I can say that this is one of the breakthroughs that we were able to make, by the way, in the course of working with President Trump,” Putin said, responding to TASS question.

“This is a real result of joint work, including with the United States,” Putin emphasized. — Jordan and some other countries in the region were involved in this work. We have held consultations with Israel and will continue to do so in the near future.”

“The fact that active hostilities have stopped, the fact that we are now working on de-escalation zones is already a huge step,” he said, answering a question from TASS. “Now we need to agree on what the specific boundaries of these zones will be, how security will be ensured in these zones.”
“This is painstaking, at first glance even tedious, but extremely necessary and responsible work,” the Russian President added.

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“Based on the positive experience that has been achieved recently, relying on the goodwill of Iran, Turkey, of course, the Syrian government, President [Syria Bashar] Assad, we can take further steps,” Putin added.

According to the head of the Russian state, de-escalation zones in Syria should become a prototype of the territories that will cooperate with each other and with official Damascus.

“The most important thing is to ultimately ensure the territorial integrity of Syria, so that these de-escalation zones are a prototype of such territories that could cooperate with each other and with official Damascus,” he said, answering a question from TASS.

The President of the Russian Federation noted that the corresponding provisions were also enshrined in the agreement with the United States on the de-escalation zone in southern Syria. “We approved this, including in the documents on the formation of a zone in the south with access to the Jordanian border and the adjacent Golan Heights,” Putin added.

The day before, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference following the meeting of the presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States on the margins of the G20 summit announced that Russia, the United States and Jordan had agreed to establish a de-escalation zone in Syria from noon on July 9. It will include the three southernmost regions of the country: Deraa, Quneitra and Suwayda.

Crisis in Ukraine

Putin said that the Russian Federation is interested in quickly improving the situation in Ukraine and developing relations with this country. “We are interested in ensuring that this situation [the crisis in Ukraine] ends as quickly as possible,” he said.

The president recalled that he had discussed Ukrainian settlement issues with Trump. According to the Russian leader, they agreed on the appointment of a special representative of the White House, who will deal with this problem on an ongoing basis in contact with all interested parties.

Putin expressed confidence that the interests of the peoples of the Russian Federation and Ukraine coincide. “The interests of Russia and Ukraine and the interests of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, I am deeply convinced of this, I am simply completely convinced, coincide. Our interests completely coincide,” he said. “Only, perhaps, the interests of today’s leadership of Ukraine and some political circles of today’s Ukraine do not coincide.”

The President added that both countries are interested in cooperation and collaboration to develop their economies. However, politicians in Ukraine consider it possible to ignore this, and “they have only one product left that they successfully trade in - Russophobia,” Putin believes.

“And they are also selling the policy of dividing Russia and Ukraine, pulling two peoples and two states apart,” he added. “Some people in the West like this, others believe that under no circumstances should we allow Russia and Ukraine to come closer together on any basis.”

“Today’s Ukrainian leadership is actively and quite successfully trading in this product, but I think that this will end someday,” the head of state emphasized.

Kurdish problem

According to the president, Russia is in contact with a number of Kurdish representatives, but the United States is far ahead in military aid.

“As for the Kurdish problem, this is generally a very large and multifaceted problem, we are in contact with many Kurdish formations and do not make a secret of it. But from the point of view of combat support for their activities, here, perhaps, our American colleagues are much ahead of us,” Putin said.

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