Trump & Putin start meeting in Hamburg at odds on most issues

DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. July 7, 2017, 5:43 PM (IDT)

Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met for the first time in Hamburg Friday, an event formally on the sidelines of the G 20 summit which grabbed center stage. Only six people are present. Trump and secretary of state Rex Tillerson, Ptuin and Foreign Miniser Sergey Lavrov and two interpreters. Aside from the long list of issues, such as Syria, Ukraine, sanctions, the US missile defense system in E. Europe and alleged Russian meddling in the US election, no word has been leaked so far about the agenda of the carefully choreographed encounter.

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