The talks are due to take place late Friday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. “Trump needs to be polite but firm and not too friendly,” said Michael O’Hanlon, a Russia expert at the Brookings Institution. Trump has yet to hand back two Russian diplomatic compounds in Maryland and New York that were impounded on Obama’s orders in December as evidence emerged of election meddling. Trump was embarrassed back in May when he was accused of revealing sensitive intelligence information to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a White House meeting. “I can’t imagine any issues they can actually make major headway on, given the poison that surrounds the relationship,” he said.

Source: The Standard July 05, 2017 04:07 UTC