АНУ, ОХУ, БНХАУ-ын удирдагчид цөмийн зэвсгийг бууруулах асуудал болон Ираны дайны талаар хэлэлцэхээр төлөвлөжээ.
Цагаан ордны мэдээлснээр, гурван улсын удирдагч пүрэв гарагт Шэньжэнь хотод болох Ази, Номхон далайн эдийн засгийн хамтын ажиллагааны (APEC) дээд хэмжээний уулзалтын үеэр уулзана. Дэлхийн хамгийн том цөмийн зэвсэгтэй гурван гүрний удирдагч ийнхүү анх удаа нэг дор уулзах гэж байгаа ч өмнө нь хоёр талын уулзалтууд хийж байжээ.
Хэлэлцэх асуудлын нэг нь цөмийн зэвсгийг бууруулах асуудал байна. Вашингтон, Москвагийн хооронд байгуулсан стратегийн цөмийн зэвсэгт хязгаар тогтоосон New START гэрээ хоёрдугаар сард дуусгавар болсноор хоёр орны зэвсэглэлд хамаарах уг хязгаарлалт хагас зуу гаруй жилийн дараа анх удаа үйлчлэхээ больжээ. Трамп гэрээг дахин нэг жилээр сунгах ОХУ-ын саналыг няцааж, БНХАУ-ыг хамруулсан шинэ хэлэлцээр байгуулах байр суурь илэрхийлсэн бол Бээжин цөмийн зэвсгийн нөөц нь харьцангуй бага гэж үзэн хэлэлцээнд нэгдэхээс татгалзсаар байна.
Трамп Ши Жиньпин, Путин нартай Ираны дайны талаар ярилцахаар төлөвлөж байгаа ч ОХУ-ын Украйн дахь дайныг хэлэлцэхгүй гэж АНУ-ын албаны хүн мэдэгджээ. Украины Ерөнхийлөгч Володимир Зеленский улс орных нь ирээдүйтэй холбоотой аливаа хэлэлцээнд Украйныг оролцуулах ёстой гэж мэдэгдсэн бол Гадаад хэргийн сайд Андрей Сибига Путинд ийм уулзалтаар талбар гаргахыг шүүмжилсэн байна.
ОХУ гурван талт уулзалт хийх санаачилгыг өмнө нь гаргаж, Путин Украйны асуудлыг хөндөх сонирхолтой байсан гэж мэдээлжээ. Уулзалтыг 1945 оны Ялтын бага хуралтай зүйрлэж, Украйны оролцоогүйгээр том гүрнүүд бусад улсад нөлөөлөх шийдвэр гаргаж болзошгүй гэсэн бол Кремлийн хэвлэлийн төлөөлөгч Дмитрий Песков Шэньжэнь хотод байгуулсан аливаа тохиролцоог бусад улсад тулгах боломжгүй гэж мэдэгдсэн байна. Трамп мягмар гарагт Манилад АСЕАН-ы удирдагчидтай уулзсаны дараа Хятадыг зорих бөгөөд пүрэв гарагт Ши Жиньпинтэй хоёр талын уулзалт, ажлын зоог хийхээр товложээ.
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Donald Trump will meet Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping in China next week for an unprecedented three-way meeting between the leaders of the US, Russia, and China, with nuclear weapons and the war in Iran expected to be on the agenda.
The meeting will take place on Thursday, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen, the White House confirmed on Friday. It will bring together the leaders of the world’s three largest nuclear powers for the first time, although all three have held bilateral talks with one another.
“The president has made it clear that, among other topics, he will discuss the reduction of nuclear weapons in the world, whose proliferation President Trump believes is very dangerous,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told reporters.
The meeting comes nine months after the expiry of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the last major nuclear arms control agreement between Washington and Moscow.
The treaty, which expired in February, had placed limits on the two countries’ strategic nuclear arsenals, leaving the world’s two largest nuclear powers without those restrictions for the first time in more than half a century.
Mr Trump has rejected Russia’s offer to extend it for another year, saying he wanted a new agreement that would also include China.
Beijing has resisted joining such negotiations, arguing that its nuclear arsenal is much smaller than those of Washington and Moscow. China has more than 600 nuclear warheads, compared with more than 5,000 each for Russia and the US.
“We do not expect to get to any kind of agreement,” a senior Trump administration official told reporters, according to Reuters. “This is a difficult topic for China to address, but we do think it’s time for China to sort of step up, you know, to the adults’ table, if you will, and have adult conversations about adult things.”
Mr Trump also intends to discuss the war in Iran with Mr Xi and Mr Putin, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not expected to feature, the official said. “We’ve had many meetings recently with the Russians, but China is not really a part of that track, so it doesn’t seem appropriate to have the Ukraine discussion there,” the official said.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly insisted that his country must be involved in any discussions about its future.
Russia had previously proposed the three-way meeting, with Mr Putin reportedly keen to use it to discuss Ukraine. The Russian president had floated the idea during a telephone conversation with Trump last month, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha had warned against giving Putin such a platform. “Inviting Putin to such a meeting would feed his appetite for self-aggrandisement and give him a stature he does not deserve,” he said last month, adding that it would only “encourage Putin to continue this war”.
The planned summit has also drawn comparisons with the 1945 Yalta Conference, where the leaders of the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union discussed the postwar settlement in Europe. The prospect of Mr Trump, Mr Putin, and Mr Xi meeting without Ukraine has revived concerns about major powers making decisions that affect other countries without consulting them.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the comparison, saying that any agreements reached in Shenzhen could not be imposed on other countries. He nevertheless described a meeting between the three leaders as “extremely significant”. “However, let’s not forget that the vision for a global order is that no one tries to impose any particular view of global order, and it should be based entirely on mutual benefit and mutual respect,” he said.
Mr Trump is due to visit Manila on Tuesday for talks with leaders of the Association of South-east Asian Nations before heading to Shenzhen. He is also scheduled to hold bilateral talks and a working lunch with Xi on Thursday, ahead of the trilateral meeting.
The White House said billionaire Elon Musk would accompany Mr Trump on the China visit, but a senior US official said he would not attend the talks with Mr Xi and Mr Putin.
