US President-Elect Donald Trump will arrive in Russia with the official visit after inauguration, Izvestiya reports, quoting the high-ranking source in US Republican Party, RIA News reports.
“After some team meeting, the decision was taken to postpone the visit. It will be prepared after Trump’s accession to presidency”, the newspaper quotes the source.
According to The National Interest editor Dimitri Simes, the visit of Trump before the inauguration may be perceived as “the disruption of current policy” and the intention to conduct international negotiations “behind the back of Barack Obama’s administration”, the newspaper quotes the source.
According to Izvestiya’s source, US President-Elect did not know about recommencement of ASF operations in Syria. Currently, there are no “serious contacts” between Kremlin and Trump’s team, the interlocutor said to the edition.
Previously, Trump and President of Russia Vladimir Putin had conversation over the phone. The parties came to terms in assessing current relationships between the countries, calling them unsatisfactory, and spoke out in favor of active work on their normalization.
Donald Trump won at presidential elections, which were held on November 8. The inauguration of the President-Elect is scheduled for January 20.
