No request for Putin, Trump meeting yet from Washington: Kremlin

MOSCOW   -    Wash­ington has not yet requested a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Ja­pan’s Osaka in June, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. Peskov told re­porters that the Kremlin had noted Trump’s statement on Monday that he intended to meet Putin on the sidelines of the Osaka summit. However, in the absence of an official re­quest, there is no understand­ing that a meeting between the two presidents will in­deed take place, he said. Peskov said Putin will meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the Black Sea re­sort of Sochi on Tuesday after the top US diplomat finishes talks with Russian Foreign

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