President Trump
Donald John TrumpPresident Trump’s brother, Robert Trump, dies at 71 Trump to attend GOP convention every day: reports Trump breaks with CDC director over potential for ‘worst case’ amid pandemic, flu season MORE seeks a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich PutinPressure builds on US to respond to brutal collapse in Belarus. UN Security Council rejects US bid to extend Iran arms embargo Overnight defense: US seizes Iranian fuel bound for Venezuela | Progressives cool on Biden’s foreign policy | Takeaways from Israel, UAE opens diplomatic ties MORE for the November elections, NBC News reported Sunday.
Trump intends to announce an update in the New STAR Agreement on Nuclear Weapons Management to get another win for foreign policy ahead of the election, unidentified sources familiar with the talks told the network.
Officials are apparently investigating various times and locations for a potential meeting between the presidents, including around the time of the United Nations General Assembly next month in New York.
The presidents were able to advance negotiations by voting on a plan to move forward on the expansion of New START, which expires next year, three sources told NBC News.
“He wants it to show his deal-maker capabilities,” said one source. “It’s just a big stage.”
The U.S. Special Envoy for Arms Control, Marshall Billingslea, is scheduled to meet Monday with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov for new START negotiations, according to the state. The two countries are struggling to reach a deal at early stages of the agreement, prompting a defense official to say that a meeting with the presidents would help it move forward.
Some of Trump’s advisers reportedly opposed the meeting, pointing to reports that Russia could try to intervene in the 2020 elections and intelligence that the Kremlin is offering bounties to militants for killing US soldiers in Afghanistan. They also said it could reinforce his opponents’ arguments that he is too close to Russia, NBC News noted.
But White House National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Trump had not asked for a meeting with Putin.
“We are not meeting with Putin in the United States, but at some point, you know, look, we would have a great time for Putin to come here, hopefully to sign a great arms control that protects Americans and protects Russians,” he said. he said.
A White House official told NBC News that Trump hopes to meet with several world leaders in the weeks leading up to the election. People familiar with the discussion told NBC that the president “sought a meeting with Putin” a while ago.
The Trump administration hopes to include China in the new nuclear arms deal, but officials said it may in the meantime extend the current deal with Russia.
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