Trump Says Meeting With Putin ‘Good Start’

President Donald Trump and Vladmir Putin in a meeting/AFP

US President Donald Trump, on Monday, says his face-to-face meeting in Helsinki with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was “a good start”.

After two hours of closed-door talks the two leaders went into a working lunch with their senior advisers.

The meeting, which was held in the Hall of Mirrors Room at the Finnish presidential palace, which is just off the Gothic Hall where the two men earlier met one-on-one.

The delegations seated at a long table with Trump are Fiona Hill, who is on the National Security Council; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; translator Marina Gross, who has previously translated for the State Department and other government entities; US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman; national security adviser John Bolton; and Chief of Staff John Kelly.

Relations between Russia and the US were severely strained by Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Russia is also accused of meddling in the 2016 US election, a claim it strongly denies.

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