ANCHORAGE /Alaska/, August 16. /TASS/. President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States have held closed-door talks in Alaska. The meeting, which began with a brief conversation on the red carpet on the tarmac in Anchorage, lasted over three hours.
Putin and Trump made statements to the media after the talks. Putin suggested their next meeting be held in Moscow, and Trump said it was possible, even though he would have to face strong criticism.
TASS has gathered the key takeaways from what the Russian president said.
- The talks with Trump were useful and constructive: "Our talks took place in a trustful and constructive atmosphere and were quite substantive and useful."
- In recent years, Russia-US relations fell "to their lowest since the Cold War." "As you know, Russia and the US have not held summits for over four years, which is a long time. That wasn’t an easy period in bilateral relations, which, let’s face it, fell to their lowest since the Cold War, which benefits neither our countries nor the world in general."
