Trump unsure if he will meet with Putin in Paris

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Trump unsure if he will meet with Putin in Paris

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin react at the end of the joint news conference after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was unsure if he would meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin during a visit to Paris next week, but he will meet him at the summit of the Group of 20 nations in Argentina at the end of the month.

 

"We haven't set anything up yet. We don't know that that's going to be the right place. I'm going to be in Paris for other reasons. But we will be meeting at the G20," Trump said at Joint Base Andrews before leaving on a campaign trip.

 

"I'm not sure we'll have a meeting in Paris. Probably not."

 

Trump and Putin had planned to hold a bilateral meeting in Paris on Nov. 11 on the sidelines of events to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One.

 

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RIA news agency that Putin and Trump were bound to meet, but will not hold "substantive" talks.

 

"That's true that the circumstances have been slightly changed. The multilateral format of events to commemorate the centenary of World War One does not allow the two presidents to have substantive meetings," RIA cited Peskov as saying.

 

He said the two would have "standing talks" in Paris to make a decision on a further formal meeting.

 

Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, said last month the Paris meeting would be brief and more of "a base-touching exercise" during which the two leaders will discuss whether Putin would accept Trump's invitation to come to Washington.

 

On Friday, a Kremlin aide said Putin and Trump would meet for a long session on the sidelines of the Nov. 30-Dec. 1 G20 summit in Argentina.

 

(Reporting by Roberta Rampton, editional reporting by Denis Pinchuk in Moscow; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Dan Grebler and Ed Osmond)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-11-06

[HappyAndRich]

Doesn´t matter if they meet or not meet. They are too incompetent to agree on something on a daily basis anyway. What´s the reason to meet?

[Tarteso]

Here is a very typical affair love/hate.

You’ll always have Paris.

[bristolboy]

27 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

Here is a very typical affair love/hate.

You’ll always have Paris.

Well, now it looks like they'll never have Paris. It's actually a surprising decent thing for Trump to do now that he has confessed his love for Kim. And if things don't turn out well for those 2 heroic lovers, they can always console themselves with the thought that they'll always have Singapore.

[zaphod reborn]

3 hours ago, HappyAndRich said:

Doesn´t matter if they meet or not meet. They are too incompetent to agree on something on a daily basis anyway. What´s the reason to meet?

Plenty of reason to meet, but Trump realizes now that he has to keep it secret.  After all, when you exchange cash for allowing Russia to annex Ukraine and Armenia (Giuliani already visited Russia, Ukraine and Armenia as a precursor), you need to try to somehow keep it mysterious.  https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-rudy-giuliani-mystery-trips-to-russia-armenia-and-ukraine

[Tug]

Putin probably doesent want to meet Donald’s groveling and pandering don’t look good on camera kinda embarrassing 

[Guest]

He is unsure, which might mean that he announces the meeting only after the elections as he doesn't want to be associated with Putin before the mid term elections.