ONLY ON AP Grabar-Kitarovic hopes Trump and Putin show “responsibility“

(15 Jul 2018) Croatia’s president says she hopes her American and Russian counterparts show “responsibility“ and remember they are the guarantors of the whole world’s stability when the two attend a summit in Helsinki on Monday. In an interview Sunday with The Associated Press, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic also shrugged off US President Donald Trump’s aggressive behavior with NATO allies at a meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. “It’s about his personality. I don’t take it against him,“ she said. Grabar-Kitarovic, who lived through Croatia’s 1991 independence war and governs in a region that has been caught up in larger geopolitical battles, said Trump’s meeting Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin could calm international tensions instead of inflame them. “I’m really hopeful that the two state leaders will show for global stability and the trans-Atlantic relationship,“ said Grabar-Ki