The Kremlin is preparing for a "possible meeting" between the two leaders at an event in Paris on November 11 commemorating the centenary of the end of World War I, Peskov said
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US National security adviser John Bolton during their meeting in the Kremlin. Pic/AFP
The Kremlin said Wednesday it was ready to discuss the possibility of a summit in Washington next year between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump. "Undoubtedly (we are) ready," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said after US National Security Advisor John Bolton told Russia's Interfax news agency that such a summit was possible.
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He confirmed the issue has been "raised" but that "so far there is no concrete decision on this." The Kremlin is preparing for a "possible meeting" between the two leaders at an event in Paris on November 11 commemorating the centenary of the end of World War I, Peskov said.
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Date Trump and Putin might meet
Putin 'puzzled' by US moves
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, met Bolton on Tuesday on the second day of the latter's visit to Moscow and told him that his government was puzzled by the US' moves, such as withdra-wing from a Cold War-era nuclear arms control pact, which he said were hard to describe as friendly. Putin also alluded to the US coat of arms showing a bald eagle holding a bundle of 13 arrows in one talon and an olive branch with 13 olives in the other and playfully asked Bolton if the eagle had "eaten all the olives".
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