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November 12 , 2017 - Fort Russ News - 
by Inessa Sinchougova 

At the 2017 APEC Summit, held between 10 – 11 November in Vietnam, a bilateral meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump was supposed to take place. Russia’s Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, stated that “while both sides were trying to organise the meeting, the United States offered a time and place that only suited them.” 

"The only time proposed was that which suited the Americans, and they offered only one place - a room that was rented by the Americans," he said. Peskov reiterated that the last meeting of the Presidents, at the G20 in Hamburg, was held on American diplomatic territory, and, by diplomatic protocol, this time the meeting was supposed to take place on Russian diplomatic territory.

"The Americans showed no flexibility, and unfortunately no other alternative offers were provided, so the meeting could not take place," Putin's press secretary added.

Nevertheless, the leaders of the two countries had a number of informal talks on the sidelines of the APEC summit, and whoever was responsible for the non-meeting, “would be punished” – Putin said in jest. 

Donald Trump similarly voiced a positive association with Russia, albeit he said that he trusted American intelligence services in the investigation of "Russian interference" in the presidential elections in the United States.

This differs from what he said earlier - when asked by journalists if he believes the Russian president, Trump replied: "Every time we see each other, he says, "I didn’t do it. "And I believe that, I really believe that if he tells me this, then he hasn't. I think he's very offended by this, if you want to know the truth.”

It must be remembered that the concept of the “deep state” is very real in the US – and Trump has to play to both sides, that is the intelligence community, and the American public. Reading between the lines, he at least made it clear that no “17 agencies” existed that manufactured “the Russian dossier”, that the US mainstream media propagated wildly. 

Inessa Sinchougova is an Editor and Journalist at Fort Russ News, as well as a research fellow and translator of the Belgrade based think-tank, the Center for Syncretic Studies. She was educated at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), in the field of Political Science and was previously employed in Marketing and Communications Strategy for a Multi-National Corporation. She runs a popular YouTube channel for translations of key Russian Foreign Policy figures and appears regularly on other alternative media channels.  

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