{"id":51730,"date":"2025-04-26T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51730\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T09:08:08","slug":"zelenskyy-trump-speak-in-rome-in-first-meeting-since-oval-office-bust-up-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/51730\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy, Trump speak in Rome in first meeting since Oval Office bust-up \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPresident Trump and President Zelenskyy met privately today and had a very productive discussion,\u201d said Steven Cheung, White House communications director. \u201cMore details about the meeting will follow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders agreed to meet after the funeral for further talks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2025\/04\/26\/news\/zelensky_roma_funerale_papa_francesco_possibile_incontro_trump-424149573\/?ref=RHEX-BG-P2-S1-T1-APERTURA-A-12-COLONNE\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2025\/04\/26\/news\/zelensky_roma_funerale_papa_francesco_possibile_incontro_trump-424149573\/?ref=RHEX-BG-P2-S1-T1-APERTURA-A-12-COLONNE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Repubblica reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump late Friday said that Kyiv and Moscow \u201care very close to a deal\u201d on a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict. Trump\u2019s comments\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114400805703099287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Truth Social<\/a>\u00a0came hours after his special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9-JlgsMZO2E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Putin in Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/interfax.com\/newsroom\/top-stories\/111206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the major points<\/a>\u00a0are agreed to,\u201d Trump said in his social media post shortly after arriving in Rome for the pope\u2019s funeral. <\/p>\n<p>Friday was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0kxrlypg6vo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cgood day\u201d of negotiations<\/a>\u00a0between the U.S. and Russia, Trump said. The Kremlin described the talks as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trumps-envoy-witkoff-arrives-moscow-interfax-reports-2025-04-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cconstructive.\u201d<\/a> Ukraine was not represented at the Moscow meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis, who died on Monday, is having a state funeral at St. Peter\u2019s Square in Vatican City. The memorial, which is being attended by heads of state and high-ranking officials from around the world, is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/pope-francis-funeral-saturday-morning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rare opportunity<\/a>\u00a0for informal meetings between national leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cPresident Trump and President Zelenskyy met privately today and had a very productive discussion,\u201d said Steven Cheung, White&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,6178,473,32,393,4884,660,809,12,1144,21946,332,712,7070,16,657,15,49,2601,1764,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-51730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-kremlin","15":"tag-negotiations","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-pope-francis","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-scotland","21":"tag-steve-witkoff","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","27":"tag-wales","28":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114403482229746552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}