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13:40, 03-Nov-2017
Trump says he may meet Putin at APEC
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US President Donald Trump said that he may meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' meeting, set to be held next week in Vietnam.
"We may have a meeting with Putin. Putin is very important because they can help us with North Korea, with Syria. We have to talk about Ukraine," Trump said in interview to Fox News.
Trump and Putin had their first official talks on July 7 on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
Trump and Putin shake hands before their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. /Getty Images
Trump and Putin shake hands before their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. /Getty Images
The meetings of APEC leaders will be held in Da Nang, Vietnam from November 5 to 11.
The US president will participate on November 10 as one of his stops of his Asia-Pacific tour, which includes Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Spokesman for the Russian president's office, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that the schedule of bilateral meetings for Putin, who will also take part in the APEC forum, is currently being prepared.
No meetings on the sidelines of the event have been slated so far.