President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met Friday at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, marking the first face-to-face meeting between the two heads of state. Trump said that he and Putin discussed “various things” during their hours-long sit-down, originally only scheduled for thirty minutes. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also attended the meeting along with two translators. The lengthy discussion was on par with Putin’s long first sit-downs with the past two U.S. presidents. “I think it’s going very well,” Trump told reporters, telling Putin that, “it’s an honor to be with you.”“We spoke over the phone with you several times, but phone conversations are never enough,” Putin said, through a translator.

Source: Huffington Post July 07, 2017 14:19 UTC