FOREIGN POLICY/NATO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at next week’s G-20 summit, senior administration officials confirmed Thursday.
Mr. Trump also plans to meet with a number of NATO allies and is set to hold one-on-one discussions with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Mexican President Enrique Pena-Nieto among others, according to national security adviser H.R. McMaster.
During a White House briefing Thursday previewing the trip, Mr. McMaster and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn didn’t say whether the president plans to raise the subject of Russia’s interference in last year’s U.S. election when he meets with Mr. Putin next week during the G-20 conference in Hamburg, Germany.
‘There’s no specific agenda,’ Mr. McMaster said. ‘It’s really going to be whatever the president wants to talk about.’
Asked if the conversations will be formal bilateral talks or more impromptu pull-asides, Messrs. McMaster and Cohn said the meetings will be somewhere in between.”
-Eli Stokols, “White House Says President Trump to Meet With Vladimir Putin at G-20 Summit,” The Wall Street Journal online, June 29, 2017 02:27pm