The US president, Donald Trumpsaid Thursday that the conversations that his delegation plans to keep in Moscow today with Russian authorities about the proposal of a high fire with Ukraine “are going well.”
“They get news that things are going well in Russia”Trump said during an appearance in the Oval Office with the NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte.
“We have been talking with Ukraine about territories, parts of territory. Territory that will be maintained and that will be lost and all the elements of a final agreement. There is an energy generating plant involved, a very large, “Trump explained about the point of the negotiations on Ukraine.
“I would love to meet him and talk to him, but we have to end this quickly,” Trump said in turn in relation to meeting Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
It is expected that today a US delegation headed by Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East will meet in Moscow, Steve Witkoffwith Russian authorities to treat the offer of a high 30 -day fire with Ukraine agreed this week in Saudi Arabia between Washington and kyiv.
In that sense, Trump assured that Witkoff, who already met with the Russian president in February, will maintain “Very serious conversations with Putin and others.” “I hope they do the right thing,” the US president added in reference to the Russian authorities.
Putin himself said today in favor of the 30 -day truce in Ukraine, but said that he sees problems in its application and verificationand considered desirable to speak with his American counterpart.
“It may be that President (Donald) Trump and I talk to him by phone and discuss it together. But the idea of putting an end to the conflict by peaceful means we support it,” he said.
Trump says he will not give in “at all” in the tariff war
The president also said that he will not yield “at all” in the tariff war that he has unleashed with the Imposition of tariff increases mainly to China and world aluminum and aluminum. “I’m not going to bend at all,” Trump said from the Oval Office with the NATO general, Mark Rutte.
The president, who assured that the US had been “scammed for years,” explained that It will not reverse the tax on “Aluminum, steel or cars”.
The United States began applying this Wednesday 25 % tariffs on Imported steel and aluminumwhich will especially affect Canada in both metals and Brazil, Mexico, South Korea and Vietnam regarding steel, as well as United Arab Emirates, Russia and China in aluminum.
In addition, Trump granted a He pauses until April 2 to the increase in 25 % tariffs to Canada and Mexico For products covered by the Free Trade Agreement T-MEC.
“The United States cannot subsidize a country. We do not need your cars, neither your energy nor your wood“He said about Canada, before insisting that State 51 should be for its economic dependence on the United States.
Asked about the European Union (EU)to which he referred as “very unpleasant”, the president regretted that they cannot sell cars there.
“We are not allowed to sell cars in Europe. It is prohibited due to its policies and also its non -monetary tariffs, “he said.
Trump continued to denounce that from the EU they denounce his companies, such as Apple or Googleand do not buy “their agriculture” when USA yes buy from the European: “With them it is like a unique sense street.”
Before that meeting, the New Yorker threatened to impose a 200 % tariff on wine and the rest of the EU alcoholic beverages in retaliation by Brussels plans to tax American whiskey imports.
