Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Vietnam on November 10, Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on Thursday.
“The time of the meeting is being agreed on, it will take place on November 10,” Ushkov said.
Ushakov said that Putin and Trump will be able to discuss at the meeting in Vietnam on the sidelines of the APEC summit the situation in Syria and on the Korean Peninsula and bilateral relations, which have reached a low point.
“The two leaders have a lot to discuss in this meeting, including major international issues ranging from Syria to North Korea and so on,” he stressed, pointing out that Moscow and Washington have not reached an agreement on the timeframe for the two President’s meeting yet.
“We are ready for a separate substantive bilateral meeting whose possibility has been discussed on numerous occasions,” Ushakov said. “However, the timeframe for such a meeting has not been agreed on yet.”
He noted that the two leaders will take part in the summit, and “it is logical that they can meet and discuss certain issues.”
Putin will hold separate bilateral meetings with the leaders of China, Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting on November 10.
“There are plans to hold several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the APEC leader’s summit on November 10 between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang, China’s President Xi Jinping, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte,” he said.
He said that Putin regularly meets with the Chinese leader, adding that this time the meeting will be “all the more interesting because Xi Jinping is meeting with Trump, and the assessments of these negotiations will be very useful to us, of course.”
