US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have no plans to meet “in the near future”. a senior official of the White House announced on Tuesday, quoted by the Reuters and AFP agencies. The AP agency, citing its source, reported that the plans for the meeting of the leaders are on hold for the time being.
Trump after last week’s phone call with Putin announced that they had agreed on a joint meeting in the Hungarian capital of Budapest, writes TASR.
The goal of the leaders’ summit would be to see if they can end the war in Ukraine. Last week, Trump expressed the expectation that the meeting could take place within two weeks. According to an anonymous source from the Trump administration, the head of the White House “has no plans to meet with President Putin in the near future.”
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov also do not plan a personal meeting, according to a White House official. However, the source described their Monday phone call as “productive.” The White House’s comments come just hours after Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that it is still unclear when the summit between Trump and Putin will take place.
