{"id":316551,"date":"2017-07-09T17:14:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T16:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-putin-meeting-deepens-divisions-in-us-establishment-on-russia-policy\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T17:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T16:14:50","slug":"trump-putin-meeting-deepens-divisions-in-us-establishment-on-russia-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-putin-meeting-deepens-divisions-in-us-establishment-on-russia-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Putin meeting deepens divisions in US establishment on Russia policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump-Putin meeting deepens divisions in US establishment on Russia policy<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Barry Grey<br \/>\n    <br \/>8 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for more than two hours Friday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, amid the growing threat of a military clash between the world\u2019s two biggest nuclear powers, whether in Syria or Eastern Europe. After the meeting, which lasted far longer than the half-hour that had been planned, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in separate statements announced an agreement on a ceasefire and establishment of a so-called \u201cde-escalation zone\u201d in southwestern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov said the ceasefire was set to take effect at noon Damascus time on July 9. Tillerson called it a \u201cdefined agreement\u201d and added that the two leaders had a \u201clengthy discussion of other areas in Syria where we can work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following his meeting with Trump, Putin said other topics the two discussed included Ukraine, cybersecurity and fighting terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>On North Korea, Tillerson acknowledged there was no agreement, telling reporters, \u201cThe Russians see it a little differently than we do, so we\u2019re going to continue those discussions and ask them to do more.\u201d But he described Trump and Putin as having \u201cpositive chemistry\u201d in their first meeting, and said their discussions had been \u201cvery constructive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state said that Trump opened the meeting by raising the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US election. Trump, he said, returned to the question several times and pressed it \u201crobustly.\u201d But after Putin repeated his previous denials of any Russian meddling, the two agreed to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/07\/08\/trum-j08.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump-Putin meeting deepens divisions in US establishment on Russia policy By Barry Grey 8 July 2017 US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for more than two hours Friday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, amid the growing threat of a military clash between the world\u2019s two biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-316551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}