Obama-Putin bilateral talks at G20 ‘not planned’: Kremlin
31 Aug 2013 11:28 PM GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently not planning to have bilateral talks with US President Barack Obama at the G20 summit although there is a chance of an informal encounter, the Kremlin said on Friday.
‘A meeting with Obama is not planned,’ the Kremlin's foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said at a briefing on Friday.
Putin plans to ‘shake his hand’ along with other leaders' when he greets them at the summit in Saint Petersburg, Ushakov said.
The two will still have a chance to speak on the sidelines of the summit, Ushakov said. ‘Whether it will be standing up or in chairs, I do not know,’ he commented.
With US-Russia ties at a new low after Moscow gave asylum to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the White House earlier this month scrapped a US-Russia summit that was planned to take place in Moscow just ahead of the G20.
A bilateral meeting in Saint-Petersburg was not scheduled ‘because we and the Americans planned a full-scale state visit (by Obama) to the country, which, as you know, is not happening,’ Ushakov explained.
‘A meeting with Obama is not planned,’ the Kremlin's foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said at a briefing on Friday.
Putin plans to ‘shake his hand’ along with other leaders' when he greets them at the summit in Saint Petersburg, Ushakov said.
The two will still have a chance to speak on the sidelines of the summit, Ushakov said. ‘Whether it will be standing up or in chairs, I do not know,’ he commented.
With US-Russia ties at a new low after Moscow gave asylum to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the White House earlier this month scrapped a US-Russia summit that was planned to take place in Moscow just ahead of the G20.
A bilateral meeting in Saint-Petersburg was not scheduled ‘because we and the Americans planned a full-scale state visit (by Obama) to the country, which, as you know, is not happening,’ Ushakov explained.
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