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Work is underway between Moscow, Washington and Beijing to organize a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month, the Kremlin said Tuesday. Anadolu Agency reported the remarks.
“Work is under way on organising such a meeting,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the “Financial Times”.
The report, citing people familiar with the situation in Washington, Beijing and Moscow, said officials had held serious talks about arranging the meeting on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen on Nov. 18-19.
China’s Foreign Ministry said Beijing was in contact with relevant parties about a meeting between Xi and Putin, but did not mention a possible trilateral meeting involving Trump.
It remains unclear whether the three countries are negotiating together or whether Beijing is conducting separate bilateral talks with Washington and Moscow. People familiar with the matter cautioned that China had not yet decided whether to proceed.
“One person familiar with the talks said Washington and Moscow were pressing China to agree to a meeting. The Chinese foreign ministry last month said it had ‘no information to provide’ about a possible trilateral summit,” the report said.
Last month, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said no party had ruled out a possible meeting between Putin, Trump and Xi on the sidelines of the APEC summit.
Ushakov told reporters after Putin met US special envoy Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg on Oct. 21 that the possibility of a meeting, which he said had “garnered such intense global interest,” was discussed during their negotiations.
Peskov told reporters at a Monday briefing that Putin’s schedule for the APEC summit was still being prepared. He said there was no specific information yet about a possible trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the event.
