Trump expects to hold talks with Putin soon

By Azernews

By Nigar Eyvazova

U.S. President Donald Trump expects to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon.

"He called me after I won, but I haven’t had a discussion, but I understand we will be having a discussion soon," Trump said in an interview with Fox News.

The United States getting along with Russia will be beneficial for both of the countries and will help defeat Daesh terrorists, Trump also noted.

"I don’t know [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, but if we can get along with Russia that’s a great thing, it’s good for Russia, it’s good for us, we go out together and knock the hell out of ISIS [Daesh], because that’s a real sickness," Trump said.

NBC White House correspondent Hallie Jackson wrote on Twitter on Thursday, citing an administration source that Trump and Putin were expected to hold telephone talks this weekend.

Later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the date of a first phone call between Putin and Trump since the US president’s inauguration had not been determined yet.

Last week, Peskov said that a meeting between Putin and Trump was unlikely to happen in the coming weeks as the US president was focusing on domestic issues, but it was probably going to be held in the coming months.

Trump has repeatedly vowed to have better relations with Russia.

After Trump’s victory in the election, Putin called for a new era of “fully fledged relations” between Russia and the United States.

 “We understand that it will not be an easy path given the current state of degradation in the relations,” Putin said at the Kremlin. “And as I have repeatedly said, it’s not our fault that Russian-American relations are in such a poor state. But Russia wants and is ready to restore fully fledged relations with the United States.”