Russian presidential advisor Yuri Ushakov said there is the possibility of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and American Donald Trump at a UN 80 -year event in October. “It’s a good reason, yes, why not?” Ushakov told journalists on Sunday, 29, when asked about the chance of the date serving as a pretext for a meeting between the two leaders.
Ushakov pondered, however, that there is still no definition about a meeting between the two leaders.
The advisor also did not rule out an eventual visit of Putin to the United States. “You can imagine anything. But anyway, for that, first of all, there needs to be a prior agreement between the two leaders,” he explained.
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He also mentioned other possibilities of place for a meeting, such as Istanbul, in Türkiye.
Putin has an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court and may be arrested if he leaves Russia. For this reason, even, the Russian should not attend the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro in early July.
About the change of US government, the counselor observed differences in dialogue. According to him, with Joe Biden’s government, contact was limited to reading official positions “literally with a role in hand” without real discussions. By the way, “there is a dialogue that allows you to get out of the script, deepen here and there,” he said. “It has not yet led to significant changes in the general panorama of our bilateral relations, but the process itself has been useful and has the character of friendly communication,” he added.
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Ushakov’s speech comes in line with recent speeches from Putin, which praised the way Trump has led negotiations to a ceasefire in the conflict with Ukraine.
