Peskov: Putin-Trump meeting in third country to take place before exchange of their visits

MOSCOW. Feb 13 (Interfax) - A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in a third country will take place before an exchange of their visits, the presidents' aides will be coordinating this meeting, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.

"It's one thing that they have exchanged mutual invitations. That is, President Trump now has a valid invitation to visit Russia and the Russian president has a valid invitation to visit the United States, and it's a different thing that they have agreed to approve this working meeting fairly promptly and hold it somewhere in a third country," he said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin, the host of the program Moscow, Kremlin. Putin.

"According to the president's plan, this meeting will take place before, as diplomats say, an eventual exchange of visits," Peskov said.

"The aides will now be coordinating this meeting on a working level," he said.

Av iz