In Alaska, now the peak of the tourist season, so the options available and equipped for a meeting were very limited, the article said.
The organizers of the meeting concluded that the only city in Alaska with viable options for the summit will be an anchoridge, the channel notes.
Only the United Base Elmendorf Richardson, located on the northern outskirts of the city, will meet the requirements of “for a historical meeting”, although the White House hoped to “avoid the optics of the placement of the Russian leader and his environment at the US military base,” adds the media.
CNN said that, according to insiders, there were few suitable places for the meeting and Alaska was chosen after long negotiations. They added that because of the orders of the International Criminal Court, Putin abandoned Europe, and Trump did not want to fly to the Middle East. The only exception, according to their information, could be Hungary, since its Prime Minister Viktor Orban is close to both Trump and Putin, therefore, in the end, they chose between her and Alaska.
When the United States proposed Alaska, and Russia agreed, then, according to media, American officials were delighted with this and were somewhat surprised.
Typically, the preparation of the summits of the two leaders takes a lot of time, journalists emphasized. They added that, for example, the meeting of Putin and the previous US President Joe Biden in 2021 prepared several months.
As for the current meeting of Trump and Putin, she is prepared in a hurry and she is still under development, the television channel notes. And although such summits are usually preceded by large negotiations on the agenda and results, this time Trump himself called him “preliminary”, actually admitting that he has no expectations from him, CNN emphasizes.
Context
Trump reported that on August 15 in Alaska in the United States he would meet with Putin, in particular, to discuss the possibility of ending the war in Ukraine. According to NBC News, the White House is considered The possibility of inviting the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to a meeting in Alaska.
On August 10, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova on the Face of the National With Margaret Brennan program on CBS News expressed the opinion that the United States can during negotiations with Russia act from the standpoint of power, as well as did not exclude the possibility of in the negotiations The president may participate in Alaska Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.
On August 11, at a briefing in the White House, Trump said that Zelensky would not be invited to meet in Alaska. He added that he later expects to “put” Zelensky and Putin “in the same room.”
August 12 press-The White House Secretary of Caroline Litt said that they considered other places for the meeting of the leaders. The choice was stopped in Alaska, because it is supposedly in the middle. At the same time, Livitt announced where the meeting of the two leaders will take place.
“On Friday morning, President Trump will go through the whole country and hold a bilateral meeting in Ankoridge, Alaska, with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” she said.
