MOSCOW. Jan 10 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump have expressed their readiness to meet, but there are no specifics just yet, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
"President Putin has repeatedly declared his openness to contacts with international partners, including the U.S. president and Donald Trump. The president has said so on numerous occasions, and so did we. No preconditions would be necessary. All it takes is a mutual desire and a political will to maintain dialogue and solve the existing problems through this dialogue," Peskov told the press.
"As we see, Mr. Trump has also declared the readiness to solve problems through dialogue. We welcome that," he said.
"There are still no specifics" as to how the meeting could be organized, Peskov said. "We proceed from the mutual readiness for the meeting. It looks like some progress will be made after Mr. Trump takes the Oval Office," he said.