CYBERWAR/FOREIGN POLICY/RUSSIA: “A joint Russian-U.S. working group on cyber security, proposed by President Vladimir Putin in a discussion with U.S. President Donald Trump in Hamburg, is unlikely to be launched any time soon, a Russian official said on Monday [7-10-17].
‘President Putin proposed forming a working group. This does not mean that it should start working immediately, virtually tomorrow,’ Svetlana Lukash, a Russian official at the G20 summit held in Germany last week, told a news conference.
Trump on Sunday backtracked on the suggestion for a cyber security unit with Russia, tweeting that he did not think it could happen. This happened hours after it was criticized by Republicans who said Moscow could not be trusted.
‘Nobody, except the participants of that (Hamburg) meeting, knows how that proposal was formulated and how President Trump reacted,’ Lukash said.
She said that some media reports may have pre-judged that creating a joint commission on cyber security was a decided matter already.”
-Denis Pinchuk, Dmitry Solovyov, and Chrisitain Lowe “Russia says joint cyber unit with U.S. will take time to set up,” Reuters, July 10, 2017 09:10am