'I take the idea seriously': Trump announced his readiness to visit Russia

US President Donald Trump said that he would seriously consider inviting the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, to visit Russia, writes Interfax-Ukraine.

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At the G20 summit in Osaka (Japan), where Trump met with Putin, the Russian president invited the head of the White House to attend a military parade in Moscow dedicated to the celebration of the 75 anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The event will take place in Russia in May 2020.

Trump said that this issue will be seriously considered and added that Putin told him about the millions of Soviet people who died during the Second World War.

“This issue will be seriously considered. It's about defeating the Nazis. This is very important,” Trump said.

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Also, the US President added that he would be waiting for an official invitation to visit Russia, and according to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, this invitation will be sent to Trump in the coming days, writes the online edition RIA News.

“Donald Trump reacted very constructively... quite emotionally and said that, indeed, it is important to once again show everyone the historical allied relations between America and Russia. And he said that he would wait for an official invitation - and it would be sent in the coming days,” Peskov said.

Americans in the Kremlin: as US presidents visited Russia

If Trump visits Russia, it will not be something unusual, he will simply continue the tradition that was supported by the majority of his predecessors who visited Moscow. TASS.

The first US president to visit the USSR was Franklin Roosevelt4 – 11 February 1945 of the year participated in the Yalta Conference. Since then, American leaders have not stepped on Soviet soil for almost 30 years.

22 – 30 May 1972, the head of the White House Richard Nixon first visited the Soviet Union with an official presidential visit.

The meeting between President Nixon and General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Leonid Brezhnev in 1972 was preceded by a ten-year period of cooling in relations, which was the result of the Berlin (1961) and Caribbean (1962) crises - the most acute stage of the Cold War. The start of the Moscow summit was not smooth either - Nixon was surprised that Brezhnev did not meet him at the airport, although from a protocol point of view he should not have. However, it was at this summit that the United States and the USSR signed a number of key agreements on détente. We are talking about agreements on the limitation of missile defense systems (AB Treaty) and strategic weapons (SALT-1). In addition, the political declaration “Fundamentals of Relations between the USSR and the USA” stated that differences in ideology and social systems should not serve as an obstacle to the peaceful coexistence of capitalist and socialist countries.

Nixon made his second and last visit to the USSR from June 27 to July 3, 1974. A month later, he resigned as President of the United States in connection with the Watergate scandal.

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The introduction of Soviet troops in Afghanistan (1979) marked the next period of cooling Soviet-American relations. However, the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev and his negotiations with Ronald reagan in Geneva (1985), Reykjavik (1986) and Washington (1987) again returned the USSR and the USA to the path of detente. During the summit in the US capital, the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF) was signed.

The ceremony of exchanging instruments of ratification to the Treaty on the Elimination of the INF Information Services was held in the Vladimir Hall of the Kremlin during Reagan’s first and only visit to the USSR on May 29 - June 2 on 1988. Negotiations with Reagan left Gorbachev unhappy, because the American president had criticized too much the human rights situation in the Soviet Union.

President George Bush made two official visits to Moscow: July 29 - August 1 1991 of the year and January 2 – 3 of the year 1993. With Gorbachev, the head of the White House concluded the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which put an end to the Cold War and became unprecedented in terms of the level of trust between Moscow and Washington. Politicians have signed the document with the help of pens, melted from medium-range missiles, and then went to Novo-Ogaryovo for informal negotiations.

With the first president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, Bush signed the START-2 agreement, which banned the use of ballistic missiles with multiple warheads. The meeting between Bush and Yeltsin took place on the eve of Christmas, therefore during a joint family walk around the Kremlin greeted Santa Claus with the words: “Today, kids, a wonderful agreement will be signed that will make our lives easier!” Unfortunately, the words of the fairy-tale character did not fully come true - although the START-2 treaty was ratified, it never came into force.

Bill Clinton. during the presidency made five trips to Russia. During the first visit of 12 – 15 in January of 1994, he, along with Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk signed tripartite statement and its annex “On the elimination of nuclear weapons on the territory of Ukraine.” A Russian-American declaration on strategic partnership was also adopted. During his last trip, June 3–5, 2000, he signed with Vladimir Putin a Statement of Principles of Strategic Stability and a Memorandum on the creation of a joint data exchange center for early warning and missile launch notification systems—the first in the history of Russian-American relations.

George W. Bush visited Russia a record seven times. During the first visit of 23 – 26 in May of 2002, he, together with President Vladimir Putin, signed the Declaration on New Strategic Relations between the Russian Federation and the United States, which confirmed the course for close cooperation on all global issues, as well as the Treaty on the Reduction of Strategic Offensive Potentials.

Bush, as well as Clinton, attended the Victory Parade during the 8 – 9 visit in May 2005, and also came to St. Petersburg to celebrate the 300 anniversary of the city in May 31 - 1 in June 2003. In total, the presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation met with 28 once during the Bush administration, and the personal relations of politicians remained friendly, despite the fact that Russian-American interaction degraded noticeably towards the end of their terms.

Barack Obama, whose presidency began with an attempt to “reset” Russian-American relations and ended with a new round of tension, visited Russia twice. On July 6–8, 2009, the politician held talks with President Dmitry Medvedev, and on September 5–6, 2013, he participated in the G20 summit in St. Petersburg. As a result of the first negotiations in the Kremlin, Obama and Medvedev signed a package of documents on missile defense issues, further reduction of strategic offensive weapons, and a year later an agreement was concluded START 3 - Another document on the limitation of nuclear arsenals.

Obama also held talks with Vladimir Putin at a “Russian style” breakfast, complete with a samovar and accompanied by a folk orchestra.

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