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LAST UPDATE | 16 Jul 2018
US PRESIDENT DONALD has declared that his historic summit with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has changed the relationship between the two countries.
The night before the talks Trump said that the relationship between the US and Russia has never been worse. However speaking at a joint press conference in Helsinki today, Trump said the meeting was a constructive dialogue that opens new pathways to peace.
He said that relations between the US and Russia changed during the summit and it marked the beginning of a longer process, which will feature strong dialogue with Russia.
Putin said the discussions were “frank and useful”. He added that the talks reflected a desire to restore trust.
Collusion
Putin said that Trump brought up the allegations of Russian meddling in the US presidential election in 2016 and he replied that Russia never meddled in any election.
“We had a good conversation and I hope we now understand each other better,” he said.
Trump said that Russia wants to end the problem of nuclear proliferation. He added that he emphasised the importance of pressuring Iran.
In response to a question from a reporter Trump said there was no collusion between his campaign and the Russian government. “There was no collusion I didn’t know the president to collude with him,” he said.
I beat Hillary Clinton easily… We ran a great campaign and that’s why I’m president.
Those comments were reflected by Putin who said allegations of meddling are “complete nonsense”.
He said that if the Mueller investigation, which is probing the collusion allegations, sends Russia an official request to question suspects then Russia will do that.
“But, in return, we would want to question US officials who we suspect of illegal acts against Russia,” he added.
Compromising material
The two men also addressed rumours that Russia compiled a dossier of compromising material against Trump while Trump was in Moscow with the Miss Universe Pageant.
Putin described the allegations as “nonsense”.
“I did hear these rumours. When President Trump visited Moscow back then, I didn’t even know he was in Moscow… Nobody informed me that he was in Moscow… Please disregard these issues,” he said.
Trump said that if there was compromising information about him it would have come out long ago.
‘Treasonous’
The press conference sparked an outpouring of reaction in the US. Republican senator Lindsey Graham said that Trump’s failure to hold Russia accountable for meddling in the 2016 election was a “missed opportunity” while John Brennan, CIA director under Obama, described it as “treasonous” on Twitter.
CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper described it as one of the most “disgraceful performances by an American president” ever.
Protester
Moments before the press conference got underway a man holding a sign reading ‘Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty’ was forcibly removed from the venue by security guards.
CNN reporter Jim Acosta, who was in the room, said the man had identified himself as being from progressive magazine The Nation.
Acosta said the man then produced the sign again and that officials had grabbed him and escorted him out.
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Accord marriage counselling. dont make me laugh. they charged us 150 euros three years ago for a mandatory pre marriage course that lasted a day. I needed counselling after paying out that kind of cash.
Stephen, how was it mandatory?
In order to get married in the catholic church, you must do this course
That Bertie bloke’s got a lot to answer for.
You shouldn’t have married him.
Marriage is something that you have to work at. Once both of you talk openly with each other a lot of silly issues can be resolved before they get out of control. Try your best to keep mother in laws away from negotiations as that can spell serious trouble.
It would really help also if the gluttens in the Government stopped savaging peoples finances because the cost of living ain’t coming down e.g mortgages,shopping,electricity/gas…
A good half of marriages I know are financially agreeable. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t last long. People call that love here! Ha ha ha!
Never do it, locked to 1 person for the rest of UR life, no thank u
Totally agree Louise, can’t understand why anyone would get married in this day and age.
Tax
I wonder if Accord will offer their services to the gays when equality in marriage happens.
No, and if it’s marital stress caused by something like having had a pregnancy terminated, they’d probably just hang up the phone on you!
Will they have people qualified enough to deal with gays? Would the counsellors not need to be gay themselves so as to offer the best service.
‘The gays’, its like being back in the 90′s. Sean, how very logical of you.
‘The gays’, its like being back in the 90′s.
Money. The root of all evil ,
Perhaps we need that asteroid to veer off course and smash into earth,
The world really does need to hit there reset button , before the greed ends up forcing us to self destruct
Im afraid to tell you the reset button is made up. We’ll just have to make do . . . Awkward!!
Read “the midnight companion ” http://www.dealing-with-separation.com it’s brilliant .
I think that people want to save their relationships way above the need for financial problems. If it was that simple we would see sites like http://markkordubapsychologist.com/couples-counselling-brisbane/ becoming null and void. Relationship and marriage counselling has become such a useful tool for people because we don’t ever really get a set of instructions when we start a relationship :) Interesting article!
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