In cipher: “So I think that if we build our relations in the vein of our yesterday’s meeting…”
[translation]: “If is the operative word – there’s no telling what will happen next because Trump is in charge of nothing, not even of his wife, and nothing he says can be relied on. Tillerson is as impotent as his boss.”

In cipher: “there are good reasons to believe that we will be able to revive, at least partially, the level of interaction that we need.”
[translation]: “The best that can be hoped for is that Tillerson can control the working groups to which he’s persuaded Trump to delegate everything of substance. So everything with the Americans is partial. I have gained nothing I need.”