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U.S. Needs Trump-Putin Meeting as Much as Russia, Kremlin Says
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The Kremlin struck a defiant note over Donald Trump’s threat to cancel a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin at this week’s Group of 20 summit, saying the U.S. needs talks between the two presidents to take place as much as Russia does.
The meeting in Buenos Aires will be held on Dec. 1 and “is equally necessary for both sides,” Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters Wednesday in Moscow. Officials from the two presidential administrations prepared the meeting in the usual way and Russia expects the U.S. to “communicate to us through appropriate channels and not through the media” if there are additional issues to consider, he said.