WASHINGTON, Oct 17 — United States (US) President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to sit down with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Hungary within two weeks, Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported.
Trump alluded to next week’s meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, saying the top diplomats will determine the time and place for the presidential tete-a-tete.
Both meetings were publicly signalled after Trump and Putin concluded a bilateral telephone call earlier Thursday.
“Maybe it’s already set up. They’ve already spoken,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, alluding to his meeting with Putin.
Trump is slated to sit down with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday at the White House and said he would inform the Ukrainian president about his “very good” phone call with Putin during tomorrow’s meeting.
“We have a problem. They don’t get along too well, those two, and it’s sometimes tough to have meetings. So we may do something where we’re separate, but separate but equal,” Trump said.
The US president said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban would be hosting his Budapest meeting with Putin.
