Bolton:

Trump, Putin to Meet in Paris in November

TEHRAN (defapress)- White House national security adviser John Bolton said that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin plan to meet in Paris, days after November's midterm elections.

News ID: 73264

Date: 24 October 2018 - 15:04

Bolton, following a one-on-one meeting with Putin in Moscow, confirmed that the Russian president suggested the leaders meet to continue discussions between the two, adding that they agreed to the date of Nov. 11 in Paris, which coincides with the Armistice Day commemoration, the Hill reported.

“I said yes, in fact, that President Trump would look forward to meeting with him in Paris,” Bolton, who has been in Moscow for two days of high-level talks, told reporters at a press conference.

Trump is scheduled to travel to Paris to commemorate Armistice Day on Nov. 11, which marks the end of World War I. The trip will come just days after the US's midterm elections.

The meeting would be the first face-to-face between the two leaders since the duo's Helsinki summit in July. Trump was roundly criticized for his friendliness toward Putin at the summit and for his remarks casting doubt on the US intelligence community’s assessment of Russia's election interference in 2016, which he later walked back.

Bolton arrived in Moscow earlier this week for a series of high-level talks with Russian officials on a range of issues.

The trip comes at a point of high tensions between the US and Russia, despite Trump’s wish to improve relations with Moscow to work on areas of mutual concern.

Trump announced over the weekend that the United States plans to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, a landmark nuclear arms pact with Russia signed in 1987.

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