Donald Trump: I'll offer deals to Britain, Russia
LONDON — President-elect
Donald Trump said he will do a trade deal with Britain, to help make the
country’s pending departure from the European Union “a great thing.” Trump
told the Times of London that he will meet with British Prime
Minister Theresa May soon after his inauguration. The article,
Trump’s first U.K. interview since being elected, was published online on
Monday.
Britons voted to leave the EU at a
referendum in June over issues including high levels of immigration. May has
said she will trigger the process of leaving the bloc by March. “I love the
U.K.,” Trump told the Times of London in an interview at Trump
Tower in New York.
“We’re gonna work very hard to
get it done quickly and done properly. Good for both sides. “I will be meeting
with (May). She’s requesting a meeting and we’ll have a meeting right after I
get into the White House and . . . we’re gonna get something done very
quickly.”
Trump told the newspaper that he
believed that other nations would also leave the EU amid Europe’s migration
crisis. More than a million migrants entered the continent in 2015, while
smaller numbers entered last year.
“I think it’s very tough. People,
countries want their own identity and the U.K. wanted its own identity,” he
said. Trump added that German Chancellor Angela Merkel made a
“catastrophic mistake” by allowing nearly a million migrants to enter Germany
in 2015.
Trump also told the Times
of London that he would try and agree deals with Russia including
limiting nuclear weapons in exchange for the lifting of U.S.
sanctions. “They have sanctions on Russia — let’s see if we can make some good
deals with Russia. For one thing, I think nuclear weapons should be way down
and reduced very substantially, that’s part of it,” he said. He added that
Russia’s involvement with Syria was “a very bad thing” that led to a
“terrible humanitarian situation.”
Russian President Vladimir
Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters in Moscow on Monday that
Russia does not raise the issue of sanctions in talks with other nations
because it is not up to the country to scrap them.
“Let’s wait until he assumes
office before we give assessment to any initiatives,” Peskov said.
No comments
Post a Comment