Moving from theory to politics.
On Saturday evening probably the most awaited for the entire planet
telephone conversation between Putin and Trump took place.
Within the first minutes, when its content was not yet clear,
the US President's press service spread a photo to confirm
that there is contact and the conversation is in progress.
As illustrated, Donald Trump holds a receiver of a black wire telephone and listens.
A interesting group of people gathered around the massive table
where the new American leader was sitting.
Everyone was looking at it, waiting for breaking news from the media agencies.
So, let's see... Rex Tillerson, whom Trump so desires as his Secretary of State, is not in the room.
Trump doesn't want to expose him just yet. Tillerson has not yet taken office.
January 30 is the confirmation date of his candidacy by the Senate.
The presence of not yet approved candidate
for US Secretary of State Tillerson in this situation may cause unnecessary criticism on Monday.
Especially since even though Tillerson was approved this week
by the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, but only with one vote of outweigh.
And so who was there? Vice President Mike Pence is facing forward.
The second person in the country. He became the candidate for Trump's VP
back in mid-July and went all the way to victory with him.
General Michael Flynn is sitting sidewise on the right.
He is former head of the Pentagon intelligence service.
Now, he is an advisor to the US President for national security.
He is an opponent of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad through a military coup.
He has been to Moscow.
He conducted negotiations with Russian colleagues.
On the anniversary of the RT channel, he met with Putin.
White House Spokesman Sean Spicer is standing second on the right.
His words on Trump are interesting.
He will not have holidays.
He will not be able to sit still, not for a second.
He can't wait to achieve so much and change so many things
that we don't even talk about vacations in Trump's administration.
Very accurate.
From day one, Trump has inflated the speed
compared to the usual rhythm of the White House life.
Let's continue.
In light chinos and a black shirt
the only one without a tie is Stephen Bannon, Trump's advisor on strategic issues.
He is a dashing specialist on media.
He is the co-founder of the famous online media outlet Breitbart News
that brought points to Trump and received much criticism in response.
Closest to Trump, also standing, is White House Chief of Staff Rhines Pribas,
an Orthodox Christian.
He saved the Republican Party from a split because of Trump's candidacy.
This was the support group of US President Trump
during his telephone conversation with Russian President Putin.
Pribas, Bannon, and Flynn,
as we see, were making handwritten notes.
We cannot say that Putin and Trump have heard each other for the first time.
Putin has already congratulated Trump by phone on his election victory in November.
But now, it was the first phone conversation of the current Russian and US presidents,
Putin and Trump.
So in this sense, it was a telephone acquaintance of the two Heads of State,
when words have a completely different weight.
The conversation lasted for just 45 minutes, clearly not enough,
also taking into account the translation time from English to Russian and Russian to English.
Even simultaneous interpretation lengthens the conversation.
However long they spoke, even for two or three hours, it wouldn't be enough.
The scale of new challenges that the two countries face after the transfer of power in the US
is so large that no first conversation would be able to exhaust it.
We should not even set such a goal.
It was fundamentally important to negotiate a personal meeting, which is what happened.
The preparation for the Russian-American summit began.
Date and place will be set later.
Everything else was also tight during the conversation.
Congratulations on the official inauguration and wishes of success,
recognition of mutual sympathy of our peoples towards each other.
Pretty fresh of Trump to bring this up,
and Putin added that Russia supported America for over two centuries,
and, which is important, we were allies in the World Wars, both I and II.
Now international terrorism is the common enemy,
and Putin hopes that the US becomes a partner here.
Agreed.
They also agreed to coordinate efforts in the fight against ISIS
and other terrorist groups in Syria.
They also briefly discussed and agreed on partnership in areas
such as strategic stability, they obviously meant nuclear balance,
and of a non-proliferation regime for military nuclear and missile technologies.
The partnership relations are foreseen regarding the Ukrainian crisis.
It's clear that Iran's nuclear program
and the situation on the Korean peninsula were also touched upon.
We will also work together. Putin and Trump acknowledged it's important
to restore our trade and economic relations that will improve equal and mutually beneficial ties.
At the end, they agreed to call each other regularly.
As summed up by Putin's press service,
the conversation was positive and businesslike.
In turn, the Administration of President Trump also assessed the conversation positively.
First, they shared the photo of Trump, which was also a sign,
and then an overall assessment.
Here is the text of the White House press service published after the phone conversation with Putin,
This positive call was an important step in improving relations between the United States and Russia,
which are in need of restoration.
As reported by the White House press service.
It's interesting that on the same day, January 29,
US President Trump spoke by phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
With her, he talked about the European funding for NATO.
We will touch upon this topic later today.
But the main topic was the relationship with Russia.
They also touched upon Ukraine.
President Trump also spoke with his French colleague Hollande.
With him, he talked about the possibilities
of the joint struggle against terrorism in North Africa and the Middle East.
Now France is being quite passive in this respect.
On the eve of the massacre of ISIS,
allies are needed.
France should not be dodging.
Trump had a conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Here, the pressing issue is North Korea.
They agreed that Abe would visit the States as early as February 10.
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