Trump
set to meet Putin at G20… but ‘maybe’ he won’t
RT,
27
November, 2018
US
President Donald Trump is still unsure whether to meet with Vladimir
Putin, pending a ‘full report’ about the Kerch Strait incident
that by pure coincidence happened just days before the upcoming G20
summit in Argentina.
“Maybe
I won’t have the meeting. Maybe I won’t even have the
meeting,” Trump told the
Washington Post in an interview on Tuesday. “I
don’t like that aggression. I don’t want that aggression at all.”
Trump
said he was waiting for a “full
report” from
his national security advisers about Sunday’s incident before
making a final decision.
READ
MORE: Ukraine security chief admits intel agents were on board Navy
ships during Kerch standoff
On
Sunday, three Ukrainian Navy vessels tried to force passage through
the Kerch Strait, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, before
they were intercepted and captured by the Russian coast guard. Moscow
has condemned Ukraine for violating Russian territorial waters, as
defined by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Kiev has
meanwhile declared a state of emergency over the incident, claiming a
“Russian invasion” was impending.
A
meeting with Putin is currently on Trump’s schedule for the G20
summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which runs from November 30 to
December 1. Speaking with reporters earlier in the day, Trump’s
national security adviser John Bolton did not mention any possibility
of canceling the Putin meeting, only that Trump may not meet with the
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, due to his “pretty packed”
schedule.
Bolton
also said the White House’s position is that articulated by US
ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, who called the incident “Russian
aggression” and an “arrogant act that the international community
must condemn.”
Ukrainian
President Petro Poroshenko has used the incident to declare martial
law, a step he had not taken even at the height of the conflict in
two eastern regions in 2014-2015. Kiev’s spy chief admitted that
intelligence officers were on board the three captured vessels. That
has led to speculation that the incident might have been a deliberate
provocation ahead of the G20 summit, to prevent any kind of
improvement in relations between Russia and the West.
From
the #1 propaganda site – the BBC
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