Trump says 'probably' no Putin meeting in Paris this week

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November 5, 2018 8:06 PM

Trump said he was "not sure we'll have a meeting in Paris -- probably not." However they "will be meeting at the G20" summit in Argentina at the end of November, he said.

US President Donald Trump said Monday he does not expect to hold talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin when they attend World War I commemorations in Paris at the end of this week.

Expectations have been growing for a new Trump-Putin meeting as tensions pile up over the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) and US sanctions against Moscow.

Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton had said during a trip to Moscow in October that the White House wanted a Paris meeting and Putin said he was interested.

Both leaders will be in Paris for the November 11 World War I commemorations, which 60 heads of state and government are expected to attend.

A first bilateral summit took place in Helsinki in July, after which the US president came under strong domestic criticism for adopting a distinctly conciliatory tone despite his own security services' warning that Russia meddled in US elections.

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