BUENOS AIRES. Dec 3 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes that a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump will sooner or later take place.
"I hope that the meeting will finally take place when the U.S. side is ready for it," Putin told a press conference in Buenos Aires.
This meeting is long overdue, and it is linked to strategic stability issues, especially after the U.S. president announced the intention to withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, he said.
"The New START Treaty on strategic stability, on the most serious weapons of strategic nature expires in 2021. Moreover, we earlier said that trade and economic ties need to be restored, cooperation on other tracks, including such trouble spots such as Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea is a big problem for all, too," Putin said.
Dialogue is needed on all of these tracks, he said.
"Not only we but also other countries, including the United States, are interests in this," he said.