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EU summit – Dutch Prime Minister declines to attend if Putin is present

“I do not object to the two leaders meeting with Vladimir Putin (Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron – ed.) I myself will not meet with Vladimir Putin as (representative – ed.) Of the European Union,” Rutte said upon arrival at the meeting Of the European Council.

As the journalist of the Dutch edition explained Trouw Christoph Schmidt, such a decision by Rutte is connected with Russia’s involvement in the MH17 disaster in the Donbass.

We will remind, yesterday, June 23, the Financial Times, citing diplomatic sources, reported on the initiative of Angela Merkel to invite to the summit of the EU heads of state Vladimir Putin. She was supported by the French leader Emmanuel Macron.

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