Putin Brings Own Mug To G20 Summit, People Wonder If Trust Issues Have Everything To Do With It
Vladimir Putin was seen drinking from his own mug at the G20 summit in Osaka Japan. Videos showed Putin in power for almost twenty years drinking from a white thermos mug while other leaders drank from regular wine glasses. The mug caused speculation on social media as to what it might contain.
In Osaka, Japan at the summit of the countries ¡°big twenty,¡± Russian President Vladimir Putin was seen sitting at the table with other participants and drinking from his own mug!
Videos showed Putin, in power for almost twenty years, drinking from a white thermos mug while other leaders drank from regular wine glasses.
The Russian president was even seen toasting US President Donald Trump with the mug in hand.
"This is because he is constantly drinking tea from that thermos," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained to the RIA Novosti news agency.
US President Donald Trump, seated on the other side of Abe, drank his customary Diet Coke from a wine glass.
Putin bringing his own cup to the international event prompted speculation online that the 66-year-old did not trust anyone. The mug caused speculation on social media as to what it might contain.
Putin brings his own mug to G20 summit. pic.twitter.com/anC6KGOCrT
¡ª RJ96-Rossiny Julien (@jrossiny96) June 28, 2019
"If you've seen what I've seen, you'd bring your own cup too," a parody account of the Russian leader, @DarthPutinKGB, wrote on Twitter.
If you'd seen what I've seen, you'd bring your own cup too. pic.twitter.com/3FPLcmR7f1
¡ª Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) June 28, 2019
The mug resembled one that Putin has drunk from during his annual hours-long press conferences that has a double-headed eagle, Russia's national symbol, on it, reports PTI.
Putin held several one-on-one meetings, including with Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May, on the sidelines of the two-day summit in Osaka that began Friday.
This was Prime Minister Modi's sixth G20 Summit which was held on June 28-29.
He arrived here on Thursday and met his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe and held wide ranging talks on the global economy, issues of fugitive economic offenders and disaster management and announced that the Indian President will participate in the coronation ceremony of Emperor Naruhito in October.
On June 28, Modi held bilateral and plurilateral meetings with many leaders, including US President Donald Trump, Russian president Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping.
According to Indian foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale, the meeting was ¡°short" but ¡°very productive".
PM @narendramodi leaves for Delhi after the #G20 Summit in Osaka, where he took part in a series of Summit sessions, bilateral and multilateral meetings. pic.twitter.com/VK4ZHrLEnW
¡ª PMO India (@PMOIndia) June 29, 2019
¡°The main topic was on the Indo-Pacific region and how the three countries can work together in terms of connectivity, infrastructure, and ensuring that peace and security is maintained and working together to build upon this new concept so that it is in the benefit of the region as a whole and the three countries," Gokhale told reporters after the meet.
The trilateral meeting with the leaders of Russia, India and China called for strengthening the international system led by the UN and upholding the international order based on accepted international norms and law, Gokhale said.
